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The St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy (; formerly known as the Ladies Neva Cup) was a tournament for professional female
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players played on indoor
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. The event was classified as a WTA 500 tournament and was first held in
St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601, ...
in 2003 until 2022.


History

The event was held since 2003 in St. Petersburg. It was an
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event until 2015. In 2016, it was upgraded to a WTA Premier tournament in 2016, offering a prize money of $753,000, up from only $25,000 and $50,000 in previous years. The event replaced the
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on the
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from 2016.


Past finals


Singles


Doubles


See also

* St. Petersburg Open – men's tournament


References


External links


WTA Official page

Official website

Official website
ITF Women's World Tennis Tour Former WTA Tour tournaments Hard court tennis tournaments Indoor tennis tournaments Defunct tennis tournaments in Russia Sports competitions in Saint Petersburg Recurring sporting events established in 2003 2003 establishments in Russia {{Russia-sport-stub