The was a
WTA Tour
The WTA Tour (also known as the Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women and organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125 series, and third-tier is the ITF Wome ...
International level
tennis
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tournament held in
Quebec City
Quebec City is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Census Metropolitan Area (including surrounding communities) had a populati ...
, Quebec, Canada. Held from 1993 to 2018,
the tournament was the last women's professional tennis tournament still played on indoor
carpet courts.
It was held at the
PEPS
The Laval University Sports and Physical Education Complex, PEPS is a sports complex located in Quebec City, Quebec, on the Université Laval campus. PEPS opened in 1970 and includes an outdoor stadium ( Telus Stadium), an indoor stadium, two ...
stadium. The event had several sponsors and the tournament name changed accordingly. The tournament was known as the Bell Challenge () from the first edition to 2013 and sponsored by
Bell Canada
Bell Canada (commonly referred to as Bell) is a Canadian telecommunications company headquartered at 1 Carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell in the borough of Verdun, Quebec, in Canada. It is an ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier) in the province ...
,
and was later sponsored by
National Bank of Canada
The National Bank of Canada () is the sixth largest commercial bank in Canada. It is headquartered in Montreal, and has branches in most Canadian provinces and 2.4 million personal clients. National Bank is the largest bank in Quebec, and the se ...
as the National Bank Cup ().
In 1997, Dutchwoman
Brenda Schultz-McCarthy defeated Belgian
Dominique Van Roost to win her second title in Quebec City (also won in 1995 and finalist in 1994), the only woman in the history of the tournament to do so. In 2006, top-seed and future
Wimbledon
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* Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London
* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
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champion
Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli (; born 2 October 1984) is a French former professional tennis player. Bartoli won the 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2013 Wimbledon Championships singles title, after previously being runner-up in 2007 Wimbledo ...
of France defeated Russian
Olga Puchkova
Olga Alekseyevna Puchkova (also Poutchkova; ; ; born 27 September 1987) is a Russian former professional tennis player. As a junior, she played for Belarus, 6–0, 6–0, the first
double bagel in a WTA Tour final for 13 years.
The last edition of the tournament was held in 2018.
Past finals
Singles
Doubles
References
External links
Official website
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WTA Tour
Tennis tournaments in Canada
Indoor tennis tournaments
Sport in Quebec City
Tennis in Quebec
Recurring sporting events established in 1993
1993 establishments in Quebec
Defunct tennis tournaments in Canada
Carpet court tennis tournaments