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The HP Open is a professional women's tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

tournament played on outdoor hard courts. The event is affiliated with the Women's Tennis Association

Women's Tennis Association

The Women's Tennis Association , founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of Women's Professional Tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women. Its counterpart organization in the men's professional game is the Association of...

(WTA), and is an International-level tournament

WTA International tournaments

The International Tournaments is the new category for tennis tournaments of Women's Tennis Association from the 2009 WTA Tour. Tournaments are replacing Tier III and Tier IV events...

on the WTA Tour. The event was held for the first time in 2009

2009 WTA Tour

The 2009 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the 37th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on January 5, 2009, and concluded on November 8, 2009 after 56 events....

, and was the second tournament of the season held in Japan: the Toray Pan Pacific Open

Toray Pan Pacific Open

The is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1984 on in Tokyo, Japan. It is classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament since 1993. The event has traditionally been played on indoor carpet at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, but the 2008 event...

, a $2 million Premier tournament

WTA Premier tournaments

Premier Tournaments is a category of tennis tournaments in the Women's Tennis Association tour.Premier events include:*Four "Premier Mandatory" events in Indian Wells, Key Biscayne, Madrid, and Beijing with prize money of $4.5 million....

, was held two weeks before.

Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2011 2011 HP Open The 2011 HP Open is a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is the third edition of the HP Open, and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2011 WTA Tour...	Marion Bartoli Marion Bartoli Marion Bartoli is a French professional tennis player and the current French no. 1. She has won seven Women's Tennis Association singles titles and three doubles titles. She was also a runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships....	Samantha Stosur Samantha Stosur Samantha "Sam" Jane Stosur is an Australian professional tennis player. She won the 2011 US Open singles title and was a finalist at the 2010 French Open. Stosur is ranked World No. 6 and her career high in singles is World No. 4, achieved on 21 February 2011. She is a former world No...	6–3, 6–1
2010 2010 HP Open The 2010 HP Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 2nd edition of the HP Open, and was classified as one of the WTA International tournaments of the 2010 WTA Tour...	Tamarine Tanasugarn Tamarine Tanasugarn Tamarine Tanasugarn is a professional Thai tennis player. She was born in Los Angeles, United States, and turned professional in 1994. She has been in the top 20 in both singles and doubles....	Kimiko Date Krumm	7–5, 6–7(4), 6–1
2009 2009 HP Open The 2009 HP Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 1st edition of the HP Open, and was classified as an WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour...	Samantha Stosur Samantha Stosur Samantha "Sam" Jane Stosur is an Australian professional tennis player. She won the 2011 US Open singles title and was a finalist at the 2010 French Open. Stosur is ranked World No. 6 and her career high in singles is World No. 4, achieved on 21 February 2011. She is a former world No...	Francesca Schiavone Francesca Schiavone Francesca Schiavone is an Italian tennis player who turned professional in 1998. She won the 2010 French Open singles title, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam event in singles. She was also runner-up at the 2011 French Open. As of 24 October 2011, Schiavone's ranking is World...	7–5, 6–1

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2011 2011 HP Open The 2011 HP Open is a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is the third edition of the HP Open, and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2011 WTA Tour...	Kimiko Date Krumm Zhang Shuai Zhang Shuai (tennis) Zhang Shuai is a Chinese professional female tennis player. , she is the fourth-highest ranked women's singles player from China, at World number 90.-Career Summary:...	Vania King Vania King Vania King is a Taiwanese American female tennis player. King won both the 2010 Wimbledon Women's Doubles and 2010 US Open Women's Doubles titles with Kazakh partner Yaroslava Shvedova.... Yaroslava Shvedova Yaroslava Shvedova Yaroslava Vyacheslavovna Shvedova is a Kazakhstani professional tennis player of Russian descent. She has achieved a career high ranking of No. 29 as of 21 June 2010. She has won 1 WTA singles title, 3 ITF Women's Circuit singles titles and 3 doubles titles, including the 2010 Wimbledon and US...	7–5, 3–6, [11–9]
2010 2010 HP Open The 2010 HP Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 2nd edition of the HP Open, and was classified as one of the WTA International tournaments of the 2010 WTA Tour...	Chang Kai-chen Lilia Osterloh Lilia Osterloh Lilia Osterloh is a tennis player from the United States, who started a professional career in August 1997....	Shuko Aoyama Shuko Aoyama is a Japanese professional tennis player. Her best-ever ranking is No. 355 in singles and No. 228 in doubles .-External links:*... Rika Fujiwara Rika Fujiwara Rika Fujiwara is a Japanese professional tennis player. Her best-ever ranking is, singles No. 84 , doubles No. 13...	6–0, 6–3
2009 2009 HP Open The 2009 HP Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 1st edition of the HP Open, and was classified as an WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour...	Chuang Chia-jung Chuang Chia-jung Chuang Chia-jung is a Taiwanese professional female tennis player. In the Australian Open 2007, she reached the final of the women's doubles with her partner Chan Yung-jan, but lost in three sets to Cara Black and Liezel Huber... Lisa Raymond Lisa Raymond Lisa Raymond is an American professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world number one ranking in doubles...	Chanelle Scheepers Chanelle Scheepers Chanelle Scheepers is a South African professional tennis player. Her career high WTA singles ranking is No. 37, which she reached on 10 October 2011. Her career high doubles ranking is 91, set at 30 August 2010.... Abigail Spears Abigail Spears Abigail Michal Spears is an American professional tennis player.Spears turned professional in 2000. Spears has reached the third round at the 2005 Australian Open, and the first round at the 2005 French Open, 2005 Wimbledon tournament and the 2005 U.S. Open...	6–2, 6–4

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