Moscow Ladies Open

Moscow Ladies Open
Moscow Ladies Open
Defunct tennis tournament
Event name	Moscow Ladies Open (1989–90, 1994–95); St. Petersburg Ladies Open (1991)
Tour	WTA Tour
Founded	1989
Abolished	1995
Editions	5
Location	Moscow, Russia
Surface	Carpet (i)

The Moscow Ladies Open is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1989 to 1995. It was held in Moscow, Soviet Union, from 1989 to 1990 (under the titles of Virginia Slims of Moscow and Kraft General Foods of Moscow, respectively) and in St. Petersburg, Soviet Union, in 1991 (as St. Petersburg Open) and again in Moscow from 1994 to 1995. Then the tournament was incorporated into the ATP Kremlin Cup, making it a combined event for 1996. The tournament was played on indoor carpet courts.^{[citation needed]}

In 2018, tournament returned in WTA Tour calendar as clay court championship Moscow River Cup.^{[citation needed]}

Finals

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
1989	Gretchen Magers	Natasha Zvereva	6–3, 6–4
1990	Leila Meskhi	Elena Brioukhovets	6–4, 6–4
1991	Larisa Savchenko	Barbara Rittner	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
1992 – 1993	not held
1994	Magdalena Maleeva	Sandra Cecchini	7–5, 6–1
1995	Magdalena Maleeva	Elena Makarova	6–4, 6–2

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1989	Larisa Savchenko Natasha Zvereva	Nathalie Herreman Catherine Suire	6–3, 6–4
1990	Gretchen Magers Robin White	Elena Brioukhovets Svetlana Parkhomenko	6–2, 6–4
1991	Elena Brioukhovets Natalia Medvedeva	Isabelle Demongeot Jo Durie	7–5, 6–3
1992 – 1993	not held
1994	Elena Makarova Eugenia Maniokova	Laura Golarsa Caroline Vis	7–6, 6–4
1995	Meredith McGrath Larisa Savchenko	Anna Kournikova Aleksandra Olsza	6–1, 6–0