China Open (tennis)

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China Open
Location	Beijing China
Surface	Hard / Outdoors
Official website
ATP Tour
Category	International Series
Draw	32S / 32Q / 16D
Prize Money	US$500,000
Sony Ericsson WTA Tour
Tier	Tier II
Draw	28M / 16Q / 16D
Prize Money	US$600,000

The China Open (formerly the Beijing Salem Open) is a professional tennis tournament in Beijing, China. It was first held in 1993. In 1998 it was removed from the tour calendar but was reinstated in 2004. Since 2005 it has been included in the schedule of both the ATP Tour and the WTA Tour. The 2008 event will take place from September 20 to September 28.

It was first held in 1993, a year in which the Qatar Open and Dubai Tennis Championships were also introduced to the tour, as the ATP opened a series of new tournaments in Asia.

In 2006, it was the first tournament outside the USA to utilize the Hawk-Eye system.^[1]

Michael Chang is the only man to have won the singles competition more than once, holding the record for both total and consecutive wins with three titles.

[edit] Past finals

[edit] Men's Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
1993	Michael Chang	Greg Rusedski	7–6(5), 6–7(6), 6–4
1994	Michael Chang	Anders Järryd	7–5, 7–5
1995	Michael Chang	Renzo Furlan	7–5, 6–3
1996	Greg Rusedski	Martin Damm	7–6(5), 6–4
1997	Jim Courier	Magnus Gustafsson	7–6(10), 3–6, 6–3
1998-2003: No tournament
2004	Marat Safin	Mikhail Youzhny	7–6(4), 7–5
2005	Rafael Nadal	Guillermo Coria	5–7, 6–1, 6–2
2006	Marcos Baghdatis	Mario Ančić	6–4, 6–0
2007	Fernando González	Tommy Robredo	6–1, 3–6, 6–1

[edit] Men's Doubles

Year	Champions	Runner-ups	Score
1993	Paul Annacone / Doug Flach	Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis	7–6, 6–3
1994	Tommy Ho / Kent Kinnear	David Adams / Andrei Olhovskiy	7–6, 6–3
1995	Tommy Ho / Sébastien Lareau	Dick Norman / Fernon Wibier	7–6, 7–6
1996	Martin Damm / Andrei Olhovskiy	Patrik Kühnen / Gary Muller	6–4, 7–5
1997	Mahesh Bhupathi / Leander Paes	Jim Courier / Alex O'Brien	7–5, 7–6
1998-2003	No tournament
2004	Justin Gimelstob / Graydon Oliver	Alex Bogomolov Jr. / Taylor Dent	4–6, 6–4, 7–6
2005	Justin Gimelstob / Nathan Healey	Dmitry Tursunov / Mikhail Youzhny	4–6, 6–3, 6–2
2006	Mahesh Bhupathi / Mario Ančić	Michael Berrer / Kenneth Carlsen	6–4, 6–3
2007	Rik de Voest / Ashley Fisher	Chris Haggard / Lu Yen-hsun	6–7, 6–0, 10–6

[edit] 2006

Marcus Baghdatis, the third seed, beat Mario Ančić, the fourth seed, in the final of the 2006 China Open. Both the first seed, Ivan Ljubičić, and the second seed, Nikolay Davydenko, were knocked out in the second round. The two retirements from this tournament was Ivo Karlović with a problem with his left knee, and Nikolay Davydenko who had a virus.

[edit] 2005

Rafael Nadal, the top seed for this tournament, beat Guillermo Coria, the second seed, in the 2005 final.

[edit] 2004

Marat Safin, the fifth seed, beat the unseeded Mikhail Youzhny in the 2004 final. Mikhail had between fourth seed Rainer Schüttler, eight seed Dominik Hrbatý, and sixth seed Paradorn Srichaphan on his way to the final. Another seed that was knocked out early on was Carlos Moyà, the top seed, who has defeated by qualifier Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the first round.

[edit] 1997

Jim Courier, the top seed for the tournament, beat Magnus Gustafsson in the 1997 final. In first round there were knock outs for two seeded players. Second seed Mark Woodforde was beaten by Kenneth Carlson in straight sets, and eight seed Richey Reneberg was beaten by Jan Kroslak.

[edit] 1996

Unseeded Greg Rusedski beat unseeded Martin Damm in the 1997 final. On his way, Greg had defeated Andrei Olhovskiy, Jean Phillip-Feurian, Gustavo Kuerten, and fourth seed Bryan Black. Martin though, in the first round defeated top seed Michael Chang then Scott Draper, and Thomas Johansson.

[edit] 1995

Top seed Michael Chang defeated second seed Renzo Furlan in the 1995 final. The only surprise in that year's tournament was that unseeded Dick Norman beat seventh seed Michael Tebbutt. It was the third year in a row that Michael had won this open.

[edit] 1994

Top seed Michael Chang beat unseeded Anders Järryd in the 1994 final. Jarryd had beat second seed David Wheaton in the second round.

[edit] 1993

In first China Open, Michael Chang beat Greg Rusedski. Michael, the number one seed, defeated the unseeded Greg by 7-6(5) 6-7(6) 6-1. On his way to the final, Greg beat 8th seed Jaimie Morgan, 2nd seed Magnus Gustafsson, and fourth seed Brad Gilbert.

[edit] Women

[edit] Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2004	Serena Williams	Svetlana Kuznetsova	4–6, 7–5, 6–4
2005	Maria Kirilenko	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	6–3, 6–4
2006	Svetlana Kuznetsova	Amélie Mauresmo	6–4, 6–0
2007	Ágnes Szávay	Jelena Janković	6–7, 7–5, 6–2

[edit] 2007

In the 2007 final, sixth seed Ágnes Szávay beat first seed Jelena Janković, after Janković served for the match twice in the 2nd set. Szávay had defeated Shuai Peng in the semis, after Peng had defeated Martina Hingis and Amélie Mauresmo.