Nuremberg Cup

The Nuremberg Cup (sponsored by Nürnberger Versicherunggruppe and called the Nürnberger Versicherungscup) was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany.[1] The event was affiliated with the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and was an International-level tournament on the WTA Tour.[2][3] The inaugural 2013 edition took place the week after the French Open while from 2014 to 2019, the event was scheduled the week before the French Open. The licence was sold and the tournament venue is going to move to the Rhineland. [4]

Nürnberger Versicherungscup
Tournament information
Founded	2013
Abolished	2019
Location	Nuremberg Germany
Venue	Tennisclub 1. FC Nürnberg
Category	WTA International
Surface	Clay - outdoors
Draw	32S / 32Q / 16D
Prize money	US$250,000 (2019)
Current champions (2019)
Women's singles	Yulia Putintseva
Women's doubles	Gabriela Dabrowski Xu Yifan

Past finals

Singles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2013	Simona Halep	Andrea Petkovic	6–3, 6–3
2014	Eugenie Bouchard	Karolína Plíšková	6–2, 4–6, 6–3
2015	Karin Knapp	Roberta Vinci	7–6^(7–5), 4–6, 6–1
2016	Kiki Bertens	Mariana Duque Mariño	6–2, 6–2
2017	Kiki Bertens (2)	Barbora Krejčíková	6–2, 6–1
2018	Johanna Larsson	Alison Riske	7–6^(7–4), 6–4
2019	Yulia Putintseva	Tamara Zidanšek	4–6, 6–4, 6–2

Doubles

Nuremberg Cup

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
2013	Raluca Olaru Valeria Solovyeva	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Květa Peschke	2–6, 7–6^(7–3), [11–9]
2014	Michaëlla Krajicek Karolína Plíšková	Raluca Olaru Shahar Pe'er	6–0, 4–6, [10–6]
2015	Chan Hao-ching Anabel Medina Garrigues	Lara Arruabarrena Raluca Olaru	6–4, 7–6^(7–5)
2016	Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson	Shuko Aoyama Renata Voráčová	6–3, 6–4
2017	Nicole Melichar Anna Smith	Kirsten Flipkens Johanna Larsson	3–6, 6–3, [11–9]
2018	Demi Schuurs Katarina Srebotnik	Kirsten Flipkens Johanna Larsson	3–6, 6–3, [10–7]
2019	Gabriela Dabrowski Xu Yifan	Sharon Fichman Nicole Melichar	4–6, 7–6^(7–5), [10–5]

See also

• Nuremberg Open – men's tournament (1976)

References

1. "tennis.com - Seeded Italians Vinci, Knapp advance at Nuremberg Cup". Tennis magazine. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
2. "Nürnberg bekommt zweites deutsches WTA-Turnier". Augsburger Allgemeine (in German). 8 February 2013.
3. "Erstes WTA-Turnier in Nürnberg". Mittelbayerische Zeitung (in German). 27 March 2013.
4. "Lizenz des WTA-Turniers in Nürnberg wandert ins Rheinland". tennisnet.com (in German). 2020-01-20. Retrieved 2020-05-13.