The 1994 Moscow Ladies Open was a women's

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball c ...

tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the

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, that was part of Tier III of the

1994 WTA Tour The 1994 WTA Tour was the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). The WTA Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the year-ending WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Ti ...

. It was held from September 19 through 24, 1994. It was the fourth edition of the WTA tournament inaugurated under the title of

Virginia Slims of Moscow The Virginia Slims of Moscow (russian: Московский турнир «Вирджиния Слимз»; after the title sponsor of that year's WTA tour) was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Olympic Stadium in ...

in 1989.

Finals

Singles

Magdalena Maleeva Magdalena Georgieva Maleeva ( bg, Магдалена Георгиева Малеева, ; born 1 April 1975) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to Oct ...

defeated

Sandra Cecchini Anna-Maria "Sandra" Cecchini (; born 27 February 1965) is a retired professional tennis player from Italy. Career Cecchini turned professional in 1984. She won 12 singles and 11 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She had career wins over Chris Ev ...

7–5, 6–1 * It was Maleeva's 1st WTA singles title of the year and the 2nd of her career.

Doubles

Elena Makarova Elena Alekseyevna Makarova (russian: Елена Алексеевна Макарова, ; born 1 February 1973), is a former Russian professional tennis player. Makarova played in the WTA Tour between 1991 and 1999. Her best performances were i ...

/ Eugenia Maniokova defeated

Laura Golarsa Laura Golarsa (born 27 November 1967) is a former Italian professional tennis player. Golarsa was born in Milan and played on the WTA Tour from 1985 to 2001. She did not win any senior titles but did reach the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 1 ...

Caroline Vis Caroline Vis (born 4 March 1970 in Vlaardingen) is a retired professional tennis player from the Netherlands. Vis turned pro in 1989. A doubles specialist, Vis won nine titles during her career on the WTA Tour. She reached the mixed doubles fi ...

7-6^(6–3), 6-4 * It was Makarova's only doubles WTA title of her career. It was Maniokova's 2nd WTA doubles title of the year and the 4th and last of her career.

References

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* {{1994 WTA Tour

Moscow Ladies Open 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, respectiv ...

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