The 2004 Hansol Korea Open Tennis Championships was a women's professional

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tournament played on

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. It was the first edition of the

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, and part of the Tier IV category of the

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. It took place in

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, South Korea between 27 September and 32 October 2004. The prize money was $140,000. First-seeded

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won the inaugural edition of the tournament.Source

. Accessed 2015-07-19.

Finals

Singles

defeated

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6–1, 6–1 * It was Sharapova's 3rd singles title of the year and the 5th of her

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Doubles

Cho Yoon-jeong Cho Yoon-jeong (, born 2 April 1979) is a South Korean former tennis player. In her career, she won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, at Seoul in 2004. Her best Grand Slam performance came when she made the third round of the 2005 US Open b ...

Jeon Mi-ra Jeon Mi-ra (, born 6 February 1978) is a South Korean former professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in the 1994 Wimbledon Championships girls' singles tournament, losing to Martina Hingis, 5–7, 4–6. As a professional, she won on ...

defeated

Chuang Chia-jung Chuang Chia-jung (; ; born 10 January 1985) is a Taiwanese former tennis player. In her career, she won 22 doubles titles on the WTA Tour and three doubles titles on tournaments of the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as ten singles and 33 do ...

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6–3, 1–6, 7–5

References

External links

ITF tournament edition details

WTA tournament profile

WTA tournament draws
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