The Ostrava Open (known as the AGEL Open for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament organised for female professional tennis players. It was most recently a WTA 500-level tournament held in October, played on indoor

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s, and first organized in 2020 after a 20 year absence to make up for the many tournaments cancelled during the 2020 season, due to the ongoing

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. The tournament was held until 2022, with the WTA announcing in June 2023 that the event would not return. From 1994 to 1998, the Czech Indoor was a men's

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tournament that was part of the

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of the

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. It was held at the ČEZ Aréna in

Ostrava Ostrava (; ; ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 283,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rivers: Oder, Opava (river), Opa ...

in the

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and was played on indoor carpet courts. In 1999, the Nokia Cup was a

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tournament. It was held in

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in the

and played on indoor carpet courts.

Women's results

Singles

Doubles

Men's results

Singles

Doubles

References

External links

AGEL Open 2022
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