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Fans hail upgrade of 2026 Singapore Tennis Open
The Straits Times
|October 11, 2025
The Singapore Tennis Open (STO) will be upgraded to a WTA 500 tournament when it returns in 2026, said the Kallang Alive Sport Management (KASM), which operates the Singapore Sports Hub, in an announcement on Oct 10.
Elise Mertens after winning the 2025 STO, which also featured 2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu and then world No. 18 Anna Kalinskaya.
(ST FILE PHOTO)
The Sept 21-27 event will be the first tennis tournament of this level here, and it will also be Southeast Asia’s only WTA 500 event in 2026.
The Republic had previously hosted the now-defunct WTA Singapore Open from 1986 to 1990, one edition of the Singapore Classic in 1994, the WTA Finals from 2014 to 2018 and the men’s ATP Singapore Open in 2021.
WTA chief executive Portia Archer said in a statement: “The inaugural Singapore Tennis Open in January received excellent feedback all around, a true testament to how successful the event was.
“The WTA is excited to see it being staged in 2026 as a 500-level tournament, which I’m sure will attract many top players to compete in front of Singapore’s passionate fans.”
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