08/06/13
A day after winning her second ITF 1 Series singles title in Seoul, Jordanne Whiley ended the Korea Open by winning her fourth ITF 1 Series doubles title.
With two Brits in the doubles final, Whiley and Japan's Yui Kamiji, the player she beat in Friday's singles final, held off a strong challenge from Louise Hunt and Korea's Ju-Yeon Park for a 3-6, 6-1, (10-5) victory after a championship tie-break.
Whiley and Hunt will both now stay in Korea for another ITF 1 Series event , the Daegu Open, which begins on Tuesday.
07/06/13
Jordanne Whiley won her second successive ITF 1 Series title on Friday and beat her third different world top 10 ranked opponent this season to win the Korea Open in Seoul.
Whiley, who slipped just outside the world's top 10 herself earlier this week when her points for reaching the semi-finals in Korea last year came off her 52-week total, stretched her unbeaten record against Japan's world No. 7 Yui Kamiji to 3-0 after recording a 6-4, 6-4 victory.
The British No. 2, who beat British No. 1 and world No. 5 Lucy Shuker a month ago to win her first ITF 1 Series title at the Atlanta Open, will now return to the world's top 10 again in next week's rankings.
Kamiji had come into the tournament on the crest of a wave after winning her first Super Series title at last week's Japan Open.
Whiley will now partner Kamiji in Saturday's women's doubles final, which will end with another British winner, as Louise Hunt and her Korean partner Ju-Yeon Park will be on the other side of the net.
06/06/13
Jordanne Whiley reached the women's singles final on the third day in Korea, with Whiley and Louise Hunt also winning through to face each other in the women's doubles final.
Second seed Whiley put up a confident display to beat Japanese fourth seed Miho Noji 6-0, 6-3 in her semi-final, thereby improving on her semi-final berth at the ITF 1 Series tournament in 2012.
Whiley now plays Japan's world No. 7 and top seed Yui Kamiii in Friday's final and will aiming to repeat her win over Kamiji in the quarter-finals of last year's tournament.
In the women's doubles semi-finals top seeds Whiley and Kamiji powered past Korea's Myung-Hee Hwang and Nijo 6-0, 6-0.
Hunt also partnered Korea's Ju-Yeon Park to a comfortable 6-0, 6-1 win over Malaysia's Faizatul Ahya Abdullah Thani and Ratana Techmaneewat of Thailand to guarantee that there will be a British winner in the doubles.
05/06/13
Jordanne Whiley reached the women's singles semi-finals in Korea for the second year in a row on the second day of play.
After her first round bye Whiley opened her bid with a comfortable 6-0, 6-1 win over Korea's Young-sil Cho. Second seed Whiley will face Japanese fourth seed Miho Nijo in the semi-finals after Nijo ended hopes of an all-British semi when she beat Louise Hunt 6-1, 6-2.
04/06/13
Louise Hunt made a winning start to her women's challenge at the Korea Open after coming from a set and 3-0 down to beat Malaysia's Faizatul Ahya Abdullah Thani 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.
Hunt will go on to face fourth seed Miho Nijo of Japan in the quarter-finals, where victory could earn her an all-British semi-final against Jordanne Whiley.
Both Brits are drawn in the bottom half of the draw in Seoul, with Whiley set to start her challenge with a quarter-final against Young-Sil Cho of Korea after a first round bye.
03/06/13
In their first tournament since helping Great Britain to win the silver medal in the women's World Group at the 2013 BNP Paribas World Team Cup, Jordanne Whiley and Louise Hunt line-up for this week's ITF 1 Series event at the Olympic Tennis Park in Seoul, where they also won the bronze medal at the 2012 BNP Paribas World Team Cup.
Just over a month since winning her first ITF 1 Series title at the Atlanta Open, Whiley bids to improve on her women's singles semi-final berth at the 2012 Korea Open, where she also partnered fellow Brit Lucy Shuker to win the women's doubles. Hunt was also a semi-finalist in the women's doubles last year.
Whiley is set to be top seed for the women's singles, but the world No. 9 or British No. 3 Hunt could find their titles chances challenged by Japan's Yui Kamiji, who is set to arrive in Korea frsh from winning the first Super Series title of her career at the Japan Open.