Pittsburgh Open
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The Pittsburgh Open is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 tournament played from 1979 to 1984. It was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...

 in the United States and played on indoor carpet courts.

Singles

Year Champion Runner-up Score
1979   Sue Barker
Sue Barker
Susan Barker, MBE is an English television presenter and former professional tennis player. During her tennis career, she won the women's singles title at the French Open and reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3...

  Renée Richards
Renee Richards
Renée Richards is an American ophthalmologist, author and former professional tennis player. In 1975, Richards underwent sex reassignment surgery. She is known for initially being denied entry into the 1976 US Open by the United States Tennis Association, citing an unprecedented women-born-women...

 
6–3, 6–1
1980

1982
Not Held
1983   Ginny Purdy   Claudia Monteiro
Claudia Monteiro
Claudia Monteiro is a Brazilian professional tennis player.-External links:...

 
6–2, 7–5
1984   Andrea Leand
Andrea Leand
Andrea Leand is a former professional tennis player.- Career :She played on the WTA tour from 1981 to 1994. She won a singles title at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1984 and reached the 4th round of the U.S. Open on three occasions and of the French Open in 1982. She retired with an 87-106 singles...

  Pascale Paradis
Pascale Paradis
Pascale Paradis-Mangon is a former professional tennis player from France.Paradis was the World Junior Champion in women's singles in 1983. Although she failed to reach the heights predicted for her at that time, she did reach the quarter finals at Wimbledon in 1988 before falling to Steffi Graf....

 
0–6, 6–2, 6–4

Doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
1979   Sue Barker
Sue Barker
Susan Barker, MBE is an English television presenter and former professional tennis player. During her tennis career, she won the women's singles title at the French Open and reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3...

 /   Candy Reynolds
Candy Reynolds
Candy Reynolds is a former professional tennis player from the United States.-Career:During her career, Reynolds won the women's doubles title at the French Open in 1983...

 
  Bunny Bruning /   Jane Stratton  6–3, 6–2
1980

1982
Not Held
1983   Candy Reynolds
Candy Reynolds
Candy Reynolds is a former professional tennis player from the United States.-Career:During her career, Reynolds won the women's doubles title at the French Open in 1983...

 /   Paula Smith
Paula Smith
Paula Smith is a former American tennis player.Smith played 100 tour singles matches and 47 doubles matches between 1976 and 1988. She reached the finals of the French Open once in 1981, partnering Candy Reynolds, and again in mixed doubles in 1985, partnering Francisco González and losing to...

 
  Iwona Kuczyńska
Iwona Kuczyńska
Iwona Kuczyńska is a former professional tennis player from Poland. She won one doubles title in 1988 partnering with Martina Navratilova.-Doubles 2 :-References:*...

 /   Trey Lewis
Trey Lewis (tennis)
----Trey Lewis is a female American Professional Tennis Player, who played professionally in the first half of the years 1980....

 
6–2, 6–2
1984   Christiane Jolissaint
Christiane Jolissaint
Christiane Jolissaint is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland. She won five doubles titles, most often partnering with Marcella Mesker.-Doubles 7 :-References:*...

 /   Marcella Mesker
Marcella Mesker
Marcella Mesker is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands.Mesker was active on the WTA tour from 1979 to 1988 and reached the final of the Australian Open Women's Doubles in 1979. She also reached the semi finals of the U.S. Open Women's Doubles in 1984...

 
  Anna Maria Fernandez /   Trey Lewis
Trey Lewis (tennis)
----Trey Lewis is a female American Professional Tennis Player, who played professionally in the first half of the years 1980....

7–6, 6–4
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