Memphis website and past winners

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Website: www.krogerstjude.com (http://www.krogerstjude.com/)


Past winners in Memphis:

Singles:

2003 Lisa Raymond (USA)
2002 Lisa Raymond (USA)
2001 Monica Seles (USA)
2000 Monica Seles (USA)
1999 Venus Williams (USA)
1998 Venus Williams (USA)
1997 Lindsay Davenport (USA)
1996 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy
1995 Brenda Schultz
1994 Meredith McGrath
1993 Zina Garrison
1992 Zina Garrison
1991 Jana Novotna
1990 Amy Frazier
1989 Manon Bollegraf
1988 Lori McNeil
1987 Elizabeth Smylie
1986 Marcella Mesker

Doubles:

2003 Akiko Morigami - Saori Obata
2002 Ai Sugiyama - Elena Tatarkova
2001 Amanda Coetzer - Lori McNeil
2000 Kimberly Po - Corina Morariu
1999 Lisa Raymond - Rennae Stubbs
1998 Venus Williams - Serena Williams
1997 Nana Miyagi - Rika Hiraki
1996 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy-Chanda Rubin
1995 Nicole Arendt - Laura Golarsa
1994 Meredith McGrath - Patty Fendick
1993 Zina Garrison - Patty Fendick
1992 Lori McNeil - Nicole Provis
1991 Meredith McGrath - Anne Smith
1990 Mary Lou Daniels - Wendy White
1989 Lori McNeil - Betsy Nagelson
1988 Jana Novotna - Catherine Suire
1987 Svetlana Parkhomenko-Laris Savchenko
1986 Marcella Mesker - Pascale Paradis


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Lisa Raymond 2003


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Akiko Morigami - Saori Obata
2003

It should be brought to attention that these playes won when the tournament was still in Oklahoma city and not Memphis

2001 Monica Seles (USA)
2000 Monica Seles (USA)
1999 Venus Williams (USA)
1998 Venus Williams (USA)
1997 Lindsay Davenport (USA)
1996 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy
1995 Brenda Schultz
1994 Meredith McGrath
1993 Zina Garrison
1992 Zina Garrison
1991 Jana Novotna
1990 Amy Frazier
1989 Manon Bollegraf
1988 Lori McNeil
1987 Elizabeth Smylie
1986 Marcella Mesker


2001 Amanda Coetzer - Lori McNeil
2000 Kimberly Po - Corina Morariu
1999 Lisa Raymond - Rennae Stubbs
1998 Venus Williams - Serena Williams
1997 Nana Miyagi - Rika Hiraki
1996 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy-Chanda Rubin
1995 Nicole Arendt - Laura Golarsa
1994 Meredith McGrath - Patty Fendick
1993 Zina Garrison - Patty Fendick
1992 Lori McNeil - Nicole Provis
1991 Meredith McGrath - Anne Smith
1990 Mary Lou Daniels - Wendy White
1989 Lori McNeil - Betsy Nagelson
1988 Jana Novotna - Catherine Suire
1987 Svetlana Parkhomenko-Laris Savchenko
1986 Marcella Mesker - Pascale Paradis

OMG :rolleyes: get over it we have it now not OKC

Does anyone else miss Oklahoma City? :sad:

Go Lisa :D - Make it three in a row :hearts:

The last foreign player to win this was Brenda. :hearts: I miss her.

It's too bad that "Nagyova Jr." Sharapova will probably win this year.

Pointblank, if you knew the circumstances under which the tournament ended up in Memphis you would be sad and upset as well.

What happened then?

Memphis wanted a womens tourney and they got it .. not really teary eyes on that one

Umm you're so confused ok , this is what happened. Sara Fornacari bought the event from ProServ in 1989 she founded her own agency SportsPlus so for 11 years she ran the tournament from her own agency and with much success I must say. In 2001 Bob Funk, Oklahoma City's Donald Trump wanted in on the success so he wanted to have Express Personnell( one of his companies) as the presenting sponsor so Mrs Fornacari agreed, to have them as the presenting sponsor but she still had the rights to the tournament. After having the most successful year in 2001 where over 30,000 people attended the event( More than attended the season ending championships in Munich, 2001) Bob Funk sued Sara Fornacari for the tournament rights saying that she had promised him a percentage of the tournament ownership, no contract was ever found promising him that. Instead a judge ordered that she sell the tournament rights in order to avoid further dispute.
So the guy in Memphis bought the rights and now you all have the tournament up there. This was going to be a tier II everyone always talked aout how much they loved playing here. It was sad really how it demised so quickly. so no, Pointblank it wasn't that Memphis is so great that the tournament just had to move there because it wanted a tourney.