The St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy is a women's professional international tennis tournament held in winter in St. Petersburg since 2016 on indoor hard courts. It belongs to the WTA 500 series with a prize fund of about 700 thousand dollars and a tournament grid designed for 28 participants in singles and 16 pairs.
Tournament Facts:
2016
Year of foundation
WTA 500
Category
$ 703 580
Prize fund
Hard
Surface
Worldwide
Broadcast regions
Prizes and Awards
2018 Best tournament of WTA Premier
St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy: award “Best tournament of WTA Premier series”
2019 Best tournament of WTA Premier
St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy: award “Best tournament of WTA Premier series”
2019 Best Marketing of a Sport Event
St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy: silver winner of “Best Marketing of a Sport Event. Game Sports”
2019 Best tennis project of the year
St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy: award “Best sports event of the year”
2020 Best tennis project of the year
St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy: award “Best sports event of the year”
2021 Best WTA 500 Tournament
St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy: Winning the Best WTA 500 Tournament Award
2021 Best Innovative Technologies in Sport
St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy: finalist of the Sport Business Awards in the Best Innovative Technologies in Sport category, with the virtual autograph sessions project.
Tennis Talk is an open and interactive talk show for viewers. A unique system was created to communicate with the guests, this helped not only to comply with COVID-19 non-proliferation measures, but also to simulate live interaction.
Virtual Autograph Sessions
Fans interacted with players using video technology. An isolated area for the players was located within the press center and a spectator area on the other side. Players and fans were generated into a common photo in real time.
Tennis Education Day
Tennis players, parents and all comers received notebooks and pens with the tournament symbols and, like real students, prepared to listen to the lectures of tennis gurus. The host was a professional commentator and coach Alexander Sobkin.
Ecology Day
The promotional event was held in partnership with the company "SIBUR". The star speakers were eco-bloggers Georgy Kavanosyan (author of sensational environmental investigations) and Roman Sablin, Russia's first ecological lifestyle coach and founder of the Green Driver project.
Ecoquiz by Porsche and Rosseti
Eco-quizzes from partners Rosseti Lenenergo and Porsche were also held. Those who wished could win prizes by answering thematic questions. The ten most erudite and clever lucky winners received branded paraphernalia from Rosseti Lenenergo and Porsche, as well as gifts made of recycled plastic from SIBUR.
Photo Studio Project
A lot of zones for photo sessions of players and spectators were created, a zone for selfies with players was organized in the press center.
Tennis auto-cinema "Kinoparking"
Organized viewing of tennis on cars in the auto cinema "Kinoparking", which became a special fan zone of the tournament for fans of comfortable viewing of spectacular matches from their cars.
Picture Project
Artists of different ages and experience took part in the competition. The plot on the canvas was to unite tennis and the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, but each solved this creative problem in his own way. Prize fund: 50,000 rubles.
Gift of the CF "T-shirt gives life"
Socially responsible action in cooperation with a charitable organization.
Tennisball
A joint exhibition match with the participation of tennis players and soccer players of Zenit club.
CyberTennis
Cybersports tournament for fans and professional players in this field.
Contests for journalists and photographers.
Every year the tournament selects and awards the best journalists and photographers.
Porsche rally
Together with the partner of the tournament automobile brand "Porshe" an interactive zone in the form of an auto drome with branded radio-controlled cars was organized.
Children's Day
For the little fans there was organized a children's day in online format with Daria Kasatkina and a day with ballboys and Katie McNally. Moreover, an online kids' zone with various games and puzzles was created on the tournament website.