Western Australian Championships

Western Australian Championships
Defunct tennis tournament
Event name Western Australian Championships (197175)
Tour WTA Tour (197175)
Founded 1971
Abolished 1975
Editions 5
Surface Grass (197175)

The Western Australian Championships is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated women's tennis tournament played from 1971 to 1975. It was held in Perth in Australia and was played on grass courts.

Margaret Court was the most successful player at the tournament, winning the singles competition three times and the doubles competition in 1971, partnering Australian Evonne Goolagong for her doubles success.

Winners

Singles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
1971 Australia Margaret Court United Kingdom Virginia Wade 6–1, 6–2
1972 (February) Australia Evonne Goolagong Soviet Union Olga Morozova 6–2, 7–5
1972 (December) Australia Margaret Court Australia Evonne Goolagong 6–3, 6–2
1974 Australia Margaret Court Soviet Union Olga Morozova 6–4, 7–5
1975 West Germany Helga Niessen Masthoff Australia Lesley Turner Bowrey 6–2, 3–6, 6–3

Doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
1971 Australia Margaret Court
Australia Evonne Goolagong
United Kingdom Winnie Shaw
United Kingdom Virginia Wade
6–4, 7–5
1972 (February) Australia Evonne Goolagong
Australia Barbara Hawcroft
Soviet Union Olga Morozova
Australia Janet Young
3–6, 6–4, 6–3
1972 (December) Not held
1974 Soviet Union Olga Morozova
Czechoslovakia Martina Navratilova
Australia Lesley Hunt
Japan Kazuko Sawamatsu
6–1, 6–3
1975 Australia Lesley Turner Bowrey
Australia Christine Matison
United Kingdom Sue Barker
United Kingdom Michelle Tyler
6–3, 6–3


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