2019 - ST. PETERSBURG - RUSSIA January 27, 2019

Regal in Russia: Previous St. Petersburg winners

We take a look down memory lane at the previous winners of the St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy.

01 /09

Evgenia Linetskaya won the inaugural, 2003 tournament on home soil, beating Tatsiana Uvarova 5-7, 6-4, 6-4

02 /09

Anastasiya Yakimova prevailed 12 months later, outlasting Emma Laine 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 (Getty)

03 /09

Ekaterina Bychkova eased past Laine 6-1, 6-2 in 2005 to become the second home winner of the event (Getty)

04 /09

Alberta Brianti beat home player All Kudryavtseva 6-1, 6-4 in 2006 (Getty)

05 /09

The event was not held in 2007, leaving Magdalena Rybarikova to take the spoils in 2008, beating Anna Lapushchenkova 6-4, 6-2 (Getty)

06 /09

After a further seven-year hiatus, the event returned in 2015, Jelena Ostapenko defeating Patricia Maria Tig 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 in the final (Getty)

07 /09

Roberta Vinci became the second Italian to win the event, defeating Belinda Bencic 6-4, 6-3 in 2016 (Getty)

08 /09

Kristina Mladenovic came through three sets in 2017 to beat Yulia Putintseva 6-2, 6-7, 6-4 (Getty)

09 /09

Petra Kvitova stopped Mladenovic from retaining her crown last year, winning 6-1, 6-2 (Getty)

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