BANK OF THE WEST CLASSIC STANFORD, USA AUG 03 - AUG 09, 2015

TOURNAMENT INFO 
 TIER: Premier 
PRIZE MONEY: $665,900 
SURFACE: Hard 
DIRECTOR: Vickie Gunnarsson 

Launched in San Francisco in 1971 and moving to Oakland in 1979, the longest-running women's-only event settled in its current home of Stanford University at the Taube Family Tennis Center in 1997. Bank of the West has been the title sponsor since 1992, showcasing a strong commitment to tennis. Stanford serves as the first tournament of the Emirates Airline US Open Series, the North American summer hardcourt schedule that begins after Wimbledon and leads up to the US Open. Martina Navratilova has the tournament record with five titles. Other winners include four-time champ Kim Clijsters, three-time champs Lindsay Davenport, Chris Evert, Billie Jean King and Serena Williams, and Margaret Court, Martina Hingis, Hana Mandlikova, Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario, Monica Seles and Venus Williams. 
Davenport has the most doubles titles with six - each of them coming with different partners.