The 2016
Open Féminin de Marseille
The Open Féminin de Marseille (previously known as Open GDF Suez de Marseille) was a tournament for professional female tennis players played on outdoor clay courts. The event was classified as a $100,000 ITF Women's Circuit tournament. It was h ...
was a professional
tennis
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tournament played on outdoor
clay court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament.
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s. It was the nineteenth edition of the tournament and part of the
2016 ITF Women's Circuit
The 2016 International Tennis Federation (ITF) Women's Circuit is a second-tier tour for women's professional tennis. It is organized by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. The ITF Wo ...
, offering a total of $100,000 in prize money. It took place in
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...
, France, on 31 May – 5 June 2016.
Singles main draw entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings as of 23 May 2016.
Other entrants
The following player received a wildcard into the singles main draw:
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Victoria Larrière
Victoria Larrière (born 2 May 1991) is a French former professional tennis player. As of 14 May 2012, she reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 172.
Career
Her career accelerated in the summer of 2011 when she won her first final in ...
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Victoria Muntean
Victoria Muntean (born 23 January 1997) is a French professional tennis player.
Muntean has a career-high WTA rankings, WTA singles ranking of 435, attained on 27 June 2016, and a career-high WTA rankings, WTA doubles ranking of 408, reached on ...
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Irina Ramialison
Irina Ramialison (born 9 June 1991) is a French former professional tennis player.
On 10 November 2014, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 243. On 13 July 2015, she peaked at No. 196 in the WTA doubles rankings.
Career 2014
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Caroline Roméo
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Elyne Boeykens
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Amanda Carreras
Amanda Carreras (born 16 May 1990) is a British tennis player from Gibraltar.
Carreras has won 11 singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 24 April 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 236, and peaked at No. 279 ...
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Varvara Flink
Varvara Alexandrovna Flink (russian: Варвара Александровна Флинк; born 13 December 1996) is a Russian tennis player. She achieved a career-high WTA rankings, WTA singles ranking of 122 on 15 July 2019 and a doubles ranki ...
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The following player received entry by a protected ranking:
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Claire Feuerstein
Claire Feuerstein (; ; born 28 February 1986) is a former tennis player from France.
She made her debut in professional competition in 2002, aged 16, at an ITF tournament in Les Contamines, France.
From 2002 to 2009, she played at many ITF t ...
Champions
Singles
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Danka Kovinić
Danka Kovinić ( cnr, Данка Ковинић; born 18 November 1994) is a Montenegrin professional tennis player.
On 22 February 2016, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 46, and on 20 June 2016, she peaked at No. 67 in th ...
def.
Hsieh Su-wei
Hsieh Su-wei ( ;''Xiè 謝淑薇Shūwēi'' in Chinese mainland. Taiwanese Mandarin: ; in Standard Mandarin of Chinese mainland. born 4 January 1986) is an inactive Taiwanese professional tennis player. She has won three singles titles and 30 ...
, 6–2, 6–3
Doubles
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Hsieh Su-wei
Hsieh Su-wei ( ;''Xiè 謝淑薇Shūwēi'' in Chinese mainland. Taiwanese Mandarin: ; in Standard Mandarin of Chinese mainland. born 4 January 1986) is an inactive Taiwanese professional tennis player. She has won three singles titles and 30 ...
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Nicole Melichar
Nicole Melichar-Martinez (née Melichar; cz, Nicole Melicharová, ) is an American tennis player who specializes in doubles.
She has won twelve doubles titles on the WTA Tour and one WTA 125 doubles title as well as two singles and seven double ...
def.
Jana Čepelová
Jana Čepelová (; born 29 May 1993) is an inactive Slovak tennis player.
She has won seven singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 May 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 50. On 18 May 2015, she p ...
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Lourdes Domínguez Lino
Lourdes Domínguez Lino (; born 31 March 1981) is a retired tennis player from Spain. She reached career-high rankings of world No. 40 in singles and 45 in doubles.
Tennis career
In the 1999 Roland Garros, she won the junior girls' singles, de ...
, 1–6, 6–3,
0–3
External links
2016 Open Féminin de Marseilleat ITFtennis.com
Official website
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2016 ITF Women's Circuit
2016 in French tennis
2016
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