The 2017
L&T Mumbai Open was a professional
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
tournament played on outdoor
hard courts
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface and ...
. It was the 2nd edition of the tournament overall, but the first in
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
, as the event made its debut in
Pune
Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...
in 2012 but was discontinued thereafter. It is part of the
2017 WTA 125K series
The WTA 125K series is the secondary professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association. The 2017 WTA 125K series calendar consisted of eight tournaments, each with a total prize fund of $125,000. After 2016, San Antonio Open ...
. It took place between 20 November and 26 November 2017.
WTA singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings are as of 13 November 2017.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Rutuja Bhosale
Rutuja Sampatrao Bhosale (born 27 March 1996) is an Indian tennis player.
She made her debut for India Fed Cup team in 2012, the same year, she achieved her highest junior ranking of world No. 55.
Bhosale, the former Indian number one in th ...
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Zeel Desai
Zeel Desai (born 18 February 1999) is an Indian tennis player.
Desai has a career-high singles ranking of 549 by the WTA, achieved on 19 September 2022. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 510, attained on 10 September 2018. De ...
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Ankita Raina
Ankita Ravinderkrishan Raina (born 11 January 1993) is an Indian professional tennis player. Since 2013, she has regularly been the Indian number one in both singles and doubles.
Raina has won one title on the WTA Tour and one at WTA 125 tourn ...
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Karman Thandi
Karman Kaur Thandi (born 16 June 1998) is an Indian professional tennis player. She has been a previous Indian No. 1 in singles.
Thandi has career-high WTA rankings of 196 in singles, as of 20 August 2018, and No. 180 in doubles, as of 14 Janu ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Ana Bogdan
Ana Bogdan (born 25 November 1992) is a Romanian professional tennis player. Having made her tour debut in 2007, she peaked at No. 46 in the WTA rankings in October 2022.
Bogdan had a successful junior career, reaching world No. 2 on 5 January ...
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Deniz Khazaniuk
Deniz Khazaniuk ( he, דניז חזניוק; born 24 October 1994) is an inactive Israeli tennis player.
Khazaniuk has career-high WTA rankings of 200 in singles, achieved on 11 June 2018, and of 445 in doubles, achieved on 16 June 2014. She has ...
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Hiroko Kuwata
Hiroko Kuwata ( ja, 桑田寛子; born 18 December 1990) is a Japanese tennis player.
Kuwata has won seven singles titles and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 9 May 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 150. On 13 July ...
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Alizé Lim
Alizé Lim (born 13 July 1990) is an inactive French tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is world No. 135, which she reached on 26 May 2014. Her career-high WTA doubles ranking is No. 148, attained on 7 November 2016.
Career
Li ...
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
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Petra Krejsová
Petra Krejsová (born 30 June 1990) is a Czech former professional tennis player.
In her career, Krejsová won seven singles titles and 29 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit
The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF ...
→replaced by
Amandine Hesse
Amandine Hesse (; born 16 January 1993) is a French professional tennis player.
Hesse has won six singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 9 May 2016, she reached her career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 154. On ...
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Jasmine Paolini
Jasmine Paolini (; born 4 January 1996) is an Italian tennis player. She reached career-high WTA rankings of No. 44 in singles and 122 in doubles. Paolini has won one singles title (at the 2021 Slovenian Open) and one doubles title on the WTA To ...
→replaced by
Junri Namigata
is a Japanese professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is 105, which she reached in February 2011. Her career-high doubles ranking is 101, achieved May 2015.
Early life and amateur career
Namigata was born in Koshigaya, ...
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Anna Karolína Schmiedlová
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (; born 13 September 1994) is a Slovak tennis player.
She has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as 12 singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 October 201 ...
→replaced by
Veronika Kudermetova
Veronika Eduardovna Kudermetova; ; tt-Cyrl, Вероника Эдуард кызы Кадыйрмәтова, translit=Veronika Edward qızı Qadıyrmätova. (born 24 April 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player.
She has a career-high si ...
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İpek Soylu
İpek Soylu (born 15 April 1996) is a professional Turkish female tennis player.
Soylu has won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, her biggest coming at the 2016 year-end Elite Trophy. She has also won 12 singles and 18 doubles titles on the ...
→replaced by
Laura Robson
Laura Robson (born 21 January 1994) is a British former professional tennis player. She debuted on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2007, and a year later won the Junior Wimbledon championships at the age of 14. As a junior, she also twice reached th ...
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Zhu Lin →replaced by
Olga Ianchuk
Olga Yuriyivna Ianchuk ( uk, Ольга Юріївна Янчук, born 29 March 1995) is a Ukrainian former professional tennis player.
Career
Ianchuk has career-high WTA rankings of 213 in singles, achieved in August 2017, and 254 in doubles, ...
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Vera Zvonareva
Vera Igorevna Zvonareva ( rus, Вера Игоревна Звонарёва, p=ˈvʲɛrə ˈiɡərʲɪvnə zvənɐˈrʲɵvə, a=Vera zvonareva.ogg; born 7 September 1984) is a Russian professional tennis player. She was introduced to tennis at ...
→replaced by
Peangtarn Plipuech
Peangtarn "Earth" Plipuech ( th, เพียงธาร ผลิพืช; born 15 November 1992) is a Thai tennis player.
Plipuech has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 175, achieved on 31 July 2017. ...
WTA doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings as of 13 November 2017.
Other entrants
The following team received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
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Riya Bhatia
Riya Bhatia ( hi, रिया भाटिया; born 24 September 1997) is a professional Indian tennis player.
Bhatia has career-high WTA rankings of 338 in singles, achieved on 2 March 2020, and 387 in doubles, reached on 17 May 2021. She ...
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Natasha Palha
Natasha Palha (born 17 January 1994) is an Indian former tennis player.
She was the Indian National Grass Court Tennis champion in 2014.
In her career, Palha won five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She reached career-high WTA ranki ...
Champions
Singles
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Aryna Sabalenka
Aryna Siarhiejeŭna Sabalenka ( be, Арына Сяргееўна Сабаленка; russian: Арина Сергеевна Соболенко, ''Arina Sergeyevna Sobolenko'', born 5 May 1998) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. She ha ...
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Dalila Jakupović
Dalila Jakupović (born 24 March 1991) is a Slovenian tennis player of Bosnian descent.
Jakupović to date has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour along with two WTA Challenger doubles titles. She also has won five singles and ten doubles ti ...
, 6–2, 6–3
Doubles
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Victoria Rodríguez /
Bibiane Schoofs
Bibiane Schoofs (born 13 May 1988), previously known as Bibiane Weijers, is a Dutch professional tennis player.
On 11 June 2012, she reached her career-high WTA singles ranking of 142, whilst her best doubles ranking was world No. 83 on 2 Apri ...
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Dalila Jakupović
Dalila Jakupović (born 24 March 1991) is a Slovenian tennis player of Bosnian descent.
Jakupović to date has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour along with two WTA Challenger doubles titles. She also has won five singles and ten doubles ti ...
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Irina Khromacheva
Irina Pavlovna Khromacheva ( rus, Ирина Павловна Хромачёва; born 12 May 1995) is a professional tennis player from Russia.
She has career-high WTA rankings of 89 in singles and 41 in doubles.
Khromacheva was provisionally ...
7–5, 3–6,
0–7
External links
Official website
{{2017 WTA 125K series tournaments
2017
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Mumbai Open
This was a former WTA 125K tennis tournament.
The tournament was not held between 2013–16 due to various reasons, but in 2017 it was reinstated as a WTA 125K series tournament and relocated to Mumbai.
The Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Assoc ...
Mumbai Open
This was a former WTA 125K tennis tournament.
The tournament was not held between 2013–16 due to various reasons, but in 2017 it was reinstated as a WTA 125K series tournament and relocated to Mumbai.
The Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Assoc ...