The 2019 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo was a professional women's

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tournament played on outdoor

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s at the ''Country Time Club''. It was the 27th edition of the tournament which was part of the

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. It took place in

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, Italy between 22 and 28 July 2019. The tournament made a return to the

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after a five-year absence (2014–2018).

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of July 15, 2019

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Sara Errani *

Giulia Gatto-Monticone Giulia Gatto-Monticone (born 18 November 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. In February 2020, she reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 148, while her best WTA doubles ranking is 200, achieved in October 2014. She has n ...

Martina Trevisan Martina Trevisan (; born 3 November 1993) is an Italian professional tennis player. Trevisan is the current Italian No. 1, has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 24 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and in 2021 had a peak doubles r ...

The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw: * Anna-Lena Friedsam The following player received entry as a special exempt into the main draw: *
Martina Di Giuseppe Martina Di Giuseppe (born 10 February 1991) is an Italian tennis player. Di Giuseppe achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 149 on 22 July 2019, after making the semifinals at the Bucharest Open. Also on 22 July 2019, she peaked a ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Gabriela Cé * Elisabetta Cocciaretto * Jaimee Fourlis *

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 ...

* Tereza Mrdeža *

Jessica Pieri Jessica Pieri (born 24 April 1997) is an Italian tennis player. Pieri has a career-high singles ranking of 205 by the WTA, achieved on 28 May 2018. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 563, reached on 15 July 2019. She has won six ...

The following players received entry as lucky losers: *

Georgina García Pérez Georgina García Pérez (; born 13 May 1992) is a Spanish tennis player. She has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, plus 12 singles and 18 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 5 Novemb ...

* Liudmila Samsonova *

Fanny Stollár Fanny Stollár (born 12 November 1998) is a Hungarian tennis player. Stollár has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour and one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as one singles title and twelve doubles titles on the ITF Women' ...

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament * Timea Bacsinszky → replaced by Liudmila Samsonova * Mona Barthel → replaced by

Arantxa Rus Arantxa Rus (; born 13 December 1990) is a Dutch tennis player. In 2008, she won the girl's singles title at the 2008 Australian Open – Girls' singles, Australian Open, defeating Jessica Moore (tennis), Jessica Moore from Australia in the final ...

* Aliona Bolsova → replaced by Antonia Lottner *

Martina Di Giuseppe Martina Di Giuseppe (born 10 February 1991) is an Italian tennis player. Di Giuseppe achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 149 on 22 July 2019, after making the semifinals at the Bucharest Open. Also on 22 July 2019, she peaked a ...

→ replaced by

Julia Görges Julia Görges (born 2 November 1988) is a German former professional tennis player. A former top-ten singles player, she was ranked as high as No. 9 in the world on 20 August 2018, and was ranked inside the top 15 in doubles, peaking at world No ...

→ replaced by

Irina-Camelia Begu Irina-Camelia Begu (born 26 August 1990) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 22 in the world, in August 2016. Two years later, she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking, also No. 22. Begu ...

* Polona Hercog → replaced by Lara Arruabarrena * Mandy Minella → replaced by

Karolína Muchová Karolína Muchová (; born 21 August 1996) is a Czech tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 19, achieved on 17 May 2021. Muchová has reached two finals on the WTA Tour, winning one title, the International-level Kore ...

→ replaced by

Paula Badosa Paula Badosa Gibert () (born 15 November 1997) is a Spanish professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), which she achieved on 25 April 2022, and No. 124 in doubles, at ...

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 Stefanie Vögele * Zhang Shuai → replaced by Ekaterine Gorgodze

Retirements

* Antonia Lottner (gastrointestinal illness)

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of July 15, 2019

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: *

Federica Bilardo Federica Bilardo (born 6 July 1999) is an Italian professional tennis player. Bilardo has career-high WTA rankings of 428 in singles, achieved 23 October 2023, and 425 in doubles, reached in 29 July 2019. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut a ...

/ Dalila Spiteri * Elisabetta Cocciaretto /

Federica Rossi Federica Rossi (born 7 June 2001) is an Italian professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings by the WTA of 605 in singles (July 2022) and 531 in doubles (August 2022). She has won two doubles titles on ITF-level in Monastir in 2020, ...

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament *

(viral illness)

Retirements

;During the tournament *

Rosalie van der Hoek Rosalie van der Hoek (born 16 December 1994) is a Dutch tennis player. Van der Hoek, who prefers clay courts, has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 83, achieved on 18 October 2021. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2017 W ...

(gastrointestinal illness)

Finals

Singles

* Jil Teichmann defeated

Kiki Bertens Kiki Bertens (; born 10 December 1991) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking was world No. 4, which she reached on 13 May 2019, becoming the highest ranked Dutch female player ever. Her career-high do ...

, 7–6^(7–3), 6–2

Doubles

Cornelia Lister Cornelia Lister (born 26 May 1994) is a former Swedish tennis player. She has won one singles title and 25 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series o ...

Renata Voráčová Renata Voráčová (; born 6 October 1983) is a Czech professional tennis player. Voráčová has won 11 doubles titles on the WTA Tour and three on WTA 125 tournaments, as well as 15 singles and 56 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 11 Oc ...

defeated Ekaterine Gorgodze /

, 7–6^(7–2), 6–2

References

External links

Official website

Internazionali Femminili di Palermo The Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, also known as the Palermo Ladies Open, is a women's tennis tournament in Palermo, Italy that is played on outdoor clay courts at the Country Time Club. The first two editions were part of the Satellite Circu ...

Internazionali Femminili di Palermo 2019 in Italian women's sport

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