The 2019 Kremlin Cup (also known as the 2019

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Kremlin Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a professional

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tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 30th edition of the

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for the men and the 24th edition for the women. The tournament was part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the

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, and of the Premier Series of the

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. It took place at the Ice Palace Krylatskoye in Moscow, Russia, from 14 October through 20 October 2019.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

_{*per team}

ATP singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of October 7, 2019

Other entrants

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

Alen Avidzba Alen Akhrovich Avidzba (russian: Ален Ахрович Авидзба; born 24 February 2000) is a Russian tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of t ...

Evgeny Donskoy Evgeny Evgenyevich Donskoy ( rus, Евге́ний Евге́ньевич Донско́й, , ɪ̯ɪvˈɡʲenʲɪɪ̯ dɐnˈskoɪ̯; born 9 May 1990) is a Russian professional tennis player. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world No. 65, ...

Alibek Kachmazov Alibek Muratovich Kachmazov (russian: Алибек Муратович Качмазов; born 17 August 2002) is a Russian tennis player. Kachmazov has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 294 achieved on 19 June 2023. He also has a career h ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Artem Dubrivnyy * Damir Džumhur *

Egor Gerasimov Egor Alekseyevich Gerasimov ( be, Ягор Аляксеевіч Герасімаў; russian: Егор Алексеевич Герасимов; born 11 November 1992 in Minsk) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP s ...

* Lukáš Rosol The following player received entry as a lucky loser: *

Nikola Milojević Nikola Milojević ( sr-Cyrl, Никола Милојевић, ; born 16 April 1981) is a Serbian retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Milojević made a name for himself at Hajduk Kula, before moving to Vitória Setúbal in ...

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament * Daniil Medvedev

ATP doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings are as of October 7, 2019

Other entrants

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

Roman Safiullin Roman Rishatovich Safiullin; tt-Cyrl, Роман Рәшит улы Сафиуллин, translit=Roman Räşit ulı Safiullin. (born 7 August 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player. Safiullin is a junior major champion, having won the 201 ...

/ Andrey Rublev

WTA singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of October 7, 2019

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Belinda Bencic *

Anna Kalinskaya Anna Nikolayevna Kalinskaya ( rus, Анна Николаевна Калинская, , ˈanːə kɐˈlʲinskəjə, Ru-Anna_Kalinskaya.ogg; born 2 December 1998) is a Russian professional tennis player. Ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WT ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Jana Čepelová * Kirsten Flipkens *

Varvara Gracheva Varvara Andreyevna Gracheva ( rus, Варвара Андреевна Грачёва, , vɐrˈvarə ɡrɐˈtɕɵvə, Ru-Varvara Gracheva.ogg; born 2 August 2000) is a Russian tennis player. Gracheva has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. ...

* Kaia Kanepi

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament *

Simona Halep Simona Halep (; born 27 September 1991) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles twice between 2017 and 2019, for a total of 64 weeks, which ranks eleventh in the history of the Women's Tennis Assoc ...

→ replaced by

Ons Jabeur Ons Jabeur ( ar, أُنْس جَابِر, ʾUns Jābir, ; born 28 August 1994) is a Tunisian professional tennis player. She has a career high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of world No. 2 achieved on 27 June 2022. Jabeur is the curre ...

* Johanna Konta → replaced by

Svetlana Kuznetsova Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (born 27 June 1985) is a Russian inactive professional tennis player. She is a two-time major singles champion, winning the 2004 US Open and 2009 French Open, and finishing runner-up at two other majors. I ...

* Anett Kontaveit → replaced by Anastasia Potapova * Petra Kvitová → replaced by Polona Hercog *

Garbiñe Muguruza Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco (; born 8 October 1993) is a Spanish-Venezuelan professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. ...

→ replaced by Kristina Mladenovic * Markéta Vondroušová → 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 ...

WTA doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings are as of October 7, 2019

Other entrants

The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw: *

Alina Charaeva Alina Alekseevna Charaeva (russian: Алина Алексеевна Чараева; born 27 May 2002) is a Russian tennis player. Charaeva has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 317, achieved on 8 November 2 ...

Sofya Lansere Sofya Yevgenyevna Lansere (russian: Софья Евгеньевна Лансере; born 29 September 2000) is a Russian tennis player. Shre has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 243, achieved on 2 March 2020. On 28 November 2022, she p ...

Champions

Men's singles

* Andrey Rublev def

Adrian Mannarino Adrian Mannarino (born 29 June 1988) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 22, attained on 19 March 2018. He won his first ATP Tour singles title at the 2019 Rosmalen Open on grass. He is c ...

, 6–4, 6–0

Women's singles

* Belinda Bencic def.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Anastasia Sergeyevna "Nastia" Pavlyuchenkova (russian: Анастаси́я "Настя" Серге́евна Павлюче́нкова; born 3 July 1991) is an inactive Russian professional tennis player. A junior prodigy, Pavlyuchenkova won ...

, 3–6, 6–1, 6–1

Men's doubles

* Marcelo Demoliner / Matwé Middelkoop def.

Simone Bolelli Simone Bolelli (; born 8 October 1985) is an Italian professional tennis player. Bolelli is a Grand Slam champion, having won the 2015 Australian Open doubles event with Fabio Fognini, together becoming the first all-Italian men's pair to win a ...

Andrés Molteni Andrés Molteni (; ; born 15 March 1988) is a professional tennis player from Argentina who specialises in doubles. He reached his highest ATP doubles ranking of No. 31 on 21 March 2022 and his highest ATP singles ranking of No. 181 in May 2011. H ...

, 6–1, 6–2

Women's doubles

Shuko Aoyama is a Japanese tennis player. Aoyama became a professional tennis player after graduating from Waseda University. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 182, on 9 February 2015, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 4, ...

/ Ena Shibahara def. Kirsten Flipkens /

Bethanie Mattek-Sands Bethanie Mattek-Sands ( Bethanie Lynn Mattek; born March 23, 1985) is an American professional tennis player. She has won nine Grand Slam titles (five in women's doubles and four in mixed doubles), and an Olympic gold medal, and is a former wo ...

, 6–2, 6–1

References

External links

* {{2019 WTA Tour

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