The 2020 Thailand Open (also known as the GSB Thailand Open presented by E@ for sponsorship reasons) was a
Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tournament played on
outdoor hard courts. It was the 2nd edition of the
Hua Hin Championships
The Hua Hin Championships, currently sponsored by Toyota and called the Toyota Thailand Open, is a tournament for professional female tennis players played on outdoor hardcourts. The event is classified as an international tournament on the WTA ...
as part of the
WTA International tournaments
The WTA International Tournaments was a category for professional tennis tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association from the 2009 WTA Tour until 2020, which replaced the previous Tier III and Tier IV categories. The winner of a WTA Internatio ...
of the
2020 WTA Tour
The 2020 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2020 tennis season. The 2020 WTA Tour calendar originally comprised the Grand Slam tournaments supervised by the International ...
. It took place at the True Arena Hua Hin in
Hua Hin,
Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...
, from 10 February to 16 February 2020.
Points and prize money
Point distribution
Prize money
Singles main draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings as of February 3, 2020.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
*
Eugenie Bouchard
*
Patcharin Cheapchandej
Patcharin "Eve" Cheapchandej ( th, พัชรินทร์ ชีพชาญเดช; born 13 December 1994) is a Thai tennis player.
Cheapchandej has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 464, achieved o ...
*
Petra Martić
Petra Martić (; born 19 January 1991) is a Croatian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 14, achieved in January 2020. Martić has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and one doubles tou ...
*
Wang Qiang
The following player received protected rankings into the singles main draw:
*
Kateryna Bondarenko
Kateryna Volodymyrivna Volodko (née Bondarenko; uk, Катерина Володимирівна Бондаренко; born 8 August 1986) is a tennis player from Ukraine. She was the doubles champion in 2008 at the Australian Open, partnering ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Ulrikke Eikeri
*
Leonie Küng
Leonie Küng (born 21 October 2000) is a Swiss tennis player. As a qualifier, she reached the singles final at the Junior Wimbledon Championships in 2018.
Küng has career-high WTA rankings of 144 in singles, achieved on 14 September 2020, and ...
*
Liang En-shuo
Liang En-shuo (; ; in Chinese mainland born 2 October 2000) is a tennis player from Taiwan.
She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 150, achieved on 13 May 2019. On 20 February 2023, she peaked at No. 165 in the doubles rankings. L ...
*
Chihiro Muramatsu
is a Japanese tennis player.
On 24 February 2020, Muramatsu achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 205. On 2 April 2018, she peaked at No. 303 in the WTA doubles rankings. Muramatsu has won one singles title and three doubles titl ...
*
Ellen Perez
*
Storm Sanders
Storm Hunter (née Sanders; born 11 August 1994) is an Australian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 119, on 18 October 2021, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 8, on 24 October 2022.
...
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
*
Peangtarn Plipuech
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
*
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 ...
→ replaced by
Yuan Yue
*
Eugenie Bouchard → replaced by
Peangtarn Plipuech
*
Priscilla Hon → replaced by
Bibiane Schoofs
*
Hsieh Su-wei → replaced by
Natalija Kostić
*
Maddison Inglis
Maddison Inglis (born 14 January 1998) is an Australian tennis player.
She has a career-high singles ranking of 112, achieved on 2 March 2020. Inglis has won five singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circu ...
→ replaced by
Arina Rodionova
*
Danka Kovinić → replaced by
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 ...
*
Barbora Krejčiková → replaced by
Chloé Paquet
Chloé Paquet (; born 1 July 1994) is a French professional tennis player. She has achieved career-high WTA rankings of No. 101 in singles on 25 April 2022 and 247 in doubles on 12 June 2017.
Career 2010–2016: WTA Tour debut
Paquet made her d ...
*
Tatjana Maria → replaced by
You Xiaodi
You Xiaodi (; ; born 12 May 1996) is a Chinese tennis player.
She has won one WTA Challenger doubles title, as well as six singles and 17 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 16 March 2020, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 1 ...
*
Samantha Stosur → replaced by
Han Xinyun
*
Dayana Yastremska → replaced by
Wang Xinyu
Doubles main draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings as of February 3, 2020
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
*
Kateryna Bondarenko
Kateryna Volodymyrivna Volodko (née Bondarenko; uk, Катерина Володимирівна Бондаренко; born 8 August 1986) is a tennis player from Ukraine. She was the doubles champion in 2008 at the Australian Open, partnering ...
/
Tamarine Tanasugarn
*
Ng Kwan-yau
Ng Kwan-yau (; born 19 February 1997) is a Hong Kong female tennis player.
Career
As a professional tennis player, she has a career-high doubles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 452, achieved February 2020.
Playing for Hong ...
/
Elina Svitolina
Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina ( uk, Еліна Михайлівна Світоліна, ; born 12 September 1994) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She reached career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and 108 in doubles. Svitolina ...
Champions
Singles
*
Magda Linette
Magda Linette (born 12 February 1992) is a Polish professional tennis player. Having made her tour debut in 2009, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33 in February 2020. Linette has reached five finals on the WTA Tour, winning ...
def.
Leonie Küng
Leonie Küng (born 21 October 2000) is a Swiss tennis player. As a qualifier, she reached the singles final at the Junior Wimbledon Championships in 2018.
Küng has career-high WTA rankings of 144 in singles, achieved on 14 September 2020, and ...
6–3, 6–2
Doubles
*
Arina Rodionova /
Storm Sanders
Storm Hunter (née Sanders; born 11 August 1994) is an Australian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 119, on 18 October 2021, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 8, on 24 October 2022.
...
def.
Barbara Haas /
Ellen Perez 6–3, 6–3
References
External links
Official websiteWTA profile
WTA Tour
in women's tennis
Tennis, WTA Tour, Thailand Open
Tennis, WTA Tour, Thailand Open
Tennis, WTA Tour, Thailand Open