The 2021 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 29th edition of the tournament and part of the

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. It took place in

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, Italy between 19 and 25 July 2021. First-seeded

Danielle Collins Danielle Rose Collins (born December 13, 1993) is an American professional tennis player. She has reached career-high WTA rankings of No. 7 in singles and world No. 86 in doubles. Collins has won two WTA Tour singles titles, at the 2021 Palerm ...

won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

defeated

Elena-Gabriela Ruse Elena-Gabriela Ruse (born 6 November 1997) is a Romanian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 51 in singles and 55 in doubles. She won her maiden WTA Tour singles title at the 2021 Hamburg European Open. She has also won six singl ...

, 6–4, 6–2.

Doubles

Erin Routliffe Erin Hope Routliffe (born April 11, 1995) is a New Zealand professional tennis player who previously represented Canada. She reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 29 on 8 August 2022 and a career-high junior rank of No. 17 on 21 Jan ...

Kimberley Zimmermann Kimberley Zimmermann (born 9 November 1995) is a Belgian tennis player. Zimmermann has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 215, achieved on 13 May 2019. On 31 October 2022, she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 44. She has won tw ...

defeated

Natela Dzalamidze Natela Georgiyevna Dzalamidze (russian: Натела Георгиевна Дзаламидзе, , ; born 27 February 1993) is a Russian-born Georgian tennis player. On 16 November 2015, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 ...

Kamilla Rakhimova Kamilla Stanislavovna Rakhimova ( rus, Камилла Станиславовна Рахимова, , kɐˈmʲiɫə rɐˈxʲiməvə; born 28 August 2001) is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar descent. She has career-high WTA rankings ...

7–6^(7–5), 4–6, 0–4

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings are as of 12 July 2021.

Other entrants

The following players received

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s into the main draw: *

Nuria Brancaccio Nuria Brancaccio (born 24 June 2000) is an Italian tennis player. Brancaccio has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 167, achieved on 14 August 2023. She also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 261, reached on 9 January 2023. ...

Lucia Bronzetti Lucia Bronzetti (born 10 December 1998) is an Italian tennis player. Bronzetti has career-high WTA rankings of No. 47 in singles and No. 375 in doubles. She has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, at the 2023 Morocco Open. She has also re ...

Lucrezia Stefanini Lucrezia Stefanini (born 15 May 1998) is an Italian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings by No. 140 in singles and No. 393 in doubles. Career 2021: WTA debut Stefanini made her WTA Tour debut at the Abu Dhabi Open, qualifying for t ...

Zhang Shuai Zhang Shuai (; ; born 21 January 1989) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She is a two-time Grand Slam champion in women's doubles, having won the 2019 Australian Open and the 2021 US Open, both alongside Samantha Stosur. Zhang also ...

The following player received entry using a protected ranking: *

Alexandra Dulgheru Alexandra Dulgheru (; born 30 May 1989) is a professional tennis player from Romania. On 11 April 2011, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 26. Her best ranking in doubles is No. 41, reached on 4 July 2011. She is coached b ...

Mandy Minella Mandy Minella (born 22 November 1985) is a former professional tennis player from Luxembourg. Having made her debut on the WTA Tour in 2001, she peaked at No. 66 in the WTA singles rankings in September 2012, and No. 47 in doubles in April 2013 ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Marina Bassols Ribera Marina Bassols Ribera (born 13 December 1999) is a Spanish tennis player. Bassols Ribera has a career-high WTA ranking of 121 in singles, achieved on 28 November 2022. She also has a career-high WTA ranking of 194 in doubles, achieved on 15 Augu ...

Katharina Gerlach Katharina Gerlach (born 19 February 1998) is a German tennis player. She has won four singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 25 April 2022, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 217. On 2 July 2018, she peaked at N ...

Zheng Qinwen Zheng Qinwen ( zh, 郑钦文; born 8 October 2002 in Shiyan 十堰, Hubei 湖北, China 中国) is a Chinese tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 25, on 24 October 2022. Zheng is the current No. 2 female Chinese ...

Withdrawals

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Sorana Cîrstea Sorana Mihaela Cîrstea (; born 7 April 1990) is a Romanian professional tennis player. In singles, she achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 21 on 12 August 2013. In doubles, her career-high ranking is No. 35, which she reached on 9 March ...

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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 ...

Elisabetta Cocciaretto Elisabetta Cocciaretto (born 25 January 2001) is an Italian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the WTA as high as world No. 43 in singles, achieved on 22 May 2023, and No. 244 in doubles, which she attained on 10 August 2020. C ...

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Grace Min Grace Min (born May 6, 1994) is an American tennis player who won the 2011 US Open girls' singles title.Sara Errani Sara Errani (; born 29 April 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. She is a former top five player in singles and former world No. 1 in doubles. With 9 singles titles and 27 doubles titles (including 5 Grand Slam doubles championship ...

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Lara Arruabarrena Lara Arruabarrena Vecino (; born 20 March 1992) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. On 3 July 2017, she reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of 52, and her best doubles ranking is world No. 28, set on 22 February 2016. Arr ...

Viktorija Golubic Viktorija Golubic ( sr, Викторија Голубић, Viktorija Golubić; ; born 16 October 1992) is a Swiss professional tennis player. Golubic has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, two singles WTA Challenger titles, as well as ten s ...

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Francesca Di Lorenzo Francesca Di Lorenzo (; born July 22, 1997) is an American tennis player. She played collegiately for the ''Ohio State University''. On May 29, 2017, Di Lorenzo and her partner Miho Kowase won the NCAA Women's Doubles Championship. Personal li ...

Ana Konjuh Ana Konjuh (; born 27 December 1997) is a Croatian tennis player. A successful junior player, Konjuh won both the singles and doubles junior events at the Australian Open in January 2013 and, as a result, moved up to No. 1 in the ITF Junior w ...

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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 ...

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Jaqueline Cristian Jaqueline Adina Cristian (born 5 June 1998) is a professional tennis player from Romania. Cristian has career-high WTA rankings of 58 in singles and 168 in doubles. Up to date, she has won ten doubles and ten singles titles on tournaments of t ...

Bernarda Pera Bernarda Pera ( ; ; born 3 December 1994) is a Croatian-born American tennis player. Pera has won two singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour, along with nine singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She achieved career-h ...

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Olga Danilović Olga Danilović ( sr-cyr, Олга Даниловић, ; born 23 January 2001) is a Serbian tennis player. In July 2018, Danilović won her first WTA Tour singles title in Moscow by beating Anastasia Potapova in the final. She also won two WTA d ...

Andrea Petkovic Andrea Petkovic (, ; born 9 September 1987) is a German former professional tennis player. Born in Tuzla, SFR Yugoslavia, to Serbian father Zoran and Bosniak mother Amira, she moved to Germany at six months old and turned professional in 2006 a ...

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Valeria Savinykh Valeria Dmitrievna Savinykh (russian: Валерия Дмитриевна Савиных; born 20 February 1991) is a Russian tennis player. In April 2012, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 99. On 20 November 2017, she pea ...

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 ...

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Natalia Vikhlyantseva Natalia Konstantinovna Vikhlyantseva (Russian: Наталья Константиновна Вихлянцева; born 16 February 1997) is a Russian tennis player. Her favourite court surface is grass. Vikhlyantseva has career-high rankings of 5 ...

Patricia Maria Țig Patricia Maria Țig (born 27 July 1994) is a Romanian tennis player. Țig has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 56, achieved on 26 October 2020. Her best doubles ranking of world No. 155, she achieved on 14 November 2016. Țig has won o ...

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Cristina Bucșa Cristina Bucșa (born 1 January 1998) is a Moldovan-born Spanish professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 86, achieved on 30 January 2023, and of world No. 61 in the doubles rankings, set on 6 February 2023. ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Renata Zarazúa Renata Zarazúa Ruckstuhl (; born 30 September 1997) is a Mexican tennis player. She reached a best singles ranking of world No. 117 in September 2021, and she peaked at No. 135 in the doubles rankings on 8 October 2018. Zarazúa made her WTA To ...

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Vitalia Diatchenko Vitalia Anatolyevna Diatchenko ( rus, Виталия Анатольевна Дьяченко, , vʲɪˈtalʲɪjə dʲjɪˈtɕenkə, Ru-Vitalia_Diatchenko.ogg; born 2 August 1990) is a Russian professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ...

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Jil Teichmann Jil Belén Teichmann (born 15 July 1997) is a Swiss professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) as high as world No. 21 in singles and No. 74 in doubles. She has won two singles titles and one doubles ...

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings are as of July 12, 2021.

Other entrants

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

Matilde Paoletti Matilde Paoletti (born 4 March 2003) is an Italian tennis player. Paoletti has a career-high WTA ranking of 267 in singles achieved on 22 May 2023. She also has a career-high WTA ranking of 987 in doubles achieved on 18 July 2022. Career Pao ...

Lisa Pigato Lisa Pigato (born 21 June 2003) is an Italian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of 369 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), reached on 19 September 2022. She also has a highest doubles ranking of world No. 187, achieved on ...

Camilla Rosatello Camilla Rosatello (born 28 May 1995) is an Italian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 225, achieved on 7 August 2017. On 29 January 2018, she peaked at No. 134 in the doubles rankings. Rosatello has won one single ...

Dalila Spiteri Dalila Spiteri (born 24 April 1997) is an Italian tennis player. Spiteri has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 434, achieved on 27 September 2021. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 419, reached on 5 August 2019. Spiteri made ...

Withdrawals

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Lizette Cabrera Lizette Faith Cabrera (born 19 December 1997) is an Australian tennis player of Filipino descent. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 119, achieved on 3 February 2020. Early life Cabrera was born and raised in Townsville by her parent ...

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 ...

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Sarah Beth Grey Sarah Beth Grey (born 10 August 1995; formerly known as Sarah Beth Askew) is a British tennis player. Grey has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 277, achieved August 2022. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 143, achieved on 2 ...

Emily Webley-Smith Emily Webley-Smith (born 14 July 1984) is a British professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 240, achieved on 7 November 2011. She also has a best WTA doubles ranking of No. 113, set on 2 November 2015. Web ...

Dalma Gálfi Dalma Rebeka Gálfi (born 13 August 1998) is a Hungarian tennis player. She has won nine singles titles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 20 June 2022, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 81. On the same day, s ...

Samantha Murray Sharan Samantha Dawn Murray Sharan (name at birth, née Murray; born 9 October 1987) is a British tennis player. Murray has won four singles titles and 26 doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Women's Circuit. On 23 September 2013, ...

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Beatrice Gumulya Beatrice Gumulya (born 1 January 1991) is an Indonesian tennis player. Career She is the younger sister of Sandy Gumulya and made her debut as a professional in 2005, aged 14, at an ITF tournament in Jakarta. She enjoyed some success in Grand ...

Hsieh Yu-chieh Hsieh Yu-chieh (, born 23 July 1993), formerly known as Hsieh Shu-ying (), is a Taiwanese professional tennis player. She is the younger sister of tennis players Hsieh Su-wei and Hsieh Cheng-peng. On 20 February 2012, she achieved her career- ...

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References

External links

Official website
{{2021 WTA Tour

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 ...

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