The 2021

Open Angers Arena Loire The Open Angers Arena Loire is a WTA 125-level professional women's tennis tournament. It takes place on indoor hardcourts at Arena Loire Trélazé in the city of Angers in France. The prize money is $115,000. Nicolas Mahut Nicolas Pierre Arma ...

was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor

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 1st edition of the tournament and part of the

2021 WTA 125 tournaments The WTA 125 tournaments are the secondary professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association. The 2021 calendar consisted of fifteen tournaments due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Schedule Statistical inf ...

season, offering a total of $115,000 in prize money. It took place in Angers, France from 6 to 12 December 2021.

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 29 November 2021.

Other entrants

The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: *

Elsa Jacquemot Elsa Jacquemot (born 3 May 2003) is a French tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 171 in singles, achieved June 2022 and 325 in doubles, reached on 19 September 2022. She won the 2020 French Open – Girls' singles, girls' singl ...

Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva (born 9 August 2005) is an Andorran tennis player. She won the 2020 Australian Open girls' singles title, defeating Weronika Baszak in the final. It was her junior Grand Slam debut, and she was the youngest player ...

* Mallaurie Noël *

Jessika Ponchet Jessika Ponchet (born 26 September 1996) is a French professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 138 in singles, achieved on 27 February 2023, and No. 101 in doubles, achieved on 28 November 2022. Career Ponchet did not p ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Isabella Shinikova * Natalia Vikhlyantseva * Daniela Vismane * Yuan Yue The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Vitalia Diatchenko *

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 ...

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament * Mihaela Buzărnescu → replaced by Mariam Bolkvadze *

Alizé Cornet Alizé Cornet (; born 22 January 1990) is a French professional tennis player. Cornet has won six singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circu ...

→ replaced by

Tamara Korpatsch Tamara Korpatsch (born 12 May 1995) is a German tennis player. She has a career-high singles WTA ranking of No. 74, achieved on 28 November 2022, and doubles ranking of No. 291, achieved on 7 March 2022. She has won one singles title on WTA Chall ...

* Jaqueline Cristian → 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 ...

* Olga Danilović → replaced by

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 ...

Anhelina Kalinina Anhelina Serhiyivna Kalinina ( uk, Ангеліна Сергіївна Калініна ; born 7 February 1997) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. Kalinina has won 15 singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 27 June ...

→ replaced by Vitalia Diatchenko *

Jule Niemeier Jule Niemeier (born 12 August 1999) is a German professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 61, achieved on 7 November 2022. Career 2018–2019: WTA debut She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut as a wildcar ...

→ replaced by Ylena In-Albon * Viktoriya Tomova → replaced by Anna Blinkova * Dayana Yastremska → replaced by

* Maryna Zanevska → replaced by

Julia Grabher Julia Grabher (born 2 July 1996) is an Austrian tennis player. Grabher has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, along with eleven singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 26 December 2022, she reached her bes ...

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 ...

→ replaced by Cristina Bucșa

Doubles entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 29 November 2021.

Champions

Singles

* Vitalia Diatchenko def Zhang Shuai 6–0, 6–4

Doubles

* Tereza Mihalíková / Greet Minnen def Monica Niculescu / Vera Zvonareva 4–6, 6–1, 0–8

References

External links

Official website
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