The 2021
Upper Austria Ladies Linz was a women's
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
tournament played on indoor
hard court
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s. It was the 31st edition of the
Linz Open
The Linz Open, currently sponsored by Generali Gruppe, is a women's tennis tournament held in Linz, Austria. It is played on indoor hardcourts.
The inaugural event took place in 1987 in Wels, Austria and was organized by the ITF as a $10,000 tou ...
, and was part of the
WTA 250
WTA 250 tournaments is a category of tennis tournaments in the Women's Tennis Association tour, implemented since the reorganization of the schedule in 2021. Earlier these events were classified as WTA International Tournaments.
As of 2021, WT ...
series of the
2021 WTA Tour. It was held at the
TipsArena Linz
TipsArena Linz (formerly Linzer Sporthalle and Intersport Arena) is an indoor sports arena, located in Linz, Austria. The capacity of the arena is 6,000 people for tennis and football events, and 2,500 for athletics. The arena opened in Septembe ...
in
Linz
Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846.
In 2009, it was a European Capital of ...
, Austria, from 6 to 12 November 2021.
Champions
Singles
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Alison Riske
Alison Riske-Amritraj (née Riske; born July 3, 1990) is an American professional tennis player. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in November 2019 and won her first WTA Tour title in October 2014 at the Tianjin Open.
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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 ...
, 2–6, 6–2, 7–5.
This was Riske's third WTA Tour title, and first of the year.
Doubles
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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 ...
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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 ...
def.
Wang Xinyu
Wang Xinyu (, ; born 26 September 2001) is a Chinese tennis player.
Coaching team
Wang's current team consists of her father Wang Peng; a Serbian technical coach, Aleksandar Slović, who won the men's singles title at 2009 Summer Universiade ...
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Zheng Saisai
Zheng Saisai or Zheng Sai-Sai (; born February 5, 1994) is a Chinese tennis player. She won one WTA singles title (at the Premier level 2019 Silicon Valley Classic), five WTA doubles titles, and reached the final of the 2019 French Open in dou ...
6–4, 6–2
Points and prize money
Point distribution
Prize money
1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money
* per team
Singles entrants
Seeds
* Rankings as of November 1, 2021
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Sinja Kraus
Sinja Kraus (born 29 April 2002) is an Austrian tennis player.
Kraus has career-high WTA rankings of 192 in singles and world No. 345 in doubles, both achieved January 2023.
She reached a career-high ITF juniors ranking of No. 87, on 21 January ...
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Emma Raducanu
Emma Raducanu (born 13 November 2002) is a British professional tennis player. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 10 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) on 11 July 2022, and is the current British No. 1. Raducanu is the first British ...
The following player received entry using a protected ranking:
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Mona Barthel
Mona Barthel (born 11 July 1990) is a German tennis player.
Barthel has won four singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as five singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Cir ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Kateryna Kozlova
Kateryna Baindl ( uk, Катерина Ігорівна Баіндль, née Kozlova; born 20 February 1994) is a Ukrainian tennis player. On 19 February 2018, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 62. On 22 October 2012, she ...
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Harmony Tan
Harmony Tan (born 11 September 1997) is a French professional tennis player.
Tan has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 90 in singles and 302 in doubles. She has won eight singles titles and one doubles title on tournaments of the ITF Women' ...
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Lesia Tsurenko
Lesia Viktorivna Tsurenko ( uk, Леся Вікторівна Цуренко; born 30 May 1989) is a Ukrainian tennis player. Tsurenko has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as six singles and eight doubles tournaments on the IT ...
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Wang Xinyu
Wang Xinyu (, ; born 26 September 2001) is a Chinese tennis player.
Coaching team
Wang's current team consists of her father Wang Peng; a Serbian technical coach, Aleksandar Slović, who won the men's singles title at 2009 Summer Universiade ...
The following player received entry as lucky loser:
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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 ...
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
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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 ...
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Aliaksandra Sasnovich
Aliaksandra Aliaksandraŭna Sasnovich ( be, Аляксандра Аляксандраўна Сасновіч; born 22 March 1994) is a Belarusian tennis player. She has won eleven singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She has rea ...
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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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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 ...
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Caroline Garcia
Caroline Garcia (, born 16 October 1993) is a French professional tennis player. She has been ranked in the top 5 in both singles at world No. 4 and in doubles at world No. 2. Garcia is the 2022 WTA Finals singles champion.
She is also a two-ti ...
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Zheng Saisai
Zheng Saisai or Zheng Sai-Sai (; born February 5, 1994) is a Chinese tennis player. She won one WTA singles title (at the Premier level 2019 Silicon Valley Classic), five WTA doubles titles, and reached the final of the 2019 French Open in dou ...
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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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Mona Barthel
Mona Barthel (born 11 July 1990) is a German tennis player.
Barthel has won four singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as five singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Cir ...
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Kaia Kanepi
Kaia Kanepi (; born 10 June 1985) is an Estonian professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high ranking of world No. 15 on 20 August 2012 and has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour.
Described as a 'resident Grand Slam upset spec ...
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Greet Minnen
Greet Minnen (born 14 August 1997) is a Belgian tennis player.
She has career-high WTA rankings of World No. 69 in singles, achieved on 18 October 2021, and World No. 50 in doubles, attained on 6 June 2022.
Career
Minnen made her WTA Tour mai ...
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Marta Kostyuk
Marta Olehivna Kostyuk ( uk, Марта Олегівна Костюк; born 28 June 2002) is a Ukrainian tennis player. She has career-high rankings of 49 in singles, achieved on 14 February 2022, and world No. 39 in doubles, reached on 19 Septem ...
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Fiona Ferro
Fiona Ferro (born 12 March 1997) is a French professional tennis player born in Belgium.
Ferro has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour and four singles titles on the ITF Circuit. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 39 in singles, attaine ...
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Ann Li
Ann Louie Li (born January 17, 1995 in Bangkok, Thailand), popularly known as Ann Li, is a Filipino–Taiwanese businesswoman, fashion influencer, former actress, model, photographer, and television personality. She splits her time between Ma ...
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Clara Burel
Clara Burel (; born 24 March 2001) is a French tennis player. On 21 February 2022, she peaked at No. 74 in the WTA singles rankings. In singles, she reached two Grand Slam junior finals and won two silver medals at the Youth Summer Olympics. I ...
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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 ...
→ replaced by
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 ...
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Camila Osorio
María Camila Osorio Serrano (; born 22 December 2001) is a Colombian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) as high as No. 33 in singles and 273 in doubles. She has won one singles title on the ...
→ replaced by
Rebecca Peterson
Rebecca Peterson (born 6 August 1995) is a Swedish tennis player. She has been ranked as high as 43 in singles and 87 in doubles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Peterson has reached two singles finals on the WTA Tour in 2019, winning bo ...
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Ajla Tomljanović
Ajla Tomljanović ( ; ; born 7 May 1993) is an Australian professional tennis player. She has won four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 31 October 2022, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33. On 5 Janu ...
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Océane Dodin
Océane Dodin (, born 24 October 1996) is a professional tennis player from France. Ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), she reached a career-high of 46 as a singles player in June 2017 and No. 375 in October 2017 as a doubles player ...
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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 ...
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Dayana Yastremska
Dayana Oleksandrivna Yastremska ( uk, Даяна Олександрівна Ястремська; born 15 May 2000) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of world No. 21 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). ...
Doubles entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings as of November 1, 2021
Other entrants
The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:
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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 ...
/
Sinja Kraus
Sinja Kraus (born 29 April 2002) is an Austrian tennis player.
Kraus has career-high WTA rankings of 192 in singles and world No. 345 in doubles, both achieved January 2023.
She reached a career-high ITF juniors ranking of No. 87, on 21 January ...
The following pairs received entry using protected rankings:
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Mona Barthel
Mona Barthel (born 11 July 1990) is a German tennis player.
Barthel has won four singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as five singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Cir ...
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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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Irina Khromacheva
Irina Pavlovna Khromacheva ( rus, Ирина Павловна Хромачёва; born 12 May 1995) is a professional tennis player from Russia.
She has career-high WTA rankings of 89 in singles and 41 in doubles.
Khromacheva was provisionally ...
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Lidziya Marozava
Lidziya Marozava ( be, Лідзія Аляксандраўна Марозава, russian: Лидия Александровна Морозова, ''Lidiya Aleksandrovna Morozova''; born 8 October 1992) is a professional tennis player from Belaru ...
References
External links
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Upper Austria Ladies Linz
Upper Austria Ladies Linz