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s. It was the 40th edition of the event, and a WTA 250 tournament on the

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, United Kingdom, on 13–19 June 2022.

Champions

Singles

* Beatriz Haddad Maia def. Zhang Shuai, 5–4, ret. This is Haddad Maia's second title of the year and also her career.

Doubles

* Lyudmyla Kichenok /

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def. Elise Mertens / Zhang Shuai, by walkover

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

_{¹Qualifiers prize money is also the round of 32 prize money.}
_{*per team}

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of 6 June 2022.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Katie Boulter *

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* Petra Kvitová The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Jana Fett *

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* Caty McNally * Lesia Tsurenko * CoCo Vandeweghe * Donna Vekić The following player received entry as a lucky loser: *

Aleksandra Krunić Aleksandra Krunić ( sr-Cyrl, Александра Крунић; born 15 March 1993) is a Serbian professional tennis player. She has won one singles title and six doubles titles on the WTA Tour along with one singles title on WTA 125 tournament ...

Withdrawal

;Before the tournament *

Yulia Putintseva Yulia Antonovna Putintseva ( rus, Ю́лия Анто́новна Пути́нцева; , ''puh-TEEN-tseh-vah''; born 7 January 1995) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. She is a three-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist (twic ...

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Kaja Juvan Kaja Juvan (born 25 November 2000) is a Slovenian tennis player who turned professional on 17 October 2016. Juvan has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 58, achieved on 6 June 2022, and peaked at No. 99 in the doubles rankings on 11 July ...

* Emma Raducanu → replaced by Dayana Yastremska * Mayar Sherif → replaced by

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* Sloane Stephens → replaced by Caroline Garcia *

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Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings are as of 6 June 2022.

Other entrants

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

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Withdrawals

;Before the tournament * Anna Danilina / Beatriz Haddad Maia → replaced by

Alicia Barnett Alicia Barnett (born 18 October 1993) is a British professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. On 24 October 2022, she reached her career-high doubles ranking of world of No. 59. Biography Born in the United Kingdom, Barnett began pl ...

Olivia Nicholls Olivia Ann Nicholls (born 26 October 1994) is a British tennis player who specialises in doubles. Nicholls has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour and 17 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 9 January 2023, she peaked at No. 59 in th ...

* Katarzyna Piter / Kimberley Zimmermann → replaced by Katarzyna Kawa / Katarzyna Piter

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Birmingham Classic, 2022 2022 WTA Tour

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