The 2023 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo (or Palermo Ladies Open) 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 31st edition of the tournament and part of the

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. It took place in

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, Italy, between 17 and 23 July 2023.

Finals

Singles

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 ...

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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 ...

, 6–4, 1–6, 6–1 This was Zheng's maiden WTA Tour title.

Doubles

* Yana Sizikova / Kimberley Zimmermann def. Angelica Moratelli / Camilla Rosatello, 6–2, 6–4

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

*^† Rankings are as of 3 July 2023

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Fiona Ferro * Camilla Rosatello *

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Tessah Andrianjafitrimo Tessah Andrianjafitrimo (born 11 October 1998) is a French professional female tennis player of Malagasy descent. She was born in Montpellier, France. On 20 June 2022, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 139. Andrianjafitrimo has wo ...

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. ...

Tatiana Prozorova Tatiana Prozorova (née Barkova rus, Татьяна Прозорова born 10 October 2003) is a Russian tennis player. Prozorova has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 199 and a doubles ranking of world No. 396. Career She made her ...

* Mia Ristić *

Eva Vedder Eva Vedder (born 23 November 1999) is a Dutch tennis player. Vedder has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 221, achieved on 9 January 2023. She also has a career-high doubles ranking by the WTA of 110, achieve ...

Aurora Zantedeschi Aurora Zantedeschi (born 2 November 2000) is an Italian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 391 in the world, achieved on 13 November 2023. Her career-high WTA doubles ranking is No. 275, set on 21 November 2 ...

The following players received entry as lucky losers: *

Francesca Curmi Francesca Curmi (born 7 July 2002) is a Maltese tennis player. Curmi has represented Malta in the Fed Cup, where she has a win–loss record of 19–8 (as of July 2023). On the ITF Junior Circuit, Curmi has a career-high combined ranking of 6 ...

Sofya Lansere Sofya Yevgenyevna Lansere (russian: Софья Евгеньевна Лансере; born 29 September 2000) is a Russian tennis player. Shre has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 243, achieved on 2 March 2020. On 28 November 2022, she p ...

Withdrawals

* Anna-Lena Friedsam → replaced by

Elizabeth Mandlik Elizabeth Hana Mandlik (born 19 May 2001) is an American tennis player. She is the daughter of Grand Slam tennis champion Hana Mandlíková. Mandlik has career-high rankings by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of world No. 119 in singles and ...

→ replaced by

Alycia Parks Alycia Michelle Parks (born December 31, 2000) is an American tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 50 in singles and world No. 42 in doubles, achieved 2023, on February 27 and March 20, respectively. Career 2021: WTA Tour & Grand ...

→ replaced by

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 ...

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 ...

→ replaced by Dayana Yastremska *

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 ...

→ replaced by Erika Andreeva

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

*^† Rankings are as of 3 July 2023

Withdrawals

* Anna-Lena Friedsam /

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 ...

→ replaced by Nigina Abduraimova /

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 ...

Prarthana Thombare Prarthana Gulabrao Thombare (born 18 June 1994) is an Indian tennis player. A doubles specialist, she is the former Indian number one in women's doubles, and an Olympian. Thombare has won three singles and 25 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. ...

→ replaced by Sara Errani /

References

External links

Official website
{{2023 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 ...

Internazionali Femminili di Palermo 2023 in Italian women's sport

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