The 2023 Mérida Open Akron was a

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 ...

tournament organised for female professional tennis players on outdoor

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as part of the

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. The event took place at the Yucatán Country Club in Mérida,

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, from 20 through 26 February 2023 as a replacement for

Abierto Zapopan The Abierto Zapopan, also known as Abierto Akron Zapopan for sponsorship reasons, was a WTA 250-level professional women's tennis tournament. It used to take place on outdoor hardcourts, around the month of March at the Panamerican Tennis Cente ...

. This tournament was the first of its class in the city of Merida, the main sponsor of the tournament was AKRON, and it was organized with a team formed by WTA representatives and GSSPORTS management a Mexican enterprise dedicated to conducting and directing this event under the lead of tournament director Gustavo Santoscoy.

Champions

Singles

Camila Giorgi Camila Giorgi (; born 30 December 1991) is an Italian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26, achieved on 22 October 2018. She is the current Italian No. 2, after Martina Trevisan. After winning her fi ...

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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 bot ...

, 7–6^(7–3), 1–6, 6–2

Doubles

* Caty McNally /

Diane Parry Diane Parry (born 1 September 2002) is a French professional tennis player. On 24 October 2022, she peaked at No. 58 in the WTA singles rankings. In 2019, she became the junior world No. 1. Career Junior years Junior Grand Slam results - Single ...

def. Wang Xinyu /

Wu Fang-hsien Wu Fang-hsien (; born 15 July 1999) is a Taiwanese tennis player. She has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 99, achieved on 6 February 2023. Wu made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2018 Citi Open in the doubles draw, partnering with Ch ...

, 6–0, 7–5

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of February 13, 2023.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: *

Fernanda Contreras Gómez Fernanda Contreras Gómez (born October 8, 1997) is a Mexican tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 139 by the WTA, achieved on 3 October 2022, and a doubles ranking of world No. 110, achieved on 6 March 2023. She pl ...

Katie Volynets Katie Volynets (born December 31, 2001) is an American tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of No. 92 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) on February 27, 2023. She won her first singles title in May 2021 on the ITF Circ ...

Simona Waltert Simona Waltert (born 13 December 2000) is a Swiss tennis player. Waltert has career-high WTA rankings of 118 in singles, achieved on 12 September 2022, and 180 in doubles, reached on 7 March 2022. Up to date, she has won one doubles title on the ...

The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw: *

Nadia Podoroska Nadia Natacha Podoroska (; born 10 February 1997) is an Argentine professional tennis player. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Podoroska has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, along with 14 singles titles and seven doubles titles on ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Elina Avanesyan Elina Araratovna Avanesyan (russian: Элина Араратовна Аванесян; born 17 September 2002) is a Russian-Armenian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 122 in singles and 306 in doubles. She has won four singles ...

Kimberly Birrell Kimberly Birrell (born 29 April 1998) is an Australian tennis player. She has won two singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. Birrell reached her best singles ranking of world No. 154 on 6 May 2019. Personal life Birrell was ...

Léolia Jeanjean Léolia Jeanjean (born 14 August 1995) is a French tennis player. Jeanjean has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 107 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), achieved on 28 November 2022. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking o ...

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 ...

* Lesia Tsurenko The following player received entry as a lucky loser: *

Varvara Gracheva Varvara Andreyevna Gracheva ( rus, Варвара Андреевна Грачёва, , vɐrˈvarə ɡrɐˈtɕɵvə, Ru-Varvara Gracheva.ogg; born 2 August 2000) is a Russian tennis player. Gracheva has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. ...

Withdrawals

; Before the tournament *

Kateryna Baindl 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 ...

→ replaced by

* Dalma Gálfi → replaced by Ysaline Bonaventure * Donna Vekić → replaced by Panna Udvardy

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of February 13, 2023.

Other entrants

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

Jesika Malečková Jesika Malečková (born 16 August 1994) is a Czech tennis player. Malečková has won ten singles titles and 18 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 20 June 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 191. On 14 November 2022, s ...

* Despina Papamichail /

References

External links

* {{2023 WTA Tour Merida Mérida Open Mérida Open Mérida Open