The 2018 Monterrey Open (also known as the 2018 Abierto GNP Seguros for sponsorship reasons) was a women's

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tournament played on outdoor

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s. It was the 10th edition of the

Monterrey Open The Monterrey Open is a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. The event is affiliated with the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and is part of the 250 series on the WTA Tour. From 2009 to 2013, the tournament wa ...

and an International tournament on the

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. It took place at the Club Sonoma in

Monterrey Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is ancho ...

, Mexico, from 2 to 8 April, 2018.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

_{*per team}

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings as of 19 March 2018.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Victoria Rodriguez *

Ana Sofía Sánchez Ana Sofía Sánchez Palau (; born 13 April 1994) is a Mexican tennis player. Sánchez has won 13 singles and 10 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her best result so far on the WTA Tour in singles came when she reached the second rou ...

Renata Zarazúa Renata Zarazúa Ruckstuhl (; born 30 September 1997) is a Mexican tennis player. She reached a best singles ranking of world No. 117 in September 2021, and she peaked at No. 135 in the doubles rankings on 8 October 2018. Zarazúa made her WTA To ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Usue Maitane Arconada Usue Maitane Arconada (born 28 October 1998) is an American tennis player born in Argentina. Arconada is the 2016 Wimbledon Championships girls' doubles champion, alongside Claire Liu Claire Liu (born May 25, 2000) is an American tennis pla ...

Marie Bouzková Marie Bouzková (, born 21 July 1998) is a Czech professional tennis player. She attained her career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 26 on 31 October 2022. On 9 May 2022, she peaked at No. 24 in the WTA doubles rankings. So far, she has won one ...

* Valentini Grammatikopoulou *

Dalila Jakupović Dalila Jakupović (born 24 March 1991) is a Slovenian tennis player of Bosnian descent. Jakupović to date has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour along with two WTA Challenger doubles titles. She also has won five singles and ten doubles ...

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament *

Sabine Lisicki Sabine Katharina Lisicki (; born 22 September 1989) is a German professional tennis player. Lisicki turned professional in 2006, and her breakthrough came in 2009 when she reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Championships, and also won h ...

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Monica Niculescu Monica Niculescu (born 25 September 1987) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as high as 28 in singles and 11 in doubles. Niculescu has won several titles: three singles and ten double ...

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Irina Falconi Irina Falconi ( es, Falconí; born May 4, 1990) is an Ecuadorian-born American former tennis player. She moved to Manhattan, New York, as a toddler. Her highest WTA singles ranking is world No. 63, which she reached in May 2016. Her career-hig ...

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Anastasia Sergeyevna "Nastia" Pavlyuchenkova (russian: Анастаси́я "Настя" Серге́евна Павлюче́нкова; born 3 July 1991) is an inactive Russian professional tennis player. A junior prodigy, Pavlyuchenkova won ...

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Carol Zhao Carol Zhao ( Chinese:赵一羽; born June 20, 1995) is a Canadian tennis player. She turned professional in June 2016 and was Canada's top singles player from June 11th, 2018 to July 23rd, 2018. She reached her highest WTA singles ranking of No. ...

;During the tournament *

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 ITF ...

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings as of March 19, 2018.

Other entrants

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

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Marcela Zacarías Marcela Zacarías Valle (; born 26 March 1994) is a Mexican professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 159, and a doubles ranking of world No. 119, achieved on 24 October 2022. Zacarías has won 17 sing ...

Withdrawals

;During the tournament *

Champions

Singles

Garbiñe Muguruza Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco (; born 8 October 1993) is a Spanish-Venezuelan professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. ...

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Tímea Babos Tímea Babos (; born 10 May 1993) is a Hungarian professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles. She is a four-time Grand Slam champion in women's doubles, having won the 2018 and 2020 Australian Opens, as well as the Fren ...

, 3–6, 6–4, 6–3

Doubles

Naomi Broady Naomi Broady (; born 28 February 1990) is a British tennis player. She has won one WTA doubles title, as well as nine singles titles and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 7 March 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of wor ...

Sara Sorribes Tormo Sara Sorribes Tormo (; born 8 October 1996) is a Spanish professional tennis player. Sorribes Tormo has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. On the ITF Circuit ...

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Desirae Krawczyk Desirae Marie Krawczyk (; born January 11, 1994) is an American professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. Krawczyk has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 10, achieved in July 2022, and has won seven titles on the WTA Tour, ...

Giuliana Olmos Giuliana Marion Olmos Dick (born 4 March 1993) is a Mexican professional tennis player. Olmos, who graduated from the University of Southern California in 2016, has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 343 by the Women's Tennis Associati ...

, 3–6, 6–4, 0–8

References

External links

Official website
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