The 2021
Karlsruhe Open
The Karlsruhe Open is a WTA 125-level professional women's tennis tournament. It takes place on outdoor clay courts, around the months of July and August at the Tennis Club Rüppurr in the city of Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe ( ; ; ; South Franconia ...
(also known as the Liqui Moly Open for sponsorship reasons) was a professional
tennis
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tournament played on outdoor
clay court
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s. It was the 2nd edition of the tournament and part of the
2021 WTA 125K series
The WTA 125 tournaments are the secondary professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association. The 2021 calendar consisted of fifteen tournaments due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Schedule
Statistical informa ...
, offering a total of $125,000 in prize money. It took place in
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe ( ; ; ; South Franconian German, South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, third-largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, after its capital Stuttgart a ...
, Germany between 7 and 12 September 2021. The tournament did not take place in 2020 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. The singles part of the tournament had 32 competitors.
Patricia Maria Țig
Patricia Maria Țig (born 27 July 1994) is a Romanian tennis player.
Țig has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 56, achieved on 26 October 2020. Her best doubles ranking of No. 155 was achieved on 14 November 2016. Țig has won one ...
was the defending champion, having won the previous edition in
2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
,
but chose not to participate.
Mayar Sherif
Mayar Sherif Ahmed Abdel-Aziz (; born 5 May 1996) is an Egyptian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA ranking of No. 31 in singles, making her the highest ranked Egyptian singles player, male or female, in the Open Era. She also h ...
won the title, defeating
Martina Trevisan
Martina Trevisan (; born 3 November 1993) is an Italian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 18 by the WTA, achieved in May 2023, and a best doubles ranking of No. 138. For Italy, she was finalist in the 2023 ...
in the final, 6–3, 6–2.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
Qualifying
Seeds
Qualifiers
Qualifying draw
First qualifier
Second qualifier
Third qualifier
Fourth qualifier
References
External links
Main DrawQualifying Draw
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