2018 Ladies Open Lugano

Tennis tournament
2018 Ladies Open Lugano
Date9 – 15 April
Edition2nd
CategoryWTA International tournaments
Draw32S / 16D
Prize money$250,000
SurfaceClay
LocationLugano, Switzerland
VenueTennis Club Lido Lugano
Champions
Singles
Belgium Elise Mertens
Doubles
Belgium Kirsten Flipkens / Belgium Elise Mertens
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The 2018 Ladies Open Lugano (also known as the 2018 Samsung Open presented by Cornèr for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament played on clay courts at TC Lido Lugano. It was the second edition of the tournament (the first to take place in Lugano) and part of the International category of the 2018 WTA Tour.[1] It took place between 9 April through 15 April 2018.[2]

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q Q2 Q1
Women's singles 280 180 110 60 30 1 18 12 1
Women's doubles 1

Prize money

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q2 Q1
Women's singles $43,000 $21,400 $11,500 $6,175 $3,400 $2,100 $1,020 $600
Women's doubles $12,300 $6,400 $3,435 $1,820 $960

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Rank1 Seed
 FRA Kristina Mladenovic 19 1
 BEL Elise Mertens 20 2
 ESP Carla Suárez Navarro 23 3
 EST Anett Kontaveit 28 4
 RUS Svetlana Kuznetsova 29 5
 FRA Alizé Cornet 37 6
 ROU Mihaela Buzărnescu 39 7
 BLR Aliaksandra Sasnovich 49 8
 BEL Alison Van Uytvanck 51 9
  • 1 Rankings are as of 2 April 2018.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Retirements

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 BEL Kirsten Flipkens  BEL Elise Mertens 75 1
 POL Alicja Rosolska  USA Abigail Spears 83 2
 ROU Raluca Olaru  GBR Anna Smith 97 3
 AUS Monique Adamczak   SUI Xenia Knoll 116 4
  • 1 Rankings are as of 2 April 2018.

Other entrants

The following pair received a wildcard into the main draw:

The following pair received entry as alternates:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Champions

Singles

Doubles

References

  1. ^ "Lugano (Ticino/SUI) is the new outdoor venue for InfrontRingier's WTA Ladies Open". Infront Sports and Media.
  2. ^ MediaTI. "Le star del tennis a Lugano - Ticinonews". www.ticinonews.ch (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2018-04-03. Retrieved 2018-04-03.

External links

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