2021 Chicago Women's Open
Women's tennis tournament
Tennis tournament
| 2021 Chicago Women's Open | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | 22–28 August | |||
| Edition | 1st | |||
| Category | WTA 250 | |||
| Draw | 32S / 16Q / 16D | |||
| Prize money | $235,238 | |||
| Surface | Hard | |||
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | |||
| Venue | XS Tennis Village | |||
| Champions | ||||
| Singles | ||||
 Elina Svitolina | ||||
| Doubles | ||||
Nadiia Kichenok /  Raluca Olaru | ||||
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The 2021 Chicago Women's Open was a tennis tournament held in Chicago, Illinois for female professional tennis players, and part of the 2021 WTA Tour.[1] It was played on outdoor hard courts in the week prior to the 2021 U.S. Open. This marked the first time since 1997 that a WTA tournament was held in Chicago.[2]
Champions
Singles
Elina Svitolina def. 
Alizé Cornet, 7–5, 6–4.
This was Svitolina's sixteenth WTA Tour singles title, and first of the year.
Doubles
- Nadiia Kichenok /
Raluca Olaru def. Lyudmyla Kichenok / 
Makoto Ninomiya, 7–6(8–6), 5–7, [10–8].
Singles main draw entrants
Seeds
| Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|
| UKR | Elina Svitolina | 6 | 1 |
 ITA | |||
| ROU | Sorana Cîrstea | 38 | 3 |
 SLO | Tamara Zidanšek | 40 | 4 |
 CZE | Markéta Vondroušová | 41 | 5 |
 SUI | Viktorija Golubic | 47 | 6 |
 FRA | Kristina Mladenovic | 54 | 7 |
| UKR | Marta Kostyuk | 56 | 8 |
| FRA | Alizé Cornet | 57 | 9 |
- Rankings are as of August 16, 2021.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards 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
Camila Giorgi → replaced by Clara Burel
Andrea Petkovic → replaced by 
Varvara Gracheva
Elena Rybakina → replaced by Misaki Doi
Ajla Tomljanović → replaced by Fiona Ferro
Doubles main draw entrants
Seeds
| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 USA | Nicole Melichar |  NED | Demi Schuurs | 23 | 1 |
 TPE | Chan Hao-ching | TPE | Latisha Chan | 42 | 2 |
| UKR | Nadiia Kichenok | ROU | Raluca Olaru | 80 | 3 |
| UKR | Lyudmyla Kichenok |  JPN | Makoto Ninomiya | 100 | 4 |
- Rankings are as of August 16, 2021.
Withdrawals
- Before the tournament
- Anastasia Potapova /
Heather Watson → replaced by 
Bárbara Gatica / 
Rebeca Pereira
References
External links
- Official website
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2021 WTA Tour
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- Melbourne 4 (S, D)*
- Lyon (S, D)
- Guadalajara (S, D)
- Monterrey (S, D)
- Bogotá (S, D)
- Charleston 2 (S, D)*
- İstanbul (S, D)
- Belgrade (S, D)
- Parma (S, D)*
- Strasbourg (S, D)
- Nottingham (S, D)
Rosmalen†- Birmingham (S, D)
- Bad Homburg (S, D)
- Hamburg (S, D)
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- Lausanne (S, D)
- Prague (S, D)
- Palermo (S, D)
- Gdynia (S, D)
- Cluj-Napoca 1 (S, D)
- Chicago 1 (S, D)*
- Cleveland (S, D)
- Luxembourg (S, D)
- Portorož (S, D)*
- Nur-Sultan (S, D)*
- Tenerife (S, D)*
- Courmayeur (S, D)*
- Cluj-Napoca 2 (S, D)*
- Linz (S, D)
Bold denotes the mandatory tournaments (WTA 1000)
† – Tournaments are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
* – Tournaments are introduced due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
† – Tournaments are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
* – Tournaments are introduced due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Summer Olympic Games, Tokyo (S, D, X)
WTA Elite Trophy†- WTA Finals, Guadalajara (S, D)
