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2021 Phillip Island Trophy | |
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Date | 13–19 February |
Edition | 1st |
Category | WTA 250 |
Draw | 56S / 16Q / 24D |
Prize money | $235,238 |
Surface | Hard |
Location | Melbourne, Australia |
Venue | Melbourne Park |
Champions | |
Singles | |
Daria Kasatkina | |
Doubles | |
Ankita Raina / Kamilla Rakhimova |
The 2021 Phillip Island Trophy is a tournament on the 2021 WTA Tour, one of six events in the 2021 Melbourne Summer Series. It was played on outdoor hard courts in Melbourne, Australia. It was organised as a lead-up tournament to the 2021 Australian Open, and was held at the same venue, due to other tournaments in Australia being cancelled as a result from the COVID-19 pandemic. This tournament took place simultaneously with the second week of the 2021 Australian Open. [1]
Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q | Q1 |
Singles | 280 | 180 | 110 | 60 | 30 | 16 | 1 | 12 | 1 |
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Doubles | 1 | — | — | — |
Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q1 |
Singles | $28,500 | $20,850 | $11,100 | $5,250 | $2,700 | $1,900 | $1,400 | $1,211 |
Doubles* | $8,000 | $5,000 | $3,000 | $1,500 | $1,300 | $1,000 | — | — |
*per team
Country | Player | Ranka | Seed |
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USA | Sofia Kenin | 4 | 1 |
CAN | Bianca Andreescu | 9 | 2 |
CRO | Petra Martić | 19 | 4 |
CHN | Wang Qiang | 34 | 5 |
RUS | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 39 | 7 |
USA | Danielle Collins | 40 | 8 |
USA | Sloane Stephens | 41 | 9 |
FRA | Caroline Garcia | 43 | 10 |
CHN | Zheng Saisai | 44 | 11 |
ARG | Nadia Podoroska | 45 | 12 |
CZE | Marie Bouzková | 50 | 13 |
LAT | Anastasija Sevastova | 53 | 14 |
FRA | Alizé Cornet | 54 | 15 |
SWE | Rebecca Peterson | 55 | 16 |
a Rankings are as of 8 February 2021
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
The following players used a protected ranking to enter the singles main draw:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
The following players received entry as lucky losers:
Country | Player | Country | Player | Rankb | Seed |
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TPE | Chan Hao-ching | TPE | Latisha Chan | 32 | 1 |
ROU | Monica Niculescu | CHN | Yang Zhaoxuan | 108 | 2 |
USA | Kaitlyn Christian | USA | Sabrina Santamaria | 132 | 3 |
ROU | Andreea Mitu | ROU | Raluca Olaru | 138 | 4 |
GEO | Oksana Kalashnikova | SWE | Cornelia Lister | 143 | 5 |
BEL | Kirsten Flipkens | BEL | Greet Minnen | 145 | 6 |
JPN | Makoto Ninomiya | CHN | Wang Yafan | 147 | 7 |
JPN | Misaki Doi | JPN | Nao Hibino | 151 | 8 |
b Rankings are as of 8 February 2021.
The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:
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