2021 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy

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2021 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy
Date15 – 21 March
Edition12th
Category WTA 500
Prize money$565,530
Surface Hard (indoor)
Location Saint Petersburg, Russia
Venue Sibur Arena
Champions
Singles
Flag of Russia.svg Daria Kasatkina
Doubles
Flag of Ukraine.svg Nadiia Kichenok / Flag of Romania.svg Raluca Olaru
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The 2021 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is the 12th edition of the tournament and a WTA 500 tournament on the 2021 WTA Tour. The tournament is held between 15 and 21 March 2021. [1]

Contents

Champions

Singles

Doubles

Point distribution

EventWFSFQFRound of 16Round of 32QQ2Q1
Singles47030518510055125131
Doubles1N/AN/AN/AN/A

Prize money

EventWFSFQFRound of 16Round of 321Q2Q1
Singles$68,570$51,000$32,400$15,500$8,200$6,650$5,000$2,565
Doubles*$25,230$17,750$10,000$5,500$3,500N/AN/AN/A

1Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money.
*per team

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

CountryPlayerRank1Seed
Flag of Russia.svg  RUS Ekaterina Alexandrova 331
Flag of Russia.svg  RUS Veronika Kudermetova 342
Flag of France.svg  FRA Fiona Ferro 393
Flag of Russia.svg  RUS Svetlana Kuznetsova 414
Flag of Russia.svg  RUS Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 435
Flag of Latvia.svg  LAT Jeļena Ostapenko 516
Flag of France.svg  FRA Kristina Mladenovic 537
Flag of Russia.svg  RUS Daria Kasatkina 588

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

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

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

CountryPlayerCountryPlayerRank1Seed
Flag of Ukraine.svg  UKR Nadiia Kichenok Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Raluca Olaru 981
Flag of the United States.svg  USA Kaitlyn Christian Flag of the United States.svg  USA Sabrina Santamaria 1302
Flag of Japan.svg  JPN Makoto Ninomiya Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  CZE Renata Voráčová 1323
Flag of Belarus.svg  BLR Lidziya Marozava Flag of Belarus.svg  BLR Aliaksandra Sasnovich 1344

Other entrants

The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:

The following pairs received entry using protected rankings:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

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References

  1. "St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy Overview". wtatennis.com.
  2. "На подаче только девушки. Кто примет участие в St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy?". spbvedomosti.ru.