2021 Tennis in the Land | |
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Date | August 22–28 |
Edition | 1st |
Category | WTA 250 |
Draw | 32S / 16D |
Prize money | $236,000 |
Surface | Hard / outdoor |
Location | Cleveland, United States |
Venue | Jacobs Pavilion |
Champions | |
Singles | |
Anett Kontaveit | |
Doubles | |
Shuko Aoyama / Ena Shibahara |
The 2021 Tennis in the Land event was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Jacobs Pavilion. It was the first edition of the tournament held in the city of Cleveland in the United States and was a part of the WTA 250 category of the 2021 WTA Tour. [1] [2]
This was Kontaveit's second WTA Tour title, and first since 2017.
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 |
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Women's doubles | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 321 | Q2 | Q1 |
Women's singles | $29,200 | $16,398 | $10,100 | $5,800 | $4,000 | $2,770 | $2,305 | $1,700 |
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Women's doubles* | $10,300 | $6,000 | $3,800 | $2,300 | $1,750 | — | — | — |
1Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money.
*per team
Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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RUS | Daria Kasatkina | 26 | 1 |
EST | Anett Kontaveit | 28 | 2 |
RUS | Ekaterina Alexandrova | 34 | 3 |
ARG | Nadia Podoroska | 37 | 5 |
POL | Magda Linette | 43 | 6 |
ESP | Sara Sorribes Tormo | 44 | 7 |
USA | Shelby Rogers | 45 | 8 |
CHN | Zhang Shuai | 50 | 9 |
The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
The following players received entry as lucky losers:
Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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JPN | Shuko Aoyama | JPN | Ena Shibahara | 18 | 1 |
CHI | Alexa Guarachi | USA | Desirae Krawczyk | 35 | 2 |
CZE | Lucie Hradecká | CHN | Zhang Shuai | 79 | 3 |
USA | Bethanie Mattek-Sands | USA | Shelby Rogers | 89 | 4 |
The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:
The following pair received entry using a protected ranking:
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