2021 WTA German Open

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2021 WTA German Open
Date14–20 June
Edition94th
Category WTA 500
Draw32S / 28Q / 16D
Prize money$565,530
Surface Grass
Location Berlin, Germany
Champions
Singles
Flag of Russia.svg Liudmila Samsonova
Doubles
Flag of Belarus.svg Victoria Azarenka / Flag of Belarus.svg Aryna Sabalenka
  2008  · German Open (WTA) ·  2022  

The 2021 WTA German Open (also known as the bett1open for sponsorship purposes) was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in Berlin, Germany from 14 June to 21 June 2021. It was the 94th edition of the event on the 2021 WTA Tour and was classified as a WTA 500 tournament. [1]

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The 2021 relaunch of the German Open marked the first time the WTA Tour returned to Berlin since 2008 after the Qatar Tennis Federation, owners of the original clay tournament usually held prior to the French Open, had sold the sanction back to the Tour. [1] [2] In 2019, the WTA and All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) announced that the WTA Premier (now WTA 500) sanction from the Birmingham Classic would be transferred to a new grass tournament planned to be organized in Berlin. [3] Originally scheduled for a debut in 2020, the inaugural edition was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. [4]

Liudmila Samsonova became the relaunched tournament's debut singles champion after entering the main draw as a qualifier and defeating Belinda Bencic in her maiden WTA Tour career final. The all-Belarusian doubles team of Victoria Azarenka and Aryna Sabalenka defeated Nicole Melichar and Demi Schuurs in the final to win the new event's first doubles tournament. [5]

Champions

Singles

Doubles

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

CountryPlayerRank [6] Seed
Flag of Belarus.svg  BLR Aryna Sabalenka 41
Flag of Ukraine.svg  UKR Elina Svitolina 62
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  CAN Bianca Andreescu 73
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  CZE Karolína Plíšková 104
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  SUI Belinda Bencic 115
Flag of Spain.svg  ESP Garbiñe Muguruza 136
Flag of Belarus.svg  BLR Victoria Azarenka 167
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  CZE Karolína Muchová 198

Other entrants

The following players received wildcard s into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

CountryPlayerCountryPlayerRank1Seed
Flag of the United States.svg USA Nicole Melichar Flag of the Netherlands.svg  NED Demi Schuurs 191
Flag of Japan.svg  JPN Shuko Aoyama Flag of Japan.svg  JPN Ena Shibahara 262
Flag of Chile.svg  CHI Alexa Guarachi Flag of the United States.svg USA Desirae Krawczyk 323
Flag of Belarus.svg  BLR Aryna Sabalenka Flag of Belarus.svg  BLR Victoria Azarenka 524

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

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