2022 Birmingham Classic

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2022 Birmingham Classic
Date13 – 19 June
Edition40th
Category WTA 250 tournaments
Draw32S / 16D
Surface Grass
Location Birmingham, United Kingdom
Venue Edgbaston Priory Club
Champions
Singles
Flag of Brazil.svg Beatriz Haddad Maia
Doubles
Flag of Ukraine.svg Lyudmyla Kichenok / Flag of Latvia.svg Jeļena Ostapenko
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The 2022 Birmingham Classic (also known as the Rothesay Classic Birmingham for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament being played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 40th edition of the event, and a WTA 250 tournament on the 2022 WTA Tour. It took place at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on 13–19 June 2022. [1]

Contents

Champions

Singles

This is Haddad Maia's second title of the year and also her career.

Doubles

Points and prize money

Point distribution

EventWFSFQFRound of 16Round of 321QQ2Q1
Women's singles2801801106030118121
Women's doubles1N/AN/AN/AN/A

Prize money

EventWFSFQFRound of 16Round of 32Q2Q1
Women's singles$29,800$16,398$10,100$5,800$3,675$2,675$1,950$1,270
Women's doubles *$10,300$6,000$3,800$2,300$1,750N/AN/AN/A

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

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

CountryPlayerRank1Seed
Flag of Latvia.svg  LAT Jeļena Ostapenko 161
Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Simona Halep 202
Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Camila Giorgi 263
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  BEL Elise Mertens 294
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  CZE Petra Kvitová 315
Flag of Romania.svg  ROU Sorana Cîrstea 346
Flag of the United States.svg  USA Alison Riske 407
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  CHN Zhang Shuai 418

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:

Withdrawal

Before the tournament

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

CountryPlayerCountryPlayerRank1Seed
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  BEL Elise Mertens Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  CHN Zhang Shuai 51
Flag of Ukraine.svg  UKR Lyudmyla Kichenok Flag of Latvia.svg  LAT Jeļena Ostapenko 412
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  CZE Lucie Hradecká Flag of India.svg  IND Sania Mirza 413
Flag of Japan.svg  JPN Shuko Aoyama Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  TPE Chan Hao-ching 634

Other entrants

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

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

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