2024 Upper Austria Ladies Linz | |
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Date | 29 January – 4 February |
Edition | 33rd |
Category | WTA 500 |
Draw | 28S / 16D |
Prize money | $922,573 |
Surface | Hard (Indoor) - (DecoTurf on Wood) |
Location | Linz, Austria |
Venue | Design Center Linz |
Champions | |
Singles | |
Jeļena Ostapenko | |
Doubles | |
Sara Errani / Jasmine Paolini |
The 2024 Upper Austria Ladies Linz was a professional women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 33rd edition of the tournament, and part of the WTA 500 tournaments of the 2024 WTA Tour. It was held at the Design Center Linz in Linz, Austria, from 29 January to 4 February 2024. [1] The tournament was upgraded to WTA 500 level for the first time since 2008 when it was last held as a WTA Premier tournament. [2]
Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q | Q2 | Q1 |
Singles | 500 | 325 | 195 | 108 | 60 | 1 | 25 | 13 | 1 |
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Doubles | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 321 | Q2 | Q1 |
Singles | $142,000 | $87,655 | $51,205 | $24,200 | $13,170 | $8,860 | $6,603 | $3,380 |
Doubles * | $47,390 | $28,720 | $16,430 | $8,510 | $5,140 | — | — | — |
1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money
* per team
Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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LAT | Jeļena Ostapenko | 10 | 1 |
Ekaterina Alexandrova | 20 | 2 | |
CRO | Donna Vekić | 25 | 3 |
BEL | Elise Mertens | 28 | 4 |
Anastasia Potapova | 29 | 5 | |
ITA | Jasmine Paolini | 31 | 6 |
FRA | Varvara Gracheva | 39 | 7 |
CRO | Petra Martić | 40 | 8 |
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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USA | Nicole Melichar-Martinez | AUS | Ellen Perez | 32 | 1 |
NOR | Ulrikke Eikeri | SVK | Tereza Mihalíková | 89 | 2 |
JPN | Eri Hozumi | JPN | Makoto Ninomiya | 97 | 3 |
USA | Asia Muhammad | USA | Alycia Parks | 103 | 4 |
The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:
The following pair received entry as alternates:
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