The 2018 Ladies Open Lugano (also known as the 2018 Samsung Open presented by Cornèr for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament played on clay courts at TC Lido Lugano. It was the second edition of the tournament (the first to take place in Lugano) and part of the International category of the 2018 WTA Tour.[1] It took place between 9 April through 15 April 2018.[2]
2018 Ladies Open Lugano | |
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Date | 9 – 15 April |
Edition | 2nd |
Category | WTA International tournaments |
Draw | 32S / 16D |
Prize money | $250,000 |
Surface | Clay |
Location | Lugano, Switzerland |
Venue | Tennis Club Lido Lugano |
Champions | |
Singles | |
Elise Mertens | |
Doubles | |
Kirsten Flipkens / Elise Mertens |
Points and prize money edit
Point distribution edit
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 | — | — | — | — |
Prize money edit
Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q2 | Q1 |
Women's singles | $43,000 | $21,400 | $11,500 | $6,175 | $3,400 | $2,100 | $1,020 | $600 |
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Women's doubles | $12,300 | $6,400 | $3,435 | $1,820 | $960 | — | — | — |
Singles main draw entrants edit
Seeds edit
Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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FRA | Kristina Mladenovic | 19 | 1 |
BEL | Elise Mertens | 20 | 2 |
ESP | |||
EST | Anett Kontaveit | 28 | 4 |
RUS | Svetlana Kuznetsova | 29 | 5 |
FRA | Alizé Cornet | 37 | 6 |
ROU | Mihaela Buzărnescu | 39 | 7 |
BLR | Aliaksandra Sasnovich | 49 | 8 |
BEL | Alison Van Uytvanck | 51 | 9 |
- 1 Rankings are as of 2 April 2018.
Other entrants edit
The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
Withdrawals edit
- Before the tournament
- Timea Bacsinszky → replaced by Polona Hercog
- Kiki Bertens → replaced by Mandy Minella
- Dominika Cibulková → replaced by Kristýna Plíšková
- Sorana Cîrstea → replaced by Hsieh Su-wei
- Anna-Lena Friedsam → replaced by Yulia Putintseva
- Kateryna Kozlova → replaced by Laura Siegemund
- Maria Sakkari → replaced by Kirsten Flipkens
- Carla Suárez Navarro → replaced by Magdalena Fręch
Retirements edit
Doubles main draw entrants edit
Seeds edit
Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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BEL | Kirsten Flipkens | BEL | Elise Mertens | 75 | 1 |
POL | Alicja Rosolska | USA | Abigail Spears | 83 | 2 |
ROU | Raluca Olaru | GBR | Anna Smith | 97 | 3 |
AUS | Monique Adamczak | SUI | Xenia Knoll | 116 | 4 |
- 1 Rankings are as of 2 April 2018.
Other entrants edit
The following pair received a wildcard into the main draw:
The following pair received entry as alternates:
Withdrawals edit
- Before the tournament
Champions edit
Singles edit
- Elise Mertens def. Aryna Sabalenka, 7–5, 6–2
Doubles edit
- Kirsten Flipkens / Elise Mertens def. Vera Lapko / Aryna Sabalenka, 6–1, 6–3
References edit
- ^ "Lugano (Ticino/SUI) is the new outdoor venue for InfrontRingier's WTA Ladies Open". Infront Sports and Media.
- ^ MediaTI. "Le star del tennis a Lugano - Ticinonews". www.ticinonews.ch (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2018-04-03. Retrieved 2018-04-03.