2018 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy Explained

Date:	29 January – 4 February
Edition:	9th
Prize Money:	$776,000
Surface:	Hard (indoor)
Location:	Saint Petersburg, Russia
Venue:	Sibur Arena
Champs:	Petra Kvitová

The 2018 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 9th edition of the tournament and third time as a WTA Premier tournament. It was part of the 2018 WTA Tour and was held between 29 January and 4 February 2018.

Point distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	width=85	Q	width=85	Q3	width=85	Q2	width=85	Q1
Singles	470	305	185	100	55	1	25	18	13	1
Doubles					1

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32^1	width=85	Q3	width=85	Q2	width=85	Q1
Singles	$132,740	$70,880	$37,850	$20,350	$10,915	$6,925	$3,110	$1,650	$920
Doubles*	$41,520	$22,180	$12,120	$6,165	$3,350

_{¹Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money.}

• per team

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank^1	Seed
	Caroline Wozniacki	2	1
	Jeļena Ostapenko	7	2
France	Caroline Garcia	8	3
France	Kristina Mladenovic	11	4
	Julia Görges	12	5
Russian Federation	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	18	6
Russian Federation	Elena Vesnina	19	7
Russian Federation	Daria Kasatkina	25	8

• ¹ Rankings as of January 15, 2018.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Petra Kvitová
• Anastasia Potapova
• Elena Vesnina
• Vera Zvonareva

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• • • • Viktória Kužmová Tereza Martincová Elena Rybakina Roberta Vinci

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

• Andrea Petkovic

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Simona Halep → replaced by Andrea Petkovic
• Ana Konjuh → replaced by Tatjana Maria
• Elise Mertens → replaced by Donna Vekić
• Anastasija Sevastova → replaced by Kateřina Siniaková
• Barbora Strýcová → replaced by Maria Sakkari
• Carla Suárez Navarro → replaced by Mona Barthel

Retirements

• Kiki Bertens

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank^1	Seed
	Gabriela Dabrowski	China	Xu Yifan	29	1
United States	Raquel Atawo		Anna-Lena Grönefeld	55	2
United States	Nicole Melichar	Czech Republic	Květa Peschke	57	3
	Darija Jurak	Czech Republic	Renata Voráčová	86	4

• ¹ Rankings as of January 15, 2018.

Other entrants

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

• Valeriya Pogrebnyak / Elena Rybakina

Champions

Singles

See main article: 2018 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy – Singles.

• Petra Kvitová def. Kristina Mladenovic, 6–1, 6–2

Doubles

See main article: 2018 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy – Doubles.

• Timea Bacsinszky / Vera Zvonareva def. Alla Kudryavtseva / Katarina Srebotnik, 2–6, 6–1, [10–3]

External links

• Official website