2021 Upper Austria Ladies Linz Explained

Date:	6–12 November
Edition:	31st
Category:	WTA 250
Draw:	28S / 16D
Prize Money:	$235,238
Surface:	Hard (Indoor) - (DecoTurf on Wood)
Location:	Linz, Austria
Venue:	TipsArena Linz
Champs:	Alison Riske
Champd:	Natela Dzalamidze / Kamilla Rakhimova
Main Name:	Linz Open
After Year:	2023

The 2021 Upper Austria Ladies Linz was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 31st edition of the Linz Open, and was part of the WTA 250 series of the 2021 WTA Tour. It was held at the TipsArena Linz in Linz, Austria, from 6 to 12 November 2021.^[1]

Champions

Singles

See main article: 2021 Upper Austria Ladies Linz – Singles.

• Alison Riske def. Jaqueline Cristian, 2–6, 6–2, 7–5.

This was Riske's third WTA Tour title, and first of the year.

Doubles

See main article: 2021 Upper Austria Ladies Linz – Doubles.

• Natela Dzalamidze / Kamilla Rakhimova def. Wang Xinyu / Zheng Saisai 6–4, 6–2

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	width=85	Q	width=85	Q2	width=85	Q1
Singles	280	180	110	60	30	1	18	12	1
Doubles					1

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32^1	width=85	Q2	width=85	Q1
Singles	$43,000	$21,400	$11,500	$6,175	$3,400	$2,100	$1,020	$600
Doubles *	$12,300	$6,400	$3,435	$1,820	$960

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

• per team

Singles entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank^1	Seed
United Kingdom	Emma Raducanu	21	1
Romania	Simona Halep	22	2
United States	Danielle Collins	30	3
Russian Federation	Veronika Kudermetova	31	4
Russian Federation	Ekaterina Alexandrova	32	5
Romania	Sorana Cîrstea	38	6
Italy	Jasmine Paolini	51	7
United States	Alison Riske	52	8

• Rankings as of November 1, 2021 ^[2]

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Julia Grabher
• Simona Halep^[3]
• Sinja Kraus
• Emma Raducanu

The following player received entry using a protected ranking:

• Mona Barthel

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Kateryna Kozlova
• Harmony Tan
• Lesia Tsurenko
• Wang Xinyu

The following player received entry as lucky loser:

• Jaqueline Cristian

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Irina-Camelia Begu → replaced by Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Sorana Cîrstea → replaced by Jaqueline Cristian
• Caroline Garcia → replaced by Zheng Saisai
• Viktorija Golubic → replaced by Mona Barthel
• Kaia Kanepi → replaced by Greet Minnen
• Marta Kostyuk → replaced by Fiona Ferro
• Ann Li → replaced by Clara Burel
• Petra Martić → replaced by Kamilla Rakhimova
• Camila Osorio → replaced by Rebecca Peterson
• Ajla Tomljanović → replaced by Océane Dodin
• Zhang Shuai → replaced by Dayana Yastremska

Doubles entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank^1	Seed
	Julia Lohoff	Czech Republic	Renata Voráčová	154	1
Georgia	Oksana Kalashnikova	Japan	Miyu Kato	161	2
Russian Federation	Natela Dzalamidze	Russian Federation	Kamilla Rakhimova	171	3
Poland	Alicja Rosolska	New Zealand	Erin Routliffe	175	4

• ¹ Rankings as of November 1, 2021

Other entrants

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

The following pairs received entry using protected rankings:

• Mona Barthel / Hsieh Yu-chieh
• Irina Khromacheva / Lidziya Marozava

Notes and References

1. Web site: Upper Austria Ladies Linz Overview. wtatennis.com.
2. Web site: Diese Tennis-Stars schlagen in Linz auf. nachrichten.at.
3. Web site: Simona Halep wild card a Linz. "Un anno duro, ma ho imparato moltissimo". ubitennis.com.