2021 Phillip Island Trophy
Tournament on the 2021 WTA Tour
Tennis tournament
| 2021 Phillip Island Trophy | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | 13–19 February | |||
| Edition | 1st | |||
| Category | WTA 250 | |||
| Draw | 56S / 16Q / 24D | |||
| Prize money | $235,238 | |||
| Surface | Hard | |||
| Location | Melbourne, Australia | |||
| Venue | Melbourne Park | |||
| Champions | ||||
| Singles | ||||
 Daria Kasatkina | ||||
| Doubles | ||||
 Ankita Raina / Kamilla Rakhimova | ||||
| ||||
The 2021 Phillip Island Trophy is a tournament on the 2021 WTA Tour, one of six events in the 2021 Melbourne Summer Series. It was played on outdoor hard courts in Melbourne, Australia. It was organised as a lead-up tournament to the 2021 Australian Open, and was held at the same venue, due to other tournaments in Australia being cancelled as a result from the COVID-19 pandemic. This tournament took place simultaneously with the second week of the 2021 Australian Open.[1]
Champions
Singles
Daria Kasatkina def. 
Marie Bouzková 4–6, 6–2, 6–2
Doubles
Ankita Raina / Kamilla Rakhimova def. Anna Blinkova / Anastasia Potapova 2–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Points and prize money
Point distribution
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q | Q1 |
| Singles | 280 | 180 | 110 | 60 | 30 | 16 | 1 | 12 | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doubles | 1 | — | — | — |
Prize money
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q1 |
| Singles | $28,500 | $20,850 | $11,100 | $5,250 | $2,700 | $1,900 | $1,400 | $1,211 |
| Doubles* | $8,000 | $5,000 | $3,000 | $1,500 | $1,300 | $1,000 | — | — |
*per team
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
| Country | Player | Ranka | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|
 USA | Sofia Kenin | 4 | 1 |
 CAN | Bianca Andreescu | 9 | 2 |
 GBR | |||
 CRO | Petra Martić | 19 | 4 |
 CHN | Wang Qiang | 34 | 5 |
| CHN | |||
| RUS | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 39 | 7 |
| USA | Danielle Collins | 40 | 8 |
| USA | Sloane Stephens | 41 | 9 |
 FRA | Caroline Garcia | 43 | 10 |
| CHN | Zheng Saisai | 44 | 11 |
 ARG | Nadia Podoroska | 45 | 12 |
 CZE | Marie Bouzková | 50 | 13 |
 LAT | Anastasija Sevastova | 53 | 14 |
| FRA | Alizé Cornet | 54 | 15 |
 SWE | Rebecca Peterson | 55 | 16 |
a Rankings are as of 8 February 2021
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
The following players used a protected ranking to enter the singles main draw:
Katie Boulter
Zhu Lin
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Mona Barthel
Mihaela Buzărnescu
Lizette Cabrera- Francesca Jones
Varvara Lepchenko
Rebecca Marino- Ankita Raina
- Kamilla Rakhimova
The following players received entry as lucky losers:
Withdrawals
- Before the tournament
- Ekaterina Alexandrova → replaced by
Lesia Tsurenko - Amanda Anisimova → replaced by Ajla Tomljanović
- Catherine Bellis → replaced by Daria Kasatkina
Belinda Bencic → replaced by 
Nao Hibino- Jennifer Brady → replaced by Zhu Lin
Fiona Ferro → replaced by Lauren Davis- Coco Gauff → replaced by
Danka Kovinić 
Polona Hercog → replaced by Irina-Camelia Begu- Madison Keys → replaced by Anna Blinkova
- Johanna Konta → replaced by Gabriella Da Silva-Fick
- Veronika Kudermetova → replaced by
Zarina Diyas - Svetlana Kuznetsova → replaced by Christina McHale
Ons Jabeur → replaced by Madison Brengle
Magda Linette → replaced by Misaki Doi
Elise Mertens → replaced by Katie Boulter- Kristina Mladenovic → replaced by
Aliaksandra Sasnovich 
Garbiñe Muguruza → replaced by Ana Bogdan
Jeļena Ostapenko → replaced by Varvara Gracheva- Yulia Putintseva → replaced by Wang Yafan
- Alison Riske → replaced by Anastasia Potapova
- Elena Rybakina → replaced by Andrea Petkovic
- Laura Siegemund → replaced by Greet Minnen
- Barbora Strýcová → replaced by
Tímea Babos - Iga Świątek → replaced by Liudmila Samsonova
Donna Vekić → replaced by Maddison Inglis- Markéta Vondroušová → replaced by
Sara Errani - Heather Watson → replaced by Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Dayana Yastremska → replaced by Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Zhang Shuai → replaced by Monica Niculescu
- During the tournament
Retirements
Doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rankb | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 TPE | Chan Hao-ching | TPE | Latisha Chan | 32 | 1 |
 ROU | Monica Niculescu | CHN | Yang Zhaoxuan | 108 | 2 |
| USA | Kaitlyn Christian | USA | Sabrina Santamaria | 132 | 3 |
| ROU | Andreea Mitu | ROU | Raluca Olaru | 138 | 4 |
 GEO | Oksana Kalashnikova | SWE | Cornelia Lister | 143 | 5 |
 BEL | Kirsten Flipkens | BEL | Greet Minnen | 145 | 6 |
 JPN | Makoto Ninomiya | CHN | Wang Yafan | 147 | 7 |
| JPN | Misaki Doi | JPN | Nao Hibino | 151 | 8 |
b Rankings are as of 8 February 2021.
Other entrants
The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:
Withdrawals
- During the tournament
References
- ^ "Phillip Island Trophy 2021 Order of Play | WTA Official". Women's Tennis Association.
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