Former WTA Finals champion Elina Svitolina will lead the entry list for the 2025 Open Capfinances Rouen Métropole. She will be joined by Grand Slam champions Emma Raducanu and Sofia Kenin at the WTA 250 clay-court event, which begins on April 14th. Another Grand Slam winner, Bianca Andreescu, will participate in the qualifying rounds. (Note: The tournament announced on March 31st that Andreescu has been granted a wild card.)
This will be the first time competing in Rouen for all four players. Svitolina, Raducanu, and Kenin have shown promising form in 2025 as they aim to regain their Top 10 rankings. Svitolina, a three-time major semifinalist, is currently ranked No. 22 and has reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open and Indian Wells this year. Raducanu, the former US Open champion and currently No. 60, is projected to return to the Top 50 after reaching the Miami quarterfinals this week. Kenin, the 2020 Australian Open champion, is ranked No. 46 after making the Doha quarterfinals in February.
Andreescu, who won the 2019 US Open, is set to compete for the first time since reaching the Tokyo quarterfinals last October. The 24-year-old`s recent setback was an emergency appendectomy, which delayed the start of her 2025 season. Andreescu had previously returned from a nine-month hiatus due to a back injury last May.
Alizé Cornet, formerly ranked No. 11, will make her professional tennis comeback after retiring at Roland Garros last year. She has been announced as a wild card recipient, along with Caroline Garcia, the 2022 WTA Finals champion.
The Rouen tournament was previously a WTA 125 event in 2022 and 2023 before becoming a tour-level tournament in 2024. While defending champion Sloane Stephens will not participate this year, last year`s runner-up Magda Linette is on the entry list. Other notable players entered include Linda Noskova, a 2024 Australian Open quarterfinalist, former No. 3 Maria Sakkari, reigning Cleveland and Hobart champion McCartney Kessler, and French No. 1 Varvara Gracheva.
Completing the main draw entry list are Elina Avanesyan, Wang Xinyu, Olga Danilovic, Marie Bouzkova, Moyuka Uchijima, Anhelina Kalinina, Katerina Siniakova, Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, Alycia Parks, Lucia Bronzetti, Sonay Kartal, Viktoriya Tomova, Ann Li, and Irina-Camelia Begu.
The top five alternates are Suzan Lamens, Jaqueline Cristian, Garcia, Kamilla Rakhimova, and Emiliana Arango.
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