February 4, 2025

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MORE TENNIS THAN YOU'LL EVER NEED

(Photo: Palermo Ladies Open/Facebook)

The Iasi final in Romania will be … all-Romania in singles, with one double finals team also an all-Romanian team.

It’s what you hope for when your top two singles seeds and top doubles seeds are local. But it doesn’t happen that often.

In Palermo, there was an Italian singles finalist and an Italian doubles finalist team. Neither won, but that worked out well.

The main draw in Hamburg also began, with the qualifying wrapping up. The site isn’t necessarily built to welcome a joint event, so the women are starting a day earlier.

(Palermo and Budapest six hours ahead of EDT; Iasi is seven hours ahead)

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34 Palermo Ladies Open
Location: Palermo, Italy
Category: WTA 250
Surface: Red Clay
Dates: July 17 – 23, 2023
Prize money: $259,303
Draws: S32 – D16 

Sunday, July 23, 2023
Final results

Singles final

[2] Zheng Qinwen (CHN) def [5] Jasmine Paolini (ITA) 64 16 61

Doubles final 

[1] Yana Sizikova (RUS) / Kimberley Zimmerman (BEL) def Angelica Moratelli / Camilla Rosatello (ITA) 62 64

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Hungarian Grand Prix
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Category: WTA 250
Surface: Red Clay
Dates: July 17 – 23, 2023
Prize money: $259,303
Draws: S32 – D16 

Sunday, July 23, 2023
Final results

Singles final

[LL] Maria Timofeeva (RUS) def Kateryna Baindl (UKR) 63 36 60

Doubles final 

Katarzyna Piter (POL) / Fanny Stollar (HUN) def Jessie Aney (USA) / Anna Siskova (CZE) 62 46 [10-4]

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BCR Iasi Open
Location: Iasi, Romania
Category: WTA 125
Surface: Red Clay
Dates: July 17 – 23, 2023
Prize money: $115,000
Draws: S32 – D16

Sunday, July 23, 2023
Final results

Singles final 

[2] Ana Bogdan (ROU) def [1/WC] Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) 62 63

Doubles final

Veronika Erjavec / Dalila Jakupovic (SLO) def [1] Irina Bara / Monica Niculescu (ROU) 64 64

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Hamburg European Open
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Category: WTA 250 (Joint event with the ATP Tour)
Surface: Red Clay
Dates: July 24 – 30, 2023
Prize money: $259,303
Draws: S32 – D16 

Sunday, July 23, 2023
Final results

Singles, first round

Tamara Korpatsch (GER) def. Maria Carlé (ARG) 36 62 61
Martina Trevisan (ITA) def. Elvina Kalieva (USA) 61 60
Panna Udvardy (HUN) def. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (SVK) 36 63 61

Doubles, first round

Alena Fomina-Klotz / Sofya Lansere (RUS) def. Yuliana Lizarazo / Maria Paulina Perez Garcia (COL) 61 64

Qualifying, final round

(1st-round opponents in brackets)

[12] Miriam Bulgaru (ROU) def. [3] Emiliana Arango (COL) 76 (5) 75 ([5] Julia Grabher)
[5] Elsa Jacquemot (FRA)
def [WC] Kathleen Kanev (GER) 75 60 ([6] Yulia Putintseva)
[2] Kaja Juvan (SLO) def. [7] Despina Papamichail (GRE) 61 62 (Kaia Kanepi)
[1] Polina Kudermetova (RUS) def. [9] Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 75 75 (Diana Shnaider)
[PR] Daria Saville (AUS) def. [6] Sinja Kraus (AUT) 46 64 63 ([4] Jasmine Paolini)
[8] Zeynep Sonmez (TUR) def. [4] Nuria Brancaccio (ITA) 64 75 ([3] Bernarda Pera)

 

 

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