2021 French Open – Women's singles

Women's singles
Women's singles
2021 French Open
2020 Champion	Iga Świątek
Details
Draw	128 (12 Q / 8 WC)
Seeds	32
Events

Iga Świątek is the defending champion.^[1]

Ashleigh Barty and Naomi Osaka were in contention for the WTA No. 1 singles ranking at the beginning of the tournament. Barty retained the top ranking after Osaka withdrew from the second round.

Serena Williams will attempt to win a record equaling 24th Grand Slam title and a Quadruple Career Grand Slam.

Osaka declined to attend the mandatory post-match press conferences, citing mental health concerns. In response, the four Grand Slam tournaments issued a joint statement threatening fines and future suspensions from tournament play if Osaka did not attend the conferences. Following her first-round victory and a $15,000 fine, Osaka withdrew from the tournament.^[2]

Seeds

01.

Ashleigh Barty

02.

Naomi Osaka (Second round, withdrew)

03.

Aryna Sabalenka

04.

Sofia Kenin

05.

Elina Svitolina

06.

Bianca Andreescu (First round)

07.

Serena Williams

08.

Iga Świątek

09.

Karolína Plíšková

10.

Belinda Bencic

11.

Petra Kvitová

12.

Garbiñe Muguruza (First round)

13.

Jennifer Brady

14.

Elise Mertens

15.

Victoria Azarenka

16.

Kiki Bertens (First round)

17.

Maria Sakkari

18.

Karolína Muchová

19.

Johanna Konta (First round)

20.

Markéta Vondroušová

21.

Elena Rybakina

22.

Petra Martić (First round)

23.

Madison Keys

24.

Coco Gauff

25.

Ons Jabeur

26.

Angelique Kerber (First round)

27.

Alison Riske (Withdrew)

28.

Jessica Pegula

29.

Veronika Kudermetova

30.

Anett Kontaveit

31.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

32.

Ekaterina Alexandrova

33.

Paula Badosa

Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.

Draw

Key

Finals

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Top half

Section 1

First Round					Second Round		Third Round	Fourth Round

1	A Barty
	B Pera
	M Linette
WC	C Paquet
Q	I Bara	6⁵	2
WC	A Sharma	7⁷	6		WC	A Sharma
	Y Putintseva	5	2		25	O Jabeur
25	O Jabeur	7	6
24	C Gauff
Q	A Krunić
	Q Wang
	S-w Hsieh
Q	E-s Liang	1	6	4
	F Ferro	6	1	6		F Ferro
	A Sevastova	3	3		13	J Brady
13	J Brady	6	6

Section 2

First Round

Second Round

Third Round

Fourth Round

9

Q

S Zhang

PR

18

32

5

7

A Li

6

M Gasparyan

0

1

A Li

WC

O Babel

2

5

E Svitolina

6

Section 3

First Round					Second Round		Third Round	Fourth Round

4	S Kenin	6	4	6
	J Ostapenko	4	6	3	4	S Kenin
Q	H Baptiste	6	6		Q	H Baptiste
	A Blinkova	1	4
	T Martincová	6	7⁸
PR	I Jorović	3	6⁶			T Martincová
	L Zhu	4	6	4	28	J Pegula
28	J Pegula	6	4	6
17	M Sakkari	6	6
Q	K Zavatska	4	1		17	M Sakkari
	J Paolini	7	6			J Paolini
Q	S Vögele	5	1
	H Watson	4	5
	Z Diyas	6	7			Z Diyas
Q	S Sanders	4	1		14	E Mertens
14	E Mertens	6	6

Section 4

First Round					Second Round		Third Round	Fourth Round

12	G Muguruza	1	4
	M Kostyuk	6	6			M Kostyuk
	S Zheng	4	6	6		S Zheng
	S Sorribes Tormo	6	4	4
Q	L Arruabarrena	2	3
	V Gracheva	6	6			V Gracheva
	C Giorgi	6	6⁵	6		C Giorgi
22	P Martić	2	7⁷	4
30	A Kontaveit
	V Golubic
Q	AK Schmiedlová
	K Mladenovic
	R Peterson	6³	7¹⁰	6
	S Rogers	7⁷	6⁸	2		R Peterson
	K Juvan	0	5		8	I Świątek
8	I Świątek	6	7

Bottom half

Section 5

First Round					Second Round		Third Round	Fourth Round

7	S Williams	7⁸	6
	I-C Begu	6⁶	2		7	S Williams
	A Rus	5	5		PR	M Buzărnescu
PR	M Buzărnescu	7	7
	D Collins	6	4	6
Q	Xiy Wang	2	6	4		D Collins
Q	A Kalinina	6	6		Q	A Kalinina
26	A Kerber	2	4
21	E Rybakina	6	6
WC	E Jacquemot	4	1		21	E Rybakina
	N Hibino	7⁷	6			N Hibino
	N Stojanović	6⁴	2
PR	E Vesnina	6	6
LL	O Govortsova	1	0		PR	E Vesnina
Q	G Minnen	7⁷	6⁵	1	11	P Kvitová
11	P Kvitová	6³	7⁷	6

Section 6

First Round					Second Round		Third Round	Fourth Round

15	V Azarenka	6	2	6
	S Kuznetsova	4	6	3	15	V Azarenka
	C Tauson	6	6			C Tauson
Q	E Gorgodze	4	2
	LA Fernandez	6	6
	A Potapova	2	1			LA Fernandez
WC	O Dodin	3	6	1	23	M Keys
23	M Keys	6	3	6
31	A Pavlyuchenkova	6	6
	C McHale	4	0		31	A Pavlyuchenkova
PR	K Kozlova	2	4			A Tomljanović
	A Tomljanović	6	6
WC	D Parry	3	6	3
	A Sasnovich	6	3	6		A Sasnovich
Q	A Konjuh	4	3		3	A Sabalenka
3	A Sabalenka	6	6

Section 7

First Round					Second Round		Third Round	Fourth Round

6	B Andreescu	7⁷	6²	7
	T Zidanšek	6¹	7⁷	9		T Zidanšek
	M Brengle	7	6			M Brengle
Q	MC Osorio Serrano	5	4
	M Bouzková	0	6	2
	K Siniaková	6	4	6		K Siniaková
	A Anisimova	6⁵	1		29	V Kudermetova
29	V Kudermetova	7⁷	6
19	J Konta	6⁵	2
	S Cîrstea	7⁷	6			S Cîrstea
	A Van Uytvanck	5	6	4		M Trevisan
	M Trevisan	7	4	6
	D Kasatkina	6	5	6
	M Doi	3	7	3		D Kasatkina
	N Podoroska	0	3		10	B Bencic
10	B Bencic	6	6

Section 8

First Round					Second Round			Third Round		Fourth Round

16	K Bertens	1	6	4
	P Hercog	6	3	6		P Hercog
	L Siegemund	3	1			C Garcia
	C Garcia	6	6
	A Cornet	4	4
WC	H Tan	6	6		WC	H Tan
	K Kanepi	6	3	0	20	M Vondroušová
20	M Vondroušová	4	6	6
33	P Badosa	6	7⁷
	L Davis	2	6³		33	P Badosa
WC	C Burel	3	6⁸			D Kovinić
	D Kovinić	6	7¹⁰
LL	E Cocciaretto	1	3						A Bogdan
	A Bogdan	6	6			A Bogdan	w/o
	PM Țig	4	6⁴		2	N Osaka
2	N Osaka	6	7⁷

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Ranking

The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on WTA rankings as of 24 May 2021. Rankings and points before are as of 31 May 2021. Because the tournament was moved a week and points of the week of 10 June 2019 includes results only from Nottingham. The defending points from 's-Hertogenbosch is not included towards on dropping points.

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	2019 Points	2020 Points	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Ashleigh Barty	10,175	2,000	-	10	8,185	First round vs. Bernarda Pera
2	2	Naomi Osaka	7,461	130	-	70	7,401	Second round withdrew
3	4	Aryna Sabalenka	6,195	70	130	70	6,195	Second round vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
4	5	Sofia Kenin	5,865	240	1,300	70	5,865	Second round vs. Hailey Baptiste [Q]
5	6	Elina Svitolina	5,835	130	430	10	5,835	First round vs. Océane Babel [WC]
6	7	Bianca Andreescu	5,325	70	-	10	5,265	First round lost to Tamara Zidanšek
7	8	Serena Williams	4,821	130	70	70	4,821	Second round vs. Mihaela Buzărnescu [PR]
8	9	Iga Świątek	4,435	240	2,000	70	4,435	Second round vs. Rebecca Peterson
9	10	Karolína Plíšková	4,345	130	70	10	4,285	First round vs. Donna Vekić
10	11	Belinda Bencic	4,140	130	-	70	4,080	Second round vs. Daria Kasatkina
11	12	Petra Kvitová	4,115	0	780	70	4,115	Second round vs. Elena Vesnina [PR]
12	13	Garbiñe Muguruza	4,110	240	130	10	4,000	First round lost to Marta Kostyuk
13	14	Jennifer Brady	3,830	70+110	10	10+60	3,770	First round vs. Anastasija Sevastova
14	15	Elise Mertens	3,685	130	130	70	3,685	Second round vs. Zarina Diyas
15	16	Victoria Azarenka	3,526	70	70	70	3,526	Second round vs. Clara Tauson
16	17	Kiki Bertens	3,220	70	240	10	3,220	First round lost to Polona Hercog
17	18	Maria Sakkari	2,830	70	130	10	2,830	First round vs. Katarina Zavatska [Q]
18	19	Karolína Muchová	2,816	70	10	10	2,756	First round vs. Andrea Petkovic [PR]
19	20	Johanna Konta	2,756	780	10	10	1,986	First round lost to Sorana Cîrstea
20	21	Markéta Vondroušová	2,746	1,300	10	70	1,516	Second round vs. Harmony Tan [WC]
21	22	Elena Rybakina	2,683	40	70	70	2,683	Second round vs. Nao Hibino
22	23	Petra Martić	2,660	430	130	10	2,360	First round lost to Camila Giorgi
23	24	Madison Keys	2,606	430	10	70	2,246	Second round vs. Leylah Annie Fernandez
24	25	Coco Gauff	2,420	20	70	10	2,420	First round vs. Aleksandra Krunić [Q]
25	26	Ons Jabeur	2,415	10	240	10	2,415	First round vs. Yulia Putintseva
26	27	Angelique Kerber	2,320	10	10	10	2,320	First round lost to Anhelina Kalinina [Q]
27	28	~~Alison Riske~~	2,222	10+70	10	0	2,152	Withdrew due to a right knee injury
28	29	Jessica Pegula	2,219	10	10	10	2,219	First round vs. Zhu Lin
29	30	Veronika Kudermetova	2,160	130	70	70	2,100	Second round vs. Kateřina Siniaková
30	31	Anett Kontaveit	2,145	10	10	10	2,145	First round vs. Viktorija Golubic
31	32	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	2,070	10	70	70	2,070	Second round vs. Ajla Tomljanović
32	34	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1,940	130	130	10	1,940	First round vs. Venus Williams
33	35	Paula Badosa	1,870	(18)^†	240	70	1,870	Second round vs. Danka Kovinić

† The player did not qualify the tournament in 2019. Accordingly, points from her 16th best result deducted instead.

Other entry information

Wild cards

The following players were awarded wild cards into the main draw.^[3]

Protected ranking

Qualifiers

Lucky losers

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Kirsten Flipkens^[4] → replaced by Mihaela Buzărnescu
Simona Halep^[5] → replaced by Jasmine Paolini
Alison Riske → replaced by Olga Govortsova
Samantha Stosur^[6] → replaced by Ana Bogdan
Barbora Strýcová^[7] → replaced by Clara Tauson
Jil Teichmann → replaced by Elisabetta Cocciaretto
Dayana Yastremska^[8] → replaced by Kateryna Kozlova

During the tournament

Naomi Osaka^[9]

References

^ "Iga Swiatek demolishes Sofia Kenin in final to make French Open history". Guardian. 10 October 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
^ https://africa.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/31543237/naomi-osaka-withdraws-french-open-one-day-fine-threat-harsher-sanctions-skipping-media-obligations
^ "Rolan Garros 2021 Wildcard Announced". Roland Garros. 17 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ ""It Hurts" Kirsten Flipkens Announces Unfortunate News Ahead of French Open 2021". Essentially Sport. 24 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
^ "French Open 2021: Simona Halep withdraws with left calf injury". BBC. 21 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
^ "2021 French Open preview". The Roar. 25 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
^ "Life After Tennis". Tennis. 4 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
^ "Dayana Yastremska fails in her latest appeal to lift provisional doping ban". Sky Sports. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
^ https://africa.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/31543237/naomi-osaka-withdraws-french-open-one-day-fine-threat-harsher-sanctions-skipping-media-obligations

External links

Preceded by 2021 Australian Open – Women's Singles	Grand Slam women's singles	Succeeded by 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles

[1] "Iga Swiatek demolishes Sofia Kenin in final to make French Open history". Guardian. 10 October 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2020.

[2] ttps://africa.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/31543237/naomi-osaka-withdraws-french-open-one-day-fine-threat-harsher-sanctions-skipping-media-obligations

[3] "Rolan Garros 2021 Wildcard Announced". Roland Garros. 17 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.

[4] ""It Hurts" Kirsten Flipkens Announces Unfortunate News Ahead of French Open 2021". Essentially Sport. 24 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.

[5] "French Open 2021: Simona Halep withdraws with left calf injury". BBC. 21 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.

[6] "2021 French Open preview". The Roar. 25 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.

[7] "Life After Tennis". Tennis. 4 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.

[8] "Dayana Yastremska fails in her latest appeal to lift provisional doping ban". Sky Sports. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.

[9] ttps://africa.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/31543237/naomi-osaka-withdraws-french-open-one-day-fine-threat-harsher-sanctions-skipping-media-obligations

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