Ladies Open Biel Bienne, Switzerland, WTA International

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DATE: Apr 10 - Apr 16, 2017
SURFACE: Hard
PRIZE MONEY: $226,750
FIELD SIZE: 32
DEFENDING CHAMPION: First Edition

Seeds:

1 STRYCOVA, Barbora
2 SUÁREZ NAVARRO, Carla
3 BABOS, Timea
4 VINCI, Roberta
5 SIEGEMUND, Laura
6 CORNET, Alizé
7 GOERGES, Julia
8 NICULESCU, Monica

The Tournament:

The 2017 Ladies Open Biel Bienne will be a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It will be the first edition of the Ladies Open Biel Bienne and part of the International category of the 2017 WTA Tour. It will take place at the Swiss Tennis Center in Roger Federer Allee, Biel, Switzerland, from 10 April through 16 April 2017.

About Biel/Bienne

Biel is a town and a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Biel/Bienne is on the language boundary between the French-speaking and German-speaking parts of Switzerland, and is throughout bilingual. Biel is the German name for the town, Bienne its French counterpart.

Tourism Guide:

 

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The Draw

 

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Results from the Biel/Bienne Open Women's Singles Round 1 matches on Monday

Annika Beck (Germany) beat Rebeka Masarova (Switzerland) 6-4 6-4
Elise Mertens (Belgium) beat 8-Monica Niculescu (Romania) 6-2 6-2
Kristyna Pliskova (Czech Republic) beat 4-Roberta Vinci (Italy) 6-4 6-4
Mona Barthel (Germany) beat Jana Cepelova (Slovakia) 6-3 6-4

 

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Results from the Biel/Bienne Open Women's Singles Round 1 matches on Tuesday

Carina Witthoeft (Germany) beat Belinda Bencic (Switzerland) 6-1 6-3
Camila Giorgi (Italy) beat Antonia Lottner (Germany) 6-2 6-2
1-Barbora Strycova (Czech Republic) beat Marie Bouzkova (Czech Republic) 6-2 4-6 6-2
Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Belarus) beat Pauline Parmentier (France) 3-6 6-2 6-3
7-Julia Goerges (Germany) beat Naomi Broady (Britain) 6-4 6-2
Marketa Vondrousova (Czech Republic) beat Lina Gjorcheska (Macedonia) 7-6(4) 6-1
Donna Vekic (Croatia) beat Sorana Cirstea (Romania) 6-4 6-1
Anett Kontaveit (Estonia) beat Heather Watson (Britain) 7-6(2) 6-2
Evgeniya Rodina (Russia) beat 3-Timea Babos (Hungary) 7-6(7) 4-2 (Babos retired)
Oceane Dodin (France) beat Hsieh Su-Wei (Taiwan) 6-2 6-2

 

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Results from the Biel/Bienne Open Women's Singles matches on Wednesday

Round 2
7-Julia Goerges (Germany) beat Oceane Dodin (France) 6-4 6-3
Kristyna Pliskova (Czech Republic) beat Donna Vekic (Croatia) 6-1 6-2
Elise Mertens (Belgium) beat Mona Barthel (Germany) 6-2 6-4
Anett Kontaveit (Estonia) beat Evgeniya Rodina (Russia) 6-3 6-2

Round 1
Viktorija Golubic (Switzerland) beat 5-Laura Siegemund (Germany) 6-2 4-6 7-6(3)
2-Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) beat Julia Boserup (U.S.) 6-1 6-2

 

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Results from the Biel/Bienne Open Women's Singles Round 2 matches on Thursday

Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Belarus) beat Viktorija Golubic (Switzerland) 6-1 6-4
Camila Giorgi (Italy) beat 2-Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) 2-6 7-6(5) 6-2
1-Barbora Strycova (Czech Republic) beat Carina Witthoeft (Germany) 6-2 7-6(6)
Marketa Vondrousova (Czech Republic) beat Annika Beck (Germany) 6-1 6-3