2021 WTA Eastbourne International Entry List including Sabalenka, Andreescu and Swiatek

Attention will soon turn to the grass courts with multiple traditional warm-up tournaments returning to the calendar ahead of Wimbledon.

Those include the bett1 Open in Berlin and the Bod Hamburg Open, both are well attended with big names as is the provisional entry list for the Eastbourne International at Devonshire Park in late June.

The WTA500 event will be played alongside tournaments in Birmingham, Nottingham and Queen's Club.

It will be Aryna Sabalenka leading the line-up in Eastbourne with the World No.4 having form in the tournament reaching the final in 2018.

Joining her will be a trio of Grand Slam champions in Australian Open winner, Sofia Kenin who will make her debut in the tournament. As well as 2019 US Open champion, Bianca Andreescu and 2020 French Open champion, Iga Swiatek.

As well, World No.9, Elina Svitolina will take in Eastbourne as part of her preparation as will World No.10 and defending champion, Karolina Pliskova.

Other leading names include Coco Gauff who is also set to make her debut, as well as Belinda Bencic who is the leading name in Nottingham and rising Spanish star, Paula Badosa who will hope to transfer her clay court prowess onto the grass courts.

Currently, Donna Vekic and Daria Kasatkina lead the announced Main Draw Alternates with 21 players directly accepted and four more names from Wild Cards and Qualifiers.

1 SABALENKA, ARYNA (BLR) 4

2 KENIN, SOFIA (USA) 5

3 SVITOLINA, ELINA (UKR) 6

4 ANDREESCU, BIANCA (CAN) 7

5 SWIATEK, IGA (POL) 9

6 PLISKOVA, KAROLINA (CZE) 10

7 BENCIC, BELINDA (SUI) 11

8 MERTENS, ELISE (BEL) 15

9 BERTENS, KIKI (NED) 17

10 KONTA, JOHANNA (GBR) 20

11 VONDROUSOVA, MARKETA (CZE) 21

12 RYBAKINA, ELENA (KAZ) 22

13 MARTIC, PETRA (CRO) 23

14 KEYS, MADISON (USA) 24

15 GAUFF, CORI (USA) 25

16 JABEUR, ONS (TUN) 26

17 RISKE, ALISON (USA) 28

18 KUDERMETOVA, VERONIKA (RUS) 30

19 KONTAVEIT, ANETT (EST) 31

20 PAVLYUCHENKOVA, ANASTASIA (RUS) 32

21 BADOSA, PAULA (ESP) 34

Main Draw Alternates

1 VEKIC, DONNA (CRO) 35

2 KASATKINA, DARIA (RUS) 36

3 WANG, QIANG (CHN) 39

4 KUZNETSOVA, SVETLANA (RUS) 40

5 ANISIMOVA, AMANDA (USA) 41