To kick off Australia's summer of tennis, the WTA will hold a WTA250 event in Melbourne that will feature some of the tour's best players and will be used as a tune-up for the
Australian Open.
The event will run from 04-01-2022 - 09-01-2022 and the field will be led by top seed
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. The Russian will be joined by four-time Grand Slam champion
Naomi Osaka, reigning US Open champion
Emma Raducanu and former World No.1
Simona Halep.
Below is the list of entrants.
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Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 11 11
Naomi Osaka 13 13
Jessica Pegula 18 18
Emma Raducanu 19 19
Simona Halep 20 20
Elise Mertens 21 21
Daria Kasatkina 26 26
Veronika Kudermetova 31 31
Camila Giorgi 33 34
Sara Sorribes Tormo 36 36
Jil Teichmann 37 37
Liudmila Samsonova 38 39
Sorana Cirstea 39 38
Viktorija Golubic 43 43
Clara Tauson 44 44
Ann Li 47 47
Tereza Martincova 48 48
Katerina Siniakova 49 49
Marta Kostyuk 50 50
Alison Riske 51 51
Anhelina Kalinina 52 52
Jasmine Paolini 53 53
Petra Martic 54 54
Madison Keys 56 56
Magda Linette 57 57
Alison Van Uytvanck 58 68
Madison Brengle 59 58
Shuai Zhang 60 62
Alizé Cornet 61 59
Irina-Camelia Begu 62 60
Mayar Sherif 63 61
Nuria Parrizas Diaz 66 65
Ana Konjuh 67 66
Anastasia Potapova 69 69
Anastasija Sevastova 70 70
Jaqueline Cristian 71 71
Kaia Kanepi 73 73
Caroline Garcia 74 74
Andrea Petkovic 75 76
Clara Burel 76 77
Varvara Gracheva 77 79
Amanda Anisimova 78 78
Saisai Zheng 79 80
Greet Minnen 80 75
Maryna Zanevska 82 81
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Alternates
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2 Beatriz Haddad Maia 83 82
3 Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 85 84
4 Elena-Gabriela Ruse 87 85
5 Rebecca Peterson 88 86
6 Vera Zvonareva 81 87
7 Lauren Davis 89 88
8 Oceane Dodin 91 90
9 Anna Bondar 92 91
10 Aliaksandra Sasnovich 107 92
11 Kristina Mladenovic 86 93
12 Bernarda Pera 93 94
13 Claire Liu 94 95
14 Panna Udvardy 95 96
15 Danka Kovinic 96 97
16 Astra Sharma 98 99
17 Dayana Yastremska 99 100
18 Xinyu Wang 101 102
19 Zarina Diyas 102 103
20 Magdalena Frech 106 104