WTA Open de Angers

The Open de Angers is a WTA 125 tennis tournament that is played on indoor hard courts in Angers, France.

The first WTA 125 tournament in Angers was played in 2021, with Vitalia Diatchenko winning the singles and Tereza Mihalíkova and Greet Minnen winning the doubles.

I have put together the below guide so you can find out more about the draw, tickets, schedule, players, and prize fund for the 2023 tournament in Angers.

WTA Angers 2023

Dates

The 2023 WTA Angers 125 tournament will be held from the 4th to the 10th of December 2023.

The 2023 tournament will be played in the week before the Open BLS de Limoges in Limoges, France, and the week after the Andorra Open in Andorra la Vella.

Tickets

Tickets for the 2023 tournament in Angers will be sold through the tournament’s official website or at the Arena Loire ticket office from the 4th of December 2023.

2023 ticket prices start from €2 for children and from €5 for adults.

Players

The official entry list for the 2023 tournament in Angers has now been released and below is a selection of players who will participate in the 2023 singles tournament.

• Alizé Cornet
• Clara Burel
• Clara Tauson 
• Cristina Bucșa
• Dayana Yastremska
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Harmony Tan
• Kaia Kanepi
• Mona Barthel
• Océane Dodin 

Schedule

Below is the expected schedule for the 2023 tournament in Angers, with the singles final being played on Sunday, the 10th of December 2023.

Draw

The draw for the 2023 singles and doubles tournaments in Angers is available to view on the official WTA Tour website (see links below).

Singles Qualifying Draw: View

Singles Main Draw: View

Doubles Draw: View

In 2023, there will be 32 players in the singles draw, while in the doubles draw there will be a total of 8 teams.

Singles matches will be the best of three sets with three full sets being played if necessary.

Doubles matches will also be best of three sets with a 10-point championship tie break being played in the third set if the score is one set all.

Prize Money and Points

Similar to other WTA 125 tournaments in Europe, the total financial commitment (including prize money) for the 2023 tournament in Angers will be €100,000.

A breakdown of how the prize money is to be split for the 2023 WTA 125 Angers tournament is detailed below.

Women’s Singles

The winner of the singles in 2023 will receive €13,040 and 160 points, while the runner-up will win €7,390 and 95 points, while layers losing in the 1st round of singles will win €1,086 and 1 ranking point.

Women’s Doubles

The winners of the doubles in 2023 will receive €5,220 (€2,660 each) and 160 points, while the runners-up will win €2,016 (€1,008 each) and 95 points.

Teams losing in the quarterfinals of the doubles will receive €1,740 (€870 each) and 1 ranking point.

Past Winners and Runners Up

Women’s Singles

The American Alycia Parks won the 2022 Women’s Singles event, defeating Anna-Lena Friedsam 6–4, 4–6, 6–4 in the final.

Women’s Doubles

Alycia Parks and Zhang Shuai are the current women’s doubles champions after defeating Miriam Kolodziejova and Marketa Vondrousova 6–2, 6–2 in the 2022 doubles final.