LO 2022: No fewer than five top-20 players

The Libéma Open has a very strong schedule for women this year. The WTA 250 tournament starts with no less than five players in the top-20 of the world rankings.

Olympic champion Belinda Bencic and Elise Mertens were among the first to confirm their participation. Now top-10 player Aryna Sabalenka join them. Danielle Collins played the final of the Australian Open this year. The American is the number nine of the world and would  make her debut in ‘s-Hertogenbosch but she withdrawn.

Elena Rybakina from Kazakhstan and Roland Garrosfinalist of 2021 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova were the other players in the best twenty of the world but Pavlyuchenkova is injured and can not play.

The players directly admitted to the Libéma Open:

Aryna Sabalenka WTA-8
Belinda Bencic WTA-14 Switzerland
Elena Rybakina WTA-17 Kazakhstan
Daria Kasatkina WTA-23
Tamara Zidansek WTA-24 Slovenia
Liudmila Samsonova WTA-25
Veronika Kudermetova WTA-28
Ekaterina Alexandrova WTA-31
Elise Mertens WTA- 33 Belgium
Anhelina Kalinina WTA-36 Ukraine
Shelby Rogers WTA-48 United States
Aliaksandra Sasnovich WTA-50
Alison van Uytvanck WTA-60 Belgium
Madison Brengle WTA-61 United States
Ann Li WTA-65 United States
Anna Kalinskaya WTA-75
Dayana Yastremska WTA-80 Ukraine

The main line-up is completed by four wildcards, six qualifiers and one special exempt. Libéma Open is a combined WTA/ATP event. Click here for the participants in the ATP tournament.

Participation Russian and Belarussian players
Given the situation in Ukraine, we understand that there are questions about the participation of Russian and Belarussian players in Libéma Open. Read the tournament statement here.