The BGL BNP PARIBAS Luxembourg Open has announced the lineup for this year’s tournament taht is taking place from 15 - 22 October 2016 at Kockelscheuer.
Wildcards were awarded to Luxembourg’s Mandy Minella (WTA 108) and Eleonora Molinaro (WTA 1168).
1 Petra KVITOVA [CZE]
2 Kiki BERTENS [NED]
3 Laura SIEGEMUND [GER]
4 Misaki DOI [JPN] - winner 2015
5 Caroline GARCIA [FRA]
6 Yanina WICKMAYER [BEL]
7 Eugenie BOUCHARD [CAN]
8 Annika BECK [GER] - finalist 2013, winner 2014
9 Andrea PETKOVIC [GER]
10 Anna-Lena FRIEDSAM [GER]
11 Johanna LARSSON [SWE]
12 Madison BRENGLE[USA]
13 Kristen FLIPKENS [BEL]
14 Monica NICULESCU [ROM] - finalist 2011, 2012
15 Pauline PARMENTIER [FRA]
16 Viktorija GOLUBIC [SUI]
17 Varvara LEPCHENKO [USA]
18 Tsvetana PIRONKOVA [BUL]
19 Caroline WOZNIACKI [DEN] - finalist 2008, winner 2013
20 Su-Wei HSIEH [TPE]
21 Sabine LISICKI [GER] - finalist 2009
22 Anna-Karolina SCHMIEDLOVA [SVK]
23 Sorana CIRSTEA [ROM]
The Luxembourg tournament will be held during Week 42, the same week as the Moscow tournament, with both hosting finals on the Saturday as the WTA Finals are being held the following week.The race point of the tournament will count towards the current year's race and the WTA finals. Also, the WTA will provide private jet service for any player that reaches the Singles Finals of Luxembourg and/or Moscow who has qualified as one of the Top 8 for the WTA Finals.
Photo by Jan McIntyre
