The 2018 Coupe Banque Nationale is a
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
tournament played on indoor
carpet courts. It was the 26th edition of the
Tournoi de Québec
The Tournoi de Québec (sponsored as Coupe Banque Nationale or known as National Bank Cup in English-language media) was a WTA Tour International level tennis tournament held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Held from 1993 to 2018, the tournament w ...
and part of the
WTA International tournaments
The WTA International Tournaments was a category for professional tennis tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association from the 2009 WTA Tour until 2020, which replaced the previous Tier III and Tier IV categories. The winner of a WTA Internatio ...
of the
2018 WTA Tour
The 2018 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2018 tennis season. The 2018 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, supervised by the International Tennis Fe ...
. It took place at the
PEPS de l'Université Laval in
Quebec City
Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Communauté métrop ...
,
Canada
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, from September 10 through September 16, 2018.
Points and prize money
Point distribution
Prize money
Singles main draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings are as of August 27, 2018
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
*
Françoise Abanda
Françoise Abanda (born February 5, 1997) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 111 on October 9, 2017 and her highest WTA doubles ranking of 197 on September 8, 2014. She achieved a career-high c ...
*
Leylah Annie Fernandez
*
Rebecca Marino
Rebecca Catherine Marino (born December 16, 1990) is a Canadian professional tennis player. On 11 July 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 38. Marino was awarded ''Female Player of the Year'' by Tennis Canada two times, in 2010 ...
The following player entered the singles main draw with a protected ranking:
*
Olga Govortsova
Olga Alekseyevna Govortsova ( be, Вольга Аляксееўна Гаварцова (Volha Alyakseyeuna Havartsova); ; born 23 August 1988) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. On 23 June 2008, she achieved a career-high singles ranki ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Marie Bouzková
Marie Bouzková (, born 21 July 1998) is a Czech professional tennis player. She attained her career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 26 on 31 October 2022. On 9 May 2022, she peaked at No. 24 in the WTA doubles rankings. So far, she has won one ...
*
Gabriela Dabrowski
*
Victoria Duval
Victoria Duval (born 30 November 1995) is an American professional tennis player.
Duval has won one singles title and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In August 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of No. 87. In 2012, she won ...
*
Sesil Karatantcheva
*
Tereza Martincová
*
Jessica Pegula
Jessica Pegula (born February 24, 1994) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA rankings in singles and doubles of world No. 3, both achieved on October 24, 2022. She has won two singles titles and five doubles title ...
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
*
Anna Blinkova → replaced by
Veronika Kudermetova
Veronika Eduardovna Kudermetova; ; tt-Cyrl, Вероника Эдуард кызы Кадыйрмәтова, translit=Veronika Edward qızı Qadıyrmätova. (born 24 April 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player.
She has a career-high si ...
*
Danielle Collins
Danielle Rose Collins (born December 13, 1993) is an American professional tennis player. She has reached career-high WTA rankings of No. 7 in singles and world No. 86 in doubles. Collins has won two WTA Tour singles titles, at the 2021 Palerm ...
→ replaced by
Naomi Broady
*
Olga Danilović → replaced by
Ons Jabeur
Ons Jabeur ( ar, أُنْس جَابِر, ʾUns Jābir, ; born 28 August 1994) is a Tunisian professional tennis player. She has a career high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of world No. 2 achieved on 27 June 2022. Jabeur is the curre ...
*
Vitalia Diatchenko → replaced by
Madison Brengle
Madison Brengle (born April 3, 1990) is an American professional tennis player. Her biggest success she had in early 2015, reaching her first WTA Tour final in January, followed by a fourth round major event appearance at the Australian Open. I ...
*
Margarita Gasparyan → replaced by
Beatriz Haddad Maia
*
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Anastasia Sergeyevna "Nastia" Pavlyuchenkova (russian: Анастаси́я "Настя" Серге́евна Павлюче́нкова; born 3 July 1991) is an inactive Russian professional tennis player. A junior prodigy, Pavlyuchenkova won ...
→ replaced by
Heather Watson
Heather Miriam Watson (born 19 May 1992) is a British professional tennis player. A former British No. 1, Watson has won nine titles over her career, including the mixed-doubles title at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships partnering Henri K ...
*
Peng Shuai → replaced by
Mona Barthel
*
Sachia Vickery
Sachia Vickery (born May 11, 1995) is an American professional tennis player. She first entered the top 100 in 2018 and eventually reached a career-high of No. 73 in the world in the WTA rankings.
Her best results on the WTA Tour came at the 2 ...
→ replaced by
Georgina García Pérez
Georgina García Pérez (; born 13 May 1992) is a Spanish tennis player.
She has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, plus 12 singles and 18 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 5 Novemb ...
Doubles main draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings are as of August 20, 2018
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
*
Leylah Annie Fernandez /
Sharon Fichman
*
Carson Branstine
Carson Branstine (born September 9, 2000) is a Canadian-American tennis player and model. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 468 on July 29, 2019 and a career-high ITF junior ranking of No. 4 on July 17, 2017. She won the 2017 ...
/
Rebecca Marino
Rebecca Catherine Marino (born December 16, 1990) is a Canadian professional tennis player. On 11 July 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 38. Marino was awarded ''Female Player of the Year'' by Tennis Canada two times, in 2010 ...
Champions
Singles
*
Pauline Parmentier def.
Jessica Pegula
Jessica Pegula (born February 24, 1994) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA rankings in singles and doubles of world No. 3, both achieved on October 24, 2022. She has won two singles titles and five doubles title ...
7–5, 6–2
Doubles
*
Asia Muhammad
Asia Muhammad (born April 4, 1991) is an American professional tennis player.
A doubles specialist, Muhammad has won seven doubles titles on the WTA Tour, four doubles titles on WTA Challenger Tour as well as 13 singles and 35 doubles titles on ...
/
Maria Sanchez
Maria Victoria Sanchez (born November 26, 1989) is a former tennis player from the United States. In July 2013, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 107. On 22 April 2019, she peaked at No. 51 of the WTA doubles ranking. Sa ...
def.
Darija Jurak /
Xenia Knoll
Xenia Knoll ( sr-Cyrl, Ксенија Кнол, Ksenija Knol; born 2 September 1992) is a Swiss tennis player.
Knoll has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour and one WTA 125 doubles title, as well as four singles and 30 doubles titles on the ...
6–4, 6–3
References
External links
Official website
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