The 2018
Nürnberger Versicherungscup was a professional
tennis tournament played on
clay court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament.
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s. It was the 6th edition of the tournament, and part 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 in
Nuremberg, Germany, between 21 and 26 May 2018.
Points and prize money
Prize money
Singles main draw entrants
Seeds
* Rankings are as of May 14, 2018.
Other entrants
The following players received
wildcards into the singles main draw:
*
Katharina Hobgarski
*
Andrea Petkovic
*
Sloane Stephens
The following players using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:
*
Zheng Saisai
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Kristína Kučová
*
Mandy Minella
*
Nadia Podoroska
Nadia Natacha Podoroska (; born 10 February 1997) is an Argentine professional tennis player. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Podoroska has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, along with 14 singles titles and seven doubles titles on ...
*
Dejana Radanović
Dejana Radanović ( sr-cyr, Дејана Радановић; born 14 May 1996) is a Serbian tennis player.
Radanović has won ten singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 2 July 2018, she reached her best singles r ...
*
Fanny Stollár
Fanny Stollár (born 12 November 1998) is a Hungarian tennis player.
Stollár has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour and one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as one singles title and twelve doubles titles on the ITF Wo ...
*
Anna Zaja
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
*
Ana Bogdan → replaced by
Verónica Cepede Royg
*
Polona Hercog → replaced by
Christina McHale
Retirements
*
Irina-Camelia Begu
Irina-Camelia Begu (born 26 August 1990) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 22 in the world, in August 2016. Two years later, she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking, also No. 22. Begu ...
*
Sorana Cîrstea
Doubles main draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings as of May 14, 2018.
Other entrants
The following pairs received
wildcards into the doubles main draw:
*
Katharina Gerlach /
Lena Rüffer
*
Jule Niemeier /
Lara Schmidt
Champions
Singles
*
Johanna Larsson def.
Alison Riske, 7–6
(7–4), 6–4
Doubles
*
Demi Schuurs /
Katarina Srebotnik def.
Kirsten Flipkens /
Johanna Larsson, 3–6, 6–3,
0–7
References
External links
Official website
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2018 WTA Tour
2018
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2018 in German tennis
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