The 2019 Kremlin Cup (also known as the 2019
VTB
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Kremlin Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a professional
tennis
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tournament played on indoor
hard court
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s. It was the 30th edition of the
Kremlin Cup
The Kremlin Cup () is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts, which was suspended in 2022. It was part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour and was a Premier Tournament on the WTA Tour. It was held annually at the ...
for the men and the 24th edition for the women. The tournament was part of the
ATP Tour 250 series of the
2019 ATP Tour
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, and of the
Premier Series of the
2019 WTA Tour
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.
It took place at the
Ice Palace Krylatskoye
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in Moscow, Russia, from 14 October through 20 October 2019.
Points and prize money
Point distribution
Prize money
*per team
ATP singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
* Rankings are as of October 7, 2019
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Alen Avidzba
Alen Akhrovich Avidzba (; born 24 February 2000) is a Russian tennis
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Evgeny Donskoy
Evgeny Evgenyevich Donskoy ( rus, Евге́ний Евге́ньевич Донско́й, , jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj dɐnˈskoj; born 9 May 1990) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 65, achieved o ...
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Alibek Kachmazov
Alibek Muratovich Kachmazov ( rus, Алибек Муратович Качмазов, , ɐlʲɪˈbʲek kɐˈt͡ɕmazəf, links=no; born 17 August 2002) is a Russian tennis player.
He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 161 achieve ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Artem Dubrivnyy
Artem Olegovich Dubrivnyy (; born 31 January 1999) is a Russian tennis player.
Dubrivnyy has a career high ATP singles ranking of 409 achieved on 23 September 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 456 achieved on 7 October 2019 ...
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Damir Džumhur
Damir Džumhur ( ; born 20 May 1992) is a Bosnian professional tennis player. His career-best singles ATP ranking of World No. 23, achieved on 2 July 2018, makes him the highest-ranked tennis player from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is currently Bos ...
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Egor Gerasimov
Yegor Alekseyevich Gerasimov () or Yahor Alyakseyevich Herasimaŭ (; born 11 November 1992 in Minsk) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 65, which he achieved on 24 February 2020. He ...
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Lukáš Rosol
Lukáš Rosol (; born 24 July 1985) is a Czech former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 26, achieved on 22 September 2014.
His first notable victory was against world No. 8, Jürgen Melzer, at the 2011 Fre ...
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
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Nikola Milojević
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
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Daniil Medvedev
Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev ( rus, Даниил Сергеевич Медведев, p=dənʲɪˈil sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 11 February 1996) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as the List of ...
ATP doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings are as of October 7, 2019
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
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Savriyan Danilov
Savriyan Alexeyevich Danilov (; born 3 June 2000) is a Russian tennis player.
Danilov has a career high ATP singles ranking of 556 achieved on 25 November 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 658 achieved on 11 November 2019.
...
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Roman Safiullin
Roman Rishatovich Safiullin (born 7 August 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player. Safiullin has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 36 achieved on 8 January 2024, and in doubles of world No. 151 achieved on 19 August 2024.
P ...
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Evgeny Donskoy
Evgeny Evgenyevich Donskoy ( rus, Евге́ний Евге́ньевич Донско́й, , jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj dɐnˈskoj; born 9 May 1990) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 65, achieved o ...
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Andrey Rublev
Andrey Andreyevich Rublev (; born 20 October 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 5 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in September 2021 ...
WTA singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
* Rankings are as of October 7, 2019
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Belinda Bencic
Belinda Bencic (; born 10 March 1997) is a Swiss professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 4 which she achieved in February 2020. Bencic has won nine career singles titles, including Tennis at the 2020 ...
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Anna Kalinskaya
Anna Nikolayevna Kalinskaya ( rus, Анна Николаевна Калинская, , ˈanːə kɐˈlʲinskəjə, Ru-Anna_Kalinskaya.ogg; born 2 December 1998) is a Russian professional tennis player. She reached career-high rankings of world ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Jana Čepelová
Jana Čepelová (; born 29 May 1993) is a Slovak former professional tennis player.
Čepelová won seven singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 12 May 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 50. On 18 Ma ...
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Kirsten Flipkens
Kirsten "Flipper" Flipkens (; born 10 January 1986) is a Belgian tennis coach and a former professional player. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 13 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Flipkens has won one singles title on the WTA T ...
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Varvara Gracheva
Varvara Andreyevna Gracheva ( rus, Варвара Андреевна Грачёва, , vɐrˈvarə ɡrɐˈtɕɵvə, Ru-Varvara Gracheva.ogg; born 2 August 2000) is a Russian-born French professional tennis player.
Gracheva has a career-high W ...
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Kaia Kanepi
Kaia Kanepi (; born 10 June 1985) is an Estonian inactive professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high ranking of world No. 15 on 20 August 2012 and has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour.
Described as a 'resident Grand Slam up ...
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
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Simona Halep
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Ons Jabeur
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Johanna Konta
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Svetlana Kuznetsova
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Anett Kontaveit
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Anastasia Potapova
Anastasia Sergeyevna Potapova. (born 30 March 2001) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 21 by the WTA rankings, WTA, achieved on 19 June 2023, and a doubles ranking of world No. 40, reached on 5 ...
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Petra Kvitová
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Polona Hercog
Polona Hercog (, born 20 January 1991) is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are 35 in singles and 56 in doubles. She has won five titles on the WTA Tour, three in singles and two in doubles. Hercog also has had ...
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Garbiñe Muguruza
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Kristina Mladenovic
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She is a nine-time Grand Slam ...
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Markéta Vondroušová
Markéta Vondroušová (; born 28 June 1999) is a Czech professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 6 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA. Vondroušová has won two singles titles, including the 2023 Wimbledon Champio ...
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Veronika Kudermetova
Veronika Eduardovna Kudermetova (born 24 April 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player.
She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9, achieved on 24 October 2022, and a best WTA doubles ranking of No. 2, reached on 6 June 2022. In ...
WTA doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings are as of October 7, 2019
Other entrants
The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:
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Alina Charaeva
Alina Alekseevna Charaeva (; born 27 May 2002) is a Russian tennis player.
Charaeva has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of world No. 276, achieved on 5 August 2024. She also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 227, achieved on 7 M ...
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Sofya Lansere
Sofya Yevgenyevna Lansere ( rus, Софья Евгеньевна Лансере, , ˈsofʲɪ̯ə ɫən⁽ʲ⁾sʲɪˈrɛ; born 29 September 2000) is a Russian tennis player.
She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 200, achieved on 4 D ...
Champions
Men's singles
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Andrey Rublev
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Adrian Mannarino
Adrian Mannarino (born 29 June 1988) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 17, attained on 29 January 2024. He has won five ATP Tour singles titles, three on hardcourt and two on grass.
Te ...
, 6–4, 6–0
Women's singles
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Belinda Bencic
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Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Anastasia Sergeyevna "Nastia" Pavlyuchenkova (; born 3 July 1991) is a Russian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 11 on 8 November 2021. Pavlyuchenkova has won twelve singles titles ...
, 3–6, 6–1, 6–1
Men's doubles
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Marcelo Demoliner
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He won hi ...
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Matwé Middelkoop
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He has won 14 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, most notably the 2022 Rotterdam Open alongside Robin Haase, and reached a career high dou ...
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Simone Bolelli
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Andrés Molteni
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, 6–1, 6–2
Women's doubles
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Shuko Aoyama
is a Japanese professional tennis player who specializes in doubles.
Aoyama turned professional after graduating from Waseda University. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 182, on 9 February 2015, and a doubles ranking of ...
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Ena Shibahara
is an American-born Japanese professional tennis player who specializes in doubles.
She reached her career-high rankings of world No. 4 in doubles and No. 119 in singles. Shibahara has won eleven doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including two W ...
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Kirsten Flipkens
Kirsten "Flipper" Flipkens (; born 10 January 1986) is a Belgian tennis coach and a former professional player. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 13 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Flipkens has won one singles title on the WTA T ...
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Bethanie Mattek-Sands
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, 6–2, 6–1
References
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2019
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Kremlin Cup
The Kremlin Cup () is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts, which was suspended in 2022. It was part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour and was a Premier Tournament on the WTA Tour. It was held annually at the ...
Kremlin Cup
The Kremlin Cup () is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts, which was suspended in 2022. It was part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour and was a Premier Tournament on the WTA Tour. It was held annually at the ...
Kremlin Cup
The Kremlin Cup () is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts, which was suspended in 2022. It was part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour and was a Premier Tournament on the WTA Tour. It was held annually at the ...
2019 in Russian sport
October 2019 sports events in Russia