The 2019
Nürnberger Versicherungscup was a professional
tennis tournament played on outdoor
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 7th edition of the tournament, and part of the
2019 WTA Tour
The 2019 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2019 tennis season. The 2019 WTA Tour calendar was composed of the Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by ...
. It took place in
Nuremberg, Germany, from 20 to 25 May 2019. It was the last edition of the tournament in Nuremberg.
Points and prize money
Prize money
Singles main draw entrants
Seeds
* Rankings are as of May 13, 2019.
Other entrants
The following players received
wildcards into the singles main draw:
*
Anna-Lena Friedsam
*
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (born 27 June 1985) is a Russian inactive professional tennis player. She is a two-time major singles champion, winning the 2004 US Open and 2009 French Open, and finishing runner-up at two other majors. I ...
*
Sabine Lisicki
Sabine Katharina Lisicki (; born 22 September 1989) is a German professional tennis player.
Lisicki turned professional in 2006, and her breakthrough came in 2009 when she reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Championships, and also won h ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Çağla Büyükakçay
*
Jana Čepelová
*
Quirine Lemoine
*
Jule Niemeier
*
Laura-Ioana Paar
Laura Ioana Paar (née Andrei; born 31 May 1988) is a Romanian tennis player.
She has career-high WTA rankings of 190 in singles, achieved on 31 January 2021, and 113 in doubles, set on 9 March 2020. Laura has won one doubles title on the WTA To ...
*
Nina Stojanović
Withdrawals
*
Katie Boulter → replaced by
Paula Ormaechea
*
Margarita Gasparyan → replaced by
Misaki Doi
*
Julia Görges
Julia Görges (born 2 November 1988) is a German former professional tennis player. A former top-ten singles player, she was ranked as high as No. 9 in the world on 20 August 2018, and was ranked inside the top 15 in doubles, peaking at world No ...
→ replaced by
Kristýna PlÃÅ¡ková
*
Polona Hercog → replaced by
Sorana Cîrstea
*
Taylor Townsend → replaced by
Vitalia Diatchenko
Retirements
*
Dalila Jakupović
Dalila Jakupović (born 24 March 1991) is a Slovenian tennis player of Bosnian descent.
Jakupović to date has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour along with two WTA Challenger doubles titles. She also has won five singles and ten doubles ...
(viral illness)
*
Vera Lapko (cramping)
Doubles main draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings as of May 13, 2019.
Other entrants
The following pairs received
wildcards into the doubles main draw:
*
Katharina Gerlach /
Julia Wachaczyk
*
Katharina Hobgarski /
Jule Niemeier
The following pair received entry as alternates:
*
Akgul Amanmuradova /
Valentina Ivakhnenko
Valentina Yuryevna Ivakhnenko (russian: Валентина Юрьевна Ивахненко; born 27 June 1993) is a Russian former professional tennis player.
On 30 July 2018, she reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 167, whilst h ...
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
*
Anna-Lena Grönefeld
Champions
Singles
*
Yulia Putintseva def.
Tamara Zidanšek, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2
Doubles
*
Gabriela Dabrowski /
Xu Yifan def.
Sharon Fichman /
Nicole Melichar 4–6, 7–6
(7–5),
0–5
References
External links
Official website
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2019 WTA Tour
2019
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2019 in German tennis
Nürnberger Versicherungscup