The 2020 Lyon Open (WTA) (also known as the Open 6ème Sens — Métropole de Lyon for sponsorship reasons) was a women's
tennis tournament played on indoor
hard courts. It was the first edition of the
Lyon Open (WTA) and an
International tournament on the
2020 WTA Tour
The 2020 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2020 tennis season. The 2020 WTA Tour calendar originally comprised the Grand Slam tournaments supervised by the International ...
. It took place at the
Palais des Sports de Gerland in
Lyon, France, from 2 to 8 March 2020.
Singles main draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings as of 24 February 2020.
Other entrants
The following players received
wildcards into the main draw:
*
Clara Burel
*
Daria Kasatkina
*
Chloé Paquet
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:
*
Vera Lapko
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Irina Bara
*
Jaqueline Cristian
*
Magdalena Fręch
*
Anastasiya Komardina
*
Marta Kostyuk
*
Antonia Lottner
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
*
Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
*
Ekaterina Alexandrova → replaced by
Anna-Lena Friedsam
*
Paula Badosa → replaced by
Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove
*
Margarita Gasparyan → replaced by
Pauline Parmentier
*
Barbora Krejčíková → replaced by
Mandy Minella
*
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova → replaced by
Viktoriya Tomova
*
Kristýna Plíšková → replaced by
Tereza Martincová
;During the tournament
*
Jil Teichmann (right ankle injury)
Doubles main draw entrants
Seeds
* Rankings as of February 24, 2020.
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
*
Estelle Cascino /
Elsa Jacquemot
Elsa Jacquemot (born 3 May 2003) is a French tennis player.
She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 171 in singles, achieved June 2022 and 325 in doubles, reached on 19 September 2022.
She won the 2020 French Open – Girls' singles, girls' singl ...
*
Chloé Paquet /
Pauline Parmentier
Champions
Singles
*
Sofia Kenin def.
Anna-Lena Friedsam, 6–2, 4–6, 6–4
Doubles
*
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 ...
/
Julia Wachaczyk def.
Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove /
Bibiane Schoofs, 7–5, 6–4
References
External links
Official website
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