The 2021

Open Angers Arena Loire The Open Angers Arena Loire is a WTA 125-level professional women's tennis tournament. It takes place on indoor hardcourts at Arena Loire Trélazé in the city of Angers in France. Nicolas Mahut Nicolas Pierre Armand Mahut (; born 21 January ...

was a professional

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tournament played on indoor

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. It was the 1st edition of the tournament and part of the

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season, offering a total of $115,000 in prize money. It took place in

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, France from 6 to 12 December 2021.

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 29 November 2021.

Other entrants

The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: *

Elsa Jacquemot Elsa Jacquemot (born 3 May 2003) is a French tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 113 in singles achieved on 9 June 2025 and No. 325 in doubles. Career 2020: WTA and Major debuts, Roland Garros Junior champion Jacquemot ...

Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva (born 9 August 2005) is an Andorran professional tennis player. At the age of 14, she won the 2020 Australian Open – Girls' singles, 2020 Australian Open girls' singles title. On 14 November 2022, she reached her b ...

* Mallaurie Noël *

Jessika Ponchet Jessika Ponchet (born 26 September 1996) is a French professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 104 in singles, achieved on 9 September 2024, and No. 101 in doubles, reached on 28 November 2022. Career Ponchet did ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Isabella Shinikova Isabella Shinikova () (born 25 October 1991) is a Bulgarian tennis player. On 20 February 2017, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 133. On 20 May 2019, she peaked at No. 159 in the WTA rankings, WTA doubles rankings. She also ...

Natalia Vikhlyantseva Natalia Konstantinovna Vikhlyantseva (Russian: Наталья Константиновна Вихлянцева; born 16 February 1997) is a former Russian tennis player. Her favourite court surface is grass. Vikhlyantseva has career-high rankin ...

Daniela Vismane Daniela Adrija Vismane (born 10 August 2000) is a tennis player from Latvia. She has career-high WTA rankings of 228 in singles, achieved on 16 May 2022, and No. 161 in doubles, achieved on 24 June 2024. On the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF ...

Yuan Yue Yuan Yue (; ; born 25 September 1998) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 36 in singles, set in May 2024, and No. 60 in doubles, achieved June 2025. Career 2018: WTA Tour debut Yuan made her ...

The following players received entry as lucky losers: *

Vitalia Diatchenko Vitalia Anatolyevna Diatchenko ( rus, Виталия Анатольевна Дьяченко, , vʲɪˈtalʲɪjə dʲjɪˈtɕenkə, Ru-Vitalia_Diatchenko.ogg; born 2 August 1990) is a Russian tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is wo ...

* Martina Di Giuseppe

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament *

Mihaela Buzărnescu Mihaela Buzărnescu (born 4 May 1988) is a Romanian tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 20, achieved on 6 August 2018. Her best doubles ranking of world No. 24, she reached on 22 October 2018. She won one singles tit ...

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Mariam Bolkvadze Mariam Bolkvadze ( ka, მარიამ ბოლქვაძე, tr, ; born 1 January 1998) is a tennis player from Georgia. On 7 March 2022, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 151, and on 21 March 2022, she peaked at No. ...

Alizé Cornet Alizé Cornet (; born 22 January 1990) is a French professional tennis player. She has won six singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circuit. ...

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Tamara Korpatsch Tamara Korpatsch (born 12 May 1995) is a German tennis player. She has a career-high singles WTA ranking of No. 71, achieved on 23 October 2023, and doubles ranking of No. 290, achieved on 21 October 2024. Korpatsch owns one singles title on the W ...

Jaqueline Cristian Jaqueline Adina Cristian (born 5 June 1998) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 49 in singles and No. 108 in doubles. She is currently the No. 1 Romanian player. Cristian has won one WTA 125 tit ...

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Ankita Raina Ankita Raina (born 11 January 1993) is an Indian tennis player. Since 2018, she has regularly been India's number one female player in singles and doubles. Raina has won one title on the WTA Tour and one WTA 125 tournaments, WTA 125 tournament ...

Olga Danilović Olga Danilović ( sr-Cyrl, Олга Даниловић, ; born 23 January 2001) is a Serbian professional tennis player. On 5 May 2025, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 33. On 24 April 2023, she peaked at No. 104 in the WTA double ...

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Leonie Küng Leonie Küng (born 21 October 2000) is a Swiss tennis player. As a qualifier, she reached the singles final at the Junior Wimbledon Championships in 2018. Küng has career-high WTA rankings of 144 in singles, achieved on 14 September 2020, and ...

Anhelina Kalinina Anhelina Serhiyivna Kalinina ( ; born 7 February 1997) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. On 22 May 2023, she reached her career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 25. She peaked at No. 92 in the doubles rankings in January 2025. She has ...

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Jule Niemeier Jule Niemeier (born 12 August 1999) is a German professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 61, achieved on 7 November 2022. Career 2018–2019: WTA debut She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut as a wildcar ...

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Ylena In-Albon Ylena In-Albon (born 6 March 1999) is a Swiss tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 110 in singles, achieved on 6 June 2022, and world No. 225 in doubles, set on 3 February 2020. Career In-Albon made her main-draw debut on the WTA ...

Viktoriya Tomova Viktoriya Konstantinova Tomova (, born 25 February 1995) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 46 on 29 July 2024. Her best doubles ranking is No. 254, achieved on 11 August 2014. Tomo ...

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Anna Blinkova Anna Vladimirovna Blinkova ( rus, Анна Владимировна Блинкова, , ˈanːə blʲɪnˈkovə, Ru-Anna Blinkova.ogg; born 10 September 1998) is a Russian professional tennis player. On 7 August 2023, she reached her best single ...

Dayana Yastremska Dayana Oleksandrivna Yastremska (; born 15 May 2000) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 21 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, and No. 82 in doubles, both achieved in January 2020. ...

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Maryna Zanevska Maryna Volodymyrivna Zanevska (; born 24 August 1993) is a Ukrainian-born Belgian former professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 62, achieved on 23 May 2022, and a WTA doubles ranking of 86, reached on 16 ...

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Julia Grabher Julia Grabher (born 2 July 1996) is an Austrian professional tennis player. On 26 June 2023, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 54. On 29 August 2016, she peaked at No. 387 in the doubles rankings. Grabher has won one singles ti ...

Zheng Qinwen Zheng Qinwen ( zh, , p=Zhèng Qīnwén, s=郑钦文; IPA: ; born 8 October 2002) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 4 in women's singles by the WTA, achieved in June 2025, and is only the second Chinese pla ...

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Cristina Bucșa Cristina Bucsa Bucsa (; born 1 January 1998) is a Moldovan-born Spanish professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings, rankings of world No. 56 in singles, achieved on 15 January 2024, and No. 19 in doubles, achieved on 10 June ...

Doubles entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 29 November 2021.

Champions

Singles

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Zhang Shuai Zhang Shuai ( zh , s = 张帅 , p = Zhāng Shuài ; ; born 21 January 1989) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has a career-high doubles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 2, achieved in July 2022 and a singles ranking of No. 22 re ...

6–0, 6–4

Doubles

Tereza Mihalíková Tereza Mihalíková (; born 2 June 1998) is a Slovak tennis player. She has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 33 by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, reached on 17 March 2025. She has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour and three ...

Greet Minnen Greet Minnen (born 14 August 1997) is a Belgian tennis player. Minnen has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 59 in singles and No. 45 in doubles, achieved on 16 October 2023 and on 8 January 2024, respectively. Career Juniors In her last yea ...

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Monica Niculescu Monica Niculescu (born 25 September 1987) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA as high as No. 28 in singles and No. 11 in doubles. She has won three singles and 10 dou ...

Vera Zvonareva Vera Igorevna Zvonareva ( rus, Вера Игоревна Звонарёва, p=ˈvʲerə ˈiɡərʲɪvnə zvənɐˈrʲɵvə, a=Vera zvonareva.ogg; born 7 September 1984) is a Russian former professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ran ...

4–6, 6–1, 0–8

References

External links

Official website
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