The 2021 WTA Lyon Open (also known as the Open 6ème Sens — Métropole de Lyon for sponsorship reasons) is a women's

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tournament played on indoor

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s. It is the second edition of the

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and an International tournament on the

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. It will take place at the Halle Tony Garnier in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

, France, from 1 to 7 March 2021.

Champions

Singles

Clara Tauson Clara Tauson (born 21 December 2002) is a Danish professional tennis player. Her career-high rankings are world No. 21 in singles, achieved on 3 March 2025 and No. 124 in doubles, on 16 June same year. Tauson has won three WTA Tour titles, all o ...

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Viktorija Golubic Viktorija Golubic (; ; born 16 October 1992) is a Swiss professional tennis player. On 28 February 2022, she reached her career-high singles WTA ranking of No. 35. On 17 April 2023, she peaked at No. 61 in the doubles rankings. She is the curre ...

6–4, 6–1. This was Tauson's first WTA singles title.

Doubles

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Arantxa Rus Arantxa Rus (; born 13 December 1990) is a Dutch professional tennis player. She won one WTA Tour singles title at the 2023 Hamburg European Open – Women's singles, 2023 Hamburg Open and four in doubles. Her biggest singles successes to date ...

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Eugenie Bouchard Eugenie "Genie" Bouchard (; , ; born February 25, 1994) is a Canadian professional tennis and pickleball player. At the 2014 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2014 Wimbledon Championships, she became the first Canadian-born player repr ...

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 ...

3–6, 7–5, 0–7

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

¹Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money.
*per team

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings as of 22 February 2021.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw: *

Clara Burel Clara Burel (; born 24 March 2001) is a French professional tennis player. On 10 June 2024, she peaked at No. 42 in the WTA singles rankings. Career Juniors In 2018, Burel reached the junior singles final at three major events, the Australian ...

Harmony Tan Harmony Tan (born 11 September 1997) is a French professional tennis player. Tan has career-high WTA rankings of 90 in singles and 302 in doubles. She has won ten singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. Personal life Harmony ...

The following players received entry into the main draw using a protected ranking: *

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 ...

Vera Lapko Vera Valeryevna Lapko (; born 29 September 1998) is a Belarusian former professional tennis player. She won seven singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Magdalena Fręch Magdalena Fręch (; born 15 December 1997) is a Polish professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 22, achieved on 28 October 2024. On 8 August 2022, she peaked at No. 174 in the doubles WTA rankings, rankings. ...

Margarita Gasparyan Margarita Melikovna Betova (née Gasparyan; rus, Маргари́та Ме́ликовна Гаспаря́н, , mərɡɐˈrʲitə ɡəspɐˈrʲan, Ru-Margarita Gasparyan.ogg, ; born 1 September 1994) is a Russian inactive tennis player. Betov ...

Giulia Gatto-Monticone Giulia Gatto-Monticone (born 18 November 1987) is an Italian former tennis player. In February 2020, she reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 148, while her best WTA doubles ranking is 200, achieved in October 2014. Gatto-Monticon ...

Tereza Martincová Tereza Martincová (; born 24 October 1994) is a Czech professional tennis player. Martincová has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour and four singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 14 February 2022, she reached her best WTA singles ranking ...

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament *

Zarina Diyas Zarina Diyas (; ; born 18 October 1993) is a Kazakh professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked as high as No. 31 by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA. Diyas has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, at the 2017 Japan Women' ...

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Katarzyna Kawa Katarzyna Kawa (; born 17 November 1992) is a Polish professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are No. 64 in doubles, set on 10 October 2022, and No. 112 in singles, achieved on 9 November 2020. She has won five WTA Challenger d ...

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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Stefanie Vögele Stefanie Vögele (born 10 March 1990) is a Swiss professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 42 on 11 November 2013. Her highest WTA rankings, WTA ranking in doubles is 100, which she reached on 5 January ...

Coco Gauff Cori Dionne "Coco" Gauff ( ; born March 13, 2004) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of world No. 2 in singles and of world No. 1 in doubles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Gauff has won ten career ...

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Irina Bara Irina Maria Bara (born 18 March 1995) is a professional tennis player from Romania. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 104, achieved on 18 April 2022. On 13 May 2019, she peaked at No. 56 in the WTA doubles rankings. She won her ...

Kaja Juvan Kaja Juvan (born 25 November 2000) is a Slovenian tennis player. She turned professional on 17 October 2016 and has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 58, achieved on 6 June 2022. On 18 July 2022, she peaked at No. 97 in the WTA doubles ...

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Katarina Zavatska Katarina Vitaliivna Zavatska (; born 5 February 2000) is a Ukrainian tennis player. Zavatska has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 103, achieved February 2020, and a best doubles ranking of 337, reached on 14 June 2021. She has won nine ...

Marta Kostyuk Marta Olehivna Kostyuk ( ; born 28 June 2002) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 16 in singles, achieved on 17 June 2024 and No. 27 in doubles, achieved on 8 May 2023. On the WTA Tour, she h ...

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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 ...

Kateryna Kozlova Kateryna Baindl (, née Kozlova ; born 20 February 1994) is a Ukrainian inactive tennis player. On 19 February 2018, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 62. On 22 October 2012, she peaked at No. 139 in the doubles rankings. Ko ...

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Océane Dodin Océane Dodin (, born 24 October 1996) is a French professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 46 and in doubles of No. 375 in 2017, by the WTA. Dodin has won one WTA Tour singles title at the 2016 Coupe B ...

Nadia Podoroska Nadia Natacha Podoroska (; born 10 February 1997) is an Argentine professional tennis player. On 12 July 2021, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 36, and on 18 October 2021, she peaked at No. 62 in the WTA doubles rankings. Podor ...

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Wang Xiyu Wang Xiyu (; ; born 28 March 2001) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 49 on 9 January 2023, and a best doubles ranking of No. 98 on 19 August 2024. Wang became junior world No. 1 on ...

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings as of February 8, 2021.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: *

Loïs Boisson Loïs Boisson (; born 16May 2003) is a French professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 65 by the WTA, achieved on 9 June 2025. Her best result is reaching the semifinals of a Grand Slam event at the 2025 F ...

Juline Fayard Juline Fayard (born 10 May 2003) is a French tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles ...

Amandine Hesse Amandine Hesse (; born 16 January 1993) is a French professional tennis player. Hesse has won six singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 9 May 2016, she reached her career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 154. On 2 May ...

Elixane Lechemia Elixane Lechemia (born 3 September 1991) is a French tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 343 in singles, achieved on 3 April 2017, and of No. 65 in doubles, set on 7 March 2022. Lechemia has won one doubles title on the WTA T ...

The following pairs received entry into the doubles main draw using protected rankings: *

Aliaksandra Sasnovich Aliaksandra Aliaksandraŭna Sasnovich (born 22 March 1994) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. She achieved her best singles ranking of world No. 29 on 19 September 2022, and peaked at No. 39 in the WTA doubles rankings on 23 August 2021 ...

Alexandra Panova Alexandra Alexandrovna Panova (; born 2 March 1989) is a Russian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. She has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of world No. 30 achieved on 28 October 2024. She peaked at No. 71 in singles on 3 ...

Rosalie van der Hoek Rosalie van der Hoek (born 16 December 1994) is an inactive Dutch tennis player. Van der Hoek, who prefers clay courts, has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 83, achieved on 18 October 2021. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at t ...

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament *

Natela Dzalamidze Natela Georgiyevna Dzalamidze (, , ; born 27 February 1993) is a Russian-born Georgian inactive tennis player. On 16 May 2022, she reached her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 43. Dzalamidze has won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. S ...

Cornelia Lister Cornelia Lister (born 26 May 1994) is a Swedish former tennis player and padel player. Lister won one singles title and 25 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Cir ...

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References

External links

Official website
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