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2018 Monterrey Open

women's tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ50384160
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The 2018 Monterrey Open, also known as the Abierto GNP Seguros for sponsorship reasons, was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 10th edition of the Monterrey Open and an International tournament on the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the Club Sonoma in Monterrey, Mexico, from 2 April until 8 April 2018. Firsts-seeded Garbiñe Muguruza won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

Garbiñe Muguruza defeating Tímea Babos, 3–6, 6–4, 6–3

It was Muguruza's only singles title of the year and the 6th of her career.

Doubles

Naomi Broady / Sara Sorribes Tormo defeating Desirae Krawczyk / Giuliana Olmos, 3–6, 6–4, [10–8]

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

1 Rankings as of 19 March 2018.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

Victoria Rodriguez

Ana Sofía Sánchez

Renata Zarazúa

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Usue Maitane Arconada

Marie Bouzková

Valentini Grammatikopoulou

Dalila Jakupović

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Sabine Lisicki → replaced by Risa Ozaki

Monica Niculescu → replaced by Irina Falconi

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova → replaced by Carol Zhao

During the tournament

Lesia Tsurenko

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Rankings as of March 19, 2018.

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