The Women’s Stuttgart Open is a WTA 500 tennis tournament that is played on indoor clay courts at the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany with the tournament being the longest-running women’s indoor tournament in Europe.

The Stuttgart tennis tournament is a popular event on the WTA tour as the players have voted it their favorite premier tournament at the WTA Tournament Awards on 10 separate occasions.

WTA Stuttgart Open 2024

Official Name: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Tour Level: WTA 500
Court Surface: Indoor Claycourt
Draw Size: 32 Singles, 16 Doubles
Prize Money: $780,637 (2023)

Dates

The 2024 WTA Stuttgart Open (also known as the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix) tennis tournament will take place from the 15th to the 21st of April 2024with the 2024 tournament being held in the same week as the tennis tournaments in Barcelona, Bucharest, and Munich.

Tickets

Tickets for the 2024 WTA tournament in Stuttgart are for sale on the tournament’s official website, with ticket prices starting at €20.

Players

The official entry list for the 2024 WTA 500 tournament in Stuttgart has not yet been released but in 2023, Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek were the top ranked players in the singles draw.

Other top players listed in the 2023 singles entry list were Coco Gauff, Ons Jabeur, and Emma Raducanu.

  • Aryna Sabalenka
  • Barbora Krejcikova
  • Beatriz Haddad Maia
  • Caroline Garcia
  • Coco Gauff
  • Daria Kasatkina
  • Donna Vekic
  • Ekaterina Alexandrova
  • Elena Rybakina
  • Emma Raducanu
  • Every Swiatek
  • Jelena Ostapenko
  • Jule Niemeier
  • Karolina Pliskova
  • Lyudmila Samsonova
  • Maria Sakkari
  • Martina Trevisan
  • Our Jabeur
  • Peter Kvitov
  • Qinwen Zheng
  • Tatjana Maria
  • Veronika Kudermetova

Schedule

The main draws of the 2024 WTA Stuttgart tennis tournament will start on Monday, the 15th of April 2024, with the finals being played on Sunday, the 21st of April 2024.

Date Round
Monday, 15 April 2024 1st Round
Tuesday, 16 April 2024 1st and 2nd Round
Wednesday, 17 April 2024 2nd and 3rd Round
Thursday, 18 April 2024 3rd Round
Friday, 19 April 2024 Quarterfinals
Saturday, 20 April 2024 Semifinals
Sunday, 21 April 2024 Finals

Draw

The draws for the 2024 singles and doubles tournaments in Stuttgart will be made a few days before the start of the tournament and will be available to view on the Official WTA Tour website.

Women’s Singles Draw: TBC

Women’s Singles Qualifying Draw: TBC

Women’s Doubles Draw: TBC

Prize Money and Ranking Points

The total financial commitment for the 2024 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix has yet to be confirmed in 2023 it was $780,637.

This was the total investment by tournament organizers and included marketing fees, prize money, and bonus pool contributions.

How the prize money and points were split for the 2023 tournament is detailed below.

Women’s Singles

The winner of the women’s singles tournament in 2023 received $120,150 and 470 points, while the runner-up won $74,161 and 305 points.

Performance $ – Payout Points
Winner $120,150 470
Finalist $74,161 305
Semifinalist $43,323 185
Quarterfinalist $21,075 100
2nd Round $11,500 55
1st Round $8,310 1

Women’s Doubles

The winners of the women’s doubles tournament in 2023 received $40,100 ($20,050 each) and 470 ranking pointswhile the runner-ups received $24,300 ($12,150 each) and 305 ranking points.

Performance $ – Per Team $ – Per Player Points
Winners $40,100 $20,050 470
Finalists $24,300 $12,150 305
Semifinalists $13,900 $6,950 185
Quarterfinalists $7,200 $3,600 100
1st Round $4,350 $2,175 1

Past Winners

Women’s Singles

Iga Swiatek defeated Aryna Sabalenka in the singles event 6-3, 6-4 in the 2023 singles final (see match highlights from the final below).

This was the third year in a row that Aryna Sabalenka was beaten in the final by a world number 1 after she lost to the then world number 1 Ashleigh Barty in the 2021 singles final and the current world number 1 Iga Swiatek in the 2022 singles final.

Martina Navratilova currently holds the record for most singles titles in Stuttgart with six titles to her name, followed by Martina Hingis and Tracy Austin with four titles each.

Below is a list of past winners and runner-ups in the singles event from 2012 to 2023. For a full list, check the official WTA Tour website.

Year Winner Runner Up Score in Final
2023 Every Swiatek Aryna Sabalenka 6-3, 6-4
2022 Every Swiatek Aryna Sabalenka 6-2, 6-2
2021 Ashleigh Barty Aryna Sabalenka 3–6, 6–0, 6–3
2020 N/A N/A N/A
2019 Peter Kvitov Anett Kontaveit 6–3, 7–6
2018 Karolina Pliskova CoCo Vandeweghe 7–6, 6–4
2017 Laura Siegemund Kristina Mladenovic 6–1, 2–6, 7–6
2016 Angelique Kerber Laura Siegemund 6–4, 6–0
2015 Angelique Kerber Caroline Wozniacki 3–6, 6–1, 7–5
2014 Maria Sharapova Ana Ivanovic 3–6, 6–4, 6–1
2013 Maria Sharapova Li Na 6–4, 6–3
2012 Maria Sharapova Victoria Azarenka 6-1, 6-4

Women’s Doubles

Demi Schuurs and Desirae Krawczyk are the defending champions in the doubles event after beating Giuliana Olmos and Nicole Melichar-Martinez 6-4, 6-1 in the 2023 doubles final.

Martina Navratilova currently holds the record for the most doubles titles with eight titles to her name.

Below is a list of past winners and runner-ups in the doubles event going back to 2012. For a full list, check the official WTA Tour website.

Year Winners Runners Up Score
2023 Demi Schuurs and Desirae Krawczyk Giuliana Olmos and Nicole Melichar-Martinez 6-4, 6-1
2022 Demi Schuurs and Desirae Krawczyk Coco Gauff and Zhang Shuai 6–3, 6–4
2021 Ashleigh Barty and Jennifer Brady Desirae Krawczyk and Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6–4, 5–7, 10–5
2020 N/A N/A N/A
2019 Mona Barthel and Anna-Lena Friedsam Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Šafářová 2–6, 6–3, 10–6
2018 Raquel Atawo and Anna-Lena Grönefeld Nicole Melichar and Květa Peschke 6–4, 6–7, 10–5
2017 Raquel Atawo and Jelena Ostapenko Abigail Spears and Katarina Srebotnik 6–4, 6–4
2016 Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza 2–6, 6–1, 10–6
2015 Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova Caroline Garcia and Katarina Srebotnik 6–4, 6–3
2014 Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci Cara Black and Sania Mirza 6–2, 6–3
2013 Mona Barthel and Sabine Lisicki Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sania Mirza 6–4, 7–5
2012 Iveta Benešová and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová Julia Görges and Anna-Lena Grönefeld 6–4, 7–5

Source: https://toomanyrackets.com/womens-stuttgart-open/



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