PREVIEW NOTES: BGL BNP LUXEMBOURG, LUXEMBOURG | OCTOBER 15 – 20, 2018 | USD $250,000 INTERNATIONAL EVENT

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SAP Analytics for Media is an online portal that provides real-time data and insights to media during every WTA event and across all devices. Please email [email protected] to request your individual login to grant access to SAP Tennis Analytics for Media. LUXEMBOURG QUICK FACTS Main draw dates: Monday, October 15 – 20, 2018 Singles Final: Saturday, October 20, 3:00pm Doubles Final: Saturday, October 20, 12:30pm TBD Venue: CK Sportcenter Status: International event Staging: Tournament’s 23rd year Draw sizes: 32 singles / 16 doubles teams / 32 singles qualifying Surface: DecoTurf based on wood / Indoors Total prize money: USD $250,000 Tennis Ball: Dunlop Fort TP All Court 2017 Singles Final: Carina Witthoeft (GER) d. (PUR) 6-3 7-5 2017 Doubles Final: Kerkhove/Marozava (NEL/BLR) d. Bouchard/Flipkens (CAN/BEL) 6-7(4) 64 10-6

PRIZE MONEY AND RANKING POINT BREAKDOWN

SINGLES USD $ RANK POINTS DOUBLES USD $ RANK POINTS Winner 43,000 280 Winner 12,300 280 Runner-Up 21,400 180 Runner-Up 6,400 180 Semifinalist 11,500 110 Semifinalist 3,435 110 Quarterfinalist 6,175 60 Quarterfinalist 1,820 60 Round of 16 3,400 30 Round of 16 960 1 Round of 32 2,100 1

PREVIOUS CHAMPIONS AND RUNNERS-UP YEAR CHAMPION RUNNER-UP 2017 Carina Witthoeft Monica Puig 2016 Petra Kvitova 2015 2014 Annika Beck Barbora Strycova 2013 Annika Beck

MAIN DRAW QUICK HITS (excludes qualifiers) Singles wildcards: (LUX), (FRA), Garbine Muguruza (ESP) Youngest singles player: , 18 years old (May 15, 2000) Oldest singles player: Mandy Minella, 32 years old (November 22, 1985) Singles withdrawals: , Sorana Cirstea, Monica Puig, , Tamara Zidansek, Main draw debutantes: , Katerina Siniakova, Timea Babos, , , , Viktoria Kuzmova,

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PREVIEW NOTES: BGL BNP LUXEMBOURG OPEN LUXEMBOURG, LUXEMBOURG | OCTOBER 15 – 20, 2018 | USD $250,000 INTERNATIONAL EVENT

TOURNAMENT TALKING POINTS • Former runner-up (2010) Julia Goerges returns to Luxembourg as the top seed this week. • No. 2 seed Muguruza playing Luxembourg as last tournament in lead up to Hengquin Life WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai • Local player Mandy Minella is a main draw wildcard recipient and playing her home tournament for the first time since giving birth. • One To Watch – Dayana Yastremska. The eighteen-year-old Ukrainian is set to play her maiden final in Hong Kong – her only previous quarterfinal prior to this was 2017 Istanbul. Yastremska could face No. 2 seed Muguruza in the second round.

TOP FOUR SEEDS’ PREVIOUS TOURNAMENT HISTORY

PLAYER TOURNAMENT HISTORY* WIN-LOSS WIN % [1] Julia Goerges (GER) Runner-up (1): 2010 (l. Vinci) 8-5 0.61 SF (1): 2011 (l. Azarenka) [2] Garbine Muguruza (ESP) R32 (1): 2012 (l. Petkovic) 0-1 0

[3] Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) R16 (2): 2010 (l. Goerges) 2-4 .5 R16 (2): 2009 (l. Peer) [4] Camila Giorgi (ITA) Tournament Debut - -

*Not including qualifying results

COUNTRY BREAKDOWN Excluding qualifiers, a total of 17 countries are represented in the main draw:

Belarus (1) Vera Lakpo Belgium (2) , Croatia (1) Donna Vekic Czech Republic (1) Katerina Siniakova Germany (3) Julia Goerges, , France (2) Fiona Ferro, Hungary (1) MariaTimea SakkariBabos Italy (1) Camila Giorgi GermanyLuxembourg (1) (1) MandyAna Bogdan, Minella Monica Niculescu Romania (1) MonicaNaomiEkaterina Osaka Niculescu Makarova Russia (2) AleksandraZarinaAnna Blinkova, Diyas Krunic Margarita Gasparyan GreeceSlovakia (1) (2 ) JelenaAnna Karolina Ostapenko Schmiedlova, Viktoria Kuzmova Romania Slovenia (1)(2) RussiaHongSweden Kong (1) (1) (2) JapanSwitzerland (1) (1) Stefanie Voegele KazakhstanSpain (2) (1) Garbine Muguruza, Carla Suarez Navarro LatviaUkraine (1) (2 ) Kateryna Kozlova, Dayana Yastremska

Serbia (1) Slovakia (2) Poland (1) Romania (1)

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