Former WTA Finals champion Elina Svitolina will lead the player field at the 2025 Open Capfinances Rouen Métropole. Grand Slam champions Emma Raducanu and Sofia Kenin will also compete in this WTA 250 event on clay, starting April 14. Bianca Andreescu, another Grand Slam winner, will participate in the qualifying rounds. It was announced on March 31 that Andreescu has received a wild card for the main draw.
This will be the first time competing in Rouen for all four players. Svitolina, Raducanu, and Kenin have shown strong performances in 2025 as they aim to climb back into the Top 10 rankings. Svitolina, a three-time major semifinalist, is currently ranked No. 22 and has reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open and Indian Wells this year. Raducanu, former US Open champion and currently No. 60, is expected to return to the Top 50 after reaching the Miami quarterfinals this week. Kenin, the 2020 Australian Open champion, is ranked No. 46 after making the Doha quarterfinals in February.
Andreescu, who won the 2019 US Open, is set to compete for the first time since reaching the Tokyo quarterfinals last October. The 24-year-old had to postpone the start of her 2025 season due to an emergency appendectomy. Andreescu had previously returned to the tour last May after a nine-month absence due to a back injury.
Alizé Cornet, a former world No. 11 who is returning to professional tennis after retiring at Roland Garros last year, has been granted a wild card, along with Caroline Garcia, the 2022 WTA Finals champion.
The Rouen tournament was a WTA 125 event in 2022 and 2023 before becoming a tour-level tournament in 2024. While defending champion Sloane Stephens is not participating this year, last year`s runner-up Magda Linette is on the entry list. Other notable players entered include Linda Noskova, a 2024 Australian Open quarterfinalist, former No. 3 Maria Sakkari, reigning Cleveland and Hobart champion McCartney Kessler, and French No. 1 Varvara Gracheva.
The main draw entry list also includes Elina Avanesyan, Wang Xinyu, Olga Danilovic, Marie Bouzkova, Moyuka Uchijima, Anhelina Kalinina, Katerina Siniakova, Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, Alycia Parks, Lucia Bronzetti, Sonay Kartal, Viktoriya Tomova, Ann Li, and Irina-Camelia Begu.
The top five alternates are Suzan Lamens, Jaqueline Cristian, Garcia, Kamilla Rakhimova, and Emiliana Arango.
Rupert Caldwell