Former WTA Finals champion Elina Svitolina is leading the list of participants for the 2025 Open Capfinances Rouen Métropole tournament. Grand Slam winners Emma Raducanu and Sofia Kenin will also be competing in this WTA 250 clay-court event, which starts on April 14th. Another Grand Slam champion, Bianca Andreescu, will participate in the qualifying rounds.
All four players will be making their first appearance in Rouen. Svitolina, Raducanu, and Kenin have shown strong performances in 2025 as they aim to regain their positions in 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, the former US Open champion, is currently No. 60 but 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 reaching the Doha quarterfinals in February.
Andreescu, who won the US Open in 2019, is set to compete for the first time since reaching the quarterfinals in Tokyo last October. The 24-year-old had to postpone the start of her 2025 season due to an emergency appendectomy. Andreescu previously returned to the tour last May after a nine-month break due to a back injury.
Former world No. 11 Alizé Cornet, who is returning to professional tennis after retiring at Roland Garros last year, has been announced as a wild card participant, along with Caroline Garcia, the 2022 WTA Finals champion.
The Rouen tournament was previously held at the WTA 125 level in 2022 and 2023 before becoming a tour-level event in 2024. While last year`s champion Sloane Stephens will not be participating this year, the 2024 runner-up Magda Linette is on the entry list. Other notable players include Linda Noskova, a quarterfinalist at the 2024 Australian Open, 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.
