2018 Upper Austria Ladies Linz
# 2018 Upper Austria Ladies Linz

The 2018 Upper Austria Ladies Linz was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 32nd edition of the Linz Open, and part of the WTA International tournaments-category of the 2018 WTA Tour. It was held at the TipsArena Linz in Linz, Austria, from 8 to 14 October 2018.

## Points and prize money

### Point distribution

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q | Q2 | Q1 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Singles | 280 | 180 | 110 | 60 | 30 | 1 | 18 | 12 | 1 |
| Doubles | 280 | 180 | 110 | 60 | 1 | — | — | — | — |

### Prize money

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of $32^1$ | Q2 | Q1 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Singles | $43,000 | $21,400 | $11,500 | $6,200 | $3,420 | $2,220 | $1,285 | $750 |
| Doubles * | $12,300 | $6,400 | $3,435 | $1,820 | $960 | — | — | — |

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## Singles entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| GER | Julia Görges | 10 | 1 |
| NED | Kiki Bertens | 11 | 2 |
| CZE | Barbora Strýcová | 26 | 3 |
| SVK | Dominika Cibulková | 30 | 4 |
| ITA | Camila Giorgi | 31 | 5 |
| RUS | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 34 | 6 |
| SVK | Magdaléna Rybáriková | 35 | 7 |
| CRO | Donna Vekić | 38 | 8 |
| CZE | Kateřina Siniaková | 40 | 9 |

* Rankings as of October 1, 2018

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Harriet Dart
* Barbara Haas
* Andrea Petkovic

The following player received entry through a protected ranking:

* Margarita Gasparyan

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Ekaterina Alexandrova
* Anna Blinkova
* Fiona Ferro
* Valentini Grammatikopoulou
* Anna Karolína Schmiedlová
* Jil Teichmann

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

* Kristýna Plíšková

### Withdrawals

**Before the tournament**

* Dominika Cibulková → replaced by Kristýna Plíšková
* Anett Kontaveit → replaced by Vera Lapko
* Rebecca Peterson → replaced by Stefanie Vögele

### Retirements

* Monica Puig

## Doubles entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| USA | Raquel Atawo | GER | Anna-Lena Grönefeld | 58 | 1 |
| UKR | Lyudmyla Kichenok | SLO | Katarina Srebotnik | 59 | 2 |
| BEL | Kirsten Flipkens | SWE | Johanna Larsson | 67 | 3 |
| ROU | Irina Bara | SUI | Xenia Knoll | 147 | 4 |

* $^1$ Rankings as of October 1, 2018

### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

* Melanie Klaffner / Viktória Kužmová
* Mavie Österreicher / Nadja Ramskogler

## Champions

### Singles

* Camila Giorgi def. Ekaterina Alexandrova, 6–3, 6–1

### Doubles

* Kirsten Flipkens / Johanna Larsson def. Raquel Atawo / Anna-Lena Grönefeld, 4–6, 6–4, [10–5]
