2003 Generali Ladies Linz
# 2003 Generali Ladies Linz

The 2003 Generali Ladies Linz is the 2003 Tier II WTA Tour tournament of the annually-held Generali Ladies Linz tennis tournament. It was the 17th edition of the tournament and was held from October 23–30, 2003 at the TipsArena Linz. Ai Sugiyama won the singles title.

## Points and prize money

### Point distribution

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Singles | 195 | 137 | 88 | 49 | 25 | 1 | 11.75 | 6.75 | 4 | 1 |
| Doubles | 195 | 137 | 88 | 49 | 1 | — | 11.75 | — | — | — |

### Prize money

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Singles | $95,500 | $51,000 | $27,300 | $14,600 | $7,820 | $4,175 | $2,230 | $1,195 | $640 |
| Doubles * | $30,000 | $16,120 | $8,620 | $4,610 | $2,465 | — | — | — | — |

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## Singles main draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | Rank | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| RUS | Anastasia Myskina | 9 | 1 |
| JPN | Ai Sugiyama | 11 | 2 |
| RUS | Vera Zvonareva | 12 | 3 |
| RUS | Nadia Petrova | 14 | 4 |
| SVK | Daniela Hantuchová | 15 | 5 |
| ISR | Anna Pistolesi | 16 | 6 |
| ARG | Paola Suárez | 17 | 7 |
| SUI | Patty Schnyder | 18 | 8 |

Rankings are as of 10 October 2003.

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Sybille Bammer
* Karolina Šprem
* Barbara Schett

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Ľudmila Cervanová
* Sonya Jeyaseelan
* Klára Koukalová
* Maja Matevžič

### Withdrawals

* Justine Henin-Hardenne → replaced by Marion Bartoli
* Conchita Martínez → replaced by Marie-Gaïané Mikaelian
* Serena Williams → replaced by Alexandra Stevenson

## Doubles main draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | Player 1 Rank | Player 2 Rank | Seed |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| RSA | Liezel Huber | JPN | Ai Sugiyama | 14 | 1 | 1 |
| RUS | Elena Likhovtseva | RUS | Nadia Petrova | 10 | 11 | 2 |
| SVK | Daniela Hantuchová | ESP | Magüi Serna | 26 | 39 | 3 |
| AUT | Barbara Schett | SUI | Patty Schnyder | 37 | 40 | 4 |

Rankings are as of 10 October 2003

### Other entrants

The following pair received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

* Verena Amesbauer / Daniela Kix

## Finals

### Singles

Ai Sugiyama defeated Nadia Petrova, 7–5, 6–4.

* It was Sugiyama's 5th WTA singles title, and second title of the year.

### Doubles

Liezel Huber / Ai Sugiyama defeated Marion Bartoli / Silvia Farina Elia, 6–2, $7–6^{(8–6)}.$

* It was Huber's 9th WTA doubles title, and fifth of the year. It was Sugiyama's 28th WTA doubles title, and eighth of the year. This was the first and only doubles titles they won together as a pair.
