Former WTA Finals champion Elina Svitolina will headline the main draw at the 2025 Open Capfinances Rouen Métropole. Grand Slam champions Emma Raducanu and Sofia Kenin will also participate in the WTA 250 clay-court event, which begins on April 14. Bianca Andreescu, another Grand Slam winner, is in the qualifying draw.
This will be the first time competing in Rouen for all four players. Svitolina, Raducanu, and Kenin have all shown strong performances in 2025 as they aim to climb back into the Top 10. Svitolina, a three-time major semifinalist, is currently ranked No. 22 and has reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and Indian Wells this year. Raducanu, former US Open champion and currently ranked No. 60, is projected 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, the 2019 US Open champion, is scheduled to play for the first time since reaching the quarterfinals in Tokyo last October. The 24-year-old`s recent setback was an emergency appendectomy, delaying the start of her 2025 season. Andreescu previously returned from a nine-month break due to a back injury last May.
Alizé Cornet, former world No. 11, will make her comeback to professional tennis after retiring at Roland Garros last year. She has been announced as a wild card, along with Caroline Garcia, the 2022 WTA Finals champion.
The tournament was a WTA 125 level event in 2022 and 2023 before becoming a tour-level tournament in 2024. Last year’s champion Sloane Stephens will not participate this year, but runner-up Magda Linette is on the entry list. Other notable entrants include 2024 Australian Open quarterfinalist Linda Noskova, former No. 3 Maria Sakkari, current Cleveland and Hobart champion McCartney Kessler, and French No. 1 Varvara Gracheva.
The rest of the main-draw entry list 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.
