Former WTA Finals champion Elina Svitolina will be a leading player at the 2025 Open Capfinances Rouen Métropole. Grand Slam champions Emma Raducanu and Sofia Kenin will also compete in this WTA 250 clay-court event, starting on April 14. Another Grand Slam winner, Bianca Andreescu, will participate in the qualifying rounds. It was announced on March 31 that Andreescu will receive a wild card for the main draw.
All four players will be playing in Rouen for the first time. Svitolina, Raducanu, and Kenin have shown strong performances in 2025 as they aim to get back into the Top 10 rankings. Svitolina, a three-time major semifinalist, is currently ranked No. 22 and 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 it to the Doha quarterfinals in February.
Andreescu, who won the 2019 US Open, is scheduled 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 had previously returned to tennis last May after a nine-month break due to a back injury.
Former No. 11 Alizé Cornet, who is returning to professional tennis after retiring at Roland Garros last year, and 2022 WTA Finals champion Caroline Garcia have also been announced as wild card entries.
The Rouen tournament was previously a WTA 125 event in 2022 and 2023 before becoming a tour-level tournament in 2024. Last year’s champion Sloane Stephens will not be competing this year, but the runner-up from last year, Magda Linette, is on the entry list. Other notable players include Linda Noskova, a 2024 Australian Open quarterfinalist, 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.
