2018 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem

Tennis tournament

Date

30 April – 5 May

Edition

18th

Points and prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Q	Q3	Q2	Q1
Women's singles	280	180	110	60	30	1	18	14	10	1
Women's doubles	280	180	110	60	1	—	—	—	—	—

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Q3	Q2	Q1
Women's singles	$43,000	$21,400	$11,300	$5,900	$3,310	$1,925	$1,005	$730	$530
Women's doubles	$12,300	$6,400	$3,435	$1,820	$960	—	—	—	—

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank	Seed
BEL	Elise Mertens	17	1
SVK	Dominika Cibulková	33	2
CRO	Petra Martić	36	3
HUN	Tímea Babos	38	4
~~SUI~~	~~Timea Bacsinszky~~	46	5
KAZ	Zarina Diyas	52	6
SRB	Aleksandra Krunić	53	7
TPE	Hsieh Su-wei	59	8

Rankings are as of April 23, 2018.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

Withdrawals

Timea Bacsinszky → replaced by Magdalena Fręch
Catherine Bellis → replaced by Christina McHale
Kateryna Bondarenko → replaced by Sara Errani
Kateryna Kozlova → replaced by Alexandra Dulgheru
Tatjana Maria → replaced by Kristína Kučová
Maria Sakkari → replaced by Jana Fett

Retirements

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank	Seed
CZE	Barbora Krejčíková	GBR	Anna Smith	75	1
POL	Alicja Rosolska	USA	Abigail Spears	88	2
AUS	Monique Adamczak	SUI	Xenia Knoll	122	3
GEO	Oksana Kalashnikova	NED	Bibiane Schoofs	155	4

Rankings as of April 23, 2018.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

Champions

Singles

Main article: 2018 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem – Singles

Elise Mertens def. Ajla Tomljanović, 6–2, 7–6

Doubles

Main article: 2018 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem – Doubles

Anna Blinkova / Raluca Olaru def. Georgina García Pérez / Fanny Stollár, 6–4, 6–4

References

Union Sportive des Cheminots du Maroc

External links

Official website

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