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The 2021 Charleston Open (branded as the 2021 Volvo Car Open for sponsorship reasons) tournament was a women's professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Family Circle Tennis Center on Daniel Island in Charleston, South Carolina. It was the 48th edition of the event on the WTA Tour and was classified as a WTA 500 tournament on the 2021 WTA Tour. It was the first of two Charleston Open tournaments in consecutive weeks at the same facility (the second was the 2021 MUSC Health Women's Open), and were the only events of the annual tour's clay court season to be played on green clay. The first tournament of the 2021 doubleheader was the last to be sponsored by Chinese automaker Geely, the owner of Volvo Cars.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and local health guidelines impacting the facility's construction timeline, tournament organizers held the event behind closed doors for the second consecutive year after the preceding year's exhibition tournament was held under similar conditions. The main stadium was demolished in 2020 and tournament organizers had originally planned to host the event for up to 3,000 fans on a smaller temporary stadium on the secondary court, named the Althea Gibson Court.
Veronika Kudermetova won her maiden career WTA title in the singles tournament. Nicole Melichar and Demi Schuurs won their third title as a team in the doubles tournament.
Champions
= Singles
=Veronika Kudermetova def. Danka Kovinić, 6–4, 6–2
= Doubles
=Nicole Melichar / Demi Schuurs def. Marie Bouzková / Lucie Hradecká, 6–2, 6–4
Points and prize money
= Point distribution
== Prize money
=Singles main draw entrants
= Seeds
=1 Rankings as of March 22, 2021.
= Other entrants
=The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
Hailey Baptiste
Belinda Bencic
Petra Kvitová
Emma Navarro
Markéta Vondroušová
The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:
Andrea Petkovic
Anastasia Potapova
Yaroslava Shvedova
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Magdalena Fręch
Desirae Krawczyk
Grace Min
Asia Muhammad
Kurumi Nara
Storm Sanders
Gabriela Talabă
Natalia Vikhlyantseva
The following players received entry as lucky losers:
Harriet Dart
Caroline Dolehide
Whitney Osuigwe
Wang Xinyu
= Withdrawals
=Before the tournament
Irina-Camelia Begu → replaced by Leylah Annie Fernandez
Kiki Bertens → replaced by Wang Xinyu
Anna Blinkova → replaced by Tímea Babos
Danielle Collins → replaced by Martina Trevisan
Fiona Ferro → replaced by Anastasia Potapova
Polona Hercog → replaced by Nao Hibino
Kaia Kanepi → replaced by Caroline Dolehide
Anett Kontaveit → replaced by Harriet Dart
Barbora Krejčíková → replaced by Danka Kovinić
Ann Li → replaced by Misaki Doi
Jeļena Ostapenko → replaced by Christina McHale
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova → replaced by Tsvetana Pironkova
Jessica Pegula → replaced by Zarina Diyas
Rebecca Peterson → replaced by Renata Zarazúa
Maria Sakkari → replaced by Francesca Di Lorenzo
Laura Siegemund → replaced by Liudmila Samsonova
Kateřina Siniaková → replaced by Lauren Davis
Jil Teichmann → replaced by Madison Brengle
Markéta Vondroušová → replaced by Whitney Osuigwe
Heather Watson → replaced by Caty McNally
= Retirements
=Garbiñe Muguruza
Elena Rybakina
Doubles main draw entrants
= Seeds
=1 Rankings as of March 22, 2021.
= Other entrants
=The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:
Caroline Dolehide / Emma Navarro
The following pairs received entry into the doubles main draw using protected rankings:
Oksana Kalashnikova / Alla Kudryavtseva
Vania King / Yaroslava Shvedova
Ellen Perez / CoCo Vandeweghe
= Withdrawals
=Before the tournament
Ashleigh Barty / Storm Sanders → replaced by Misaki Doi / Nao Hibino
Anna Blinkova / Lucie Hradecká → replaced by Oksana Kalashnikova / Alla Kudryavtseva
During the tournament
Tímea Babos / Veronika Kudermetova
Coco Gauff / Caty McNally
References
External links
Tournament details at the ITF
Official website