For the third year in a row, the competition will take place at Hacienda Chicureo and important personalities will appear in its main draw.
The LP Open by IND WTA 125 will take place for the third consecutive year at Hacienda Chicureo, Colina. Between November 18 and 24, great tennis players from the world women’s tennis scene will participate in this championship, which is part of the WTA Tour’s South American tour.
This year, the main draw will have four players in the top 100. The best positioned is the Argentinian Lourdes Carle, 87th in the world who also won silver in singles and bronze in doubles at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games alongside Julia Riera, who took third place in singles on that occasion and who this year will also fight to lift the LP Cup Open .
Another South American to follow, It will be the Brazilian Laura Pigossi, 123 in the WTA rankings and double gold medalist at Santiago 2023.
The promise of world tennis and reigning champion, Sara Bejlek returns to Hacienda Chicureo to repeat the feat in 2023. After her move to the LP Open, the Czech appeared in the main draw of the Australian Open and Roland Garros.
The Dutch Suzan Lammens will be another of the protagonists. The 25-year-old has just won her first WTA title after winning the WTA 250 in Osaka, which gave her a gigantic jump in her ranking and she will arrive in Santiago ranked 88th in the world.
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Another great international player is the Egyptian. Mayar Cherif 93rd in the WTA rankings and one of her country’s greatest sporting icons with footballer Mohamed Salah, as she is the first Egyptian to win a WTA title and the first to participate in the main draw of a Grand Slam, an achievement she achieved at Roland Garros 2020.
The former top 50 is joined by Elizabeth Mandlik, daughter of former world number 3 and four-time Grand Slam winner, Hana Mandlikova. In addition, the Frenchwoman will be part of the main draw Kristina Mladenovic former WTA number 10 in singles and winner of 28 WTA titles. As a doubles player, he had an exceptional career, with four titles at Roland Garros and two at the Australian Open. In mixed doubles, he won the Australian Open twice and Wimbledon once.
Furthermore, the Chileans Jimar Gerald, Fernanda Labraña and Antonia Vergara They appear as the national cards of the event. The former has just celebrated her first ITF title in Trelew, while the latter is on a roll on the circuit. In the meantime, La Peque stood out as a junior, competing in main tournaments and competing in the ITF Junior Masters.
Source: Latercera
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