2022 Birmingham Classic
Date13–19 June
Edition40th
CategoryWTA 250 tournaments
Draw32S / 16D
SurfaceGrass
LocationBirmingham, United Kingdom
VenueEdgbaston Priory Club
Champions
Singles
Brazil Beatriz Haddad Maia
Doubles
Ukraine Lyudmyla Kichenok / Latvia Jeļena Ostapenko

The 2022 Birmingham Classic (also known as the Rothesay Classic Birmingham for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament being played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 40th edition of the event, and a WTA 250 tournament on the 2022 WTA Tour. It took place at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on 13–19 June 2022.[1]

Champions

Singles

This is Haddad Maia's second title of the year and also her career.

Doubles

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 321 Q Q2 Q1
Singles 280 180 110 60 30 1 18 12 1
Doubles 1

Prize money

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q2 Q1
Singles $29,800 $16,398 $10,100 $5,800 $3,675 $2,675 $1,950 $1,270
Doubles * $10,300 $6,000 $3,800 $2,300 $1,750

1Qualifiers prize money is also the round of 32 prize money.
*per team

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Rank1 Seed
 LAT Jeļena Ostapenko 16 1
 ROU Simona Halep 20 2
 ITA Camila Giorgi 26 3
 BEL Elise Mertens 29 4
 CZE Petra Kvitová 31 5
 ROU Sorana Cîrstea 34 6
 USA Alison Riske 40 7
 CHN Zhang Shuai 41 8
  • 1 Rankings are as of 6 June 2022. [2]

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

Withdrawal

Before the tournament

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 BEL Elise Mertens  CHN Zhang Shuai 5 1
 UKR Lyudmyla Kichenok  LAT Jeļena Ostapenko 41 2
 CZE Lucie Hradecká  IND Sania Mirza 41 3
 JPN Shuko Aoyama  TPE Chan Hao-ching 63 4
  • 1 Rankings are as of 6 June 2022.

Other entrants

The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

References

  1. "Rothesay Classic Birmingham Overview". www.wtatennis.com. WTA Tour.
  2. "Emma Raducanu joined by Simona Halep, Sloane Stephens, Jelena Ostapenko at Birmingham event". tennis365.com. 18 May 2022.
  3. "Rothesay Classic Birmingham 2022: Barbora Krejcikova and Petra Kvitova added to star-studded field". LTA. 31 May 2022.
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