2021 Volvo Car Open

2021 Volvo Car Open
Date	April 5 – 11
Edition	48th
Category	WTA 500
Draw	56S / 16D
Prize money	$565,530
Surface	Green clay
Location	Charleston, United States
Venue	Family Circle Tennis Center
Champions
Singles
	Veronika Kudermetova
Doubles
	Nicole Melichar / Demi Schuurs
	← 2020; Charleston Open; 2022 →;

The 2021 Charleston Open (branded as the 2021 Volvo Car Open for sponsorship reasons) 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. For 2021, it and the 2021 MUSC Health Women's Open held consecutively at the same facility^[1] were the only events of the annual tour's clay court season to be played on green clay. The 2021 edition of the event 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.^[2]^[3]

Veronika Kudermetova won her maiden career WTA title in the singles tournament.^[4] Nicole Melichar and Demi Schuurs won their third title as a team in the doubles tournament.^[5]

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

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Q	Q2	Q1
Women's singles	470	305	185	100	55	30	1	25	13	1
Women's doubles	470	305	185	100	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Q2	Q1
Women's singles	$68,570	$50,130	$26,745	$12,670	$6,480	$4,100	$3,330	$2,000	$1,020
Women's doubles	$25,230	$17,750	$10,000	$5,500	$3,500	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Ranking¹	Seed
AUS	Ashleigh Barty	1	1
USA	Sofia Kenin	4	2
CZE	Petra Kvitová	10	3
~~NED~~	~~Kiki Bertens~~	11	4
SUI	Belinda Bencic	12	5
ESP	Garbiñe Muguruza	13	6
BEL	Elise Mertens	17	7
USA	Madison Keys	19	8
~~CZE~~	~~Markéta Vondroušová~~	21	9
KAZ	Elena Rybakina	24	10
TUN	Ons Jabeur	28	11
USA	Amanda Anisimova	31	12
KAZ	Yulia Putintseva	33	13
USA	Coco Gauff	36	14
RUS	Veronika Kudermetova	37	15
CHN	Zhang Shuai	43	16
CZE	Marie Bouzková	47	17

¹ Rankings as of March 22, 2021.^[6]

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the 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 players received entry as lucky losers:

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