2021 Phillip Island Trophy

2021 Phillip Island Trophy
Date	13–19 February
Edition	1st
Category	WTA 250
Draw	56S / 16Q / 24D
Prize money	$235,238
Surface	Hard
Location	Melbourne, Australia
Venue	Melbourne Park
Champions
Singles
	Daria Kasatkina
Doubles
	Ankita Raina / Kamilla Rakhimova
	; Australian Open Series; 2022 →;

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The 2021 Phillip Island Trophy is a tournament on the 2021 WTA Tour, one of six events in the 2021 Melbourne Summer Series. It was played on outdoor hard courts in Melbourne, Australia. It was organised as a lead-up tournament to the 2021 Australian Open, and was held at the same venue, due to other tournaments in Australia being cancelled as a result from the COVID-19 pandemic. This tournament took place simultaneously with the second week of the 2021 Australian Open.^[1]

Champions

Singles

Daria Kasatkina def. Marie Bouzková 4–6, 6–2, 6–2

Doubles

Ankita Raina / Kamilla Rakhimova def. Anna Blinkova / Anastasia Potapova 2–6, 6–4, [10–7]

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Q	Q1
Singles	280	180	110	60	30	16	1	12	1
Doubles	280	180	110	60	30	1	N/A	N/A	N/A

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Q1
Singles	$28,500	$20,850	$11,100	$5,250	$2,700	$1,900	$1,400	$1,211
Doubles*	$8,000	$5,000	$3,000	$1,500	$1,300	$1,000	N/A	N/A

_{*per team}

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank^a	Seed
USA	Sofia Kenin	4	1
CAN	Bianca Andreescu	9	2
~~GBR~~	~~Johanna Konta~~	15	3
CRO	Petra Martić	19	4
CHN	Wang Qiang	34	5
~~CHN~~	~~Zhang Shuai~~	35	6
RUS	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	39	7
USA	Danielle Collins	40	8
USA	Sloane Stephens	41	9
FRA	Caroline Garcia	43	10
CHN	Zheng Saisai	44	11
ARG	Nadia Podoroska	45	12
CZE	Marie Bouzková	50	13
LAT	Anastasija Sevastova	53	14
FRA	Alizé Cornet	54	15
SWE	Rebecca Peterson	55	16

^a Rankings are as of 8 February 2021

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players used a protected ranking to enter the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following players received entry as lucky losers:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Ekaterina Alexandrova → replaced by Lesia Tsurenko
Amanda Anisimova → replaced by Ajla Tomljanović
Catherine Bellis → replaced by Daria Kasatkina
Belinda Bencic → replaced by Nao Hibino
Jennifer Brady → replaced by Zhu Lin
Fiona Ferro → replaced by Lauren Davis
Coco Gauff → replaced by Danka Kovinić
Polona Hercog → replaced by Irina-Camelia Begu
Madison Keys → replaced by Anna Blinkova
Johanna Konta → replaced by Gabriella Da Silva-Fick
Veronika Kudermetova → replaced by Zarina Diyas
Svetlana Kuznetsova → replaced by Christina McHale
Ons Jabeur → replaced by Madison Brengle
Magda Linette → replaced by Misaki Doi
Elise Mertens → replaced by Katie Boulter
Kristina Mladenovic → replaced by Aliaksandra Sasnovich
Garbiñe Muguruza → replaced by Ana Bogdan
Jeļena Ostapenko → replaced by Varvara Gracheva
Yulia Putintseva → replaced by Wang Yafan
Alison Riske → replaced by Anastasia Potapova
Elena Rybakina → replaced by Andrea Petkovic
Laura Siegemund → replaced by Greet Minnen
Barbora Strýcová → replaced by Tímea Babos
Iga Świątek → replaced by Liudmila Samsonova
Donna Vekić → replaced by Maddison Inglis
Markéta Vondroušová → replaced by Sara Errani
Heather Watson → replaced by Elisabetta Cocciaretto
Dayana Yastremska → replaced by Sara Sorribes Tormo
Zhang Shuai → replaced by Monica Niculescu

During the tournament

Sara Sorribes Tormo

Retirements