Daria Snigur and Jessica Ponchet, respectively seeded 1st and 2nd, being the favourites for the title.
The battle for the title begins this Wednesday. The top 32 players in the main draw will start the road that will lead them to Sunday’s final, with two players as favourites, Ukrainian Daria Snigur, winner of last year’s edition, and French Jessika Ponchet, winner in 2022. After starring in the 2023 final, the 1st and 2nd seeds will make their debuts tomorrow against Mexico’s María José Portillo and Italy’s Laura Mair, respectively. Another of the big crowd-puller will be to see in action the Filipina Alexandra Eala, winner of the US Open junior 2022 and an advanced student of the Rafa Nadal Academy (she is number 162 in the ranking) will face the Dutch player Lian Tran, who comes from the preliminary phase. Another one who can be in the talks in the Vitoria event is the Czech Fruhvitova, seeded 3, well placed in the WTA ranking in the 147th position and who will have a tough match against the Belgian Lara Salden, from the qualification rounds.
Six Spaniards will be participating in the competition. María Martínez Vaquero, who has made a good impression in her last two matches before qualifying for the final round, will face Italy’s Verena Meliss, who also qualified from the qualifying round. Carolina Gómez, Lucía Cortez, Carmen López Martínez, Cayetana Gay, winner of the last edition
of the Isa del Campo organised by the Peña Vitoriana and the Basque Country champion Mercedes Aristegui, complete the list of national players in the tournament.
The fourth day of the tournament in the singles category will begin with the first matches from 10 am until 5:30 pm, which will be the last, to complete a total of 16 matches. Doubles round of 16 underway The doubles competition got underway on Tuesday, with the Belgians Kempen and Salden beating the Basques Arbaizar and Bienzobas by a double 6-0, making them the favourites to win the final. The draw was left without any Spanish pairings but Karatancheva-Marcinkevica, Bhosale-Starodubtseva, Portillo-Zeballos, Mikulskyte-Stevanovic, Bervid-Mair and Cascino-Eala, who defeated the Carolina and Jiménez Gómez sisters, moved on to the quarter-finals.