Between April 4 and 10, a new edition of the Credit One Charleston Open will take place in the US city of Charleston, in the state of South Carolina. This WTA 500 category tournament is played on the green clay courts of the Family Circle Tennis Center. Share a week with Bogotá.
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Tennis at the highest level leaves behind the first part of the season, on hard courts, and moves on to clay. In the case of the WTA, one of the two events that kick off this section of the year takes place in Charleston, a tournament as traditional as it is striking due to the conditions in which it is played, with green clay. In this 2022, the 50th edition of the contest, organized for the first time in 1973, will be played.
Among its historical champions we can highlight the biggest names in history such as Steffi Graff, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams, as well as Gabriela Sabatini and the Spanish Conchita Martínez. As one of the first WTA 500 of the season and the start on this surface, he will have a field of the highest level.
The top seed is the Polish Iga Swiatek, today No.1 in the world and the great leader of women’s tennis after the retirement of Ashleigh Barty, coming from winning consecutive titles in Doha, Indian Wells, added to the final in Miami. After Iga, the Belarusian appears Aryna Sabalenka and also Paula Badosawho does not arrive in the best physical shape possible, taking into account that he had to retire in the quarterfinals in Miami.
Among the 16 preclassified that the South Carolina tournament has, two champions appear as Veronika Kudermetova and Madison Keys. The Russian is the current defending champion, while the American had triumphed in the 2019 edition.
