Rome - WTA Premier 5

This week, the tennis circus continues in Rome, where both WTA Premier 5 and ATP Masters 1000 tournaments will be held. These were originally scheduled for May, but COVID-19 changed things.

2020 Internazionali BNL d’Italia  - a WTA Premier 5 category tournament, on Red Clay, in Rome, Italy, 14-21 September 2020.

Defending champion:

Karolina Pliskova (4) who defeated Johanna Konta 6-3 6-4

The following players withdrew after entering but before the main draw was published:

- Bianca Andreescu replaced by Jil Teichmann 

- Ashleigh Barty replaced by Anastasija Sevastova 

- Jennifer Brady replaced by Hsieh Su-Wei

- Madison Keys replaced by Caroline Garcia 

- Petra Kvitová replaced by Marie Bouzková 

- Kristina Mladenovic replaced by Ajla Tomljanović 

- Karolina Muchova replaced by Iga Swiatek 

- Naomi Osaka replaced by Katerina Siniakova 

- Aryna Sabalenka replaced by Rebecca Peterson 

- Maria Sakkari replaced by CoCo Gauff 

- Serena Williams replaced by Bernarda Pera 

- Zheng Saisai replaced by Polona Hercog 

Simona Halep, world number 2, is top seed.

The other 15 seeds are all in the top 24

The top 8 seeds have first round byes