WTA - Nottingham

The WTA tour continues in Great Britain.

2021 Viking Open Nottingham - a WTA 250 tournament, on Grass, in Nottingham, Great Britain, 5-13 June 2021.

Event not held last year due to COVID-19

2019 champion (not defending):

Caroline Garcia (1) who defeated Donna Vekic (2) 2-6 7-6(4) 7-6(4)

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

- Paula Badosa replaced by Kurumi Nara 

- Belinda Bencic replaced by Caty McNally 

- Misaki Doi replaced by Kristie Ahn 

- Polona Hercog replaced by Astra Sharma 

- Hsieh Su-wei replaced by Arina Rodionova

- Marta Kostyuk replaced by Wang Yafan 

- Ann Li replaced by Viktoriya Tomova 

- Magda Linette replaced by Maria Camila Osorio Serrano 

- Jessica Pegula replaced by Wang Xiyu 

- Kristyna Pliskova replaced by Maddison Inglis 

- Yulia Putintseva replaced by Harriet Dart 

- Shelby Rogers replaced by Lizette Cabrera 

- Elena Rybakina replaced by Oceane Dodin

- Clara Tauson replaced by Zarina Diyas 

- Ajla Tomljanovic replaced by Wang Xinyu 

- Venus Williams replaced by Giulia Gatto-Monticone

- Wang Qiang replaced by Anastasia Gasanova

- Zheng Saisai replaced by Leonie Küng

The following players withdrew after the main draw was published:

5th seed Danielle Collins, replaced by lucky loser Marina Melnikova

11th seed Camila Giorgi, replaced by lucky loser Martina Di Giuseppe 

Astra Sharma, replaced by lucky loser Georgina Garcia-Perez 

Tereza Martincova was instated as 17th seed, and moved in the draw to the place previously occupied by Danielle Collins.

Christina McHale was instated as 18th seed, and moved in the draw to the place previously occupied by Camila Giorgi.

Johanna Konta, world number 31, is top seed.

The other 15 seeds are all in the top 96

The 16 seeds have first round byes.