Moscow - WTA Premier

The next week - five tournaments will be contested across the ATP and WTA Tours. The big one is the 2019 WTA Premier tournament in Moscow, which is running in conjunction with an ATP 250 event.

VTB Kremlin Cup - a WTA Premier tournament, on Hard, in Moscow, Russia, 14-20 October 2019.

Defending champion:

Daria Kasatkina (6) who defeated qualifier Ons Jabeur 2-6 7-6(3) 6-4

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

- Simona Halep replaced by Ons Jabeur 

- Johanna Konta replaced by Sveta Kuznetsova 

- Anett Kontaveit replaced by Anastasia Potapova 

- Petra Kvitová replaced by Polona Hercog 

- Garbiñe Muguruza replaced by Kristina Mladenovic 

- Marketa Vondrousova replaced by Veronika Kudermetova 

Elina Svitolina, world number 4, is top seed.

The other seeds are all in the top 38

The top 4 seeds have first round byes

First round results 

- Karolina Muchova defeated Sveta Kuznetsova 6-2 6-3

- Wildcard Anna Kalinskaya defeated Anastasia Potapova 6-0 3-6 6-4

- Anastasija Sevastova (6) defeated Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-1 7-5