Swiatek, Rybakina, Raducanu, Azarenka headline Ostrava entry list

Six Grand Slam champions will headline next month's AGEL Open, a WTA 500 tournament in Ostrava starting on Oct. 3, led by two-time Roland Garros titlist Iga Swiatek

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The World No.1 will be joined by freshly crowned Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina

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Krejcikova and two-time major finalist Karolina Pliskova

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In 2021, Kontaveit captured her first WTA 500 title in Ostrava, the start of a still-active 20-match winning streak on indoor hard courts that saw the Estonian vault to her current World No.2. Last autumn, Kontaveit collected titles in Ostrava, Moscow and Cluj-Napoca to seal her debut at the WTA Finals Guadalajara, where she was runner-up to Garbiñe Muguruza.

The AGEL Open has been a fixture on the Hologic WTA Tour calendar since 2020, when Aryna Sabalenka

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