There is one week until the 2025 French Open at Roland Garros, and the 2025
Strasbourg Open will be the biggest
WTA tournament played before then.
2025 Australian Open champion Madison Keys won last year's iteration of the tournament. She emphatically overcame Danielle Collins with a characteristically blistering performance from the baseline.
Keys will not return to defend her title in Strasbourg after electing to prioritize resting for the French Open instead. Fortunately, several excellent players are in the draw for the WTA 500 tournament.
Elena Rybakina is among those who
decided to compete in France. The 2022 Wimbledon champion hopes to win matches and build momentum before Roland Garros after a poor clay-court swing so far by her standards.
Jessica Pegula will also feature. Although the American is guaranteed to be the world No. 3 when the rankings are released after excellent results on hard courts in 2025 and Iga Swiatek's slump, she has struggled on clay so far this season and also wants more match practice.
Paula Badosa,
Barbora Krejcikova, and
Emma Navarro are some of the other players set to play in Strasbourg. With those stars involved, an entertaining event filled with great tennis seems inevitable.
The
prize money and ranking points on offer should motivate the players to give their best. Those rewards are particularly lucrative for those women who reach the latter stages.
This year's 2025 Strasbourg Open champion will receive €142,610 and 500 ranking points. In addition to Keys, Lindsay Davenport, Samantha Stosur, Angelique Kerber, and Elina Svitolina are some of the other players who have lifted the title.
Rybakina finished as the runner-up to Svitolina in 2020. If the Kazakhstani replicates that achievement this year, she will earn €87,825 and 325 points, a more than decent reward for getting to the final.
Anhelina Kalinina and Liudmila Samsonova were the defeated 2024 semifinalists. €51,305 and 195 points are on offer for the two women who progress that far at the event that was first played in 1987.
Although the financial and ranking point incentives fall somewhat from the quarterfinal stage, they are still worth fighting for. The four players who are beaten at that point will get €27,040 and 108 points.
The Top four seeds receive byes into the round of 16. As it stands, Pegula, Navarro, Badosa, and Rybakina will get that luxury. Only one of them withdrawing would alter that situation.
That means 13,760 and 60 points are guaranteed for those four women. The other players in the draw need to win one match to avail of those benefits, but they will hope to go further than the round of 16.
One ranking point is given to those who lose in the opening round of WTA 500 tournaments. In Strasbourg, first-round losers will have €9,828 added to their bank accounts for being in the main draw.
The fans in Strasbourg are usually less rowdy than the ones at the Italian Open, which was won by home hero Jasmine Paolini.
Aryna Sabalenka swearing at a fan was one of many heated interactions during the tournament in Rome.
2025 Strasbourg Open WTA Prize Money & Points Overview:
| Points | Prize Money |
Winner | 500 points | €142,610 |
Finalist | 325 points | €87,825 |
Semi-finalists | 195 points | €51,305 |
Quarter-finalists | 108 points | €27,040 |
2nd round | 60 points | €13,760 |
1st round | 1 point | €9,828 |