title: 2020 WTA Lyon Open
text: # 2020 WTA Lyon Open
  
  The 2020 Lyon Open (WTA) (also known as the Open 6ème Sens — Métropole de Lyon for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the Lyon Open (WTA) and an International tournament on the 2020 WTA Tour. It took place at the Palais des Sports de Gerland in Lyon, France, from 2 to 8 March 2020.
  
  ## Singles main draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Ranking^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | USA | Sofia Kenin | 5 | 1 |
  | FRA | Kristina Mladenovic | 39 | 2 |
  | FRA | Caroline Garcia | 47 | 3 |
  | FRA | Alizé Cornet | 58 | 4 |
  | BEL | Alison Van Uytvanck | 62 | 5 |
  | SUI | Jil Teichmann | 66 | 6 |
  | RUS | Daria Kasatkina | 73 | 7 |
  | SVK | Viktória Kužmová | 85 | 8 |
  
  * $^1$ Rankings as of 24 February 2020.
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
  
  * Clara Burel
  * Daria Kasatkina
  * Chloé Paquet
  
  The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:
  
  * Vera Lapko
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Irina Bara
  * Jaqueline Cristian
  * Magdalena Fręch
  * Anastasiya Komardina
  * Marta Kostyuk
  * Antonia Lottner
  
  The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
  
  * Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove
  
  ### Withdrawals
  
  **Before the tournament**
  
  * Ekaterina Alexandrova → replaced by Anna-Lena Friedsam
  * Paula Badosa → replaced by Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove
  * Margarita Gasparyan → replaced by Pauline Parmentier
  * Barbora Krejčíková → replaced by Mandy Minella
  * Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova → replaced by Viktoriya Tomova
  * Kristýna Plíšková → replaced by Tereza Martincová
  
  **During the tournament**
  
  * Jil Teichmann (right ankle injury)
  
  ## Doubles main draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | GER | Anna-Lena Friedsam | LUX | Mandy Minella | 141 | 1 |
  | SRB | Aleksandra Krunić | SLO | Katarina Srebotnik | 143 | 2 |
  | GEO | Oksana Kalashnikova | RUS | Valeria Savinykh | 181 | 3 |
  | ROU | Andreea Mitu | ROU | Raluca Olaru | 211 | 4 |
  
  * Rankings as of February 24, 2020.
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
  
  * Estelle Cascino / Elsa Jacquemot
  * Chloé Paquet / Pauline Parmentier
  
  ## Champions
  
  ### Singles
  
  * Sofia Kenin def. Anna-Lena Friedsam, 6–2, 4–6, 6–4
  
  ### Doubles
  
  * Laura Ioana Paar / Julia Wachaczyk def. Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove / Bibiane Schoofs, 7–5, 6–4
  