The Open Angers Loire Trélazé is an indoor hard-court WTA 125 played at the Arena Loire in Trélazé, on the edge of Angers, in the first week of December. The 2026 edition is the sixth, and the sixth in a row at the same arena. The tournament is run under Nicolas Mahut, who launched it in 2021, with former French player Pauline Parmentier as its ambassador.
Its short list of champions already holds a lucky loser, a player who won WTA 125 titles in back-to-back weeks and a final against a former Olympic champion on her way back from maternity leave. Alycia Parks is the only player to have won it twice.
Dates and Schedule
The 2026 tournament runs from Monday 30 November to Sunday 6 December, three weeks after the WTA Finals close the main tour season.
- Qualifying: Sunday 29 November from 10:00, behind closed doors
- Singles main draw: Monday 30 November to Sunday 6 December
- Doubles: Thursday 3 December to Sunday 6 December
- Semifinals: Saturday 5 December from 12:00
- Finals: Sunday 6 December from 12:30
Draw and Format
The singles draw has 32 players: 21 direct acceptances, four qualifiers, six wild cards and one special exempt. The organisers have said French players have priority for the wild cards. How to read a tennis draw explains each entry label. The doubles draw has eight teams, so doubles starts at the quarterfinals.
Entry lists change up to the draw. Players withdrawing early are replaced by alternates in ranking order, and a withdrawal after the draw opens a place for a lucky loser. That route produced the first Angers champion.
Ranking Points
The champion earns 125 WTA ranking points. The 2026 WTA ranking point chart for a WTA 125 with a 32-player draw:
| Round | Singles | Doubles (8 teams) |
|---|---|---|
| Winner | 125 | 125 |
| Finalist | 81 | 81 |
| Semifinalist | 49 | 49 |
| Quarterfinalist | 27 | 1 |
| Round of 16 | 15 | — |
| Round of 32 | 1 | — |
| Qualifier | 6 | — |
| Qualifying second round (16-player qualifying only) | 4 | — |
| Qualifying first round | 1 | — |
A qualifier who wins a main-draw match adds main-draw points for her furthest round to her qualifying points. A qualifier who loses her first main-draw match keeps only the qualifier points.
Prize Money
Total prize money is $115,000. The per-round breakdown has not been published. The rules on what a late withdrawal costs a player are in WTA prize money withdrawals explained.
Singles Champions
- 2025: Kamilla Rakhimova d. Tamara Korpatsch 6-3, 7-6(4)
- 2024: Alycia Parks d. Belinda Bencic 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-0
- 2023: Clara Burel d. Chloé Paquet 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
- 2022: Alycia Parks d. Anna-Lena Friedsam 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
- 2021: Vitalia Diatchenko d. Zhang Shuai 6-0, 6-4
2021. Diatchenko, ranked No. 165, entered the main draw as a lucky loser when top seed Anhelina Kalinina withdrew. She saved two match points against Daniela Vismane in the second round and beat the second seed, Zhang, for her third WTA 125 title.
2022. Parks arrived ranked No. 100 on a 10-match winning streak, having won the WTA 125 in Andorra the week before, and took a third set from Friedsam for a second title in two weeks.
2023. Burel, the second seed and at a career-high No. 60, came from a set down against Paquet for her first WTA 125 title. Paquet, ranked No. 186, had beaten top seed Elisabetta Cocciaretto in the quarterfinals.
2024. Parks, the third seed, beat wild card Belinda Bencic, who was returning from maternity leave, in two hours and 22 minutes. Parks hit 14 aces and won the third set 6-0 for her fifth WTA 125 title, and the result took her from No. 103 back into the top 100 at No. 84.
2025. Kamilla Rakhimova came through a deciding set 7-5 against second seed Antonia Ruzic in the semifinals, then beat Korpatsch in straight sets for her second WTA 125 title. Korpatsch had ended Parks’s 12-match winning streak in the quarterfinals. Rakhimova rose from No. 112 to No. 97.
Doubles Champions
- 2025: Tamara Korpatsch and Jessika Ponchet, 6-3, 6-2 in the final
- 2024: Monica Niculescu and Elena-Gabriela Ruse d. Belinda Bencic and Céline Naef 6-3, 6-4
- 2023: Cristina Bucsa and Monica Niculescu d. Anna Danilina and Alexandra Panova 6-1, 6-3
- 2022: Alycia Parks and Zhang Shuai d. Miriam Kolodziejova and Marketa Vondrousova 6-2, 6-2
- 2021: Tereza Mihalikova and Greet Minnen d. Monica Niculescu and Vera Zvonareva 4-6, 6-1, [10-8]
Niculescu has played three of the five doubles finals and won two. Parks in 2022 is the only player to win the singles and doubles in the same year. Korpatsch came closest in 2025, winning the doubles in the same week she lost the singles final.
Records
- Most singles titles: Alycia Parks, 2 (2022, 2024)
- Most doubles titles: Monica Niculescu, 2 (2023, 2024)
- Lucky loser champion: Vitalia Diatchenko (2021)
- French champion: Clara Burel (2023)
The French Indoor Double
Angers is the first of two indoor hard-court WTA 125s in France in December. The Open BLS de Limoges follows on 14-20 December at the Palais des Sports de Beaublanc, also with $115,000 in prize money and draws of 32 singles players and eight doubles teams. Both sit after the South American clay WTA 125s, which end with the IEB+ Argentina Open in Buenos Aires on 29 November.
Season Snapshot (as of 6 November 2026)
The organisers named the first 21 direct acceptances on 4 November. Sonay Kartal, No. 52 and a finalist in Wuhan in October, heads the list. Also accepted: Polina Kudermetova, Zhang Shuai, the 2021 finalist and a 2022 doubles champion, Clara Burel, the 2023 champion, Elsa Jacquemot, Mona Barthel, Veronika Podrez and Rositsa Dencheva. Loïs Boisson was 10th alternate. Wild cards, qualifiers and the special exempt had not been named, and seeds are not set until the draw. Ranking changes are tracked in tennis rankings explained.
This snapshot is dated and will change. The career record above does not.
