2021 Tennis in the Land
Date	August 22–28
Edition	1st
Category	WTA 250
Draw	32S / 16D
Prize money	$236,000
Surface	Hard / outdoor
Location	Cleveland, United States
Venue	Jacobs Pavilion
Champions
Singles
Anett Kontaveit
Doubles
Shuko Aoyama / Ena Shibahara
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The 2021 Tennis in the Land event was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Jacobs Pavilion. It was the first edition of the tournament held in the city of Cleveland in the United States and was a part of the WTA 250 category of the 2021 WTA Tour.^[1][2]

Champions

Singles

• Anett Kontaveit def. Irina-Camelia Begu, 7–6^(7–5), 6–4.

This was Kontaveit's second WTA Tour title, and first since 2017.

Doubles

• Shuko Aoyama / Ena Shibahara def. Christina McHale / Sania Mirza, 7–5, 6–3.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

_{¹Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money.
*per team}

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
RUS	Daria Kasatkina	26	1
EST	Anett Kontaveit	28	2
RUS	Ekaterina Alexandrova	34	3
GBR	Johanna Konta	36	4
ARG	Nadia Podoroska	37	5
POL	Magda Linette	43	6
ESP	Sara Sorribes Tormo	44	7
USA	Shelby Rogers	45	8
CHN	Zhang Shuai	50	9

• Rankings are as of August 16, 2021.^[3]

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

• Daria Kasatkina
• Maria Mateas
• Bethanie Mattek-Sands

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Emina Bektas
• Ulrikke Eikeri
• Alexa Glatch
• Catherine Harrison

The following players received entry as lucky losers:

• Linda Fruhvirtová
• Nagi Hanatani
• Tara Moore
• Ena Shibahara

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Jennifer Brady → replaced by Kaja Juvan
• Johanna Konta → replaced by Linda Fruhvirtová
• Jessica Pegula → replaced by Caty McNally
• Storm Sanders → replaced by Tara Moore
• Alison Riske → replaced by Christina McHale
• Arantxa Rus → replaced by Lauren Davis
• Liudmila Samsonova → replaced by Ena Shibahara
• Jil Teichmann → replaced by Nagi Hanatani
• Patricia Maria Țig → replaced by Vera Zvonareva
• Elena Vesnina → replaced by Aliaksandra Sasnovich

During the tournament

• Vera Zvonareva

Retirements

• Anna Blinkova

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
JPN	Shuko Aoyama	JPN	Ena Shibahara	18	1
CHI	Alexa Guarachi	USA	Desirae Krawczyk	35	2
CZE	Lucie Hradecká	CHN	Zhang Shuai	79	3
USA	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	USA	Shelby Rogers	89	4

• Rankings are as of August 16, 2021.

Other entrants

The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:

• Maria Mateas / Yaroslava Shvedova

The following pair received entry using a protected ranking:

• Anastasia Rodionova / Galina Voskoboeva

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Kaja Juvan / Galina Voskoboeva → replaced by Anastasia Rodionova / Galina Voskoboeva