Tournament
Completed🇲🇽Merida Open Akron 2026
- Level
- WTA 500
- Draw
- Women's Singles
- Where
- Merida, Mexico
- Surface
- Hard
- Dates
- 26 – 28 Feb 2026
Champion
🇪🇸Cristina Bucsa
R16
7-6(1) 6-3
Stakusic
QF
6-3 6-4
Sonmez
SF
7-5 6-4
Paolini
Final
6-1 4-6 6-4
Frech
4 wins, 1 set dropped. Bucsa’s run, match by match
The title paid
500ranking points
about $165K at this tier
Runner-up
🇵🇱Magdalena Frech
325 pts
The week in numbers
14-player draw · 13 matches played6
matches went to a deciding set
of 13 played
37
games in the longest match
Kasintseva d. Linette, R16
4
sets decided by a tiebreak
What each round was worth
and who took itResultPointsReached byPrize
- Champion500pts$165K
Cristina Bucsa
- Runner-up325pts$96K
Magdalena Frech
- Semifinal195pts$53K
J. Paolini, S. Zhang
- Quarterfinal108pts$29K
K. Boulter, M. Bouzkova, V. Jimenez Kasintseva, Z. Sonmez
- Round of 1660pts$16K
6 players
- Round of 3230pts$9.5K
The result, the figures and every name on the ladder are read off this draw’s own match results and seed list. Ranking movement and match durations aren’t shown because we don’t hold them.
All 13 matches, round by round
Final
- Cristina Bucsa def. Magdalena Frech6-1 4-6 6-4
Semifinals
- Cristina Bucsa def. Jasmine Paolini7-5 6-4
- Magdalena Frech def. Shuai Zhang6-2 6-7(6) 6-3
Quarterfinals
Round of 16
- Cristina Bucsa def. Marina Stakusic7-6(1) 6-3
- Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva def. Magda Linette5-7 7-6(5) 7-5
- Jasmine Paolini def. Priscilla Hon6-0 6-2
- Magdalena Frech def. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro6-0 6-3
- Shuai Zhang def. Emma Navarro6-4 6-4
- Zeynep Sonmez def. Ann Li3-6 7-6(7) 6-4