page_title: 2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions
section_title: Qualifiers
hierarchical_section_title: 2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions / Qualifying / Qualifiers
caption_attribution_description: English: Elena Vesnina in the first round of Wimbledon 2013 against Andrea Hlaváčková.
context_page_description: The 2013 Garanti Koza WTA Tournament of Champions was a singles-only tennis tournament that was played on indoor hard courts. The tournament was sponsored by Turkish construction firm Garanti Koza. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was part of the 2013 WTA Tour. The 2013 edition was the second to be held in Sofia at the Arena Armeec. The tournament was played between October 29 and November 3. Nadia Petrova was the defending champion, but she did not qualify this year, nor did she receive a wildcard into the event.
context_section_description: Caroline Wozniacki
  Wozniacki qualified with victory in the final international series event of the season in Luxembourg. The Dane decided, although she would be the number one seed, not to compete and instead only focus her attentions on being an alternate at the WTA Championships.
  Roberta Vinci
  Vinci qualified by winning two international series tournaments, in Katowice and Palermo, respectively, but decided to compete in the Fed Cup final instead.
  Simona Halep
  Halep is having a breakthrough year, entering the top 15 and winning her first title after previously losing three finals between 2010 and 2012. The Romanian won an impressive number of five titles in the year. The first was on the Nürnberger Versicherungscup defeating German Andrea Petkovic 6–3, 6–3, which gave her entry to the event. The following week she claimed the title on the grass courts of the Topshelf Open defeating Kirsten Flipkens 6–4, 6–2. Halep claimed her third title at the Budapest Grand Prix defeating Austrian Yvonne Meusburger in three sets 6–3, 6–7, 6–1. She won her biggest title so far at the New Haven Open at Yale her first Premier title defeating Petra Kvitová 6–2, 6–2. Halep also reached the semifinals Internazionali BNL d'Italia as a qualifier, but lost to world no. 1 Serena Williams. She also lost to Serena Williams at the quarterfinals of the Western & Southern Open, again in straight sets. On 20 October 2013, just before the Garanti Koza in Sofia, she won her fifth title of the year and the second Premier, beating Samantha Stosur 7–6 6–2 at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow. Simona Halep is making her debut at the event.
  Ana Ivanovic
  Ivanovic was one of the wildcard recipients. Ivanovic reached the semifinals of the Mutua Madrid Open a Premier Mandatory event, losing to Maria Sharapova 4–6, 3–6. She also reached the semifinals of the Southern California Open losing to Victoria Azarenka 0–6, 6–4, 3–6. She reached her first final of the year at the Generali Ladies Linz losing to German Angelique Kerber 4–6, 6–7. At the slams, Ivanovic reached the fourth round of the Australian Open and French Open, losing to Agnieszka Radwańska 2–6, 4–6 on both occasions. Ivanovic lost to Eugenie Bouchard in the second round of Wimbledon 3–6, 3–6. At the final slam of the year, at the US Open, she lost in the fourth round to Victoria Azarenka 6–4, 3–6, 4–6. She is making her third appearance to the event, having won the event twice.
  Maria Kirilenko
  Kirilenko's first half of 2013 saw her with good results and broke through the top 10, while her second saw her struggle with a knee injury. Kirilenko last year's wildcard received entry into the event after winning the PTT Pattaya Open defeating Sabine Lisicki 5–7, 6–1, 7–6. Kirilenko was able to reach the semifinals of the BNP Paribas Open losing to compatriot Maria Sharapova 4–6, 3–6. At the slams, Kirilenko reached her first French Open quarterfinal and her third slam quarterfinals losing to Victoria Azarenka 6–7, 2–6. She also reached the fourth round of the Australian Open losing to Serena Williams 2–6, 0–6, third round of the US Open losing to Simona Halep 1-6, 0–6, and was upset in the first round of Wimbledon losing to Laura Robson 3–6, 4–6. She is making her second appearance at the event.
  Samantha Stosur
  Stosur had a dip in 2013, falling out of the top 10 for the first time since 2010 and finishing outside the top 10 for the first time since 2009. At the slams, Stosur failed to get past the fourth round of a slam in a year since 2008. She lost in the third rounds of French Open, to Jelena Janković 6-3, 3–6, 4–6, and Wimbledon, to eventual runner-up Sabine Lisicki 6-4, 2-6, 1-6. She also lost in the second round to Zheng Jie 4-6, 6-1, 5-7 at the Australian Open and first round of US Open to American qualifier Victoria Duval 7-5, 4–6, 4–6. After poor results in the beginning of the year, Stosur showed good form by reaching back-to-back quarterfinals in Qatar and Dubai. However, after withdrawing from her quarterfinal match against Angelique Kerber at the BNP Paribas due to a calf-injury, Stosur showed poor for
caption: Elena Vesnina won her first career title.
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