Venus Williams' withdrawal from Stockholm with the flu over the weekend leaves Russian
Anastasia Myskina lording over the sketchy field this week at the Nordea Nordic Light Open, the WTA event in Stockholm.
Joining Myskina among the seeds is the motley crew of fellow Russian Vera Douchevina, Spaniard Anabel "Funky Cold" Medina Garrigues, Slovenia's Katerina Srebotnik, Slovak Martina "Nurse, I Need a" Sucha, Colombia's
Catalina Castano, Spanish comer
Laura Pous Tio, and the Ukraine's Alyona Bondarenko.
Wildcards for the event went to Denmark's
Caroline Wozniacki, and Sweden's
Sofia Arvidsson.
In last year's final the No. 3-seeded
Alicia Molik, currently sitting out while recovering from an inner-ear infection, stomped unseeded Ukrainian
Tatiana Perebiynis 6-1, 6-1.
On tap for Monday in Stockholm are Srebotnik vs. Chladkova, Pous Tio vs. Loit, Pastikova vs. Medina Garrigues, Cervanova vs. Bychkova, Cohen-Aloro vs. Pin, and Santangelo vs. Kleinova.
