No Top 25 players in sight this week in Prague where France's
Marion Bartoli is the headliner for the ECM Prague Open 2006.
Also among the seeds are Czech
Lucie Safarova, Israel's
Shahar Peer, France's
Emilie Loit, Aussie Sam Stosur, Italian
Maria Elena Camerin, China's
Shuai Peng, and the Ukraine's
Alona Bondarenko.
Wildcards for the event went to Czechs Nikola Frankova and Barbora Strycova, and Slovak
Magdalena Rybarikova.
In last year's final the top-seeded
Dinara Safina, competing this week in Berlin, beat Czech
Zuzana Ondraskova 7-6(2), 6-3.
