Wozniacki Heads Kuala Lumpur, Ivanovic Monterrey; WTA Previews

BMW MALAYSIAN OPEN
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Surface: hard

Seeds: Caroline Wozniacki, Sabine Lisicki, Casey Dellacqua, Jarmila Gajdosova, Klara Koukalova, Kurumi Nara, Bojana Jovanovski, Julia Goerges
ADHEREL
Floaters: Alla Kudryatseva

Notes: Weak field, one potentially tough start for a seed in (8) Goerges vs. Alla Kudryatseva…Wildcards went to Chinese Taipei’s Hsieh Su-wei, Malaysia’s Jawairiah Noordin and Germany’s Sabine Lisicki…Donna Vekic beat Dominika Cibulkova in last year’s final…Hsieh Su-wei (2012) is the lone returning champion in the field.

ABIERTO MONTERREY AFIRME
Monterrey, Mexico; Surface: hard

Seeds: Ana Ivanovic, Sara Errani, Caroline Garcia, Timea Bacsinszky, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Alison Riske, Daniela Hantuchova, Magdalena Rybarikova

Floaters: Vera Zvonareva, Francesca Schiavone, Monica Puig

Seeds: Challenging starts for (6) Riske vs. Zvonareva, and (7) Hantuchova vs. Puig…Wildcards went to Serbia’s Jovana Jaksic, Mexico’s Ana Sofia Sanchez, and Italy’s Schiavone…The army of pulls from the event included Eugenie Bouchard, Jelena Jankovic, Sloane Stephens, Coco Vandeweghe, Roberta Vinci and Shuai Zhang…Ivanovic beat Jaksic in last year’s final…Returning champs in the field are Ivanovic (2014) and Pavlyuchenkova (2013,’11-10).

 

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