Muguruza, 8 of Top 10 at WTA Premier 5 Wuhan Open, Preview

by Staff | September 24th, 2017, 11:39 am
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2017 DONGFENG MOTOR WUHAN OPEN
Wuhan, China; surface: hard

ADHEREL
Seeds: Garbine Muguruza, Simona Halep, Karolina Pliskova, Caroline Wozniacki, Johanna Konta, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Dominika Cibulkova, Jelena Ostapenko, Agnieszka Radwanska, Madison Keys, Petra Kvitova, Angelique Kerber, Kristina Mladenovic, Sloane Stephens, Anastasija Sevastova, Elena Vesnina

Floaters: Magdalena Rybarikova, Daria Gavrilova, Julia Goerges, Sam Stosur, Caroline Garcia, Ekaterina Makarova, Alison Riske, Daria Kasatkina

Notes:


Eight of the Top 10 and 17 of the Top 20 in attendance at the 4th edition of the Premier 5 tournament…

The Top 8 seeds receive opening-round byes…

Potential tough starts for the floundering (9) Radwanska vs. Rybarikova (winner to face the Gavrilova-Goerges victor), (7) Cibulkova vs. Stosur, (12) Kerber vs. Garcia, (15) Sevastova vs. Makarova, and (2) Halep vs. the Riske-Kasatkina winner…

Wildcards were awarded to China’s Duan Yingying and Wang Yafan, and Switzerland’s Jil Teichmann…

Withdrawing from the field were Timea Bacsinszky, Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Lucie Safarova and CoCo Vandeweghe…

Kvitova beat Cibulkova in last year’s final…Kvitova (2016,’14) is the lone former champion in the field.

 


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6 Comments for Muguruza, 8 of Top 10 at WTA Premier 5 Wuhan Open, Preview

gonzalowski Says:

Garbiñe Muguruza and Jelena Ostapenko will play on Thursday on Wuhan QF. Beautifuls’ duel ;)
Garbiñe’s QF leaves her 600 points ahead of Simona Halep, its more immediate pursuer in the ranking.


jalep Says:

http://wtafiles.wtatennis.com/pdf/rankings/Championship_Leaders.pdf

Leaders list for Race to Singapore:
1. Garbine Muguruza
2. Simona Halep
3. Karolina Pliskova
4. Elina Svitolina
5. Caroline Wozniacki
6. Venus Williams
7. Jelena Ostapenko
8. Johanna Konta
9. Kiki Mladenovic
10. Svetlana Kuznetsova

Eu live Race updates daily, so is slightly different. And has Karolina Pliskova ahead of Simona because Karolina made the Wuhan Quarterfinals. And the Eu live Race also gives the dividing line as tho who has qualified or not. According to this, Ostapenko, Konta, Mladenovic and Kuzentsova fall below the line!
http://live-tennis.eu/en/wta-race

Agree gonzalowski, Wuhan QF Garbine vs Jelena will be a beautiful Duel!


jalep Says:

Talking about the Race to Singapore ^^


jalep Says:

For Mira Andi or anyone interested – Seoul Final, 20 year old French Open winner, Jelena Ostapenko vs up and coming star 21 year old, Haddad Maia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ulQJ6xotzI

Haddad Maia is headed for greatness, imo.


AndyMira Says:

@j!….Thank u for the link up there!….Yeah!…Seoul like many other places featuring another underdog in Haddad maia….Who would have thought that she can go to the final!!….They’re all over the Tour now j!…Krunic,J.Fett,T.Maria,Z.Diyas,…It’s very interesting to see how they will fare in the future rc!…

Btw…..I’m surprised that Kiki is 9th on the race…she sucks for a long time now…always lost in 1st[mostly] & 2nd Rd respectively….I wanna see Maddy qualified for Singapore again this year…


gonzalowski Says:

Ostapenko beat Mugu, at the end, 3 sets. The Latvian player defeats for the first time in its trajectory to the present number 1 of the WTA.
The Baltic was more resolutive in the decisive points, it seems.

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