Muguruza, 8 of Top 10 at WTA Premier 5 Wuhan Open, Preview
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2017 DONGFENG MOTOR WUHAN OPEN
Wuhan, China; surface: hard
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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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