Wozniacki, Murray Fan Favorites at ATP/WTA Eastbourne
A strong women’s field and a weak men’s field given a jolt by unseeded Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka headline the Nature Valley International combined men’s and women’s events this week in Eastbourne.
NATURE VALLEY INTERNATIONAL
EASTBOURNE, Great Britain; surface: grass
Women’s Seeds: Caroline Wozniacki, Karolina Pliskova, Petra Kvitova, Angelique Kerber, Jelena Ostapenko, Julia Goerges, Daria Kasatkina, Ashleigh Barty, Elise Mertens, Magdalena Rybarikova, Anastasija Sevastova, Kiki Bertens, Johanna Konta, Barbora Strycova, Daria Gavrilova, Carla Suarez Navarro
Women’s Floaters: Camila Giorgi, Irina-Camelia Begu, Dominika Cibulkova, Ekaterina Makarova, Aggie Radwanska
Women’s Notes:
All 16 seeds receive opening-round byes…
Three of the Top 10 headline a strong Eastbourne field a week before Wimbledon…
Tough starts for (1) Wozniacki vs. the Giorgi/Begu winner, (4) Kerber vs. the Cibulkova/Makarova winner, and (15) Gavrilova vs. Radwanska…
Wildcards were awarded to Sam Stosur and Brits Harriet Dart, Katie Swan and Heather Watson…
Pulling out of the field were world No. 1 Simona Halep, CiCi Bellis, Naomi Osaka, Lesia Tsurenko and Elena Vesnina…
Former champions in the field are Pliskova (2017), Cibulkova (2016), Makarova (2010), Wozniacki (2009), Radwanska (2008) and Kuznetsova (2004).
Men’s Seeds: Diego Schwartzman, Kyle Edmund, Denis Shapovalov, Marco Cecchinato, Leonardo Mayer, David Ferrer, Steve Johnson, Marton Fucsovics
Men’s Floaters: Andy Murray, Stan Wawrinka, (WC) Cameron Norrie, Andreas Seppi, Gilles Muller, Gilles Simon, Daniil Medvedev, Mischa Zverev
Men’s Notes:
The unseeded Murray and Wawrinka are the story here as the seeds contain no Top 10 players and only two in the Top 20…
The Top 4 seeds receive opening-round byes…
Murray and Wawrinka square off first round, winner to meet (2) Edmund…Other openers of interest are (8) Fuchsovics vs. the grass-ready Brit (WC) Norrie, the rookie (4) Ceccinato vs. the veteran Seppi, (5) Mayer vs. Simon (winner to meet Muller), and (7) Johnson vs. Medvedev (winner to face M.Zverev)…
(3) Shapovalov starts against the all-American Jared Donaldson vs. Taylor Fritz winner…
Wildcards were awarded to Murray, Wawrinka and Norrie…
Withdrawing from the event were Alexandr Dolgopolov, Peter Gojowczyk, Filip Krajinovic, Feliciano Lopez, and Tennys Sandgren…
Seppi (2011) is the lone former champion in the field.
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