Every year, the ranks of the tournaments in Dubai and Doha are changed. This year, the 500 tournament is taking place in the United Arab Emirates and the WTA 1000 in Qatar. For Iga Świątek it will be the second participation in Qatar Total Open in her career. Two years ago she said goodbye to further struggles in the second round.
Iga Świątek met potential rivals
In this year’s edition of the tournament, seeded with the “seven”, the best Poland was given a free fate at the beginning. In the second round, Viktorija Golubić from Switzerland or a competitor from the qualifying round will be waiting for her. In the following rounds, Świątek can play against Jelena Rybakina from Kazakhstan, Marka Vondrousova from the Czech Republic, Russia or Alja Tomljanović from Australia.
was drawn in the first quarter of the tournament bracket. In the event of promotion to the quarter-finals, she may hit the highest-seeded Aryna Sabalenka. The Belarusian woman will make her debut in the tournament with the match with the French Alize Cornet or the Russian Ludmila Samsonova. In the third round, she can wait for, among others, German Angelique Kerber.
Bad luck for Magda Linette
Many female tennis stars, however, found themselves in the second quarter. Among the highest seeded tennis players are Paula Badosa from Spain and Maria Sakkari from Greece. In addition, the draw for this part was a Romanian Simona Halep, a Czech who won in last year’s edition of the tournament, and a Swiss, Belinda Benici, an Olympic gold medalist from Tokyo.
Another Pole can talk about a lot of bad luck in the draw. She made it to the bottom of the bracket and will face Alison Riske from the very beginning. In case of victory in the second phase, he will play against Czech Barbara Krejcikova. Therefore, the Poznan inhabitant will not have an easy task.
Source: Sport
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