Talk About Tennis 2.0

Tournament: San Diego Open
Location: San Diego, CA USA
Dates: February 26 - March 3, 2024
Level: WTA 500
Total Financial Commitment: $922,573
Surface: Hard

Seed Player Entry Ranking

1 Jessica Pegula 4
2 Karolina Muchova 10
3 Beatriz Haddad Maia 13
4 Emma Navarro 23
5 Marta Kostyuk 28
6 Dayana Yastremska 29
7 Lesia Tsurenko 31
8 Donna Vekic 34
Leylah Fernandez 37
Anna Kalinskaya 38
Xinyu Wang 40
Caroline Dolehide 41
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 42
Arantxa Rus 43
Tatjana Maria 44
Zhu Lin 45
Paula Badosa SR

Pretty weak field...wonder why? It is a 500...

Probably because lots of players want to take a break between the Middle East swing and IW/Miami.

It has been that way for a few years now. It makes no sense for so many top players to skip it; you could start our N. American spring swing there, and get to IW quickly and already with no jet lag.

Yes, but perhaps you also want to go home before jetting off to North America. Hardly any players are based in California.

Suliso wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:55 am Yes, but perhaps you also want to go home before jetting off to North America. Hardly any players are based in California.

Yes, but Indian Wells is next, which IS in California (well, sort of, anyway)...

it is a weak field anyway, and on top of that, it is not clear to me that Pegula, Muchova etc will actually play, through they are entered.. and even if they play, how well they will play..Pavly has pulled out of Dubai already, and BHM has been posting some poor results, so very murky, the whole thing..

The field is weak indeed, but still some interesting players further down (Fernandez and Kostyuk in particular)

Muchova probably has w/d already. No official notification yet. She showed that she had surgery on her wrist via Reddit.

patrick wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:59 pm Muchova probably has w/d already. No official notification yet. She showed that she had surgery on her wrist via Reddit.

i can't keep up with her injuries anymore. I'm more suprrised when she plays for a few months than when she doesn't.

patrick wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:59 pm Muchova probably has w/d already. No official notification yet. She showed that she had surgery on her wrist via Reddit.

i can't keep up with her injuries anymore. I'm more surprised when she plays for a few months than when she doesn't.

UPDATED MD Singles

San Diego, USA
Date: 2/26/2024 Original Cut Off: 45 Ranking Date: 1/29/2024
Draw Size: 28 Direct Acceptances: 17 Wild Cards: 4 Qualifiers: 6 Special Exempts: 1

Main Draw Singles

4 Pegula, Jessica (USA)
10 Muchova, Karolina (CZE)
13 Haddad Maia, Beatriz (BRA)
23 Navarro, Emma (USA)
28 Kostyuk, Marta (UKR)
29 Yastremska, Dayana (UKR)
31 Tsurenko, Lesia (UKR)
34 Vekic, Donna (CRO)
34 Badosa, Paula (ESP) SR
37 Fernandez, Leylah (CAN)
38 Kalinskaya, Anna (RUS)
40 Wang, Xinyu (CHN)
41 Dolehide, Caroline (USA)
42 Pavlyuchenkova, Anastasia (RUS)
43 Rus, Arantxa (NED)
44 Maria, Tatjana (GER)
45 Zhu, Lin (CHN)
IN 46 Gracheva, Varvara (RUS)

Alternates
47 Kenin, Sofia (USA)

Isn't Gracheva the woman who now plays for France or am thinking about a different player?

Qualifying Draw

1 BURRAGE, Jodie GBR vs MELNIKOVA, Marina
MAKAROVA, Ekaterina vs 8 SRAMKOVA, Rebecca SVK

2 DAY, Kayla USA vs WC SIEG, Madison USA
WC AHN, Alyssa USA vs 12 LI, Ann USA

3 TIMOFEEVA, Maria vs WC STAKUSIC, Marina CAN
WC GIAVARA, Haley USA vs 11 JACQUEMOT, Elsa FRA

4 LIU, Claire USA vs FUNG, Stacey CAN
STEVANOVIC, Natalija SRB vs 7 NIEMEIER, Jule GER

5 HONTAMA, Mai JPN vs PAPAMICHAIL, Despina GRE
PATTINAMA KERKHOVE, Lesley NED vs 9 GALFI, Dalma HUN

6 FRUHVIRTOVA, Linda CZE vs KOLODYNSKA, Jana
CHANG, Hanna USA vs 10 SAVILLE, Daria

Main Draw Singles

1 PEGULA, Jessica USA/Bye
Qualifier vs GRACHEVA, Varvara FRA
WC WOZNIACKI, Caroline DEN vs BLINKOVA, Anna
DOLEHIDE, Caroline USA vs 5 YASTREMSKA, Dayana UKR

4 PAVLYUCHENKOVA, Anastasia/Bye
TAUSON, Clara DEN vs WANG, Xinyu CHN
WC PRESTON, Taylah AUS vs FRECH, Magdalena POL
Qualifier vs 6 KOSTYUK, Marta UKR

8 FERNANDEZ, Leylah CAN vs MARIA, Tatjana GER
Qualifier vs ZHU, Lin CHN
Qualifier vs SINIAKOVA, Katerina CZE
Bye/3 NAVARRO, Emma USA

7 VEKIC, Donna CRO vs WC HUI, Katherine USA
Qualifier vs Qualifier
TSURENKO, Lesia UKR vs BOULTER, Katie GBR
Bye/2 HADDAD MAIA, Beatriz