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Tournament: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Date: April 15 – April 21, 2024
Category: WTA 500
Surface: Clay
Prize Money: $922,573 (Distribution Overview)

Name Country WTA Ranking

1 Swiatek, Iga Poland POL 1
2 Sabalenka, Aryna 2
3 Gauff, Coco USA USA 3
4 Rybakina, Elena Kazakhstan KAZ 4
5 Pegula, Jessica USA USA 5
6 Jabeur, Ons Tunisia TUN 6
7 Zheng, Qinwen China CHN 7
8 Vondrousova, Marketa Czech Republic CZE 8
9 Ostapenko, Jelena Latvia LAT 10
10 Paolini, Jasmin Italy ITA 14
11 Samsonova, Liudmila 15
12 Alexandrova, Ekaterina 16
13 Kudermetova, Veronika 19
14 Navarro, Emma USA USA 20
15 Krejcikova, Barbora Czech Republic CZE 21
16 Cirstea, Sorana Romania ROU 24
17 Kostyuk, Marta Ukraine UKR 26
18 Mertens, Elise Belgium BEL 28
19 Potapova, Anastasia 29
20 Noskova, Linda Czech Republic CZE 31
21 W Maria, Tatjana Germany GER 48
22 W Siegemund, Laura Germany GER 91
23 W Raducanu, Emma Great Britain GBR 288
24 W Kerber, Angelique Germany GER 342

Steur, Joelle Germany GER 669
Guth, Mara Germany GER 521
Kuhl, Carolina Germany GER 421
Daems, Josy

Qualifying Entry List

Nr. Name Country Rank

1 ANNA KALINSKAYA - 25
2 DANIELLE COLLINS USA 53
3 DIANA SHNAIDER - 62
4 GREET MINNEN BEL 79
5 PAULA BADOSA ESP 80
6 OCEANE DODIN FRA 84
7 LAURA SIEGEMUND GER 91
8 KAMILLA RAKHIMOVA - 95
9 HAILEY BAPTISTE USA 96
10 SARA ERRANI ITA 97
11 ALIAKSANDRA SASNOVICH - 103
12 MARINA BASSOLS RIBERA ESP 107
13 JULE NIEMEIER GER 112
14 SARA BEJLEK CZE 130
WC ELLA SEIDEL GER 150
WC NASTASJA SCHUNK GER 61

Round 1 Prize $4,200
Round 2 Prize $7,010

RUS A. Kalinskaya (1) vs GER C. Kuhl
LIE K. Von Deichmann vs ITA S. Errani (5)

RUS D. Shnaider (2) vs RUS V. Zvonareva
CYP R. Serban vs CZE S. Bejlek (8)

BEL G. Minnen (3) vs AUS O. Gadecki
GER N. Schunk vs USA S. Vickery (7)

FRA O. Dodin (4) vs GER E. Seidel
CRO J. Fett vs BLR A. Sasnovich (6)

Monday Order of Play

Centre Court
Starts at 11:00 AM

RUS D. SHNAIDER vs ESP P. BADOSA
Followed By
RUS V. KUDERMETOVA vs CZE B. KREJCIKOVA

Court 1
Starts at 8:00 AM

RUS A. POTAPOVA/RUS V. ZVONAREVA vs USA A. MUHAMMAD/INA A. SUTJIADI (4)
Followed by
USA S. VICKERY vs BLR A. SASNOVICH


https://wtafiles.wtatennis.com/pdf/draw ... 051/OP.pdf

Too early to say, but Stuttgart is often a good early indicator for the French...better than Madrid and Rome, actually..

I am not yet convinced Coco is really good on clay, not Pegula...so I expect the big 3 to dominate this .Swiatek, Sabalenka, Rybakina..

As for the rest, Samsonova is good on clay, Alexandrova is not ..Jabeur is probably still hobbled by injuries..Osta is playing well and is a FO champ...very interested to see how Krejcikova does..love her silky smooth shotmaking..

Remember Ostapenko's record at RG. It is incredibly odd. Starting in 2016:
1r, W, 1r, 1r, 3r, 1r, 2r, 2r.
The oddest slam champion that I can think of.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:53 pm Remember Ostapenko's record at RG. It is incredibly odd. Starting in 2016:
1r, W, 1r, 1r, 3r, 1r, 2r, 2r.
The oddest slam champion that I can think of.

True but she has been doing reasonably well on hard courts (except against Vika!)

Tuesday Order of Play

Centre Court
Starts at 6:30 AM

ITA J. PAOLINI vs ITA S. ERRANI
Followed by
CHN Q. ZHENG (5) vs ROU S. CIRSTEA
Followed by
CZE M. VONDROUSOVA (6) vs CRO D. VEKIC
Followed by
GER T. MARIA vs BEL E. MERTENS
Followed by
CZE L. NOSKOVA vs LAT J. OSTAPENKO (8)

Court 1
Starts at 6:30 AM

USA D. KRAWCZYK/NED D. SCHUURS (1) vs GER N. SCHUNK/GER E. SEIDEL
Followed by
JPN S. AOYAMA/UKR N. KICHENOK (3) vs ESP P. BADOSA/TUN O. JABEUR
Followed by
TPE F. WU/CHN Y. XU vs CZE B. KREJCIKOVA/GER L. SIEGEMUND (2)
Followed by
RUS L. SAMSONOVA/RUS D. SHNAIDER vs SVK T. MIHALIKOVA/RUS Y. SIZIKOVA

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:53 pm Remember Ostapenko's record at RG. It is incredibly odd. Starting in 2016:
1r, W, 1r, 1r, 3r, 1r, 2r, 2r.
The oddest slam champion that I can think of.

Strangely enough she has done better at Wimbledon..!

She has said her favorite surface is grass. And with her go for broke style, you can bet it is.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:53 pm Remember Ostapenko's record at RG. It is incredibly odd. Starting in 2016:
1r, W, 1r, 1r, 3r, 1r, 2r, 2r.
The oddest slam champion that I can think of.

i mean really... there is only one truly odd result in there

I love her, though...

great win for QZ over Cirstea, and Paolini over Errani.. of course Cirstea is not a clay court specialist as such (i think) and QZ is very good on clay.. may be she is the one who will surprise us at the FO