Paula Badosafirst favorite, will debut in Guadalajara WTA 1,000 in the second round against the winner of the match between Belarusians Victoria Azarenko and the Chinese Shuai Zhang. It is in a contest where They decided to resign the first three in the ranking, Iga Swiatek, Ons Jabeur and Anett Kontaveithave qualified for the WTA Finals and are ready to maintain their momentum ahead of the ‘Tournament of Teachers’ to be played next week.
The ‘draw’ ceremony decided that Badosa, who is ranked fourth in the WTA, will be eliminated in the round of 64 and will have a tough match in her first appearance as Azarenka, two-time Australian champion, is the 24th racket in the world and Zhang , the 27th.
The rivalry between Azarenka, who has been the best player in the world for 51 weeks, and the Chinese will be one of the most attractive at the start of the Master 1,000, which will take place on a hard surface with a prize of two million 527,250 dollars .
The second seed, the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenkawill also debut in the second round against the best between the Russian Liumila Samsónova, twenty-three players in the WTA, and the Estonian Kaia Kanepi (33).
Among the most interesting matches in the first round is the Canadian Leyla FernandezUS Open 2021 finalist against the Swiss Belinda Bencicfifteenth in the ranking, and the Czech Karolina Pliskova (22) against Kazakh Elena Rybakina (26).
the American Jessica Pegulaseeded third, will debut in the second round against the winner of the split Rybakina and Pliskova and the fourth favorite, the Greek Maria Sakkar will face the winner between the Ukrainian in its first match Marta Kostyuk and the Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich.
The WTA 1,000 will be the preview of the Masters tournament, which was won last year in Guadalajara by the Spanish Garbiñe Muguruza, and will be held in the last week of this month in Fort Worth, United States.
Source: La Verdad
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