2011 Player Commitments

Top Players

Kim Clijsters*
Vera Zvonareva
Agnieszka Radwanska
Svetlana Kuznetsova*
Andrea Petkovic
Julia Goerges
Ana Ivanovic
Yanina Wickmayer
Shuai Peng
Flavia Pennetta

Additional Players

Daniela Hantuchova
Dominika Cibulkova
Maria Kirilenko
Jarmila Gajdosova
Roberta Vinci
Sara Errani
Elena Vesnina
Ekaterina Makarova
Alexandra Dulgheru

Sabine Lisicki and Vania King have entered the tournament

*Withdrew due to injury.

Pretty decent draw and having a bye really helps Daniela.

Zahlova Strycova beat Daniela at Wimbledon last year and she beat Petrova at Sydney and Kvitova at Indian Wells and she gave Wozniak a really tough match at Charleston but since then her form has been pretty average and the only good player she's beaten since has been Pennetta in Bastad. Daniela thrashed Scheepers in Seoul a couple of years ago and the only good player Scheepers has beaten this year was Kirilenko in Dubai. Zahlova Strycova beat Scheepers in Sydney qualifying.

Vinci's the first seed Daniela's due to face and she's got the same ranking points as Daniela right now but most of Vinci's points have come from winning Internationals with weak fields and her record against the top players and in the big tournaments has been fairly modest. At the same time Daniela has a 2-2 record against her and their matches have been close. Vinci is playing Jovanovski in the first round and Jovanovski is talented.

Agnieszka Radwanska would be the seeded quarter-final opponent and she beat Daniela in the semi-final last year but McHale and Gajdosova are in that section of the draw as well. Daniela still has to win a couple of matches before then.

It's important that Daniela has a good run here as this is one of the few tournaments until Pattaya where she has a lot of points to defend.

I think Aggy may be protecting a leg injury. She had strapping in Stanford..

Will there be a stream, too?

It looks like Daniela & Maria have withdrawn from the doubles as the livescore is showing Date-Krumm and Zhang Shuai playing Chuang & Govortsova. Kirilenko played earlier today and had a fairly easy win against Marino, so she may have picked up an injury there* or else Daniela's withdrawn, it just seems very strange. Date-Krumm and Zhang have played doubles a few times this year so they're a semi-regular team. Zhang was in the previous match on that court against Sloane Stephens so it'll be a liitle while before any match starts.

* Apparently Kirilenko had the trainer on during her match according to the Carlsbad twitter.

Oops...

Bojana Jovanovski goes to wrong town 900 miles away from match


Scott

Hopefully, she doesn't end up in Paris, Texas for Roland Garros next year.