2013 SONY OPEN TENNIS PLAYERS

Note: Rankings positions are shown as of February 4, the entry deadline for the tournament. (Tournament seedings are based on rankings as of March 18.)

2013 Women's Line Up By Rank

Azarenka, Victoria 1 BLR
Williams, Serena 2 USA
Sharapova, Maria 3 RUS
Radwanska, Agnieszka 4 POL
Li, Na 5 CHN
Kerber, Angelique 6 GER
Errani, Sara 7 ITA
Kvitova, Petra 8 CZE
Stosur, Samantha 9 AUS
Bartoli, Marion 10 FRA
Wozniacki, Caroline 11 DEN
Petrova, Nadia 12 RUS
Kirilenko, Maria 13 RUS
Ivanovic, Ana 14 SRB
Cibulkova, Dominika 15 SVK
Vinci, Roberta 16 ITA
Stephens, Sloane 17 USA
Safarova, Lucie 18 CZE
Goerges, Julia 19 GER
Makarova, Ekaterina 20 RUS
Lepchenko, Varvara 21 USA
Wickmayer, Yanina 22 BEL
Williams, Venus 23 USA
Zakopalova, Klara 24 CZE
Hsieh, Su-wei 25 TPE
Jankovic, Jelena 26 SRB
Cirstea, Sorana 27 ROU
Barthel, Mona 28 GER
Paszek, Tamira 29 AUT
Suarez Navarro, Carla 30 ESP
Pavlyuchenkova, Anastasia 31 RUS
Shvedova, Yaroslava 32 KAZ
Vesnina, Elena 33 RUS
Flipkens, Kirsten 34 BEL
Peng, Shuai 35 CHN
Cornet, Alize 36 FRA
Radwanska, Urszula 37 POL
Arvidsson, Sofia 38 SWE
Jovanovski, Bojana 39 SRB
Lisicki, Sabine 40 GER
Watson, Heather 41 GBR
McHale, Christina 43 USA
Pironkova, Tsvetana 44 BUL
Robson, Laura 45 GBR
Zheng, Jie 46 CHN
Begu, Irina-Camelia 47 ROU
Wozniak, Aleksandra 48 CAN
Halep, Simona 49 ROU
Bertens, Kiki 50 NED
Dominguez Lino, Lourdes 51 ESP
Kuznetsova, Svetlana 52 RUS
Hradecka, Lucie 53 CZE
Schiavone, Francesca 54 ITA
Rybarikova, Magdalena 55 SVK
Govortsova, Olga 56 BLR
Morita, Ayumi 57 JPN
Hantuchova, Daniela 58 SVK
Dulgheru, Alexandera 58 SR ROU
Tatishvili, Anna 59 GEO
Pennetta, Flavia 60 ITA
Niculescu, Monica 61 ROU
Martic, Petra 62 CRO
Medina Garrigues, Anabel 63 ESP
Hampton, Jamie 64 USA
Scheepers, Chanelle 65 RSA
Cetkovska, Petra 66 CZE
Oprandi, Romina 67 SUI
Beck, Annika 68 GER
Mladenovic, Kristina 69 FRA
Hlavackova, Andrea 70 CZE
Larsson, Johanna 71 SWE
Tsurenko, Lesia 72 UKR
Pervak, Ksenia 73 KAZ
Erakovic, Marina 74 NZL
Rus, Arantxa 75 NED
Parmentier, Pauline 76 FRA
Date-Krumm, Kimiko 77 JPN
WC - Keys, Madison 77 USA
WC - Muguruza, Garbine 95 ESP
WC - Puig, Monica 102 PUR
WC - Bouchard, Eugenie 123 CAN
WC - Petkovic, Andrea 177 GER
WC - Tomljanovic, Ajla 253 CRO
WC - Kontaveit, Anett 362 EST
WC - Kontaveit, Anett 362 EST
WC - Duval, Victoria 370 USA
Women's ranks as of Feb. 4, 2013

Hopefully, Daniela's fully fit

Certainly I don't want to put the jinx on her, but I'd like to think that Daniela is as fit now as she's been since Eastbourne in '11. She plays singles & doubles in every tourney. and it seems like every day in the Forum, someone's posting practice or training pictures of her. My best hope is that she somehow draws a beatable person in the 2nd round should she get to it, or that if she gets a top 5 player, that person will have endured a bad manicure! Realistically, Dani probably drops 30 pts., but as we all know, the real climb begins in Charleston. And I like that she chose to play there, not only because it's a kick start into the clay season, but that Dani remains in the USA for a few more days. Makes America a better place!

Daniela opens against Tsvetana Pironkova (#46 this week, one prior meeting, 2011 Rome, Dani belted her 4 & 2), don't know yet if tomorrow or Wednesday. If successful, she gets Errani (again?), who as #8 is the highest seeded player in her quarter. The other seeds in the quarter are Paszek, Makarova and the dreaded Ivanovic. If Dani got hot here, she would not see a top 4 player until the semis (Sharapova). Hmmmm. You know I'm no optimist and Pironkova could easily win (she's on a 6 match losing streak right now, winning 1 out of 13 sets...gulp...never want to face anyone who's been going that bad, she's way overdue to all of a sudden play well, and that would hardly be something we haven't seen before), but this might about as good as it could be for Dani. Fingers crossed!

Hmmm...a very interesting draw. A deep run is certainly possible...but first she must get past Pironkova. Errani 2r AGAIN. 3r looks really tasty as all are beatable.

4R here would be wonderful, but any win in these big tournaments is always welcome.

Love your avatar, Mik loves dani. Every time I see Daniela come out with that subtle fist pump after winning a point, I smile inside.
Daniela-bel opens with Madison Keys/Ajla Tomljanovic (that name should be used as a word in the final rounds of a spelling bee!). See if their progress continues.

Feature court; 1st match. Love it! Dani often does well first out of the gate, as we have seen. I enjoy it a lot when she plays in my time zone. She was 1st up when I saw her in Miami last year, and that worked out.

No livestreams? meh

Up a break 3-1
Breaks again 4-1

Get that breadstick, Daniela.

Set Daniela, 6-2

Got the job done 6-2 6-4 (made that last game a little bit hard by missing her first MP).

Serving stats do not look encouraging.