Swiatek May Face Qinwen Zheng in First Match at Stacked Stuttgart

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday April 16, 2023

The stage is about for 2023’s first 500-level event on European clay, because the draw is about for subsequent week’s Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, with defending champion Iga Swiatek on the high of the desk.

Nine of the WTA’s Top 10 are within the draw (solely Jessica Pegula is lacking). See the whole draw right here:

The @PorscheTennis draw, as anticipated, is stacked. Iga Swiatek’s first opponent could possibly be China’s Zheng Qinwen… So many good first-rounders. pic.twitter.com/eXLim8fSzT

— TennisNow (@Tennis_Now) April 16, 2023

Here’s is Swiatek’s potential and projected path to the title:

R1 – BYE
R2 – Zheng Qinwen or qualifier
QF – [8] Sakkari, Karolina Pliskova, Donna Vekic or Ekaterina Alexandrova
SF – [6] Rybakina, Ons Jabeur, Jelena Ostapenko, Emma Raducanu, Beatriz Haddad Maia
F – [2] Sabalenka, [4] Garcia, [5] Gauff, Kvitova, Krejcikova, Samsonova

Back on purple clay 🧡

The defending @PorscheTennis champ is again, @iga_swiatek! pic.twitter.com/B3Ox3L0rh4

— wta (@WTA) April 16, 2023

Popcorn First-Rounders

All the primary spherical matches are magnificent, however we’ll select our high three:

[8] Maria Sakkari v Karolina Pliskova: 3-3 head-to-head

Barbora Krejcikova v Liudmila Samsonova: The Russian took their lone assembly in straight units at Abu Dhabi.

Petra Kvitova v Anastasia Potapova: Kvitova received their lone assembly in 2021 at Ostrava. Both gamers performed extraordinarily properly on the Sunshine Double.