[Pelefaifs]

Tier: Tour Event
Prize Money: $2,000,000
Surface: Hard/Outdoors
Tournament Director: Karl Hale

1 Safina, Dinara RUS (1)
2 Williams, Serena USA (2)
3 Williams, Venus USA (3)
4 Dementieva, Elena RUS (4)
5 Kuznetsova, Svetlana RUS (5)
6 Jankovic, Jelena SRB (6)
7 Zvonareva, Vera RUS (7)
8 Azarenka, Victoria BLR (8)
9 Wozniacki, Caroline DEN (9)
10 Petrova, Nadia RUS (10)
11 Ivanovic, Ana SRB (11)
12 Cibulkova, Dominika SVK (12)
13 Bartoli, Marion FRA (13)
14 Radwanska, Agnieszka POL (14)
15 Pennetta, Flavia ITA (15)
16 Mauresmo, Amelie FRA (16)
17 Razzano, Virginie FRA (17)
18 Li, Na CHN (18)
19 Stosur, Samantha AUS (19)
20 Medina Garrigues, Anabel ESP (20)
21 Schnyder, Patty SUI (21)
22 Wozniak, Aleksandra CAN (22)
23 Cornet, Alize FRA (23)
24 Zheng, Jie CHN (24)
25 Kanepi, Kaia EST (25)
26 Lisicki, Sabine GER (26)
27 Hantuchova, Daniela SVK (27)
28 Schiavone, Francesca ITA (28)
29 Bammer, Sybille AUT (30)
30 Benesova, Iveta CZE (31)
31 Suarez Navarro, Carla ESP (32)
32 Vesnina, Elena RUS (34)
33 Kleybanova, Alisa RUS (35)
34 Bondarenko, Alona UKR (36)
35 Szavay, Agnes HUN (37)
36 Errani, Sara ITA (38)
37 Peng, Shuai CHN (39)
38 Sharapova, Maria RUS (60)*
39 Peer, Shahar ISR (63)**
40 Clijsters, KIM BEL (NR) WC
41WC
42WC
43WC
44WC
45 QUALIFIER
46 QUALIFIER
47 QUALIFIER
48 QUALIFIER
49 QUALIFIER
50 QUALIFIER
51 QUALIFIER
52 QUALIFIER
53 QUALIFIER
54 QUALIFIER
55 QUALIFIER
56 QUALIFIER

*Maria Sharapova is a Tour Top Ten commitment based on 2008 year end rankings

**Shahar Peer is granted direct entry by the Tour due tonot having been entered in Dubai(also a Premier 5)

[ancexttew]

For our friends in Toronto...

From @SonyEricssonWTA twitter page:
If you're in Toronto on Monday, head to Yonge/Dundas Streets at Noon for a special Sony Ericsson event with Ivanovic and Safina!

[CicyHannyCeli]

Dinara and Venus on the top half while Serena and Elena represent the botton half

Maria vs Nadia in the first round.

Dinara/Jelena first Q
Venus/Vera 2nd Q
Svetlana/Elena 3rd Q
Caroline/Serena 4th Q

For Dry, Flavia is in the quarter with Svetlana and Elena if I heard correctly.

[staisacic]

Dinara and Venus on the top half while Serena and Elena represent the botton half

Maria vs Nadia in the first round. ()

Dinara/Jelena first Q
Venus/Vera 2nd Q (Great win, Vera.)
Svetlana/Elena 3rd Q
Caroline/Serena 4th Q (Great win, Caroline, after you beat whoever you'll face in the QF.)

For Dry, Flavia is in the quarter with Svetlana and Elena if I heard correctly.

Where's Kim? And Szavay? And Sprem? And Cibulkova? And Suarez Navarro? And Lisicki? And Kleybanova? And Karatantcheva? And what if Alicia Molik comes back? Or Magdalena Grzybowska? Or......

[bobibnoxx]

Nadia vs Maria AGAIN???

[staisacic]

Nadia vs Maria AGAIN???

.....Haven't you heard? The draws are always rigged.....

It truly IS absurd, though. Poor Nadia.

[Pelefaifs]

Main Draw

[1]Dinara Safina vs BYE
Alize Cornet vs Aravane Rezai
Alisa Kleybanova vs Aleksandra Wozniak
Sara Errani vs [16] Dominika Cibulkova

[9] Victoria Azarenka vs Shuai Peng
Qualifier vs Kim Clijsters
Anabel Medina Garrigues vs Patty Schnyder
BYE vs [5] Jelena Jankovic

[3] Venus Williams vs BYE
qualifier vs qualifier
Valerie Tetreault vs Agnes Szavay
Carla Suarez Navarro vs [14]Agnieszka Radwanska

[10]Nadia Petrova vs Maria Sharapova
Sybille Bammer vs Anna Chakvetadze
Qualifier vs Stephanie Dubois
BYE vs [7] Vera Zvonareva

[6] Svetlana Kuznetsova vs BYE
Qualifier vs Samantha Stosur
Virginie Razzano vs Ekaterina Makarova
Qualifier vs [12]Flavia Pennetta

[15] Amelie Mauresmo vs Francesca Schiavone
Shahar Peer vs Qualifier
Iveta Benesova vs Ai Sugiyama
BYE vs [4] Elena Dementieva

[8]Caroline Wozniacki vs BYE
Elena Vesnina vs Jie Zheng
Qualifier vs Kaia Kanepi
Qualifier vs [11]Ana Ivanovic

[13]Marion Bartoli vs Alona Bondarenko
Qualifier vs Qualifier
Qualifier vs Daniela Hantuchova
BYE vs[2] Serena Williams

[staisacic]

Found this in the tournament's website: "The (pre-qualifying) final between Gloria and Pelletier will be played Friday at 10 a.m. on Aleksandra Wozniak Grandstand Court at Rexall Centre."

Doesn't take much to be a WTA Legend in Canada, apparently......

[staisacic]

Where's Kim? And Szavay? And Sprem? And Cibulkova? And Suarez Navarro? And Lisicki? And Kleybanova? And Karatantcheva? And what if Alicia Molik comes back? Or Magdalena Grzybowska? Or......

Edit.....after seeing the current draw for V.....

Where's Qualifier/Qualifier? Kim? And Szavay? And Sprem? And Cibulkova? And Suarez Navarro? And Lisicki? And Kleybanova? And Karatantcheva? And what if Alicia Molik comes back? Or Magdalena Grzybowska? Or......

[Pelefaifs]

Qualifying Draw

(1)Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs (WC)Heidi El Tabakh
(WC)Marie-Eve Pelletier vs (23)Sania Mirza

(2)Gisela Dulko vs (WC)Tristen Z. Dewar
Vania King vs (22)Monica Niculescu

(3)María José Martínez Sánchez vs Ekaterina Bychkova
Akgul Amanmuradova vs (15)Yaroslava Shvedova

(4)Vera Dushevina vs Alla Kudryavtseva
Camille Pin vs (14)Tathiana Garbin

(5)Lucie Safarova vs Nuria Llagostera Vives
Arantxa Parra Santonja vs (16)Urszula Radwanska

(6)Roberta Vinci vs Galina Voskoboeva
Viktoriya Kutuzova vs (13)Lucie Hradecka


(7)Magdalena Rybarikova vs Laura Granville
Anastasia Rodionova vs (24)Alexandra Dulgheru

(8)Anna-Lena Groenefeld vs Elena Baltacha
(WC)Rebecca Marino vs (21)Kristina Barrois

(9)Maria Kirilenko vs Tatjana Malek
Michelle Larcher De Brito vs (20)Petra Kvitova

(10)Andrea Petkovic vs Julia Schruff
Masa Zec-Peskiric vs (17)Julie Coin

(11) Ioana Raluca Olaru vs Alberta Brianti
(WC)Eugenie Bouchard vs (19)Kateryna Bondarenko

(12)Yanina Wickmayer vs Stefanie Voegele
(WC)Sharon Fichman vs (18)Ayumi Morita

[#[SoftAzerZx]]

Found this in the tournament's website: "The (pre-qualifying) final between Gloria and Pelletier will be played Friday at 10 a.m. on Aleksandra Wozniak Grandstand Court at Rexall Centre."

Doesn't take much to be a WTA Legend in Canada, apparently......

Hmmmm. A few years ago, it was the Daniel Nestor Grandstand Court.


About the draw: Clijsters gets Azarenka in the second round. That should be a real test. And then potentially Azarenka-Jankovic in the R16. Stupid Jankovic winning messed me up from utter domination in this week's WTA predictions.

Short of facing qualifiers, Wozniak has a fairly favourable draw to at least get to R16.

[smifatv]

Maria vs Nadia in the first round.

[Automobill]

Stupid Jankovic winning messed me up from utter domination in this week's WTA predictions.

Me too so it wouldn't have been a domination anyway.

[#[SoftAzerZx]]

I was just kidding about the "domination" thing. I was just pleased about not being caught in the Williams sister trap.

[bobibnoxx]

So,

1) Pavlyuchenkova lost to a random local wildcard in qualies
2) Kirilenko is ranked 9th... in qualifying

I sure know how to pick them

[gardenerextraordinaire]

So,

1) Pavlyuchenkova lost to a random local wildcard in qualies
2) Kirilenko is ranked 9th... in qualifying

I sure know how to pick them

Serena is always looking for new fans.

[bobibnoxx]

Serena is always looking for new fans.

What, yet another player who can't beat Sybille Bammer?

[payporanymn]

What, yet another player who can't beat Sybille Bammer?

Ouch! Serena will order her anaesthesia now, hold the #1 ranking.

[leacturavar]

Found this in the tournament's website: "The (pre-qualifying) final between Gloria and Pelletier will be played Friday at 10 a.m. on Aleksandra Wozniak Grandstand Court at Rexall Centre."

Are you serious?

[#[SoftAzerZx]]

We spent most of the afternoon at Rogers Cup qualifying yesterday. Watched a few matches, mostly wandered around watching practice sessions. I'll post a recap and pictures soon, but my son and I got a picture taken with Anna Chakvetadze.