[indianstory]

21 players in qualifying

17 from China
4 from outside of China

China went 0 for 17 in qualifying
Outside of China went 4 for 4 in qualifying

WOW. That was my first reaction.

My second was it probably wouldn't be too hard to find an American tournament with the same stats...

[BronUVT]

RESULTS

[sherrferris]

RESULTS

I haven't been paying close attention, but I'm assuming that in the first round, Craybas d. Death.

[lopesmili]

Sun/Yan def. Pavlyuchenkova/Kudryavtseva could be the biggest upset ever if skill was represented in surname length.

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TOE Life Ceramics Guangzhou International Women's Open

Guangzhou, China
September 15-21, 2008
Tier III
Prize Money: $175,000
Draw: 32M/32Q/16D
Surface: Hardcourt/Outdoors
Tournament Director: Naizhen Li

Official Web Site:
www.gztennis.com

Main Draw

1 ZVONAREVA Vera RUS 11
2 SCHNYDER Patty SUI 16
3 DULKO Gisela ARG 35
4 SANTANGELO Mara ITA 35(SR)
5 ZHENG Jie CHN 38
6 PARMENTIER Pauline FRA 46
7 GOVORTSOVA Olga BLR 47
8 PENG Shuai CHN 50
9 YAN Zi CHN 52
10 KORYTTSEVA Mariya UKR 53
11 DOMACHOWSKA Marta POL 54
12 KNAPP Karin ITA 62
13 RODIONOVA Anastasia RUS 66
14 PASZEK Tamira AUT 67
15 CHAN Yung-jan TPE 70
16 WICKMAYER Yanina BEL 72
17 CRAYBAS Jill USA 75
18 AMANMURADOVA Akgul UZB 77
19 PIN Camille FRA 80
20PAVLYUCHENKOVA Anastasia RUS 85
21 KUDRYAVTSEVA Alla RUS 90
22 DUBOIS Stephanie CAN 105
23 OLARU Ioana Raluca ROU 122
24 WC
25 WC
26 WC
27 Q
28 Q
29 Q
30 Q
31 KAPROS Aniko HUN (Feed Up)
32 DZEHALEVICH Ekaterina BLR (Feed Up)

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Qualifying Draw

(1)Tatiana Poutchek (BLR) v BYE
(wc)Shitong Shao (CHN) v BYE

Lei Huang (CHN) v (wc)Chun-Yan He (CHN)
(6)Yi-Fan Xu (CHN) v BYE

(2)Anastasia Pivovarova (RUS) v BYE
(wc)Shiying Li (CHN) v BYE

(wc)Jia-Jing Lu (CHN) v (wc)Xiao Zhou (CHN)
(7/wc)Yanchong Chen (CHN) v BYE

(3)Ye-Ra Lee (KOR) v BYE
Wanting Liu (CHN) v BYE

Qiang Wang (CHN) v (wc)Si-Si Qiu (CHN)
(5)Xinyun Han (CHN) v BYE

(4)Arantxa Rus (NED) v BYE
Chunmei Ji (CHN) v (wc)Chen Liang (CHN)

Shaozhuo Liu (CHN) v (wc)Jia Xiang Lu (CHN)
(8/wc)Yijing Zhao (CHN) v BYE

[replrobin]

Is Sania still slated to play here?

[agildeta]

Fixed the Main Draw since I finally found it on official site. No, doesn't look like Sania is here Moose.

[jhkjurter]

I was trying to enter the qualifying but apparently I'm not Chinese enough.

[ArrichMer]

Is Sania still slated to play here?

I don't think she's going to play until next year, because of the new wrist injury (as well as recovery from the previous wrist surgery). Right now, she's in danger of falling out of the top 100