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$uricate · Jan 4th, 2013, 06:39 PM

Wow, the seeds are all really close together in the rankings. #25-#38. Then Barthel and Shuai at 39 and 40.

The ten highest ranked players have only 15 places between them, which is unusual when the top seed is ranked #25.

I say it's too close to call.

LefandePatty · Jan 4th, 2013, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by coolfish1103

If Pavlyuchenkova withdraws early then Barthel can be possibly moved as seed 9 for seeding. Sadly another withdrawal is needed for Peng to move away from Hsieh. I don't even know if Peng can get to Hobart on time in suited condition since there's no direct flight from Hong Kong to Hobart.

Let's hope she will

We'll see what she says after the final.

As for Shushu, I'm not scared about her match against Hsieh, the latter shouldn't cause her too much trouble, considering her current poor form.

lenas warriors · Jan 4th, 2013, 11:01 PM

Barthel to defend

Archer16 · Jan 5th, 2013, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by $uricate

Wow, the seeds are all really close together in the rankings. #25-#38. Then Barthel and Shuai at 39 and 40.

The ten highest ranked players have only 15 places between them, which is unusual when the top seed is ranked #25.

I say it's too close to call.

Yes I was also going to point that out. I can't recall such a tight INT draw. Even if you go down the draw the 25th player (out of 28 direct entrants) is #68 Vesnina, with more than half ranking points of the top seed. That's unprecedented in an international.
(P.S. iinm a couple of players have withdrawn, but I haven't seen the revised draw)

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Originally Posted by nazzac

Hard to predict the winner of this. Most of these players are inconsistent. Can be brilliant one match and crap the next, so it's going to be interesting

And that too

Exordes · Jan 5th, 2013, 03:27 PM

Now that Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova has decided to withdraw from Hobart, I would change my mind for Klara Zakopalova, 30, the most promising Czech player at the moment, or at least Shenzhen finalist 2013...

MashaAzarenka · Jan 5th, 2013, 04:28 PM

I'm going with Barthel on this one

lupojohn · Jan 5th, 2013, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Petkovic

I'd say Pavlyuchenkova, her recent form has been fantastic and I'd love her to win this.

Anastasia withdrew.

lupojohn · Jan 5th, 2013, 04:53 PM

I don't mean to knock someone like Hsieh, but when she is the #1 seed, it's not the strongest field. These are the types of tournaments that produce winners like Arruabarrena-Vecino, Babos, etc. from last year. I'm going with Vesnina over Babos.