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PYW Doubles Seoul
Welcome to Seoul, South Korea! Along with Guangzhou, this tournament makes up the second week of the fall Asian outdoor hard court tournament swing. With Tashkent last week and two more international events this week, players need to prepare themselves for a huge step up for the premier events in Tokyo, Japan and Beijing, China during the upcoming two weeks. The Seoul draw, sees some very big names in this draw both seeded and unseeded. Last year's champions have elected to defend their title, Natalie Grandin of South Africa with her partner Czech Vladimíra Uhlířová, return this year leading the charge as he third seeds. The top seeds are Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears, who haven't had a stunner year but are picking up some steam now. With such teams and more in action eager to build good form for Tokyo next week, YOUR votes will make a difference, so you won't want to miss these matches!
Vote now as the KDB Korea Open gets underway!
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[B][U]Previous Finals:[/U][/B]
[B]2011:[/B] [B]Natalie Grandin RSA/Vladimira Uhlirova CZE [1][/B] lost to [B]Vera Dushevina RUS/Galina Voskoboeva KAZ [2][/B] | [B]4-6 4-6[/B]
The Favorites:
Top Half: Raquel Kops-Jones USA/Abigail Spears USA [1]
Bottom Half: Vera Dushevina RUS/Alicja Rosolska POL [4]
First Round:
Raquel Kops-Jones USA/Abigail Spears USA [1] vs Catalina Castano COL/Eva Hrdinova CZE
Sung-Hee Han KOR/So-Ra Lee KOR [WC] vs Darija Jurak CRO/Katalin Marosi HUN
Natalie Grandin RSA/Vladimira Uhlirova CZE [3] vs Chia-Jung Chuang TPE/Kimiko Date-Krumm JPN
Alexandra Cadantu ROU/Varvara Lepchenko USA vs Jill Craybas USA/Caroline Garcia FRA
Ji-Hee Choi KOR/Nam Yeon Jun KOR [WC] vs Tamira Paszek AUT/Klara Zakopalova CZE
Ksenia Lykina RUS/Carla Suarez Navarro ESP vs
Vera Dushevina RUS/Alicja Rosolska POL [4]
Eleni Daniilidou GRE/Megan Moulton-Levy USA vs Rika Fujiwara JPN/Noppawan Lertcheewakarn THA
Akgul Amanmuradova UZB/Vania King USA vs
Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP/Sania Mirza IND [2]
