[Power Shot]

Top half
1 Wozniacki vs BYE
WC Potapova vs Maria
Barthel vs Cornet
Qualifier vs 8 Kasatkina
4 Mladenovic vs BYE
Cirstea vs Cibulkova
Vekic vs Siniakova
Makarova vs 6 Pavlyuchenkova

Bottom half
5 Goerges vs Sakkari
Qualifier vs Qualifier
Bacsinszky vs Qualifier
BYE vs 3 Garcia
7/WC Vesnina vs WC Kvitova
Begu vs Qualifier
WC Zvonareva vs Bertens
BYE vs 2 Ostapenko

This is going to be a fun tournament.

 

[Следопыт]

Goerges to start a new winning streak.

 

[bbjpa]

Wozniacki likely to withdraw ?

 

[Mightymirza]

Will kiki beat bye? :scared: Tough first round!

 

[jimbo mack]

I’m going with Pavlyuchenkova, Kvitova, Ostapenko or Cibulkova - can’t narrow it down to one.

Would love to see Wozniacki play but can’t see it happening after her heroics in Oz. She’ll probably want to do PR and rest up for the Middle East swing.

The WTA really need to reconsider where St Petersburg is placed on the calendar, as there will always be a high number of withdrawals the week directly after a slam - surely common sense says to have it before or after Moscow - and create a ‘Russian swing’... that way both Moscow and St Petersburg would have stronger EL as it would give players more incentive.

 

[Следопыт]

I’m going with Pavlyuchenkova, Kvitova, Ostapenko or Cibulkova - can’t narrow it down to one.

Would love to see Wozniacki play but can’t see it happening after her heroics in Oz. She’ll probably want to do PR and rest up for the Middle East swing.

The WTA really need to reconsider where St Petersburg is placed on the calendar, as there will always be a high number of withdrawals the week directly after a slam - surely common sense says to have it before or after Moscow - and create a ‘Russian swing’... that way both Moscow and St Petersburg would have stronger EL as it would give players more incentive.

There is supposed to be a new tournament in Moscow this summer.

 

[zjtennis]

I remembered Stan Wawrinka immediately playing St. Petersburg, after winning US Open 2016 -- I think it is more of trying to fulfill his promise to play, maybe not knowing he'll win the US Open (which Caroline probably had a similar situation with).

 

[Alright_mate]

Goerges or Garcia.

Vikhlyantseva as a dark horse if she makes it through qualifying, she's good indoors.

 

[Dawson.]

Kiki will be inspired by her Australian Open doubles title as well as being the defending champion here and she will win a set vs BYE :rocker2:

 

[Viktymise]

Goerges to start a new winning streak here.

Probably.

I still can't believe she blew her AO draw...

 

[The Reff]

Wozniacki likely to withdraw ?

She says she'll be there ...

 

[Следопыт]

She says she'll be there ...

To grab appearance fee and tank?

 

[The Reff]

To grab appearance fee and tank?

I'm pretty sure she could scrape by without the money ....

 

[Jorn]

Caro-Woz will goto St. Petersburg, she will play first on Thursday, but it depends on her knee if she can/will play.

It likely means the Draw won't be changed, because of her before...

 

[Jorn]

I'm pretty sure she could scrape by without the money ....

She earned about 19 millioner today, they may pay her 1. h:

 

[goldenlox]

Good! I'm glad she's going, its good for the WTA she is at a tournament even if she withdraws

 

[Rubyaxles]

Woz will withdraw

KMlad for the win!

 

[Kzm]

Isn't Garcia injured?

Hopefully an unseeded player wins. Kvitova, Makarova, Cibulkova

 

[Baby-Na]

2 more... Mladenovic.

 

[hurricanejeanne]

This isn't a bad draw for a mid-ranked event following a slam. Is St. Pete's handing out nice appearance fees?