WTA 500 Seoul 9/16 - 9/22 2024

[ti-amie]

Tournament: Korea Open
Location: Seoul, S Korea
Dates: September 16 - September 22, 2024
Level: WTA 500
Surface: Hard

Seed Player Entry Rank

1 Iga Swiatek 1
2 Elena Rybakina 4
3 Jessica Pegula 6
4 Daria Kasatkina 12
5 Emma Navarro 13
6 Liudmila Samsonova 16
7 Diana Shnaider 18
8 Marta Kostyuk 19
Beatriz Haddad Maia 23
Ekaterina Alexandrova 30
Yulia Putintseva 31
Katie Boulter 32
Karolina Pliskova 41
Anastasia Potapova 43
Veronika Kudermetova 44
Ajla Tomljanovic

[ashkor87]

Let us hope Rybakina actually plays!

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[ponchi101]

Let us hope Rybakina actually plays!

We have our answer.
Problem, for me, is that I can't understand what is the injury. It is not as if her style is so physically stressful.

[ashkor87]

Let us hope Rybakina actually plays!

We have our answer.
Problem, for me, is that I can't understand what is the injury. It is not as if her style is so physically stressful.

Emotional stress I imagine

[ashkor87]

Now Swiatek has withdrawn too...the field is looking awfully thin

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Qualifying Draw

E. Ruse (1) vs E. Hozumi
H. Chan vs K. Okamura (12)

N. Hibino (2) vs E. Lee
U. Eikeri vs P. Hon (7)

V. Lepchenko (3) vs K. Pavlova
Y. Kim vs N. Stevanovic (11)

P. Kudermetova (4) vs M. Yamaguchi
T. Mihalikova vs J. Lu (9)

H. Watson (5) vs B. Jeong
Y. Ku vs H. Kaji (10)

H. Chang (6) vs S. Park
G. Jang vs C. Zhao (8)

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UPDATED MD SINGLES

Seoul, South Korea WTA 500
Date: 9/16/2024 Original Cut Off: 44 Ranking Date: 8/19/2024
Draw Size: 28 Direct Acceptances: 17 Wild Cards: 4? Qualifiers: 6 Special Exempts: 0?

Main Draw Singles

1 Swiatek, Iga (POL)
4 Rybakina, Elena (KAZ)
6 Pegula, Jessica (USA)
12 Kasatkina, Daria (RUS)
13 Navarro, Emma (USA)
16 Samsonova, Liudmila (RUS)
18 Shnaider, Diana (RUS)
19 Kostyuk, Marta (UKR)
23 Haddad Maia, Beatriz (BRA)
30 Alexandrova, Ekaterina (RUS)
31 Putintseva, Yulia (KAZ)
32 Boulter, Katie (GBR)
33 Tomljanovic, Ajla (AUS) SR
38 Yuan, Yue (CHN)
41 Pliskova, Karolina (CZE)
43 Potapova, Anastasia (RUS)
44 Kudermetova, Veronika (RUS)
IN 45 Frech, Magdalena (POL)
IN 47 Stearns, Peyton (USA)
IN 48 Zhang, Shuai (CHN) SR
IN 49 Anisimova, Amanda (USA)
IN 50 Tomova, Viktoriya (BUL)
IN 60 Stephens, Sloane (USA)
IN 71 Raducanu, Emma (GBR)

Alternates
87 Maria, Tatjana (GER)


Note: Raducanu is in due to Iga withdrawing.

[skatingfan]

Raducanu was getting Wildcard.

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Main Draw Singles

Daria Kasatkina (1)/Bye
Sloane Stephens vs Hailey Baptiste
Peyton Stearns vs Emma Raducanu
Qualifier vs Yue Yuan (8)

Diana Shnaider (4)/Bye
Dayeon Back (WC) vs Qualifier
Qualifier vs Qualifier
Arantxa Rus vs Marta Kostyuk (5)

Ekaterina Alexandrova (7) vs Qualifier
Magdalena Frech vs Qualifier
Ajla Tomljanovic vs Su Jeong Jang (WC)
Bye/Beatriz Haddad Maia (3)

Yulia Putintseva (6) vs Amanda Anisimova
Tatjana Maria vs Viktoriya Tomova
Veronika Kudermetova vs Shuai Zhang
Bye/Liudmila Samsonova (2)

[ponchi101]

It went from being a top tier 500, loaded with talent, to being a reasonable 250.
Too bad. I will spare all of you my comments about this "we are playing too much" mentality. How can the WTA promote a 500 with this actual field?

[skatingfan]

It went from being a top tier 500, loaded with talent, to being a reasonable 250.
Too bad. I will spare all of you my comments about this "we are playing too much" mentality. How can the WTA promote a 500 with this actual field?

Look at what happened with the field in Guadalajara this week. Too many tournaments spread out over too many weeks.

[ponchi101]

And we come back to the same conversation. How can the WTA promote a tournament with virtually no stars in it? Guadalajara really has given a good push for a reasonable tournament. it is the sole 500 in L. America, for women. It offers good prize money. And one has to wonder if they are turning a profit.
Other than re-assigning all the calendar, the WTA has to see how they can get the top players to play more frequently and, at the same time, feel that they are not playing to the point of burn out.
And I don't think it can be done.

Side track. All sports are going that way. The NFL is getting closer to an 18 game season. The NBA can't curve its 82 game schedule, leading to players not playing multiple games. F1 has moved to 22 races (it used to be 12!).
The show must go on. But if there is no show because the actors don't show up, what to do?

[skatingfan]

The scheduling of a 500 event the week after a Grand Slam event should be a crime.

[ashkor87]

Going by last year's experience, the court is medium-paced, not too fast, not too slow...Samsonova seems the best player here ..Shnaider and Kostyuk should do well too..
It is a depleted field, but much better than Guadalajara was ..so things are looking up. I suppose anything less than a 1000 level event isn't enough to entice the big players like Swiatek at this late stage in the year.. everyone is tired, a bit injured, generally demotivated ..some of the young ones should seize these opportunities with both hands! Who could that be this time,?