Gaz de France Stars Qualifying and Main Draw
Posted by Aaress Lawless on Oct 27, 2006 | Print
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UPDATE: Because of all the player withdrawals, the tournament had to publish a new draw. You can read On the Baseline’s preview of the Gaz de France Stars, including analysis on the correct draw and seedings, by clicking here.
Instead of just releasing the qualifying draw first for next week’s Gaz de France Stars tennis tournament in Belgium, the tournament officials have decided to select the main draw early.
Nadia Petrova is leading the Tier III event as the top seed, but the star attraction will be Belgium’s own Kim Clijsters.
Clijsters has not played on the Tour since injuring her wrist at the Montreal Cup this summer, and after two months of recuperation, including a mishap with her Great Dane, she is finally ready to return to action.
Kim’s opening match will be against a qualifier, with a possibility of a meeting against Francesca Schiavone Ai Sugiyama in the quarterfinals. (Second seed Patty Schnyder pulled out because of fatigue.)
The qualifying event will begin tomorrow in Hasselt, with the following players seeded:
1. Maria Elena Camerin
2. Aravane Rezai
3. Yuliana Fedak
4. Agnieszka Radwanska
5. Julia Schruff
6. Virginie Razzano
7. Kala Kanepi
8. Roberta Vinci
You can view the both the main draw and the qualifying draw here.
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