Stuttgart champion Karolina Pliskova has dropped out of the J&T Banka Prague Open. Pliskova was originally drawn to play her twin sister Kristyna in the first round. This wasn’t a scenario she looking forward to, citing “our matches are terrible” and “I do not want to beat her.”
The top seed will now be the local favourite and two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova.
Seeds:
2 KVITOVA, Petra
3 KASATKINA, Daria
4 GAVRILOVA, Daria
5 STRYCOVA, Barbora
6 ZHANG, Shuai
7 BUZARNESCU, Mihaela
8 SINIAKOVA, Katerina
9 SASNOVICH, Aliaksandra
Strange but true:
Prague hosts a graffiti wall devoted to John Lennon. Since 1980, it’s been repainted numerous times and is laced in graffiti lyrics from Lennon and The Beatles.
[divider]
Click here to Check out the Draw and Discuss the tournament in the Tennis Frontier Forum