Porsche Tennis Grand Prix 2017 , Stuttgart, Germany, WTA Premier

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DATE: Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2017
SURFACE: Clay
PRIZE MONEY: $710,900
FIELD SIZE: 32
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Angelique Kerber

Seeds:
1 KERBER, Angelique
2 PLISKOVA, Karolina
3 CIBULKOVA, Dominika
4 HALEP, Simona
5 MUGURUZA, Garbiñe
6 KONTA, Johanna
7 RADWANSKA, Agnieszka
8 KUZNETSOVA, Svetlana

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First played in 1978 and winner of the WTA's Premier Tournament Of The Year award in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014, the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix is Europe's oldest indoor women's event and is the lone indoor clay tournament on the calendar. Previously a fall hardcourt event, Stuttgart became a red clay tournament staged in the spring in 2009, making it ideal preparation for Roland Garros. In fact, the clay comes from France and its grain size of 0.1 mm is the same that is used at the French Open.

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Stuttgart is the capital and largest city of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg in southwest Germany. The eighth largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,068 (October 2014) while the greater Stuttgart Metropolitan Region has a population of 5.3 million (2008), being the fourth-biggest in Germany after the Rhine-Ruhr area, Berlin/Brandenburg and Frankfurt/Rhine-Main. The city lies at the centre of a densely populated area, surrounded by a ring of smaller towns. This area called Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million.

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Stuttgart is spread across a variety of hills (many of them vineyards), valleys and parks – unusual for a German city and often a source of surprise to visitors who primarily associate the city with its industrial reputation as the "cradle of the automobile". Stuttgart has the status of Stadtkreis, a type of self-administrating urban county. It is also the seat of the State parliament and State Government of Baden-Württemberg, the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Wurttemberg as well as one of the two co-seats of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.

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At the centre of Stuttgart lies its main square, Schlossplatz. As well as being the largest square in Stuttgart, it stands at the crossover point between the city's shopping area, Schlossgarten park which runs down to the river Neckar, Stuttgart's two central castles and major museums and residential areas to the south west. Königstraße, Stuttgart's most important shopping street which runs along the northwestern edge of Schlossplatz, claims to be the longest pedestrianised street in Germany.

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Cibulkova has withdrawn and Muguruza takes her place - new draw - guess you can replace the old one :)
 

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Hey, @Hoergren - what do you think of Masha's return? Justified wildcard or should she have been forced to go through the qualies?

Well it's a little bit difficult to answer this without being put in a box whit the label DISLIKE SHARAPOVA and that's not my intention - BUT:

A player who is banned should not be able to take part in a tournament which has started before the ban has finished - period. Fine with all tournaments that follow. And if you read through the different rules it's not allowed so someone has pulled some strings. I suppose what happens in Stuttgart CAN have a negative effect.
A banned player SHOULD fight her way back in some way. e.g. a banned player should through qualifies in slams and I think it's the way Maria can participate in FO and Wimbledon. I know she will be awarded wild cards to many tournaments but the tennisworld SHOULD be carefull overdoing that. A banned player should also be a little humble to avoid negative feelings from other players and to me that doesn't seem to be the case. Apart from this i like to watch Maria Sharapova play - well that's MY opinion.
 

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Results from the Stuttgart Grand Prix Women's Singles Round 1 matches on Tuesday

Ekaterina Makarova (Russia) beat 7-Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 6-2 6-4
Laura Siegemund (Germany) beat Zhang Shuai (China) 6-2 7-6(4)
8-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) beat Kiki Bertens (Netherlands) 6-3 5-7 6-3
Anastasija Sevastova (Latvia) beat Samantha Stosur (Australia) 6-1 4-6 6-3
Anett Kontaveit (Estonia) beat Ana Konjuh (Croatia) 7-6(5) 6-4
Barbora Strycova (Czech Republic) beat Jennifer Brady (U.S.) 6-2 6-2
 

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Radwanska is out, so no potential match with Sharapova here.

Maria returns today. 4th match on Centre Court

 

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Results from the Stuttgart Grand Prix Women's Singles matches on Wednesday

Round 2
Anett Kontaveit (Estonia) beat 5-Garbine Muguruza Blanco (Spain) 2-6 7-6(1) 6-1
4-Simona Halep (Romania) beat Barbora Strycova (Czech Republic) 6-2 6-3

Round 1
Maria Sharapova (Russia) beat Roberta Vinci (Italy) 7-5 6-3
CoCo Vandeweghe (U.S.) beat Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia) 7-6(3) 7-6(3)
Kristina Mladenovic (France) beat Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (Croatia) 6-4 6-2
6-Johanna Konta (Britain) beat Naomi Osaka (Japan) 7-6(5) 3-6 6-1
Elena Vesnina (Russia) beat Daria Kasatkina (Russia) 7-6(2) 6-2
Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) beat Tamara Korpatsch (Germany) 6-2 6-4
 

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The second biggest story of the day following Sharapova's return to action was Garbine Muguruza's capitulation to unseeded Anett Kontaveit. Muguruza is not having a good year.
 

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With her loss to Mladenovic,Kerber is now 1-8 against Top 30 players so far this year