Petersburg, Metz, Seoul, Tokyo and Guangzhou Preview Tournaments

Petersburg, Metz, Seoul, Tokyo and Guangzhou Preview Tournaments

After the heated battles in the "Davis Cup" gaze tennis fans will be converted back to ATP and WTA Tours. Next week the competition will be held in five cities, well, the greatest interest of Russian tennis fans will certainly attract the tournament in  St. Petersburg.

Petersburg, Metz, Seoul, Tokyo and Guangzhou Preview Tournaments

After completion of the hot battles Cup Competitions ATP St.Petersburg Open (St. Petersburg, Russia) were first held in 1995. Premiere champion of the tournament was the legendary Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov, who defeated in the final the Frenchman Guillaume Rau.

Since then, the winners of the tournament became known athletes such as Thomas Johansson, Mark Ross, Marat Safin, Richard Krajicek, Gustavo Kuerten, Mikhail Youzhny and Andy Murray. The record for most wins shared between just three tennis: Safin Johansson and Murray. Each of them - two titles St.Petersburg Open.

This season, the competition, like last year, will be held at "Sibur Arena" and the list of participants has become even stronger. Headed sowing victor recent US Open, the Swiss Stan Wawrinka. His opponent will be determined in the starting match Diego Schwartzman and Lukáš Rosol. The most likely opponent in the ¼ finals Stan seems Serb Viktor Trotsiki, which may interfere with Fernando Verdasco.

Also in this part of the grid will start his tournament the way last year's tournament finalist Roberto Bautista-agouti. In the first game he ever fight with Adrian Mannarino, either Ricardas Berankis. In the quarterfinals, the Spaniard could play with the Portuguese João sauce, and try to prevent that someone  from a pair of Andrei Rublev - Mikhail Kukushkin.

In the bottom half of the standings will play the reigning champion of the competition Milos Raonic. His opponent in the launch meeting will be either Mikhail Youzhny or Janko Tipsarevic. The most likely contender in the Canadian ¼ finals sees Alexander Zverev, who in the first round will try to beat Karen Hachani.

Faced off with Russian tennis player and will have a Czech Tomas Berdych. His opponent will be determined in the starting game and Andrey Kuznetsov Evgeny Donskoy.

ATP Tournament Moselle Open (Metz, France), was first held in 1980, and the champion was the American premiere of Jean Meyer, who won the final of the Italian Gianni Okleppo. But at the same time until 2003 competitions were held very irregularly in Metz. From 1980 to 1988 it took only five tournaments, and from 1989 to 2002, the game did not pass at all. Only in 2003, Metz again hosted the ATP players.

Among the champions of Moselle Open appear Arnaud Clement names, Ivan Ljubičić, Novak Djokovic, Tommy Robredo, Dmitry Tursunov, Gael Monfils, Gilles Simon and  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Under number one seeded Austrian Dominic Thiem, who in his first match of the fight with the winner of the game "kvalifayera" and Nicolas Almagro. The most likely contender Dominic seems to Gilles Muller of Luxembourg.

In the second half of the quarterfinals of the upper grid is high probability of confrontation between the two owners of courts - Gilles Simon and Benoit Peer. Prevent the meeting of two compatriots can, for example, Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.

At the bottom of the standings will be the main favorite Belgian David Goffin. In the first game he will play against the winner Tommy Robredo and  Jan-Lannarda struff and then can play with Frenchman Nicolas Mahut. In case of success in overcoming the ¼ finals Belgian with high probability could play with another representative of France Luca Pouyer.

next week women's competitions program opens the tournament WTA Toray Pan Pacific Open (Tokyo, Japan). The first contest was held in the capital of Japan in 1984 and brought success to the Bulgarian tennis player Manuela Maleeva.

In the future, the tournament has gained the highest category, and among its champions are such outstanding athletes as Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, Martina Hingis, Lindsay Davenport, Elena Dementieva, Maria Sharapova. The record for the number of titles in Tokyo belongs Hingis, who won here five times.

Sowing tournament headed Garbin muguruza. Spaniard will start from the second round, where she will face the winner of a qualification or Latvian Anastasia Sevastova. In the quarterfinals, the Spaniard may meet with Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, which can prevent, for example, Ukrainian Elina Svitolina Elina.

It is also a higher chance of reaching the semi-finals of this part of the grid is at Carolina pliskova. Ceska should not experience serious problems in the opening match, but could meet in the ¼ finals, for example, with the Slovak Dominika Cibulkova or his compatriot Lucie Shafarzhovoy.

The main actor of the lower half of the grid should be Agnieszka Radwanska. At the start of polka fight with the winner of the game Barbara Stryków and "kvalifayera", after which, apparently, will face Ceske Petra Kvitova.

With regard to a possible rival the strongest in the meeting, then it can become an American Madison Keys or Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro, although it is not necessary to dismiss Caroline Wozniacki and Belinda Bencic, who will compete in the first round.

Tournament Korea Open (Seoul, Korea) is conducted on open hard courts of the Olympic sports complex in the capital of South Korea. It was there where in 1988 hosted the first in the modern history of the Olympic tennis tournament. First WTA event held in Seoul in 2004, when Russian Maria Sharapova won the final Marta Domachowska from Poland. In addition to Sharapova in Seoul also won two Russian tennis player Maria Kirilenko in 2008 and Alisa Kleybanova two seasons later.

The first seeded here received current champion, Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu. In the first two rounds to face the difficulties should not, but a possible showdown with compatriot Monica Niculescu promises to be difficult.

It is possible that the second semifinalist from the top half of the table will be the Chinese Zhang Shuai, who tried to impose the struggle Nicole Gibbz American or Italian Camila Giorgi.

The second racket of Johanna Larsson of competition should also be no problem to go to the quarterfinals, where it most likely rival is Louisa Chirico from the United States. More a couple of participants could reach the ¼ finals Belgian Kirsten Flipkens and Frenchwoman Kristina Mladenovic.

Rounding out the program of the next weeks tournament WTA Guangzhou International Women's Open (Guangzhou, China), the first time it took place in 2004 - then Lee Chinese woman to win the final of the Slovakian athlete Martin Xuhui. It should be noted that no tennis player did not manage to win in Guangzhou more than once. Among the champions appear and two Russians Anna Chakvetadze (won in 2006) and Vera Zvonareva (2008).

In this year's crop was the leader Sara Errani. In case of successful games in two rounds starting Italian may well clash with of Czech Kateřina Sinyakova. In the semi-finals is high probability of meeting the strongest in the confrontation with  someone  from the American athletes - Christina McHale and Alison Riske.

The second racket of the competition Jelena Jankovic, who will defend the title, must also go to the quarterfinals without any problems. There she is likely to play against the winner of the meeting between the mistress Zheng Saysay courts and a German Sabine Lisicki.

The remaining pair of chetvertfinalistok can make two representatives of the former Yugoslavia - Croat Ana groom and Danka Kovinić from Montenegro.