After Madrid, the road to Roland-Garros will pass through Rome for the last WTA 1000 tournament on the calendar before the French Open. Defending champion and seeded number 1, Iga Swiatek will be exempted from the first round after missing the Madrid stage. His entry into the running will be against an American, Shelby Rogers or Alison Riske. On the opposite side of the table, Paula Badosa will try to make people forget her poor performance in the Spanish capital. For this, she will find a qualified or Veronika Kudermetova. Also scheduled to compete in the second round, Aryna Sabalenka will have to do battle with Shuai Zhang or Martina Trevisan while Maria Sakkari will be opposed to either Sloane Stephens or Ekaterina Alexandrova.
Cornet only Tricolor in the painting
One of the posters of the first round will undoubtedly be the duel between the seeded number 10 Emma Raducanu and Bianca Andreescu, who have in common to have won the US Open, in 2019 for the Canadian and in 2021 for the British. On the French side, only Alizé Cornet obtained a direct ticket for the main draw, no French being entered in the qualifications, but the fate was not very favorable for the Niçoise. Indeed, she will start the tournament against Simona Halep before a potential second round against the number 7 seed Danielle Collins. Finalists this Saturday in Madrid, Ons Jabeur and Jessica Pegula will start the week in the first round, against Sorana Cirstea for the Tunisian and Liudmila Samsonova for the American.
ROME (Italy, WTA 1000, outdoor clay, €2,392,749)
Ten titles: Iga Swiatek (POL)
Premier tour
Swiatek (POL, n ° 1) – Bye
Rogers (USA) – Riske (USA)
Osorio Serrano (COL) – Bronzetti (ITA, WC)
Golubic (SUI) – Azarenka (BIE, n ° 16)
Raducanu (GBR, n ° 10) – Andreescu (CAN, SR)
Sorribes Tormo (ESP) – Osaka (JAP)
Qualified – Muchova (RTC, SR)
Contact knife (EST, no. 5) – Bye
Sabalenka (BIE, n ° 3) – Bye
Zhang (CHN) – Trevisan (ITA, WC)
Kalinina (UKR) – Keys (USA)
Samsonova (RUS) – Pegula (USA, n°13)
Bencic (SUI, n ° 12) – Cocciaretto (ITA, WC)
Qualified – Anisimova (USA)
Cornet (FRA) – Halep (ROU)
Collins (USA, n°7) – Bye
Muguruza (ESP, n ° 8) – Bye
Qualified – Qualified
Giorgi (ITA) – Tomljanovic (AUS)
Cirstea (ROU) – Jabeur (TUN, n ° 9)
Gauff (USA, n°15) – Kerber (ALL)
Tauson (DAN) – Qualified
Stephens (USA) – Alexandrova (RUS)
Sakkari (GRE, n ° 4) – Bye
Ka.Pliskova (RTC, n ° 6) – Bye
Paolini (ITA) – Teichmann (SUI)
Rybakina (KAZ) – Qualified
Qualified – Ostapenko (LET, n°11)
Pavlyuchenkova (RUS, n ° 14) – Fernandez (CAN)
Kasatkina (RUS) – Zidansek (SLO)
Qualified – Kudermetova (RUS)
Badosa (ESP, n°2) – Bye
