By Chris Oddo | Monday February 11, 2019
Keeping up with the game of tennis, by the numbers. Each day at Tennis Now we’ll give you a fresh set—today we’ll look ahead to WTA Doha plus ATP Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and New York.
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Top 10 players in action at this week’s Qatar Total Open in Doha. Simona Halep, Karolina Pliskova, Simona Halep, Elina Svitolina, Kiki Bertens and Caroline Wozniacki are all in the 28-player field, with Halep and Pliskova seeded No.1 and No.2. The Top four seeds get byes in Doha. Last year’s champion, Petra Kvitova, will not be in attendance. Naomi Osaka won’t make it, and Ash Barty is now out as well. Here’s the updated draw.
500
Get ready for the first 500-level event of the ATP season in Rotterdam, as five Top 20 players will take the court at the ABN Amro WTT. Kei Nishikori is the top seed, and last week’s Sofia champion Daniil Medvedev is in the draw along with Karen Khachanov, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Milos Raonic. Stan Wawrinka is one of the four former champions in the field, along with Tomas Berdych, Martin Klizan and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Full draw here:
9-0
Two-time and defending champion Dominic Thiem will once again take the court at the Argentina Open in Buenos Aires this week. Thiem is the top seed at the event and holds a lifetime record of 9-0, including a monumental win over Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals in 2016. Fabio Fognini, Marco Cecchinato and Diego Schwartzman are the No.2, 3 and 4 seeds in Buenos Aires.
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Three-time champion David Ferrer will be in the draw in Buenos Aires as a wild card. The 36-year-old World No.149 Ferrer has an impressive 23-6 record at Buenos Aires, and he once won 17 matches in a row between 2012 and 2016. He won three straight titles in 2012, 2013, and 2014, and was a finalist in 2010.
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Simona Halep will play her first event with new coach Thierry Van Cleemput in her corner. The Romanian comes off a thrilling weekend of Fed Cup action where she won both singles matches to help Romania knock off Fed Cup juggernaut Czech Republic. Things will heat up quickly in Doha—Halep will face either Lesia Tsurenko or Caroline Garcia in the second round after a bye.
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The age of Mike and Bob Bryan, who are the top seeds at this week’s New York Open. After Bob returned with a metal hip to start the season, the legendary duo has gone 5-3 with a semi-final appearance in Auckland and a quarter-final at the Australian Open.