The third and last WTA 500 Grass-Court of the year is at our doors: The Bad Homburg Open Powered by Solarwatt. The scene is officially fixed after the main draw was revealed this weekend.
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With a week before going to Wimbledon, half of the 10 best players in the Singles Pif WTA will test their skills on the fat terrace in Homburg, Germany.
There could be many journals here in Bad Homburg, and a notable revenge match is already guaranteed: the final of the bad Homburg of last year will be replayed during the opening round of this year.
The main drawing game starts on Sunday June 22. Here is a brief ventilation of the strong points of the main draw:
First trimester
Jessica Pegula, world n ° 3, is the seeded, but she did not make any favor by the draw. After her bye in the first round, she could face Liudmila Samsonova, the top 20 player in the second round for the second consecutive week.
Samsonova upset Pegula in the same tour of the Berlin Tennis Open this week, saving two match points in a 3 hour and 21 -minute marathon. Samsonova will first have to exceed one qualifier if she wants another blow to Pegula.
On the other side of this quarter is another revenge: the seeded n ° 5 Emma Navarro will face Marta Kostyuk in the opening round, just like in Berlin. Kostyuk will try to avenge a 6-2, 6-3 defeat in Berlin in Navarro.
The winner of this match could face the quadruple Grand Colem champion, Naomi Osaka, who is a joker in the main draw. Osaka will meet a qualifier in her opening match.
Second trimester
Mirra Andreeva obtains Bye as a seeded n ° 3. The 18 -year -old woman is looking for her first victory on the field of the grass of the season after falling to Magdalena Frech in the first round of Berlin.
Andreeva could have a revenge match with Frech right away. The opponent of Andreeva’s second round will either be Frech or Clara Tauson, the two best players.
This quarter also offers a revenge match of last year’s final: title champion and seeded n ° 6 Diana Shnaider will face Donna Vekic’s finalist in 2024 in the first round. A year ago, Shnaider beat Vekic 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 for the title.
Third trimester
IGA Swiatek will make its early debut in 2025 in this quarter. After his bye in the first round, the seeded n ° 4 Swiatek will meet either Laura Siegemund, or a qualifier in the second round.
This quarter also has a match in the first round between the seeded n ° 8 Ekaterina Alexandrova and the mother back Belinda Bencic. Alexandrova and Bencic both have WTA grass-cut titles on their curriculum vitae.
Fourth quarter
Seed n ° 2 Jasmine Paolini anchors the draw. Last year, Wimbledon’s finalist, Paolini, will have a delicate first match in Bad Homburg: after her Bye, she will face the champion of the club of Queen Tatjana Maria or Leylah Fernandez.
The Berlin finalist, Wang Xinyu, is also a Berlin finalist, as well as a first round confrontation between the seeded n ° 7 Elina Svitolina and Elise Mertens.
