The first round of singles at the WTA tournament in Ostrava has been drawn. Who will the Czech tennis players meet?

The prestigious WTA 500 tournament in Ostrava starts on Monday. Among the 32 tennis players there are five Czech women in the pool, who can be joined in the main competition by 16-year-old qualifier Nikola Bartůňková. What singles duels will kick off the third edition of the event at the Ostravar Arena, which this year is called the AGEL Open?

Barbora Krejčíková will face the American Shelby Rogers, Tereza Martincová will face the Swiss Jil Teichmann. Karolína Muchová has a tougher draw, as she will face the seventh seed Beatriz Haddad Maia.

The other two representatives of domestic tennis, Petra Kvitova and Karolina Pliskova, will face successful players from the ongoing qualification. Both will learn the names of their opponents during Sunday afternoon.

Last year’s singles title will be defended by world number four Anett Kontaveit of Estonia. She has a free draw in the opening round, as does the biggest star of the Ostrava event, Poland’s Iga Świątek, the WTA No. 1 and three-time Grand Slam champion.

It is not until the eighth round that a pair of seeded participants will begin their journey through the tournament. They are Paula Badosa of Spain and last year’s beaten finalist Maria Sakkari of Greece.

AGEL Open 2022 will culminate on the hard court at the indoor venue in the Czech Republic’s third largest city on Sunday, October 9. Live coverage of the matches can be watched on O2 TV Sport and O2 TV Tennis.

The draw for the 1st round of singles at AGEL Open 2022

Iga Świąteková (1) – free draw

qualifier – Zhang Shuai

qualifier – qualifier

Karolina Muchova – Beatriz Haddad Maia (7)

Anett Kontaveit (3) – free draw

Jil Teichmann – Tereza Martincova

Viktoria Azarenka – Ekaterina Alexandrova

Emma Raducanu – Darya Kasatkina (5)

Belinda Bencic (6) – qualifier

Shelby Rogers – Barbora Krejcikova

qualifier – Karolina Pliskova

Maria Sakkari (4) – free draw

Jelena Ostapenko (8) – Aljaksandra Sasnovic

Madison Keys – Jelena Rybakina

Petra Kvitova – qualifier

Paula Badosa (2) – free draw

Source:: WTA, Tennis World