The first of the two 'Super Tier Is' is coming up next week, and here's the field:

Sony Ericsson WTARank
(as of 1/22/07)Nation
1Sharapova, Maria2RUS
2Petrova, Nadia 6RUS
3Hingis, Martina7SUI
4Dementieva, Elena8RUS
5Safina, Dinara10RUS
6Jankovic, Jelena11SRB
6Vaidisova, Nicole12CZE
7Chakvetadze, Anna13RUS
8Ivanovic, Ana14SRB
9Bovina, Elena14RUS (SR)
10Myskina, Anastasia15RUS
11Li, Na16CHN
12Peer, Shahar17ISR
13Groenefeld, Anna-lena19GER
14Bartoli, Marion21FRA
15Golovin, Tatiana23FRA
16Molik, Alicia 23AUS
17Zvonareva, Vera 24RUS
18Sugiyama, Ai26JPN
19Stosur, Samantha27AUS
20Pennetta, Flavia29ITA
21Medina Garrigues, Anabel30ESP
22Zheng, Jie31CHN
23Garbin, Tathiana33ITA
24Bondarenko, Alona34UKR
25Muller, Martina 36GER
26Bremond, Severine 37FRA
27Poutchkova, Olga 38RUS
28Shaughnessy, Meghann39USA
29Rezai, Aravane 40FRA
30Bammer, Sybille42AUT
31Likhovtseva, Elena 43RUS
32Perry, Shenay44USA
33Krajicek, Michaella 45NED
34Loit, Emilie46FRA
35Bardina, Vasilisa 48RUS
36Castano, Catalina 50COL
37Dechy, Nathalie 51FRA
38Peng, Shuai52CHN
39Mirza, Sania53IND
40Oprandi, Romina 54ITA
41Camerin, Maria Elena 55ITA
42Dominguez Lino, Lourdes56ESP
43Dulko, Gisela57ARG
44King, Vania58USA
45Radwanska, Agnieszka 59POL
46Pratt, Nicole 60AUS
47Arvidsson, Sofia 61SWE
48Pin, Camille 62FRA
50Craybas, Jill64USA
51Nakamura, Aiko65JPN
52Pironkova, Tsvetana 66BUL
53Yakimova, Anastasiya 68BLR
54Ruano Pascual, Virginia 69ESP
55Safarova, Lucie70CZE
56Tanasugarn, Tamarine 71THA
57Granville, Laura 72USA
58Fedak, Yuliana 73UKR
59Gajdosova, Jarmila 74SVK
60Jidkova, Alina 74RUS
61Chan, Yung-jan 75TPE
62Laine, Emma 76FIN
63Kanepi, Kaia 77EST
64Razzano, Virginie 78FRA
65Sun, Tiantian79CHN
66Sucha, Martina 82SVK
67Birnerova, Eva 83CZE
68Benesova, Iveta 84CZE
69Bychkova, Ekaterina85RUS
70Morigami, Akiko 86JPN
71Vinci, Roberta 87ITA
72Harkleroad, Ashley 88USA
73Sprem, Karolina89CRO
74Tu, Meilen90USA
75Domachowska, Marta91POL
76WC 77WC 78WC 79WC 80WC 81WC 82WC 83WC 84WC
85Q 86Q 87Q 88Q 89Q 90Q 91Q 92Q 93Q 94Q 95Q 96Q

(Though I have just read that Hantuchova has got a late entry)

Unfortunately it seems that due to Miami being mandatory, several of the very top players have decided to skip this event (Henin, Mauresmo, etc.).

But apart from the very best, most players are entered here :)

Not a very good field... roflmao

Seriously though, it's a pity there is no Justine, Amelie, Kim, Serena or Venus! :(

Looks like Sharapova has a great shot at defending her title pending a late entry from Justine, Williamses...

Although saying that I wouldn't be hugely surprised if someone like Chakvetaze ended up winning.

I like to get in my early predictions you know :D

I won't create a new thread yet because it's still a while away, but the Family Circle Cup has a superb line-up this year so far:

- Maria Sharapova
- Justine Henin
- Amelie Mauresmo
- Svetlana Kuznetsova
- Martina Hingis
- Serena Williams
- Venus Williams
- Nicole Vaidisova
- Jelena Jankovic
- Dinara Safina

...and more :)

:yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

:angry: :devil:

:lol:

Hopefully she's sorted out her serving woes... :unsure:

as long as she doesnt get drawn against Camille Pin again! roflmao

Is Myskina definately playing then? :yahoo:

Nope (it's an old-ish entry list) :(

http://www.tennisnews.com/exclusive.php?pID=17284

"Unfortunately, I have to pull out of the Qatar Total Open in Doha, Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells and the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami as a result of the surgery on my left foot, which took place in January,” said Myskina. “At this moment, I am in the process of rehabilitating my foot. Thus far, my rehab has been going well and I am hoping to rejoin the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour starting with the clay court season in April. I will be following the Tour very closely and wish these first-class tournaments much success."

:( :(

aw no :(

I got all excited thinking Nastya was back soon, guess I shall have to wait

martina should make that final. but any combo of safina jankovic vaidisova chakvetadze or ivanovic could make things very difficult for her...

nah, she would beat them all at her best. :)

not based on today :unsure: roflmao

today was dani' 1st victory over martina since that indian wells final 2002 :shrug:

It must be because they are now 2-2 all

Kuznetsova, Hantuchova & Schiavone have all entered Indian Wells.

Mirza, Bovina & Groenefeld have all pulled out.

For once players pulling out have actually improved the quality of the field!

why isn't eurosport showing this? :huh:

roflmao

The draw has been made:

Projected R16 match-ups:

Sharapova v Zvonareva (hmmm)
Li v Jankovic
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Peer v Chakvetadze
Hingis v Hantuchova (revenge in the cards?)
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Dementieva v Ivanovic
Golovin v Petrova
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Vaidisova v Safina
Sugiyama v Kuznetsova

Safarova is in Peer's section. We'll see if she'll pick up where she left off in Paris.

Hingis will make the final :P

OMG! Anne Keothavong put out the 15th seed in the qualifying! One more win and she'll be in the main draw! :clap: And then she'll win it! B)

I thought you meant she'd put out the 15th seed for a minute :o

I won't be hold my breath though, all the best to you die hard Keothevong fans though ;)

Where is Justine? Tell me she is playing. Without the williams and Justine its going to be a Pova cake walk or a Amelie choking session. :D

well Amelie is not playing either. So it is Maria's for the taking. If she fails to reach the semis she will lose the No1 ranking to Justine! Hope that Jankovic can do the honours!

roflmao

THIS WAS SO FUNNY!

This will be the first time i actually want Sharapova to win a title! I just couldn't stand it if Justine became number one!

Indian Wells –

The first of the big spring hardcourt events and although the field isn’t as good as Miami it’s still pretty strong.

1st Quarter –
Sharapova returns to action for the first time since her injury problems in Tokyo and it will be interesting to see how strongly she returns. She has a decent draw – first round either Krajicek (who hasn’t played well this year) or Arvidsson who shouldn’t give her any problems. Third round is scheduled to be Pennetta who’s only now getting back into form after her own injury problems. The 4th round will be more interesting with a rematch against Zvonareva (who likewise should reach this stage without too many problems) but as long as she’s fit Maria should be able to handle it. QF opponent is likely to be Li Na or Jankovic who are the class acts in their section of the draw. If Jelena’s ankle holds up then I would assume she will make it through which could lead to the most interesting QF of the lot. They have played before but not since Birmingham 2005 and Jelena is a very different player now.

2nd Quarter –
Top half of this looks like it should be a pretty smooth ride for Hingis with her 3rd round opponent seeded to be Roberta Vinci who has nothing to hurt Martina. After that it gets a bit tougher either Schiavone or Hantuchova but really despite what happened in Doha Martina should be able to take out either of these two. Predicting Hinigs’s QF opponent is much trickier since the bottom half of this quarter is loaded – Peer, Safarova, Kirilenko & Chakvetadze are the seeds and you could make a case for any of them getting through here. In reality though I think we can rule out Kirilenko even if she has been playing better lately. Peer could make it through but if she’s fit I can see Safarova beating her in the 3rd round leading to a 4th round clash with Chakvetadze which either could win. Anna is the more consistent so I’ll go for her. This section also has two of the more interesting unseeded players with Radwanska & Lucic. Can’t see Lucic making any impression this early into her comeback but Radwanska is dangerous.

3rd Quarter –
Bit of a lottery this one, Dementieva is the top seed but we know she hasn’t been at her best this year and has had injury problems. She’ll probably have to play the inform Bammer in her first round and then Peng in the next after that Ivanovic who I can see coming through here into the QF’s. There’s also the most interesting match of the first round in this section – Molik v Rezai. Facing either Ivanovic or Dementieva in the QF’s will be Petrova or Golovin. Both recently had a strong run in the European indoor events – Golovin has a 3-1 leading H2H against Petrova but lost their last match and has a tricky third round against Stosur but is always capable of springing a surprise (when the pressure is off at least)

4th Quarter –
This looks to be heading to a Kuznetsova/Vaidisova QF. Kuznetsova seems to have picked up her game recently (except against Justine of course!) and should have too much for the other seeds in her section – Poutchkova, Garbin & Sugiyama. Vaidisova has it tougher with a potential 4th round match up against Safina but Dinara has been pretty disappointing since her Gold Coast win and Nicole should have the upper hand. Oh and another comeback player in this section – Brenda Schultz McCarthy making another appearance on the main tour.

So I’d go for a QF lineup of

Sharapova v Jankovic
Hingis v Chakvetadze
Ivanovic v Golovin (got to have some upsets!)
Vaidisova v Kuznetsova

I prefare Justine being number 1 than pottypova, pova being number is not good for the image of women tennis. The only thing she can do better than anyone on the field, is scream and cheat (well she might tally with justin on the cheat). The true deserving number is Justine and hopely that will come in place.

I'm so dumb. I just realised this tournament lasts for two weeks lol. I noticed, as it's in next weeks tv mag, and it said second round and so forth :doh:

I hate the start of IW, it's a week of qualifying and the odd first round match :rolleyes:

I know, all the obscure names on parade :rolleyes:

At least Slams dont have bye's :rolleyes:

excuse me, I think you're forgetting about the British No.1 Anne Keothavong! :tsk:

Besides all you lot think every tournament's shit, unless the williams decide to turn up.

oh yes the mighty Anne roflmao

Well yes to a point, if Venus doesnt turn up it does kind of cheapen it for me, but only because she's my fav. Anyway i've enjoyed lots of tourny's this year without Venus, Tokyo, Dubai etc :shrug:

No, it would be alright if some tennis was actually happening roflmao

I miss Lindsay here :(

And we just know Sharapova is probably going to win this........ yawn :rolleyes:

nah, she'll either be 'injured', or play crap, and then pull out

Whenever Sharapova is injured, it usually means she's fine, but she wants to be coy with the media :rolleyes:

Oblivion, you used to be such a big williams fan, I dont know what changed you. Most of all, I thought you would even like them better after the recent stream rolling of cheatpova.