With Gauff at the helm, the WTA matches are scheduled for Zhengzhou

From 9 to 15 October WTA 500 Zhengzhouthe last tournament of this type for the 2023 season. Coco Joufthe top seed in the competition, will make his debut against the winner of their duel Petra Martić and Magda Lynette.

The young American, the new US Open champion, has just lost in the semi-finals of the WTA 1000 tournament in Beijing to the Pole. Iga Swatic. Throughout the meeting, he had pain in his shoulder and said: “I’m not used to playing in pain. It’s not a serious injury, with some rest it will be fine.”.

Regardless, other than Gauff, the tournament will have other stars worth keeping an eye on. One of them is Elena Rybakina. The Kazakh player, champion of two WTA 1000 tournaments so far this season, will be seeded second. In the second round, wait for the winner of the match between them Lyudmila Samsonova and Yasmine Paolini. The Russian, Rybakina’s executioner in Montreal and Beijing, is still alive in the last WTA 1000 points of the season and in the final she will face Iga Swiatek.

Maria SaccariThe third seed will play for the first time against the winner of the match between the Croatian Donna Vekic And China Qinwen Cheng. If they continue to advance, they could find themselves in a virtual quarter-final against the Czechs Karolina Muchova.

On the other hand, it seems Anas Jaber. The Tunisian, ranked fourth, will have to face in the second round Lucia Bronzetti or Hanyu Guo.

The tournament, held in Zhengzhou, the largest city and capital of Henan Province (China), is the defending champion Karolina Pliskova. It is worth clarifying that this tournament has not been held since 2019, as all events in the Asian country have been canceled since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Colombian Camila Osorio participated in the qualifiers, but was unable to qualify after losing to Russian Vera Zvonareva (397) with a score of 1-6, 6-2, 6-2. In this way, the Latin American country added its third fall in a row.