Aegon International, Eastbourne, UK, WTA Premier

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DATE: Jun 25-July 1, 2017
SURFACE: Grass
PRIZE MONEY: $753,900
FIELD SIZE: 64
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Dominika Cibulkova

The Field:

1. Angelique Kerber (Wild Card) 1 GER
2. Simona Halep (Wild Card) 2 ROU
3. Karolina Pliskova 3 CZE
4. Dominika Cibulkova 6 SVK
5. Johanna Konta 7 GBR
6. Caroline Wozniaki 8 DEN
7. Svetlana Kuznetzova 9 RUS
8. Agnieszka Radwanska 10 POL
9. Kristina Mladedovic 12 FRA
10. Jelena Ostapenko 13 LAT
11. Garbiñe Muguruza 14 ESP
12. Elena Vesnina 15 RUS
13. Petra Kvitova (Wild card) 16 CZE
14. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 17 RUS
15. Timea Bacsinszky 20 SUI
16. Daria Gavrilova 21 AUS
17. Barbora Strycova 22 CZE
18. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 24 CRO
19. Samantha Stosur 25 AUS
20. Carla Suárez Navarro 26 ESP
21. Ana Konjuh 28 CRO
22. Daria Kasatkina 29 RUS
23. Shuai Zhang 31 CHN
24. Lesia Tsurenko 34 UKR
25. Shuai Peng 37 CHN
26. Timea Babos 38 HUN
27. Alize Cornet 39 FRA
28. Katerina Siniakova 40 CZE
29. Catherine Bellis 42 USA
30. Ekaterina Makarova 43 RUS
31. Yulina Putintseva 44 KAZ
32. Alison Riske 45 USA
33. Kristyna Pliskova 46 CZE
34. Monica Nicolescu 50 ROU
35. Julia Goerges 54 GER
36. Elise Mertens 57 BEL
37. Christina McHale 59 USA
38. Naomi Osaka 61 JPN
39. Naomi Broady (Wild card) 111 GBR
40. Heather Watson (Wild card) 126 GBR

The Tournament:

The Eastbourne International is a tennis tournament on the Women's Tennis Association Tour and the ATP World Tour held at the Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club, Eastbourne, United Kingdom.

Held since 1974, it is classified as a WTA Premier tournament on the WTA Tour. Also, it was an ATP World Tour 250 series on the ATP World Tour from 2009 to 2014. The tournament is played on outdoor grass courts, and is generally considered a "warm-up" for the Wimbledon Grand Slam event, which begins the following week.

As from 2015 the annual tournament will return to a Ladies only event, with the Men's competition returning to Nottingham.It is currently sponsored by AEGON.

About Eastbourne:

Eastbourne is a large town, seaside resort, and borough in the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex on the south coast of England, 19 miles (31 km) east of Brighton. Eastbourne is immediately to the east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain.

With a seafront consisting largely of Victorian hotels, a pier, and a Napoleonic era fort and military museum, Eastbourne was developed by the Duke of Devonshire from 1859 from four separate hamlets. It has a growing population, a broad economic base, and is home to companies in a wide range of industries.

Tourism Guide:

 

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[kskate2]

Results from Round 1 Eastbourne's Women's Singles matches on Sunday

 

[britbox]

Results from the Eastbourne International Women's Singles matches on Monday

Round 2
14-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) beat Elise Mertens (Belgium) 3-6 6-4 6-1
10-Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia) beat Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) 6-3 0-6 6-4
Lara Arruabarrena Vecino (Spain) beat 16-Daria Gavrilova (Australia) 2-6 6-2 6-3
Heather Watson (Britain) beat 4-Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia) 7-5 6-4
3-Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) beat Alison Riske (U.S.) 6-4 6-3
Round 1
Lauren Davis (U.S.) beat Kristina Kucova (Slovakia) 6-4 6-2
Barbora Strycova (Czech Republic) beat Eugenie Bouchard (Canada) 6-3 3-6 6-2
Zhang Shuai (China) beat Varvara Lepchenko (U.S.) 6-2 6-1
Peng Shuai (China) beat Francesca Schiavone (Italy) 6-3 6-4
Veronica Cepede Royg (Paraguay) beat Hsieh Su-Wei (Taiwan) 4-6 6-3 6-3
Naomi Osaka (Japan) beat Risa Ozaki (Japan) 6-0 6-1
Kristyna Pliskova (Czech Republic) beat Naomi Broady (Britain) 6-2 6-7(7) 6-1
Sorana Cirstea (Romania) beat Katerina Siniakova (Czech Republic) 6-3 6-2
Duan Yingying (China) beat Christina McHale (U.S.) 6-3 4-0 (McHale retired)

Yet another early exit for Dominika Cilbulkova. Season going from bad to worse.

 

[Moxie]

 

[Moxie]

Muguruza v. Strycova could be one to watch tomorrow.

 

[kskate2]

Results from the Eastbourne International Women's Singles matches on Monday

Yet another early exit for Dominika Cilbulkova. Season going from bad to worse.

If she doesn't score enough points between now and the end of USO, her ranking will tumble when she doesn't make it back to the WTF.

 

[Moxie]

If she doesn't score enough points between now and the end of USO, her ranking will tumble when she doesn't make it back to the WTF.

I'm also sorry to see her posting such poor results. She's small, but has always been scrappy. I hope she can find her way back to better form.

 

[Hoergren]

Play suspended for Tuesday. And that gives a heavy schedule Wednesday:

 

[Moxie]

Today was a near-total washout, but here's tomorrow's schedule, anyway:

 

[Moxie]

 

[Moxie]

Ostapenko v. Konta tomorrow.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Lots of ladies did double duty today, round of 16 and quarter together.

Among the survivors are Karo and Caro.
Konta/Kerber plus Watson/Strycova still going...

I think Caro has the easiest path in semis.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Halep had a chance to snatch the number one ranking from Kerber at Eastbourne,losing to Woznicaki in 3 sets,Kerber remains the number one ranked player heading into Wimbledon

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

That's the second time that Halep fails to get the elusive #1 rankings.

One more win for Pliskova and she'll take the lead in the race.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Watching the Kerber v Konta match,I will be very surprised if Kerber defends her finalists points this year at Wimbledon,she was very sluggish in her movement,Konta had a very bad fall,trainer had to come out,Konta won the match in straight sets her first win over Kerber.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

You know, we COULD have an all British final here, I can feel the vibe coming from our own Britbox!

 

[Hoergren]

Well Watson has to pass a Wozniacki on fire so maybe a Danish British final. Here are highlights from the brilliandt Wozniacki Halep match

 

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