6/16/2008

Week #25 preview: Eastbourne & 's-Hertogenbosch

Eastbourne (GBR), Tier II, $600,000
Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova and French Marion Bartoli will be the only Top 10 players competing on the biggest grass event on the way to Wimbledon after the withdrawal of world's leading players Ana Ivanovic and Maria Sharapova due to different physical problems. Three of the best players of the season so far, Vera Zvonareva, Agnieszka Radwanska and Victoria Azarenka will contend for the title, as veteran Lindsay Davenport, while Amelie Mauresmo, Nadia Petrova and Nicole Vaidisova will try to get her best tennis back.

's-Hertogenbosch (NED), Tier III, $175,000
This combined ATP & WTA tournament in Netherlands will feature a very interesting field highlighted by Russians Elena Dementieva, Anna Chakvetadze and Roland Garros finalist Dinara Safina. Title winners last week Kateryna Bondarenko and Maria Kirilenko will also be there, along with Kateryna's sister Alona, comeback Indian Sania Mirza and young Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova, while local favourite Michaella Krajicek will try to get her confidence back.

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