The World No. 1 on the WTA Tour, Iga Swiatek, will return to action at the 2023 Poland Open in Warsaw, leading the draw.
Held from July 24th to 30th, the WTA 250 tournament in the Polish capital is one that attracts all the fans in the country, and that's for one simple reason. Their best player, Iga Swiatek, will be competing at the event, and after failing to win it last year, she'll give it another shot in 2023.
Only recently, the young Pole enjoyed a vacation, but she's now back on the tennis court, gearing up for her first tournament since Wimbledon. As the top seed at the 2023 Poland Open in Warsaw, Swiatek will play against Nigina Abduraimova in the first round of the competition.
The World No. 1 in the WTA Rankings is by far the highest-ranked player in the draw, but that doesn't mean that she won't be facing a difficult challenge on her journey to the title, despite the massive support that she's expected to get from the home fans.
But the competition will be fierce, as the second-seeded player is the 2023 Roland Garros finalist Karolina Muchova, who will play against Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the first round of the WTA 250 tournament in Warsaw.
Recently, the event has been in the news because Poland blocked former World No. 2 Vera Zvonareva from entering the country, therefore, there are no Russian or Belarusian players in the draw.
However, there are quite a lot of Czech players joining the second-seeded Muchova. The third-seeded Katerina Siniakova will play against Heather Watson, while the seventh-seeded Linda Fruhvirtova will start against Lucrezia Stefanini. The eighth-seeded Linda Noskova will play against one of the qualifiers, and Camila Giorgi will meet Tatjana Maria in one of the first-round blockbusters.
2023 Poland Open Warsaw WTA Draw:
| 1. Iga Swiatek (1) |
| 2. Nigina Abduraimova |
| 3. Claire Liu |
| 4. Yue Yuan |
| 5. Kristina Kucova |
| 6. Viktoria Hruncakova |
| 7. Qualifier |
| 8. Linda Noskova (8) |
| 9. Katerina Siniakova (3) |
| 10. Heather Watson |
| 11. Jessika Ponchet |
| 12. Qualifier |
| 13. Nao Hibino |
| 14. Yanina Wickmayer |
| 15. Tereza Martincova |
| 16. Shuai Zhang (5) |
| 17. Linda Fruhvirtova (7) |
| 18. Lucrezia Stefanini |
| 19. Qualifier |
| 20. Jodie Burrage |
| 21. Maja Chwalinska |
| 22. Laura Siegemund |
| 23. Xiyu Wang |
| 24. Lin Zhu (4) |
| 25. Camila Giorgi (6) |
| 26. Tatjana Maria |
| 27. Clara Tauson |
| 28. Daria Snigur |
| 29. Qualifier |
| 30. Weronika Ewald |
| 31. Aliaksandra Sasnovich |
| 32. Karolina Muchova (2) |
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