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PREVIEW NOTES: ST. PETERSBURG LADIES TROPHY ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA | JANUARY 28- FEBRUARY 3, 2019 | USD $823,000 PREMIER

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ST. PETERSBURG QUICK FACTS Main draw dates: Monday, January 28 – Sunday, February 3, 2019 Singles Final: Sunday, February 3, 2019, 4:30pm Doubles Final: Sunday, February 3, 2019, 1:00pm Venue: Sibur Arena Status: WTA Premier event Staging: Tournament’s 4th year Draw sizes: 28 singles / 16 doubles teams / 32 singles qualifying Surface: Rebound Ace Portable System Indoors Total prize money: USD $823,000 Ball: Team 2018 Singles Final: [WC] Petra Kvitova (CZE) d. [4] (FRA) 6-1 6-2 2018 Doubles Final: Timea Bacsinszky/ (SUI/RUS) d. / (RUS/SLO) 2-6 6-1 10-3

PRIZE MONEY AND RANKING POINT BREAKDOWN

RANK RANK SINGLES USD $ DOUBLES USD $ POINTS POINTS Winner 141,500 470 Winner 44,200 470 Runner-Up 75,555 305 Runner-Up 23,615 305 Semifinalist 40,460 185 Semifinalist 12,905 185 Quarterfinalist 21,700 100 Quarterfinalist 6,565 100 Round of 16 11,640 55 Round of 16 3,570 1 Round of 32 7,385 1

PREVIOUS CHAMPIONS AND RUNNERS-UP

YEAR CHAMPION RUNNER-UP 2018 Petra Kvitova Kristina Mladenovic 2017 Kristina Mladenovic 2016 If highlighted denotes competing in 2019 St. Petersburg main draw

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PREVIEW NOTES: ST. PETERSBURG LADIES TROPHY ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA | JANUARY 28- FEBRUARY 3, 2019 | USD $823,000 PREMIER

MAIN DRAW QUICK HITS (excludes qualifiers)

Singles wildcards: (BLR), Olga Danilovic (SRB), (RUS), Vera Zvonareva (RUS) Youngest singles player: Olga Danilovic, 18 years old (Jan 23, 2001) Oldest singles player: Vera Zvonareva, 34 years old (September 7, 1984) Singles withdrawals: Carla Suárez Navarro (right knee injury), (left thigh injury), (right foot injury) St. Petersburg main draw debuts: Victoria Azarenka, Olga Danilovic, , ,

TOURNAMENT TALKING POINTS

 Celebrating its fourth year as a Premier event, this year’s tournament includes three Top-10 players: Petra Kvitova, and  Last year’s champion Kvitova will be returning to defend her title, while champion in 2017 and runner-up in 2018 Kristina Mladenovic will also participate in the main draw alongside former semifinalists Julia Goerges and Daria Kasatkina  Kvitova arrives fresh from finishing runner-up to at the – her third final and first since winning 2014 Wimbledon. She also returns to No.2 in the ranking  The home country will be well represented as five different Russian players will be competing in the main draw: Daria Kasatkina, and Maria Sharapova along with two wild cards, Ekaterina Makarova and Vera Zvonareva  One To Watch – Olga Danilovic, who only turned 18 earlier this month, is making her debut at St. Petersburg and has good memories of competing in Russia, having won last year’s Moscow River Cup. By doing so she not only became the first lucky loser to win a WTA title but also the first player born in the 2000s to do so

TOP FOUR SEEDS PREVIOUS MAIN DRAW TOURNAMENT HISTORY

PLAYER TOURNAMENT HISTORY WIN-LOSS WIN % (main draw) [1] Petra Kvitova 2018 Champion (d. Mladenovic in F) 5-0 1.000

[2] Kiki Bertens 1r (2): 2017 (l. Beck) 2018 (l. Zvonareva) 0-2 .000 SF (2): 2018 (l. Mladenovic) 2016 (l. Bencic); [3] Daria Kasatkina 7-3 .700 2r in 2017 (l. Vikhlyantseva) [4] Aryna Sabalenka Fell in 2017 qualifying - -

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PREVIEW NOTES: ST. PETERSBURG LADIES TROPHY ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA | JANUARY 28- FEBRUARY 3, 2019 | USD $823,000 PREMIER

COUNTRY BREAKDOWN

Excluding qualifiers, a total of 15 countries are represented in the main draw, led by Russia with five players:

Australia (1) Belarus (2) Victoria Azarenka, Aryna Sabalenka (2) , Alison Van Uytvanck Croatia (1) Donna Vekic Czech Republic (2) Petra Kvitova, Katerina Siniakova, France (2) Alizé Cornet, Kristina Mladenovic Germany (1) Julia Goerges Greece (1) Maria Sakkari Kazakhstan (1) Yulia Putinseva Latvia (1) Jelena Ostapenko Netherlands (1) Kiki Bertens Russia (5) Daria Kasatkina, Ekaterina Makarova, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Maria Sharapova, Vera Zvonareva Serbia (1) Olga Danilovic Slovakia (1) Dominika Cibulkova (1) Timea Bacsinszky

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