Porsche Tennis Grand Prix
London, 21 March 2024, (Oilandgaspress): – The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix will once again present a high-class playing field. Nine Top 10 players and a total of nine Grand Slam champions are included in the official entry list for the 47th edition of the long-standing tournament scheduled for Stuttgart’s Porsche Arena from 13 to 21 April.
A Porsche Tennis Grand Prix stalwart is the Porsche Friend Poland, Iga Swiatek. World ranked No. 1, the two-time Stuttgart winner – she is undefeated in the Porsche Arena – heads the official WTA entry list. Last year, the Pole won six tournaments including the WTA 1000 event in Doha, the French Open in Roland Garros and the WTA Finals. This year, she has already successfully defended her Doha title and won last week’s WTA 1000 event in Indian Wells.
Four reigning Grand Slam champions set for the Porsche Arena
The world No. 2 and recently crowned Australian Open winner Aryna Sabalenka will return to the Porsche Arena where she was the runner-up in the past three years after losing to the world No. 1 – 2021 Ashleigh Barty, 2022 and 2023 Iga Swiatek – on each occasion. Also back in Stuttgart is Coco Gauff. As one as the biggest talents in the game of tennis, the 20-year-old American made her big breakthrough in her fifth year on the Tour in summer 2023. After wins in Washington and Cincinnati, she claimed her first Grand Slam title at the US Open and kicked-off the new season with a success in Auckland. She has thus cemented her No. 3 world ranking. As the entry list also includes Marketa Vondrousova (Czech Republic/No. 8) – she enjoyed her biggest career success by winning Wimbledon in 2023 – it means all four reigning Grand Slam champions will be contesting the long-established Stuttgart tournament.
Another Grand Slam champion is Elena Rybakina, the current world No. 4. The 24-year-old Kazakh, who was last Top 10 player to add her name to the Stuttgart entry list just before the deadline, won Wimbledon in 2022. She started the 2024 season with wins in Brisbane and Abu Dhabi and has thus increased her number of WTA titles to seven. Alongside Wimbledon, her most notable wins were the ones at the WTA 1000 events in Indian Wells and Rome.
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