The main draw for the year’s final WTA 500 clay-court event, the Internationaux de Strasbourg, was revealed on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Strasbourg:\u00a0Draws<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>|\u00a0<\/strong>Scores<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u00a0Order of play<\/a> <\/strong>|<\/strong> Everything you need to know<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n World No. 4 Jessica Pegula is the top seed of the marquee field, which also includes Grand Slam champions Emma Raducanu, Elena Rybakina, Barbora Krejcikova and Sofia Kenin.<\/p>\n Just ahead of Roland Garros, the year’s second Grand Slam, Strasbourg play begins on Sunday, May 18 and runs through the finals on Saturday, May 24.<\/p>\n The Top 4 seeds have first-round byes in the 28-player main draw.<\/p>\n Here is a quick breakdown of the main draw highlights:<\/p>\n First quarter<\/p>\n Fourth-ranked Jessica Pegula comes in as the No. 1 seed and one of the winningest players on tour this year. She has won the second-most WTA main-draw matches in 2025 — her 28 victories only trail Aryna Sabalenka’s 34.<\/p>\n After her bye, Pegula will face either Anna Kalinskaya or a qualifier. Pegula is 0-2 in Strasbourg, having lost in the first round in 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n At the other side of this quarter, No. 6 seed Daria Kasatkina will face wild card Emma Raducanu, the 2021 US Open champion. Kasatkina heads into that meeting 3-0 against Raducanu.<\/p>\n The winner of that match will play the winner of an all-American clash between 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin and last year’s Strasbourg runner-up Danielle Collins. Collins made the 2024 Strasbourg final before losing to Madison Keys.<\/p>\n Second quarter<\/p>\n One of the three Top 10 players in the field, World No. 10 Paula Badosa leads this quarter as the No. 3 seed. Badosa will be making her Strasbourg debut.<\/p>\n Badosa will face either Aliz\u00e9 Cornet or a qualifier in the second round. Wild card Cornet is back on tour after a year-long retirement, and this will be her first event on home soil since her return last month.<\/p>\n Liudmila Samsonova is the other seed in this quarter, and she will face Linda Noskova in the first round.<\/p>\n Third quarter<\/p>\n Elena Rybakina heads this quarter as the No. 4 seed and will face Wang Xinyu or a qualifier in the second round. 2022 Wimbledon champion Rybakina was a Strasbourg finalist in 2020 before falling in the final to Elina Svitolina.<\/p>\n At the other end of this quarter is No. 7 seed Barbora Krejcikova, who will play her first match of the year after injuries kept her off court all season. The reigning Wimbledon champion brings a 3-0 head-to-head record into her first round vs. Magda Linette.<\/p>\n Krejcikova won her first WTA singles title at Strasbourg in 2021 — then won her first Grand Slam singles title two weeks later at 2021 Roland Garros.<\/p>\n Fourth quarter<\/p>\n Two-time Strasbourg champion Elina Svitolina was here as the No. 5 seed, but she withdrew from the draw due to a lower back injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n Beatriz Haddad Maia slots into her spot in the draw as the No. 9 seed. World No. 22 Haddad Maia has a tough first-round match against No. 23 Clara Tauson, who is now the highest-ranked unseeded player in the draw.<\/p>\n World No. 9 Emma Navarro sits at the bottom of the draw as the No. 2 seed. A Strasbourg quarterfinalist in 2023, Navarro will face either Magdalena Frech or a qualifier in the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The main draw for the year’s final WTA 500 clay-court event, the Internationaux de Strasbourg, was revealed on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,661,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-110645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114526617872916180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}