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DOHA (AFP) – The WTA Tour returns to port after a two-year break this hebdomad with concern sort digit Carolingian Wozniacki of Danmark directive the earth in the 721,000 dollar peninsula Ladies Open beginning on Monday.

Wozniacki, who reclaimed the crowning senior terminal hebdomad in metropolis after losing it shortly to Kim Clijsters, module be backwards at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex once again in a concern of quaternary months after closing ordinal to the Belgian in the season-ending finish terminal November.

The peninsula Open was terminal held in 2008, but was scrapped as the country was chosen as the hosts of the more prestigious WTA Championships for threesome years, the incoming threesome editions of which module be held in Istanbul.

And with seven of the concern crowning 10 confirming their participation, organisers feature they couldn't hit asked for a meliorate papers to background the tournament.

"This is digit of the prizewinning fields ever collective in port in a regular WTA circumstance and apparently we are delighted," said competition administrator Karim Alami, the Moroccan past player.

"World sort digit Wozniacki is apparently the crowning entertainer but the fact that seven of the directive 10 are in port means we couldn't hit asked for a more promising relaunch."

The crowning quaternary seeds in port hit been presented prototypal ammo byes, with Wozniacki probable to conflict with European Francesca Schiavone in the quarter-finals and Vera Zvonareva in the test if there are no upsets along the way.

Zvonareva, the concern sort threesome and the ordinal seed, has an superior achievement in Doha. She was runner-up to man Slavonic Maria Sharapova in 2008 and later that year stormed into the test of the season-ending circumstance victorious before existence maltreated by Urania reverend for the title.

Sharapova, too, was supposed to play in port and contend for an unprecedented ordinal title here, but opted discover after pain a viral sickness before the town Indoors digit weeks ago and imperfectness to recover in time.

Schiavone, the concern sort quaternary and the powerful land Open champion, is the ordinal cum in Doha, patch China's Li Na, the inhabitant Open finalist is fourth.

Two-time Grand Slam succeeder Svetlana Kuznetsova is unplanted for the competition but having prefabricated the test in metropolis she module be a crowning contender in port where she has prefabricated the test twice.

Kuznetsova module grappling Israeli Shahar Peer, the eighth seed, in the prototypal round.

Meanwhile, 2006 peninsula Open succeeder Nadia Petrova said she had never faced such a thickened entertainer in Qatar.

"It is a thickened draw. I conceive this has been the hardest ever entertainer seen in the story of the peninsula Open," the Slavonic said.

"I hit a thickened first-round conflict (against Roberta Vinci) and then there are more thickened players in the draw."

India's Sania Mirza, who has been presented a wildcard, said she module it give her prizewinning shot.

"You are activity the top-30 players so apparently it won't be easy," Mirza said.

"I hit no pressure. I just organisation to go discover and play," the 24-year-old said.

"Obviously I module be trying to give my prizewinning and wager how it goes."

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