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No talk of a post-grand-slam-depression: In St. St. Petersburg (live on DAZN) the stars give themselves the door handle in the changing room in the hand.

The ceremony before the marching in of the players at the WTA Premier Tournament in St. Gallen. Petersburg is admittedly in need of getting used to: four young ladies celebrate an expressive dance with illuminated tennis rackets, which should be appreciated by experts from the art scene. And why wouldn’t I be? As soon as the revolving door has moved 180 degrees, there is a good chance that a Grand Slam winner will appear.

Especially in these days: Caroline Wozniacki. The Dane has survived her intensive meeting with Daphne very well, came to Russia late after the Saturday finale in Melbourne to show the very young Russian Anastasia Potapova that in the end it is primarily a question of playing the ball more often than her opponent over the net and also in the field. Daria Kasatkina, a player who has already grasped this lesson, is waiting for you in the evening session on Friday.

Elena Rybakina, also a young Russian player, will be testing Julia Görges on the quarter-finals day at the start of the season, for whom a career milestone is at stake: her first move into the top ten on the WTA Tour. Görges won the round of sixteen against Roberta Vinci in the final round of the last sixteen, which was not a matter of course: the Italian had won all three matches before. Kristina Mladenovic finished another series on Thursday: After 15 defeats en suite, French player Dominika Cibulkova defeated Dominika Cibulkova in two sets, and now meets Katerina Siniakova.

The biggest fireworks are expected from the meeting between Petra Kvitova, double winner in Wimbledon, and Jelena Ostapenko, the reigning champion of Paris. Kvitova has already made a fabulously fit impression in Australia, even though she has lost a memorable marathon match against Andrea Petkovic. The conditions in the hall of St.. Petersburg should at least suit her. Ostapenko, on the other hand, still lives on the magic days in Roland Garros. Success against a renowned winner like Petra Kvitova would once again give the Latvian woman’s rise much more credibility.

Here is the single panel in St. Petersburg