For the main competition, a German tennis personality already well known to the Linz public will receive a “free ticket”: Andrea Petkovic. And in the qualification, Kristyna Pliskova was chosen as the player who had already collected a winner’s cheque in Linz.
As a reminder: In 2013 Kristyna and her twin sister Karolina won the double competition at the women’s tennis classic in Linz. Three players had already enjoyed wildcards for the qualification before the Czech Kristyna Pliskova: The 16-year-old Viennese Mavie Österreicher, who won the premiere of the “Wildcard Challenge” last Sunday, the 18-year-old Upper Austrian Nadja Ramskogler (as finalist of the Wildcard Challenge) and 28-year-old Melanie Klaffner, another Upper Austrian. Barbara Haas is directly in the main draw thanks to a wildcard.
Even after the cancellation of the Canadian Genie Bouchard due to injury on Friday evening, it remains the same: In the extremely strong qualification eight players fight who have already won at least one WTA tournament! From a German perspective, Mona Barthel, Tamara Korpatsch, Carina Witthöft and Antonia Lottner are also represented in the Qualifying Tableau.
No less than three world class players will be playing as “angels of luck” in the public draw for the main competition in the district heating plant of LINZ AG on Sunday at 1 p.m.: Kristina Mladenovic, Olympic champion Monica Puig and last year’s finalist Magdalena Rybarikova.
The defending champion in Linz is the Czech Barbora Strycova.
Here is the Quali-Tableau from Linz