{"id":2497,"date":"2017-06-01T15:29:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T19:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2017-06-02T09:28:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:28:30","slug":"five-names-wta-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2017\/06\/01\/five-names-wta-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Dangerous Names in the Top Half of the WTA French Open Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"

First conclusions are going to be drawn tomorrow as far as the 2017 Roland Garros<\/strong> is concerned. Indeed, the first half of third rounds are going to be played, meaning that we will finally learn who will be the first names to reach\u00a0the second week of the\u00a0Grand Slam<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

On the WTA<\/strong> side, the situation is open as ever. With no big favourites for the title, the road is open for mostly everyone to make a historical, deep run. If someone can argue that this is inevitably going to lower the quality of the matches, I would say instead that this openness of the field makes the competition even more entertaining. And hopefully, this opportunity for everyone to get a big achievement is going to motivate players to bring their best tennis out there on court.<\/p>\n

Literally, every player has a chance to reach the semifinals, or even the final. My job consisting of picking five names to watch out for is hard, since I would take mostly all of the ones left in the draw. But, you know, listing the players left would be quite boring and, I\u2019d say, utterly useless. Hence, after a long decision, here are my five names to watch out for, ahead of the third round.<\/p>\n

Actually, most of the times life\u2019s happenings prove me wrong, so I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if all of them exit the tournament in the following round, but I\u2019ll try anyway.<\/p>\n

Samantha Stosur<\/h3>\n
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