Svitolina for the first time topped the seeding for the WTA Premier event

The strongest tennis player of Ukrainian Elina Svitolina is the leader of the major seeding of the grass tournament WTA Premier with a prize Fund of $885,040.

Initially, the top-3 seeding for “Aegon Classic Birmingham” included Angelique Kerber, Simona Halep and Karolina Pliskova, but each of these players for various reasons has postponed the start of the grass season.

After the failure that is Kerber Svitolina became the first racket of the WTA Premier event. Ukrainka was a leader seeding in the competition category of International tournaments of series Premier before so high not located.

Grass season Elina Svitolina will start tomorrow, June 19. On Monday, the fifth world in the first round of the tournament in Birmingham at 16:00 Moscow time will play against the 113th-ranked Heather Watson.

In the future, Svitolina can play with Garbine Muguruza or Johanna Contoy, which in the first round will meet with the second racket of Ukraine Lesya Tsurenko. In the upper part of the tournament are Petra Kvitova, Kristina Mladenovic and Dominika Cibulkova.

Elina Svitolina is just 65 points away from the fourth line of the rating WTA. In case of successful performance in Birmingham Ukrainian woman can circumvent Serena Williams once again beat the national record.

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