The draw for the WTA tournament in Strasbourg is out, and Emma Raducanu features in one of several intriguing early matchups in a strong field.<\/p>\n
The clay-court 500 event, which will be held in the week before the French Open from May 18 to 24, features six top 20 players \u2014 including three top 10 stars.<\/p>\n
Madison Keys was the 2024 champion, but she chose not to play this year.\u00a0The draw includes 28 players, including four wildcards: Jessica Pegula<\/a>, Raducanu, Diane Parry and Alize Cornet.<\/p>\n The seeded players are Pegula (1), Emma Navarro (2), Paula Badosa (3), Elena Rybakina (4), Daria Kasatkina (6), Barbora Krejcikova (7) and Liudmila Samsonova (8).<\/p>\n Elina Svitolina was the fifth seed, but her place will be taken by a lucky loser as she pulled out after the draw was made. Ekaterina Alexandrova and Olga Danilovic have also withdrawn.<\/p>\n The top four seeds receive a bye to the second round, while players seeded between five to eight will enter in the opening round.<\/p>\n Pegula, Badosa, Kasatkina and Samsonova are the four seeded players in a stacked top half of the draw.<\/p>\n Top seed Pegula will face Anna Kalinskaya or a qualifier in her opening match, while she is projected to meet Kasatkina in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n Raducanu<\/a> has been handed a brutal draw as she will play Kasatkina \u2014 against whom she holds a 0-3 record \u2014 in the first round. Whoever prevails will take on the winner of a spicy all-American matchup between Danielle Collins and Sofia Kenin.<\/p>\n No 3 seed Paula Badosa has not played since the Miami Open in March due to her persistent back injury, and the Spaniard is set to play Alize Cornet or a qualifier in her opener. Eighth seed Samsonova is projected to meet Badosa in the last eight.<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu set a demanding rankings target as she looks to seal big climb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n WTA Rankings Winners & Losers Italian Open: Gauff back at No 2, Swiatek\u2019s big slump, Raducanu, Eala rise<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Second seed Emma Navarro will face the winner of an opening round clash between Magdalena Frech and Beatriz Haddad Maia.<\/p>\n With Svitolina withdrawing, world No 23 Clara Tauson is the highest-ranked player Navarro could face in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n No 4 seed Rybakina will begin her campaign against Wang Xinyu, and she is on a quarter-final collision course with fellow Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova.<\/p>\n Krejcikova, the seventh seed, is set to play her first event of the 2025 season, having not featured since the WTA Finals in November due to injury.<\/p>\n Pegula (1) vs. Kasatkina (6)<\/p>\n Badosa (3) vs. Samsonova (8)<\/p>\n Rybakina (4) vs. Krejcikova (7)<\/p>\n Navarro (2) vs. Tauson (unseeded)<\/p>\n Fantastic draw in the Strasbourg WTA 500.<\/p>\n 1st rounds Wow.<\/p>\n (Svitolina withdrew) pic.twitter.com\/3Wq7EQtW9x<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Morgado (@josemorgado) May 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Emma Raducanu receives major boost as she makes key Wimbledon coach decision<\/a> The post WTA Strasbourg draw: Raducanu gets brutal opener as Pegula, Navarro, Badosa, Rybakina headline<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The draw for the WTA tournament in Strasbourg is out, and Emma Raducanu features in one of several intriguing early matchups in a strong field. The clay-court 500 event, which will be held in the week before the French Open from May 18 to 24, features six top 20 players \u2014 including three top 10 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Top half<\/h4>\n
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Projected quarter-finals<\/h4>\n
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\nCollins-Kenin
\nKasatkina-Raducanu
\nSamsonova-Noskova
\nKrejcikova (!)-Linette
\nHaddad Maia-Frech<\/p>\n
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