Top seeds in action tomorrow

11 January 2009, by Hobart International Tennis

Top seed Flavia Pennetta will get her Moorilla Hobart International campaign underway tomorrow when she meets world No.38 Shahar Peer in the first round.

Pennetta, who alongside Simone Bolelli represented Italy in the Hopman Cup in Perth last week, is looking forward to getting out on court and has been busy practicing out at the Domain Tennis Centre today.

Peer only just missed out on being seeded and will be a formidable opponent for Pennetta.

Tournament No.8 seed Aleksandra Wozniak starts proceedings on Centre Court tomorrow up against qualifier Urszula Radwanska.

No.3 seed Anna Chakvetadze takes on Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro. 

With No.2 seed Patty Schnyder knocked out of the tournament today, the bottom half of the draw has opened up for the remaining players.

Australian wildcard recipients Jessica Moore and Olivia Rogowska will be looking to capitalise on the opportunity to compete against two of the world’s top 40 players when they play tomorrow.

Rogowska will make her Sony Ericsson WTA Tour debut against world No.45 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova from Russia, in the first match on Court 1.

Moore is second match on Centre Court against world No.49 Olga Govortsova.

Tomorrow’s plays kicks off at 10:30 am tomorrow.  The night matches will get underway no earlier than 7:30 pm.