The world’s best in the Porsche Arena 2010

Top stars like seven-time Grand Slam winner Venus Williams and Kim Clijsters will be competing in the Porsche Arena from 24 April to 2 May for 700,000 dollars prize money and the new Porsche Boxster Spyder.

A total of seven top ten players in the WTA world rankings will be in the line-up at the 33rd edition of the long-standing tournament.

The seedings will be headed by the Dane Caroline Wozniacki, the current world number two, followed by the Russian Dinara Safina (No. 3) and the title holder and French Open winner Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia/No. 4).

Other top ten players are Venus Williams (No. 5), Victoria Azarenka (Belarus/No. 7), Jelena Jankovic (Serbia/No. 8) and Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland/No. 9).

They will be joined by the former world No. 1 Kim Clijsters who won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix back in 2002 and 2003 and who, in autumn last year, crowned her comeback after having a baby by winning her second US Open title. The Stuttgart line-up will include another former world No. 1 and Grand Slam winner, namely the Serb Ana Ivanovic.

German players in the world class field with the best chances are Sabine Lisicki and Andrea Petkovic.

“Line-ups of this calibre are otherwise only normally seen at Grand Slam tournaments,” said Tournament Director Markus Günthardt. The Swiss promises spectators in the Porsche Arena tennis of the highest class and is above all delighted that Kim Clijsters has returned to the game. “She’s a great player who not only hammers the ball over the net but she’s also a great tactician.

Watching her play is a joy for all tennis fans. Not many sports can boast such a successful mother.”