Em is seeded 7 and plays one of her best friends Ksenia Lykina, who is the highest ranked unseeded player. Tad unfortunate as the two unseeded players either side are the weakest in the draw but it's really all about the doubles anyway (albeit she's defending big points over the next few weeks so had to be careful not to slip out the top 400).
Someone can fix the thread title as I know I've done it wrong.
Good to see Emily back with Nao, it seems a good partnership.
A R1 win worth 29 points would take over from her lowest counter of 25 from December last year and leave her with nothing to defend until a 140 point 100K title points due to come off in February.
Hopefully though can also at least reach the SF, worth 57 points, to push on her total ranking score further for now.
