Iga Swiatek leads an all-star field at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart

Iga Swiatek has a bye into the tournament's second round, but still has to play a game that might be challenging. In her initial encounter, the top-ranked player in the WTA rankings will take on either the rising American star Alycia Parks or the always developing Zheng Qinwen.

“We're thrilled to be able to introduce a celebrity like Iga to our audience”, said tournament director Markus Günthardt. “She was the best player in 2022 and is currently ranked first in the globe. She is unquestionably one of the favourites as the reigning champion, especially after demonstrating at the Qatar Open in Doha that she has recovered from a sluggish start to the season.”

Maria Sakkari, the eighth seed, or last year's winner Karolina Pliskova might be Iga’s quarterfinal opponents if she manages to advance to the last eight. The first opponent for the No. 3 seed Ons Jabeur will be determined by the matchup between Jelena Ostapenko and Emma Raducanu, the 2021 US Open winner.

Jabeur might face Wimbledon champion and sixth seed Elena Rybakina in the quarterfinals, making her road to the last four paved with potential matches with previous Grand Slam winners. Rybakina begins her Stuttgart campaign in the first round against German No. 1 Jule Niemeier.

The fourth seeded Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia is without a doubt the main attraction of the third quarter. After receiving a first-round bye, she will play either German No. 2 Tatjana Maria or Swiss qualifier Ylena In-Albon. Seventh seed In the same quadrant as Garcia, Coco Gauff will play world No. 13 Veronika Kudermetova, one of the highest-ranked unseeded women, in her opening round in Stuttgart.

Gauff and Kudermetova have only met once; that encounter took place in Doha earlier this season, and Kudermetova prevailed. Just eight of the top 10 players in the world will participate in the indoor clay event after Petra Kvitova withdrew from the competition after it had already begun due to a right foot injury.

Aryna Sabalenka, the Australian Open winner, who finished second in Stuttgart the past two years and has come agonisingly close to winning the championship, anchored the bottom quarter. Following her first round, Sabalenka will undoubtedly play a player ranked in the Top 15.

The winner of the first-round match between Barbora Krejcikova and Liudmila Samsonova will face the world No. 2 player. On the other side of that bottom quarter, seventh seed Daria Kasatkina and Spain's Paula Badosa will square off in the opening round. In their three contested matches, all of which took place in 2022, Kasatkina currently holds a 2-1 advantage against Badosa in their lifetime head-to-head comparison.