Genie Bouchard has been considered for long as the new Sharapova, but the Canadian didn’t manage To live up to the expectations so far.  The Canadian and the Russian may clash in the Madrid second round if they win their openers and that would be really interesting especially after Genie has recently said that drug cheats (i.e. Sharapova) should be banned for life. Maria will definitely try to take her revenge on court.

The top seeds

The top seeds are Angelique Kerber, Karolina Pliskova, Simona Halep and Dominika Cibulkova.

Possible quarters

Kerber/Sharapova – Kuznetsova
Cibulkova/Mladenovic – Keys
Konta – Halep (again)
Muguruza – Pliskova

The favorites should be Simona Halep and Maria Sharapova.

Here the draw

[1] Kerber (GER) v Babos (HUN)

Siniakova (CZE) v Lucic-Baroni (CRO)

Cornet (FRA) v Bouchard (CAN)

Sharapova (RUS) v [13] Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)

[11] Svitolina (UKR) v Qualifier

Garcia (FRA) v Qualifier

Riske (USA) v Golubic (SUI)

Shvedova (KAZ) v [8] Kuznetsova (RUS)

[4] Cibulkova (SVK) v Jankovic (SRB)

Qualifier v Qualifier

Davis (USA) v Puig (PUR)

Konjuh (CRO) v [14] Mladenovic (FRA)

[9] Keys (USA) v Cirstea (ROU)

Bellis (USA) v Gavrilova (AUS)

Qualifier v Putintseva (KAZ)

Doi (JPN) v [7] Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)

[6] Konta (GBR) v Siegemund (GER)

Qualifier v Vandeweghe (USA)

Suárez Navarro (ESP) v Shuai (CHN)

Niculescu (ROU) v [10] Wozniacki (DEN)

[16] Stosur (AUS) v Sorribes Tormo (ESP)

Goerges (GER) v Qualifier

Vinci (ITA) v Kasatkina (RUS)

Kristyna Pliskova (CZE) v [3] Halep (ROU)

[5] Muguruza (ESP) v Bacsinszky (SUI)

Bertens (NED) v Makarova (RUS)

Qualifier v Schiavone (ITA)

Begu (ROU) v [12] Vesnina (RUS)

[15] Strycova (CZE) v Safarova (CZE)

McHale (USA) v Arruabarrena (ESP)

Shuai (CHN) v Sevastova (LAT)

Tsurenko (UKR) v [2] Pliskova (CZE)