 What's going on everybody welcome back to another draw preview and we have the WTA back in action We've got three events on this week. This is the first event. It's called the Yarra Valley Classic And it's got some big players in it So let's go to the top quarter of the draw now with Ash Barty getting a buy in the first round as the top 10 Seeds do she'll play the winner in the second round of Bogdan or Racka Mova So Barty good start for her especially in front of her home crowd. There will be crowds I expect as well in Melbourne Then we've got Rainer versus Bolsova the winner of that's gonna play another Australian Sam Stozer US Open Champion from way back When she's playing the number 16 seed Buscova, so that's gonna be an interesting match up there Let's see how Stozer can do number 12 seed Farrow is playing against Rogers the American winner That's gonna play either Peterson or another Australian the wild card English then Svettara is gonna play against Flipkins winner that's gonna play the number 7 seed Martich So not a bad draw for Ash Barty. You look at the top of the draw. She doesn't have much to worry about She's gonna have to take on either the 16th seed 12th seed or the 7th seed and there's no real dangerous Unseeded players in that part of the draw for her. So Ash Barty. It's got a good draw second quarter the draw now We got Pleskova the number three seed up the top She gets a buy in the first round she'll play the winner of the Italian Chocchi Areto or another protected ranking zoo so Pleskova should have a good first match there She shouldn't have too much worries We hope then you've got Sheriff versus Stozo Novich the winner of that's gonna play either Bonaventure or the number 13 seed Collins then we have the number 9 seed Vekic. She'll play the winner of Poronkova or Sampson over so Vekic She's always known to get upset in some of these tournaments Then you've got Kuzmova versus Gabralova the winner of that's gonna play against number 5 seed Serena Williams So Pleskova and Vekic they have a tough draw because they're in the same area as Serena So we'll see what happens ever there are some unseeded players that could cause some damage like I said Poronkova She's the tough one, but Pleskova Vekic Williams a lot of big names Let's go to the bottom half of the draw the top half of the bottom half Vondra Sova the number 8 seed she gets a buy in the first round She'll play the winner of Racheva or Cabrera the Australian wild card a lot of Aussies in this one Of course being in Melbourne then you've got Svonareva versus the Pleskova sister the winner That's gonna play number 10 seed Zhang in the second round number 14 seed Podoroska is playing Jones from the UK Now we did talk about Jones a little bit She got through qualifying of the Aussie open and she has a really inspirational story behind her So if you haven't heard about Jones from the UK, you will find out in the next couple of weeks Winner of that match is gonna play the winner of Danilovic and Minnan Then you've got Russ versus Venus Williams one of the most difficult unseeded players with Venus Williams winner That's gonna have to play against number four seed Kovitava So we could get a Venus Williams Petra Kovitava second round matchup. That would be insane But again this part of the draw I mean Kovitava is the standout There's not too many players besides Williams that I can see going through Vondra Sova She's not the greatest hardcore player in the world Podoroska. We haven't seen her much on hardcore She's a good clay quarter and Zhang not a hundred percent sure what to expect from her So Kovitava has got a pretty good draw then the last section of the draw We have the number 16 Mugaruta. She gets a buy in the first round She'll play the winner of Psy versus Van Utvank You've got Sebastova versus Bregel the winner of that's gonna play against Doi or the number 11 seed Pavlochenkova Then you've got the number 15 seed Mladenovic versus Bogula in the first round winner That's gonna play against Burrell or Barthol in the second round then you got Burrell versus Georgie Winner of that's gonna play against another second seed Sophia Kennan So straight away you probably can realize that if we get the quarter finals and the seeds get through We're gonna get a replay of the Australian Open final in this quarter final Which is gonna be insane Kennan versus Mugaruta, but the WTA it throws up random champions It throws up upsets all the time So we're a long way from that quarter final matchup But I hope we get it because I want to see a replay of the Australian Open final last year before the Australian Open this year So there it is the draw for the Yarra Valley Classic a very new tournament. It's a Melbourne tournament, which again We're gonna get used to that we've got a lot of tournaments on this week and you got Kennan You've got Barthol you've got some of the best players in the world a lot of the players in this tournament played Well at the Australian Open last year as well So that's very interesting to see let me know down in the comments below who you think's gonna win this one I'm torn. I'm thinking maybe it's gonna be Barthol. She looked really impressive against Helip in the exhibition event in Adelaide Kennan she looked good in the start of the year, but did fall apart a little bit against Sakari I think I might have to go with Caviteva. I know she's the fourth seed But I just can't see one of those top seeds getting through especially Barty not playing for 12 months Kennan She doesn't seem to do great before a Grand Slam. She plays kind of poor So I'm gonna go with Caviteva a little bit of an outside pick So that's the first of many events happening this week in Melbourne. It's got a lot of tennis going on