 What's going on everybody welcome back to another draw preview and we have the guitar open happening this week on the WTA It's a WTA 500 event. It's a big event and it's got some big names playing But it also has some big names that have pulled out so let's go to the withdrawals Okay, so we have Grand Slam champions pulling out of this event all over the place We start with Andrescu. She's pulled out with an injury also Bardi She pulled out with injury to Simone Hallop pulled out which was interesting to see that Sophia Kenan's out Sveontek is also out and Vondra Sova is also out of this event So some big names out but some big names are still in this one starting at the top of the draw The top four seeds get a buy in the first round There's gonna be eight seeds in total and the number one seeds fettle in as she gets a buy into the second round She'll play the winner of Zheng versus a Nissemova in the second round They may have Ryberkina versus a qualifier winner of that's gonna play a very interesting first-round match a popcorn match Between Kuznetsova and the number eight seed as a ranker so battle of the Grand Slam champions in the first round I'm excited for that one. Then we have the number three seed Sabalenka getting a buy in the first round She's gonna have to play the Kudamatova or Mugarutha in the second round and very interesting to see Mugarutha unseeded It just shows how strong this event is even without those top top players Then we have Sakari versus Sharif the winner of that's gonna play the Madison Keys or number 16 Benchich Who's on a little bit of form Benchich She made the final last week of Adelaide eventually lost to Sveontek and we haven't seen keys for a long time She got COVID before the Australian Open so she didn't play that so first little comeback here for Madison Keys another great first-round match Keys versus Benchich so even though we don't have the big names like Bardi, Halep, Sveontek on Drescu This tournament's got some big names and some very dangerous unseeded players You've got Ryberkina up the top there very dangerous unseeded player especially in these conditions Mugarutha, Sakari And of course Keys all unseeded and all very dangerous Let's go to the second half of the draw now And we get to see the Australian Open finals number seven seed Brady in the first round But she has a very tough first round She's gonna play Contovit in the first round the winner of that match is gonna play the Kerber or Boyakche in the second round It's a very tough first round there for Brady and the first time we're gonna see her since making that Australian Open final a couple weeks ago Then you have a qualifier versus Pavlechenkova The winner of that's gonna play number four seed Caviteva who gets a buy in the first round Then we have number five seed Bertens versus Osta Penko in the first round very fun first round first time We're gonna see Bertens in 2021 winner of that's gonna play the Wang or the qualifier Don't have Jabour versus a qualifier winner of that's gonna play number two seed Carolina Pliscova and that is a nightmare start for Pliscova She's gonna have to probably play Jabour who's a very dangerous player Especially in this part of the world in these conditions and again huge unseeded players here. We've got Contovit She's a very dangerous unseeded player Kerber Grand Slam champion Jabour very dangerous and also we have the return of Bertens We get to see Brady again Caviteva Pliscova as well very very stacked event. So there you have it There is the draw and I'm very excited to see Brady come back after what she did at this round open Also see how Svetolina maybe even Bertens does because we haven't seen Bertens for a long long time since getting injured last year So we'll see how she looks as well. Then of course Pliscova. I mean Sabalenka. There's so many names Let me know down in the comments below. Who do you think's gonna win this event? So this event has the potential for anybody to win it could be an unseeded player It could be the top seed. It's very hard to pick this event But I'm going on 2021 form and I'm gonna go with Sabalenka She played amazing in similar conditions at the start of the year in Abu Dhabi And I think her game is very suited to this event and I think she's gonna play very well She's actually the defending champion as well. So she won this event last year So I'm gonna stick with Sabalenka to win this one But again, anyone could win this one Let me know down in the comments below who you think's gonna win the guitar open big names are pulled out But some big names are still in