 So after a week of no WTA tournaments and a week of only Billy Jean King Cup with some of the players playing We get back to the European clay in Stuttgart and a lot of big names are playing this event pretty much the entire top 10 Are in this event. It's almost a 1000 event, but it's only a 500 event Let's go have a look at the players have actually withdrawn from this event before we get to the draw So for now, there's only one withdrawal and that's Belinda Benchich She has pulled out of this event and that's a big deal because Benchich actually had a very good Start of the clay court season in Charleston a couple of weeks ago making the finals So Benchich out of Stuttgart, but we still got some massive names in starting at the top of the draw We have eight seeds in this one and the top four seeds get a buy in the first round Egas Friyantek the defending champion world number one is back the first time since Indian Wells She gets a buy in the first round she would take on the winner of zhong versus a qualifier in the second round So a very tough match potentially against zhong and we've got alexander over taken on veckage Winner of that match takes on either plushkibar the number eight seed sakuri in the second round a fire first round match up there Then we've got jaber the number three seed get to buy in the first round should take on the winner of ostapenko taken on Rado khanu what a first round matchup that is rado khanu getting a wild card two former grand slam champions So a very tough road for jaber start off this tournament Then we've got trevison taken on hadad mayer winner of that match takes on either knee mayer or the number seven seed Rebakina so this part of the draw is so stacked you've got shfiantek sakuri jaber Rebakina and they're just the seeds players like zhong plushkibar veckage ostapenko rado khanu even adage mayer Very tough opponents on the clay courts So a very top-heavy draw and interested to see how shfiantek does because her draw is manageable Especially being the clay court queen from last year down to the bottom half of the draw now And we've got the number six seed golf taking on kudamatova very tough first round there for golf The winner of that match takes on the winner of kivitava taking on potapova Interesting first round there. Then we've got maria taking on a qualifier The winner of that match takes on the number four seed garcia who gets to buy in the first round Then we've got the number five seed kazakina taken on bodosa in the first round very fun first round matchup there Winner of that match will take on a qualifier because we've got two qualies going at it Then we've got kujigama taken on samsonova winner of that match takes on the number two seed sabalenka So potentially kujigama sabalenka again in a big tournament They play three times already this year with the head to head split at two ones So that could be a very fun second round matchup and a first match on clay for sabalenka very tough This part of the draw isn't as top-heavy, but still very very open And kazakina bodosa great first round golf kudamatova very nice first round So no standouts in the bottom half of the draw everyone's got a pretty tricky draw And some opponents that they might have to face they cool cause upsets And there you have it the stook guard open for this year and man We have a massive draw so many good players playing in so many first round bangers You've got osta panko roto kano first round bodosa kazakina is a great first round Even golf kudamatova is a nice first round and potentially some epic second rounds for the top four seeds Let me know down in the comments below who do you think is going to win this tournament? It's hard not to fix fiontech she only lost one clay court match for the entire season last year And she is the defending champion so i'm going to stick with fiontech just because it's clay courts I feel like it's her time to shine but again, let me know down in the comments below Who's going to win this stook guard open?