Olympic draws are out; top players have tough opponents

As the draw of the Olympic Tennis Event came out of Thursday, the opening matches of the top players will be tough, as they will face the some of the best players on tour.

In the Top 3 seeds, Svetlana Kuznetsova will have a pretty tough opponent, Chinese Li Na, who has had some tough times in the past 12 months due to injuries. Li Na will be a real challenge for the Russian, as she has already had a win over Kuznetsova before.

No. 1 and No. 2 seeds Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic will face Mariya Koryttseva and Cara Black. Koryttseva has had a very good season, being in two finals already, and she has made her way from the Top 100 al the way to just inside the Top 50.

The Williams sisters will also be playing on the first day of the tennis opening, No. 4 seed Serena facing Olga Govortsova, and No. 7 seed Venus facing Timea Bacsinszky. Russian Elena Dementieva will face Kateryna Bondarenko, and another Russian, Dinara Safina, will face Mara Santangelo. Polish Agnieszka Radwanska will be playing Chan Yung-Jan.

If these seedings hold, the quarterfinals will pit Ivanovic against Radwanska, Jankovic against Safina, Kuznetsova against Venus Williams and Serena Williams against Dementieva. If the seeds hold there, semifinal match-ups are Ivanovic against Serena Williams and Jankovic against Kuznetsova. Davenport is in the Jankovic-Safina quarter of the draw (potentially playing Safina second round).