Anna Tatishvili top seed of Georgia is in Australia and competes at Brisbane international tournament, prize money of this tournament is 655 000 USD. Tatishvili starts competing from qualifying round, she is seeded No.4.
For going through the main draw Anna needs to win three matches, her first rival is host Monic Adamchak. As far as you know, Tatishvili keeps the 89th place with 744 points in WTA ranking. As for her future rival, Adamchak is in the 201th place with 275 points.
The match between Georgian and Australian players will be held on December 30. In case of victory, Tatishvili plays against Taiwanese Kai-Chen Chang (148) in the second round or Kazakh Sesil Karatancheva (139). It is remarkable that Anna was lucky in ballot, because Sloan Stevens (USA)
For overcoming one stage player gaines 8 points, finalist gaines 12 points and for overcoming the main draw player gaines 20 points. Last year Tatishvili was competing at Birsbane tournament and won over Belarusian Daria Kustova – 7:6 (7:4) 7:6 (7:1), Croatian Carolina Shprem – 2:6, 7:5, 6:3 in qualifying round, in the main darw she beat Dutch Arancha Rus 6:2, 6:4, she lost with Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strinchova 5:7, 2:6, so Anna has to fight for ranking points.
After Brisbane international will be held Oakland, Sidney and Hobart tournaments and Australian Open is to be held on Januay 17-29.
