The last four main draw slots at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix were decided on Sunday, and Laura Siegemund will open her Stuttgart campaign against Viktoriya Tomova on Centre Court on Monday not before 18.30 pm. The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix main draw started on Monday in the Porsche Arena, while the Porsche One Point Challenge is set to precede the day’s first singles encounter at 4.30 pm.
Siegemund said before the tournament that the event is “simply special” and “like no other tournament,” a description that fits the home atmosphere she will step into again on Centre Court. Tomova enters the main draw as a lucky loser after replacing the injured Pole Magdalena Frech, giving Monday’s meeting a different shape than the one Stuttgart was first handed.
The result of Sunday’s qualifying finals left Anna-Lena Friedsam out of a main draw berth, while the field at the WTA event in Stuttgart was completed by Tomova’s late entry. That mix of winners, losers and one injury replacement is part of what gives the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix its edge: the draw was still shifting even as the tournament moved into its opening day.
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The Stuttgart event has been played since 1978 and remains the flagship of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG’s worldwide involvement in women’s tennis. For Siegemund, who is already central to the local story, the matchup now comes with the added weight of timing, home expectation and a draw that was not settled until the final qualifying matches on Sunday.
Monday’s schedule leaves Siegemund waiting for the night session, with her meeting against Tomova slated for the second half of the opening day. If the home favorite can use that pause and the Stuttgart setting to her advantage, she will have turned a tournament that is “like no other” into a first statement of her own.
