Ella Seidel is facing a successful title defense at the Stuttgart city cup

Ella Seidel is facing a successful title defense at the Stuttgart city cup

Seidel before defending the title in Stuttgart-Vaihingen

Ella Seidel is about to successfully defend their title at this year's Stuttgart city cup. With a convincing 6: 4 and 6: 3 victory in the quarter-finals against Marie Vogt and a clear 6: 1 and 6: 1 victory in the semi-finals against Julie Struplova, the 19-year-old played into the final. There she will meet Romanian Cristina Dinu next Sunday, who in turn prevailed against Miriam Bulgaru.

Although Seidel has the chance to again emerge as a winner from the competition, her points account will have to accept loss regardless of the final result of the final. The rating of the tournament was increased from W25 to W35 this year, which means that the title win now only has 35 instead of 50 points before. This will also affect your placement in the world rankings, where you will have to give up a few ranks.

Despite this development, Seidel already offers itself the opportunity to win back to the ground in the coming week before the new ranking was released on July 15th. She will compete in the WTA 125 tournament in Bastad, Sweden, for which she had to cancel her participation in the Schönbusch Open in Aschaffenburg. Her participation in the tournament in Sweden illustrates her constant striving for improvement and the determination of fighting further in the world rankings.

- Nag