剛好一年前也是貼了她以布里斯本開始2015年賽季的文章！ 莎娃明年決定重回福地衛冕， 明年布里斯本陣容非常強勁，世界排名二三四位的選手都來了， 意味如無意外莎娃將僅次Halep和蘑菇妹之後以第三種子身份出賽。 其他參賽好手還包括會長、Azarenka和Kerber。 Three of the world’s top four WTA Tour players will lead a field which includes 28 of the world’s top 42 at the Brisbane International, played at the Queensland Tennis Centre from 3-9 January 2016, as defending champion Maria Sharapova is joined by world no. 2 Simona Halep and 2014 Wimbledon runner-up Garbine Muguruza. Held in the first regular week of the season, the Brisbane International – a joint ATP-WTA event first played in 2009 – always attracts a top-ranking field. With just two weeks to prepare for the first Grand Slam of the year, which begins in Melbourne on 18 January, many of the WTA Tour’s finest opt to tune up their games for the Australian Open at the Premier-level Brisbane International, which has offered $1 million in prize money since 2013. Five of the six women who have won the Brisbane International title have or have gone on to become Grand Slam champions, with Victoria Azarenka (2009), Kim Clijsters (2010), Petra Kvitova (2011), Serena Williams (2013-14) and Maria Sharapova (2015) all multiple Grand Slam winners and among the sport’s most popular stars. And with such a strong field set to play the 2016 event, it looks like the next woman to lift the Evonne Goolagong Trophy in Brisbane will be no exception. World no. 2 Simona Halep, now coached by Darren Cahill, has opted to begin her 2016 season at the Brisbane International as she attempts to trade up the International-level Shenzhen Open trophy in 2015 for the Premier-level WTA Brisbane crown. The top seed, a US Open semifinalist and winner of a trio of titles in 2015, hasn’t played in Brisbane since she lost to Kim Clijsters on her debut in 2012. Not so for second seed and defending champion Maria Sharapova. The five-time Grand Slam champion started 2015 in style when she won 10 of her first 11 matches of the season, claiming the Brisbane International title with a three-set victory over Ana Ivanovic in the final and finishing runner-up to Serena Williams at the Australian Open, but despite winning another title in Rome and reaching the Wimbledon semifinals, Sharapova’s year was largely a tale of injuries and struggles for fitness. But the Russian shone when she returned to action at the very end of the season, reaching the semifinals of the WTA Finals Singapore and winning both her singles rubbers during the Fed Cup final, and the ever-hungry world no. 4 will be eager to get her season off to a good start by retaining her Brisbane International title. Halep and Sharapova are joined by world no. 3 Garbine Muguruza, the breakthrough star of women’s tennis in 2015 when she reached the Wimbledon final and went on to win the title at the China Open, one of the biggest events in women’s tennis outside the four Grand Slams. Muguruza will be making her debut appearance at the Brisbane International. Sharapova isn’t the only Grand Slam champion in the field – she is joined by US Open champion Samantha Stosur, and while Stosur doesn’t traditionally play well in Australia, her native land, the same can’t be said for two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka, who will be looking for her second Brisbane International title after winning the inaugural event in 2009. Also in the field are Angelique Kerber, four times a Premier-level champion in 2015; French Open semifinalist Timea Bacsinszky; Toronto 2015 champion Belinda Bencic and 2014 Australian Open runner-up Dominika Cibulkova. But there is hardly a hard-to-recognize name in the field, with the lowest-ranked player entered for the 2016 Brisbane International world no. 42 Alize Cornet. With such a packed field, the matches will be gripping from the earliest rounds and with everybody rested and ready to go after the off-season, the competition will be fierce at the 2016 Brisbane International when it is played 3-9 January. --

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