Francesca Schiavone leads women’s field at ECM Prague Open 2009

Italian world number 28 Francesca Schiavone will attempt to secure her second career WTA title in Czech Republic this week as the top seed of the ECM Prague Open.This won’t be an easy path for the former world number 11 since she’ll be facing Israeli Shahar Peer in the first round.

Here are the top eight seeds of the singles event: Francesca Schiavone [ITA](1), Sybille Bammer [AUT](2), Iveta Benesova [CZE](3), Carla Suarez Navarro [ESP](4), Alona Bondarenko [UKR](5), Magdalena Rybarikova [SVK](6), Lucie Hradecka [CZE](7) and Petra Kvitova [CZE](8).

$37,000 (singles), $11,000 (doubles)