This fantasy event will be based on the rankings during the second week of November, or the week after the year-end championships. The Top 16 countries with the most number of players in the year-end Top 100 will qualify. In case there is a tie for the sixteenth slot, the country with the higher ranked player will get the slot. So here are the four groups based on those rankings -
GROUP A
RUSSIA
Vera Zvonareva
Elena Dementieva
Nadia Petrova
SERBIA
Jelena Jankovic
Ana Ivanovic
Bojana Jovanovski
FRANCE
Marion Bartoli
Aravane Rezai
Alize Cornet
ROMANIA
Alexandra Dulgheru
Edina Gallovits
Simona Halep
Group B
BELGIUM
Kim Clijsters
Justine Henin
Yanina Wickmayer
CZECH REPUBLIC
Lucie Safarova
Petra Kvitova
Klara Zakopalova
GERMANY
Andrea Petkovic
Julia Goerges
Angelique Kerber
BELARUS
Victoria Azarenka
Olga Govortsova
Anastasiya Yakimova
Group C
USA
Serena Williams
Venus Williams
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
CHINA
Li Na
Zheng Jie
Peng Shuai
SPAIN
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez
Carla Suarez Navarro
Arantxa Parra Santonja
SWITZERLAND
Patty Schnyder
Timea Bacszinsky
Stefanie Voegele
Group D
ITALY
Francesca Schiavone
Flavia Pennetta
Roberta Vinci
AUSTRALIA
Samantha Stosur
Jarmila Groth
Anastasia Rodionova
SLOVAKIA
Daniela Hantuchova
Dominika Cibulkova
Magdalena Rybarikova
AUSTRIA
Sybille Bammer
Tamira Paszek
Yvonne Meusberger
* Seeding Procedure - The WTA Rankings based on November 18 was used. The top 3 players from each country was chosen and their rankings were added. The top 16 sums were chosen to form the 16 nation teams invited to participate.
* As for the grouping, it was numerical from A, B, C, D and back to A, again on the fifth ranked team and so on and so forth.
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