In the opening round of the 2022 WTA Citi Open on Tuesday, world number 69 Ajla Tomljanovic of Australia will play against world number 53 Sloane Stephens of the United States.
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By winning the Mexican Open championship in February and defeating the Czech Marie Bouzkova in the championship match, Sloane Stephens put an end to her lengthy trophy-less streak of more than three years. Furthermore, it implied that the American may start looking up the ranks once more. After a string of unsatisfactory outcomes, she recovered by winning a match against fellow American Coco Gauff in the French Open quarterfinals. She hasn’t played since her two grass matches at Bad Honburg and Wimbledon, both of which ended in first-round losses.
Ajla Tomljanovic took over as the top Australian player after Ashleigh Barty‘s unexpected retirement, despite the fact that she hasn’t yet achieved anything close to the level of success that her countrywoman did. Her ranking has lately fallen as a result of the expiration of points she gained in the previous year; also, she was unfairly penalised because her Wimbledon quarterfinal appearance counted for nothing in this regard. That was by far her finest performance at a Grand Slam; it was her second quarterfinal at the All-England Club. She will be seeking to build on her performances in South-West London to increase her rankings once again in this, her first match following her loss to eventual champion Elena Rybakina.
Sloane Stephens and Ajla Tomljanovic will face each other in the first round of the 2022 Citi open on Tuesday, August 2. The WTA 500 competition is scheduled to start from August 1 and end on August 7 this year.
| Player | Seed |
| Jessica Pegula | 1 |
| Emma Raducanu | 2 |
| Simona Halep | 3 |
| Victoria Azarenka | 4 |
| Elise Mertens | 5 |
| Kaia Kanepi | 6 |
| Mayar Sherif | 7 |
| Clara Tauson | 8 |
The 2022 Citi Open will see six rounds of action excluding the qualifiers. These include the round of 64, round of 32, round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final. The tournament is scheduled to commence on August 1 and conclude on August 8 this year.
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| Competition Stage | Date |
| Round of 64 | August 1 (Men’s) |
| Round of 32 | August 1 (Women’s), August 3 (Men’s) |
| Round of 16 | August 3 (Women), August 4 (Men’s) |
| Quarter-finals | August 5 (Women’s and Men’s) |
| Semi-finals | August 6 (Women’s and Men’s) |
