Romanian tennis player Simona Halep is to start the season in 2017 in Shenzen, seemingly the most accessible tournament at the beginning of the year.
The main opponents at Shenzen will be Agnieska Radwanska, Johanna Konta and Timea Bacsinsky, according to WTA, ziare.com reports.
The other Premier category tournament in the same period is the Brisbane tournament, which will include world leader Angelique Kerber, Dominika Cibulkova, Karolina Pliskova, Garbine Muguruza, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Carla Suarez Navarro, Elina Svitolina, Elena Vesnina or Eugenie Bouchard.