Italy's Flavia Pennetta will be the top seed for next month's WTA Hobart International, organisers said.
The world number 13 is among three of the WTA's top-20 ranked players to be confirmed for the Tasmanian tournament.
Pennetta will be joined by world number 14 Swiss Patty Schnyder and Russian number 18 Anna Chakvetadze in the January 9-16 event.
The Hobart field consists of 17 of the world's top 50 women, including China's world number 25 Zheng Jie, Ukraine's Alona Bondarenko (33) and Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn (37).
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