Iga Swiatek's Madrid Open draw brings up all too familiar fate as Jelena Ostapenko looms again

While the Stuttgart Open continuing onto Easter Monday is the main story in the WTA as Jelena Ostapenko faces Aryna Sabalenka for the title, Iga Swiatek will be travelling to Madrid with a draw fate which is all too familiar.

Swiatek begins likely against rising Filipino upstart Alexandra Eala who picked up the biggest win of her career against the former World No.1 in Miami 6-2, 7-5 in the second round or it'll be Viktoriya Tomova.

Eala lives in Madrid with most of her life seeing her best based in the country through being in the Rafa Nadal Academy. But it then is likely Rebecca Sramkova or Linda Noskova who Swiatek has a 4-1 record against mostly after the Czech ace beat her at the Australian Open.

But it is a tie which happens a lot then if she manages to get through that the likely two favourites to face her out of the draw would be Jelena Ostapenko or Diana Shnaider. Petra Kvitova or Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova could turn that on its head but it is likely to be the seeds.

Ostapenko has this 6-0 hoodoo but even Coco Gauff broke Swiatek's spell over her eventually. She will likely get another chance to break it though. Last year, it would've been Shnaider as big favourite to face Swiatek but it hasn't quite happened in the past four months and she has hired Dinara Safina as a coach.

Madison Keys or Emma Navarro then Gauff or Andreeva and finally likely Aryna Sabalenka in the final if she gets past the potential Ostapenko clash and finally snaps that streak. But even names like Noskova are continued foes as Swiatek no doubt will be thinking why me.

Or she will be thinking it is time to settle the score. She did have the opinion that she knows what it is needed and just couldn't make it stick in the third set in Stuttgart. They could meet as early as Round Four so we may soon see at the Caja Magica.