Young Guns " Agnieszka Radwanska "

Agnieszka Radwanska won her first Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles title in Stockholm 12 months ago and this year returns to defend her crown at the $145,000 Nordea Nordic Light Open. An impressive Tier IV field that also includes Agnes Szavay, Katarina Srebotnik and Caroline Wozniacki, has assembled in the Swedish capital, all hoping to lift the winner's trophy next Sunday.

Radwanska has been making history for Poland since stepping onto these very courts a year ago. With her performance in Stockholm she became the first ever Tour singles titlist from her nation, and has since followed that up with another three titles. In February she became the first Polish woman to crack the Top 20, in May she became the first Polish woman to surpass $1 million in career prize money and earlier this month upped the ante in her national ranking record, becoming the first Polish woman to crack the Top 10.

Currently ranked No.10 in the world, Radwanska is a heavy favorite to make it deep into this week's draw. She has a tricky first opponent, however; though she is ranked a lowly No.92 right now, Nathalie Dechy is a former world No.11 and has a dozen Top 10 wins to her name, including one win over a reigning No.1.

Radwanska's biggest competition could come from fellow Top 20 player Szavay, the No.2 seed this week. Szavay could have a tough first few rounds, however; her quarter of the draw is almost entirely made up of players who have won Tour singles titles or reached Tour singles finals before, including a first round duel with recent Birmingham runner-up Yanina Wickmayer.

Srebotnik, the No.3 seed, is the only former champion in the draw other than Radwanska, while No.4 seed Wozniacki will likely be a huge crowd favorite, being Scandinavia's No.1 player (and the only Scandinavian in the world's Top 50).

Rounding out the seeds are Anabel Medina Garrigues (No.5), Sania Mirza (No.6), Kateryna Bondarenko (No.7) and Marina Erakovic (No.8).

This is the seventh staging of the Nordea Nordic Light Open, and the fifth year the event has been in Stockholm. In 2002 and 2003 the tournament made its home in Helsinki, Finland, with Svetlana Kuznetsova and Anna Smashnova winning titles. Since moving to Stockholm back in 2004, Alicia Molik, Srebotnik, Zheng Jie and Radwanska have triumphed.