Seven Top 10 players have descended on Stuttgart this week for the only indoor clay court tournament on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour calendar, the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix. Dinara is one of those seven, as she is making her much-anticipated return to the circuit after being out of action since the Australian Open.

Dinara, who spent more weeks at No.1 last year than anyone else on Tour (26 weeks), retired in the fourth round in Melbourne with a back injury and has been sidelined with the ailment ever since, pulling out of Dubai, Indian Wells and Miami - but now, at the first Premier-level clay court event of the year, she is back. As the No.2 seed and after a first round bye she will face off with Agnes Szavay or Andrea Petkovic.

Dinara’s best-ever result in Stuttgart happened last year, when she went all the way to the final before falling to fellow Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova.