Alize Cornet for sure is one of the upcoming talents on WTA tour. Just beeing 18 years old she already has won five titles in her career. All those titles were on clay and biggest success so far was winning French Open Juniors last year. This year she won the title in Budapest, reached the finals in Acapulco and Rome and a lot of quarter and semi finals. But hard or indoor hard is not the surface she feels very comfortable on and her biggest success 2008 on quick surface was reaching the semi final in New Haven which she lost in 2 sets to Caroline Wozniacki.
Today's opponent Vera Zvonareva plays great on every surface, has won 8 titles so far, 3 on clay, 2 on hard, 2 on indoor hard and one on grass. This year she won Prague on clay and last month Guangzhou on hard. She kept her good form in October also, reaching quarter final in Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart and final in Moscow - both matches loosing to No 1 Jelena Jankovic.
I think Zvonareva is the more complete player with more dangerous weapons on quick surfaces and I expect her to go to semi final here.