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Answer the following question based on the information given below:

In the table below is the listing of players, seeded from highest $(\#1)$ to the lowest $(\#32),$ who are due to play in an Association of Tennis Players (ATP) tournament for women. This tournament has four knockout rounds before the final, i.e., first round, second round, quarter finals and semi-finals. In the first round, the highest seeded player plays the lowest seeded player (seed $\#32)$ which is designated match no.$1$ of first round; the seeded player plays the $31$ st seeded player which is designated match no $2$ of first round and so on. Thus, for instance, match no $16$ of first round is to be played between $16$th player and the $17$th seeded player. In the second round, the winner of match no $1$ of first round plays the winner of match no $16$ of first round and is designated match no $1$ of second round. Similarly the winner of match no $2,$ of first round plays the winner of match no $15$ of first round, and is designated match no $2$ of second round. Thus for instance, match no $8$ of the second round is to be played between the winner of match no $8$ of first round and the winner of match no $9$ of first round. The same pattern is followed for later rounds as well.

Seed #

Name of Player

Seed #

Name of Player

Seed #

Name of Player

1

Maria Sharapova

12

Mary Pierce

23

Silvia Farina Elia

2

Lindsay Davensport

13

Anastasia Myskina

24

Tatiana Golovin

3

Amelie Maureso

14

Alicia Molik

25

Shinobu Asagoe

4

Kim Clijesters

15

Nathalie Detchy

26

Francesca Schiavone

5

Svetlana Kuznetsova

16

Elena Bovina

27

Nicole Vaidisova

6

Elena Dematieva

17

Jelena Jankovic

28

Gisela Dulko

7

Justine Henin

18

Ana Ivanovic

29

Flavia Pennetta

8

Serena Williams

19

Vera Zvonareva

30

Anna Chakvetadze

9

Nadia Petrova

20

Elena Lukhovtseva

31

Ai Sugiyama

10

Venus Williams

21

Daniella Hantuchova

32

Anna-lena Gronefeld

11

Patty Schnyder

22

Dinara Safina

   

If Elena Dementieva and Serena Williams lose in the second round, while Justinee Henin and Nadia Petrova make it to the semi-finals, then who would play Maria Sharapova in the quarter finals, in the event of Sharapova reaches the quarter finals?

  1. Dinara Safina
  2. Justine Henin
  3. Nadia Petrova
  4. Patty Schnyder
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