2015 Toray Pan Pacific Open (Premier), Tokyo, Japan

[Kirijax]

Name: Toray Pan Pacific Open
Place: Tokyo, Japan
Dates: Sept 21 - Sept 27
Tier: Premier
Prize Money: $1,000,000
Surface: Hard
Defending Champion: Ana Ivanovic

Tournament Central
Draws: Singles / Doubles

Seeds:
No. 1 WOZNIACKI, Caroline (6) (lost in semifinals)
No. 2 IVANOVIC, Ana (12) (lost in quarterfinals)
No. 3 MUGURUZA, Garbine (8) (lost in quarterfinals)
No. 4 PLISKOVA, Karolina (11) (lost in quarterfinals)
No. 5 KERBER, Angelique (9) (lost in quarterfinals)
No. 6 SUAREZ NAVARRO, Carla (10) (lost in 2nd round)
No. 7 RADWANSKA, Agnieszka (13) Champion)
No. 8 BENCIC, Belinda (15) (lost in final)

 

[Hoergren]

RE: 2015 Toray Pan Pacific Open (Premier), Japan

Little surprised that you cover all the tournaments now but ok if thta's the politics now allright with me.

The first major throwback to the first of three premiers in the Asia swing is two of the possible topseeds out before they start:

Lucie Safarova who has been hospitalized because of a bacteria - no news of for how long.
Eugenie Bouchard who is still suffering from her fall in the bathroom during US Open.

 

[Kirijax]

RE: 2015 Toray Pan Pacific Open (Premier), Japan

Little surprised that you cover all the tournaments now but ok if thta's the politics now allright with me.

The first major throwback to the first of three premiers in the Asia swing is two of the possible topseeds out before they start:

Lucie Safarova who has been hospitalized because of a bacteria - no news of for how long.
Eugenie Bouchard who is still suffering from her fall in the bathroom during US Open.

Not at all hoergren, sorry if if you had something ready. I had some time today and was looking at the tournaments coming up. I live in Japan so I've been seeing some commercials for this one so I'm looking forward to this one. There's no policy so please add to it! You usually get the stuff I miss! I see most of the Top Ten players from No. 5 are in the tournament so hopefully we'll see some good matches. Good luck to Wozniacki! She needs a good run here.

 

[Hoergren]

RE: 2015 Toray Pan Pacific Open (Premier), Japan

Not at all hoergren, sorry if if you had something ready. I had some time today and was looking at the tournaments coming up. I live in Japan so I've been seeing some commercials for this one so I'm looking forward to this one. There's no policy so please add to it! You usually get the stuff I miss! I see most of the Top Ten players from No. 5 are in the tournament so hopefully we'll see some good matches. Good luck to Wozniacki! She needs a good run here.

It's okay - wasn't aware of your place in the world - my mistake - will be happy to supply where i can, #5 is out by the way as I wrote previously so Caroline and Ana are the top seeds. Looking forward to a new final between these two. How is the weather in Tokyo right now - hot and humid?

 

[Kirijax]

RE: 2015 Toray Pan Pacific Open (Premier), Japan

Not at all hoergren, sorry if if you had something ready. I had some time today and was looking at the tournaments coming up. I live in Japan so I've been seeing some commercials for this one so I'm looking forward to this one. There's no policy so please add to it! You usually get the stuff I miss! I see most of the Top Ten players from No. 5 are in the tournament so hopefully we'll see some good matches. Good luck to Wozniacki! She needs a good run here.

It's okay - wasn't aware of your place in the world - my mistake - will be happy to supply where i can, #5 is out by the way as I wrote previously so Caroline and Ana are the top seeds. Looking forward to a new final between these two. How is the weather in Tokyo right now - hot and humid?

I live way down south but there's a typhoon heading straight for East Japan so I'm a bit concerned about next week's weather. We might see some rain delays. And yes! Hot and Humid! Mornings are getting nice though.

 

[10isfan]

RE: 2015 Toray Pan Pacific Open (Premier), Japan

Doesn't Pova usually play here? She is not listed for any events until after Wuhan. I am a bit surprised. A leg muscular injury typically doesn't take this long to heal. I wonder if there is something else amiss.

 

[Hoergren]

RE: 2015 Toray Pan Pacific Open (Premier), Japan

Doesn't Pova usually play here? She is not listed for any events until after Wuhan. I am a bit surprised. A leg muscular injury typically doesn't take this long to heal. I wonder if there is something else amiss.

Not that often. From 2010 to now only once in 2012 and withdrew from 2011 before start. Don't know earlier years. In her tweets she looks fine so I think she might be on top when she returns - whenever that will be. If you look in WTA's Notes and netcords from 14th of September - she is not listed in any tournament.:nono - but is qualified for the WTA finals in Singapore.

 

[Hoergren]

RE: 2015 Toray Pan Pacific Open (Premier), Japan

The draw is out

1 WOZNIACKI, Caroline DEN
2 BYE
3 QUALIFIER
4 MLADENOVIC, Kristina FRA
5 DIYAS, Zarina KAZ
6 BRENGLE, Madison USA
7 GAVRILOVA, Daria RUS
8 KERBER, Angelique GER

9 MUGURUZA, Garbiñe ESP
10 BYE
11 STRYCOVA, Barbora CZE
12 OSAKA, Naomi JPN
13 RISKE, Alison USA
14 STOSUR, Samantha AUS
15 QUALIFIER
16 BENCIC, Belinda SUI

17 RADWANSKA, Agnieszka POL
18 VANDEWEGHE, Coco USA
19 QUALIFIER
20 SVITOLINA, Elina UKR
21 NARA, Kurumi JPN
22 DOI, Misaki JPN
23 BYE
24 PLISKOVA, Karolina CZE

25 SUÁREZ NAVARRO, Carla ESP
26 QUALIFIER
27 LUCIC-BARONI, Mirjana CRO
28 CIBULKOVA, Dominika SVK
29 GIORGI, Camila ITA
30 GARCIA, Caroline FRA
31 BYE
32 IVANOVIC, Ana SRB

 

[Hoergren]

Schedule and results for Monday 21th of September

Center Court

11:00 - [1] Ana Konjuh (CRO) V [8] Risa Ozaki (JPN) 63 60 Q
13:00 - [3] Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) V [6] Nao Hibino (JPN) 63 64 Q
14:30 - Barbora Strycova (CZE) V Naomi Osaka (JPN) 75 62
16:30 - [7] Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) V Coco Vandeweghe (USA) 63 63

Court 1

11:00 - [2] Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS) V Yi-Fan Xu (CHN) 63 46 67 Q
13:00 - Olga Savchuk (UKR) V Misa Eguchi (JPN) 63 64 Q
15:00 - Camila Giorgi (ITA) V Caroline Garcia (FRA) 46 76 63
17:00 - [1] Raquel Kops-Jones / Abigail Spears (USA / USA) V Misaki Doi / Kurumi Nara (JPN / JPN) 57 46

Court 3

14:00 - Miyabi Inoue / Kyoka Okamura (JPN / JPN) V Eri Hozumi / Miyu Kato (JPN / JPN) 63 46 7-10
15:00 - [3] Garbiñe Muguruza / Carla Suárez Navarro (ESP / ESP) V Kai-Chen Chang / Xinyun Han (TPE / CHN) 76 63

Two besties on the way to training - little worried about Aga's heavy strapping:

 

[sk310]

Not a very stacked draw. There's an opportunity for some people here with Serena, Halep, Kvitova, Sharapova and Vika not playing here. Vika needs to be playing more of these.

 

[kskate2]

Agreed. Why isn't Venus playing here? She usually does play Tokyo.

 

[sk310]

Agreed. Why isn't Venus playing here? She usually does play Tokyo.

It seems to me like Vika's team is a bit nervous about little injuries. I think they're spending this come back year with a kind of limited schedule. I would guess Venus isn't playing because she had quite a US Open.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

How many points does the winner get? I assume this is so called international tournament (meaning an itsy bitsy tourney).

 

[Hoergren]

How many points does the winner get? I assume this is so called international tournament (meaning an itsy bitsy tourney).

You surprise me a bit. This is the first of 3 PREMIERs. This one has prize money of $1.000.000 and the following points.

Winner $195,092 -------- 470
Finalist $104,470 -------- 305
Semi-Finalist $55,798 ----- 185
Quarter-Finalist $22,146 -- 100
2nd Round $11,894 ------- 55
1st Round $7,550 --------- 1

The other two this week - Seoul and Guangzhou - are internationals.

 

[Hoergren]

Order of play Tuesday September 22nd - rest of first round

CENTER COURT Starting at: 11:00 am

Alison RISKE (USA) vs Samantha STOSUR (AUS) 64 16 36
Daria GAVRILOVA (RUS) vs Angelique KERBER (GER) [5] 26 26
Kurumi NARA (JPN) vs [WC] Misaki DOI (JPN) 76 62
Not Before 5:00 pm
[Q] Yi-Fan XU (CHN) vs Belinda BENCIC (SUI) [8] 06 06 clap
Mirjana LUCIC-BARONI (CRO) vs Dominika CIBULKOVA (SVK) 46 01 ret.

COURT 1 Starting at: 11:00 am

[Q] Ana KONJUH (CRO) vs Kristina MLADENOVIC (FRA) 60 36 63
Zarina DIYAS (KAZ) vs Madison BRENGLE (USA) 26 26
Carla SUÁREZ NAVARRO (ESP) [6] vs [Q] Kateryna BONDARENKO (UKR) 76 62
[Q] Olga SAVCHUK (UKR) vs Elina SVITOLINA (UKR) 26 06

COURT 3 Starting at: 2:00 pm

Anna-Lena GROENEFELD (GER)/Coco VANDEWEGHE (USA) vs Hao-Ching CHAN (TPE)/Yung-Jan CHAN (TPE) [2] 16 64 7-10

Weather forecast a little worrying

 

[Hoergren]

WTA Insider ‏@WTA_insider

Maria Sharapova takes a wildcard into next week’s Wuhan Open. Good to see. Hasn’t played a match since Wimbledon.

A couple of pctures from the players party:

 

[GameSetAndMath]

How many points does the winner get? I assume this is so called international tournament (meaning an itsy bitsy tourney).

You surprise me a bit. This is the first of 3 PREMIERs. This one has prize money of $1.000.000 and the following points.

Winner $195,092 -------- 470
Finalist $104,470 -------- 305
Semi-Finalist $55,798 ----- 185
Quarter-Finalist $22,146 -- 100
2nd Round $11,894 ------- 55
1st Round $7,550 --------- 1

The other two this week - Seoul and Guangzhou - are internationals.

OK. This is better than international, but worse than mandatory premier and optional premier (AKA premier 5). Some years ago, this used to be a more prestigious tourney than it is now.

 

[Hoergren]

Order of play Wednesday 23rd of September

CENTER COURT Starting at: 11:00 am

Kateryna BONDARENKO (UKR)/Chia-Jung CHUANG (TPE) vs Gabriela DABROWSKI (CAN)/Alicja ROSOLSKA (POL) 62 76
not before 12.30 pm
Garbiñe MUGURUZA (ESP) [3] vs Barbora STRYCOVA (CZE) 63 64
followed by
Samantha STOSUR (AUS) vs Belinda BENCIC (SUI) [8] 76 36 46
Not Before 5:00 pm
Madison BRENGLE (USA) vs Angelique KERBER (GER) [5] 75 16 06
followed by
Caroline WOZNIACKI (DEN) [1] v [Q] Ana KONJUH (CRO) 62 62:clap

Court 1

Starting at: Not Before 1:30 pm
Daria GAVRILOVA (RUS)/Elina SVITOLINA (UKR) vs Olga SAVCHUK (UKR)/Yi-Fan XU (CHN) 75 26 8-10
Followed by
After suitable rest
Dominika CIBULKOVA (SVK)/Barbora STRYCOVA (CZE) vs Chin-Wei CHAN (TPE)/Darija JURAK (CRO) 75 64
followed by
After suitable rest
Misa EGUCHI (JPN)/Junri NAMIGATA (JPN) vs Belinda BENCIC (SUI)/Kristina MLADENOVIC (FRA) [4] W/O

 

[tossip]

Aga looks old.....if only she is as hot as she thinks.

 

[kskate2]

Ooh wee. Sam vs Belinda. Can Mugu turn her post-Wimby around?