Between September 11 and 17, a new edition of the Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships will be held in the city of Osaka. This contest belongs to the WTA circuit with category 250, and is played on the hard courts of the Utsubo Tennis Center. Share week with San Diego.
Osaka is preparing to receive once again the best tennis in the world, in a tournament that had not taken place on the calendar for years. This Japan Women’s Open began to be organized in 2009 precisely in this city, although it was later moved to Tokyo, and later to Hiroshima, until its suspension due to COVID in 2020 and 2021, together with a strong economic crisis in 2022. From that last edition, the champion had been the local not hibinopresent again among those registered.
In this case, it takes place just after the end of the US Open, on the other side of the world, and also coinciding with another strong event like San Diego, so the lineup has been somewhat decimated, with the presence of just two Top 50 among those noted. The top seed is going to be the Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenkofollowed by the Chinese Lin Zhu and for the American Peyton Stearns. In this group of preclassified the hierarchy of the German also appears Tatjana Mariaas well as Nadia Podoroska. The Australian is also registered Ajla Tomljanovicabsent for most of the season due to injury.
Entry list WTA 250 Osaka
Lesia Tsurenko 42Lin Zhu 47Peyton Stearns 55Linda Fruhvirtova 56Xinyu Wang 57Tatjana Maria 58Nadia Podoroska 69Diane Parry 75Anna Kalinskaya 76Tamara Korpatsch 78Yulia Putintseva 79Nao Hibino 81Ajla Tomljanovic 83Kateryna Baindl 85Diana Shnaider 87Anna-Lena Friedsam 89 Jule Niemeier 91Xiyu Wang 93Rebecca Marino 103Tereza Martincova 105Yue Yuan 113(WC) Top 20 (WC) Top 20(WC)(WC)(SE)(Q)(Q)(Q)(Q)(Q)(Q)
2023-08-25 03:56:25
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