The 2018 Toray Pan Pacific Open is a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 35th edition of the Pan Pacific Open, and part of the Premier Series of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the Arena Tachikawa Tachihi in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, on 17–23 September 2018.[1][2]
2018 Toray Pan Pacific Open | |
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Date | 17–23 September |
Edition | 35th |
Category | WTA Premier |
Draw | 28S / 16D |
Prize money | $799,000 |
Surface | Hard / indoor |
Location | Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan |
Venue | Arena Tachikawa Tachihi |
Champions | |
Singles | |
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Doubles | |
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Points and prize money
editPoint distribution
editEvent | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q | Q2 | Q1 |
Singles[3] | 470 | 305 | 185 | 100 | 55 | 1 | 25 | 13 | 1 |
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Doubles[3] | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Prize money
editEvent | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32* | Q2 | Q1 |
Singles | $137,125 | $76,063 | $39,080 | $21,010 | $11,265 | $7,150 | $3,447 | $1,750 |
Doubles | $42,850 | $22,900 | $12,510 | $6,365 | $3,460 | — | — | — |
^* Qualifiers prize money is also the round of 32 prize money
^† Per team
Singles main-draw entrants
editSeeds
editCountry | Player | Rank | Seeds |
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DEN | Caroline Wozniacki | 2 | 1 |
FRA | Caroline Garcia | 4 | 2 |
JPN | Naomi Osaka | 7 | 3 |
CZE | Karolína Plíšková | 8 | 4 |
USA | Sloane Stephens | 9 | 5 |
ESP | Garbiñe Muguruza | 14 | 6 |
AUS | Ashleigh Barty | 17 | 7 |
CZE | Barbora Strýcová | 25 | 8 |
- Rankings are as of September 10, 2018
Other entrants
editThe following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:
Withdrawals
edit- Mihaela Buzărnescu → replaced by Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Angelique Kerber → replaced by Belinda Bencic
- Madison Keys → replaced by Anett Kontaveit
- Elise Mertens → replaced by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Anastasija Sevastova → replaced by Camila Giorgi
- Carla Suárez Navarro → replaced by Donna Vekić
Retirements
editDoubles main-draw entrants
editSeeds
editCountry | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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CZE | Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková | CZE | Barbora Strýcová | 18 | 1 |
CAN | Gabriela Dabrowski | CHN | Xu Yifan | 27 | 2 |
TPE | Chan Hao-ching | CHN | Yang Zhaoxuan | 48 | 3 |
USA | Raquel Atawo | GER | Anna-Lena Grönefeld | 59 | 4 |
- Rankings are as of September 10, 2018
Other entrants
editThe following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:
Champions
editSingles
edit- Karolína Plíšková def. Naomi Osaka 6–4, 6–4
Doubles
edit- Miyu Kato / Makoto Ninomiya def. Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková / Barbora Strýcová, 6–4, 6–4
References
edit- ^ "Toray Pan Pacific Open Overview". wtatennis.com.
- ^ "Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis Tournament 2018: Announcing 18 main draw singles players and one wild card player". toray.co.jp.
- ^ a b "Rankings explained". WTA. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2015.