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2024 Toray Pan Pacific Open
The 2024 Toray Pan Pacific Open is a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 39th edition of the Pan Pacific Open, and part of the WTA 500 tournaments of the 2024 WTA Tour. It took place at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan from 21 to 27 October 2024. Champions Singles * Zheng Qinwen def. Sofia Kenin 7–6(7–5), 6–3 Doubles * Shuko Aoyama / Eri Hozumi def. Ena Shibahara / Laura Siegemund 6–4, 7–6(7–3) Point distribution Singles main draw entrants Seeds * Rankings are as of 14 October 2024 Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles draw: * Bianca Andreescu * Nao Hibino * Sofia Kenin * Mika Stojsavljevic The following player received entry using a protected ranking: * Ajla Tomljanović The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw: * Hailey Baptiste * Priscilla Hon * Mai Hontama * Sayaka Ishii * Zeynep Sönmez * Mei Yamaguchi The following player r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTA 500 Tournaments
WTA 500 tournaments is a category of tennis tournaments in the Women's Tennis Association tour, implemented since the reorganization of the schedule in 2021. At their introduction in 2021, WTA 500 tournaments' prize money was approximately $500,000. Since then, prize money awarded by WTA 500 events has grown less uniform, with one tournament's prize money rising to as much as $1.5 million. The ranking points awarded to the winners of these tournaments are 500. This compares to 2,000 points for winning a Grand Slam tournament ("major"), up to 1,500 points for winning the WTA Finals, 1000 points for winning a WTA 1000 tournament, and 250 for winning a WTA 250 tournament. Events Current Defunct or Upgraded/Downgraded Historic names 1990–2008 ''WTA Tier II'' 2009–2020 ''WTA Premier'' 2021–present ''WTA 500'' Singles results 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Singles champions WTA Tier II WTA Premier WTA 500 Statistics Most titles Bold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Badosa
Paula Badosa Gibert () (born 15 November 1997) is a Spanish professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles by the WTA and No. 124 in doubles, achieved on 25 April 2022. She has won four WTA Tour singles titles, including a WTA 1000 event in Indian Wells, and reached a major semifinal at the 2025 Australian Open. As a junior, Badosa was ranked as high as No. 8 in the world and was the 2015 French Open junior champion. As a professional, she broke into the top 100 in 2019. The next year, a fourth round berth at the French Open brought her into the top 70. Badosa made new strides in 2021 after a breakthrough clay swing when she won her first career title in Belgrade. She entered the top ten following a WTA 1000 title at Indian Wells, and peaked at world No. 2 in early 2022. Subsequent injury struggles led Badosa dropping out of the world's top 100 in early 2024 before resurging in the latter half of the season, returning to the top 15 and bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mai Hontama
Mai Hontama (本玉真唯) (born 30 August 1999) is a Japanese tennis player. Hontama has a career-high singles ranking of 105 by the WTA, achieved on 5 August 2024, and a career-high doubles ranking of 109, set on 6 November 2023. Career 2021: WTA Tour debut and first quarterfinal Hontama made her WTA Tour debut at the WTA 500 2021 Chicago Fall Tennis Classic, after qualifying for the main draw. She reached the quarterfinals, defeating former world No. 4, Caroline Garcia in the first round, her first top 100 win, 11th seed Anett Kontaveit by walkover and Shelby Rogers, before falling to eventual champion Garbiñe Muguruza. 2022-2023: Major debut and first win She made her Grand Slam debut at the Wimbledon Championships after qualifying, where she recorded the first major match win in her career, over Clara Tauson. At her home tournament, the WTA 500 Pan Pacific Open, she reached the second round in 2023, after qualifying and defeating compatriot Nao Hibino before she lost to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Hon
Priscilla Hon (Chinese: 韓天遇; born 10 May 1998) is an Australian tennis player. She reached career-high WTA rankings in singles of No. 118 in October 2019, and No. 91 in doubles in April 2018. Personal life Hon was born in Brisbane in 1998 to Chinese parents who immigrated to Australia from Hong Kong in 1996. As a young child, she was encouraged to pursue many different athletic pursuits. Career Juniors On the junior circuit, Hon achieved a career-high ranking of No. 13 in the world. She reached the semifinals of the 2014 Wimbledon Championships girls' doubles. 2015 In January year 2015 at age 16, Hon made her senior Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam main-draw debut at the 2015 Australian Open, Australian Open., as one of seven wildcard teams in women's doubles, partnering with fellow Australian Kimberly Birrell who was also age 16. They lost to the fifth-seeded Americans Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears in straight sets. In March, Hon won her first ITF Women's Circui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hailey Baptiste
Hailey Baptiste (born November 3, 2001) is an American professional tennis player. She reached her best singles ranking of world No. 70 on 19 May 2025. She has won one WTA Tour and two WTA Challenger Tour doubles titles. Her highest doubles ranking is No. 92, achieved on 22 July 2024. She has also won four singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Career Juniors On the junior tour, she reached a career-high ranking of No. 38 on 29 January 2018. She ended runner-up at the US Open junior doubles' tournament in 2018. 2019–2022: Major, WTA Tour, and WTA 1000 debuts Baptiste made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at her hometown tournament, the 2019 Washington Open, and defeated major finalist and former top-ten player, Madison Keys. She made her major debut at the 2020 US Open as a wildcard player. She made her WTA 1000 debut at the 2021 Miami Open, after reaching the main draw having received a wildcard for the qualifying competition. On her debut at the Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajla Tomljanović
Ajla Tomljanović ( ; ; born 7 May 1993) is an Australian professional tennis player. On 3 April 2023, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 32. On 5 January 2015, she peaked at No. 47 in the doubles rankings. She has won four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In November 2023, she won her first WTA 125 tournament, in Florianópolis. Tomljanović was an accomplished junior player, having won the 2009 Australian Open girls' doubles title with Christina McHale. She reached a combined career-high junior ranking of world No. 4, on 30 March 2009. Before 2014, Tomljanović played for her country of birth, Croatia. She began competing for Australia at the 2014 US Open after obtaining permanent residency in Australia. For the next four years she was required to represent Croatia at all non-Grand Slam events, until she was granted Australian citizenship in January 2018, allowing her to represent the country at all events on the WTA Tour. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Stojsavljevic
Mika Stojsavljevic (; born 15 December 2008) is a British tennis player. She won the girls' singles title at the 2024 US Open. Early life Stojsavljevic was born to a Serbian father from Velika Popina in Croatia and a Polish mother from Warsaw. She was raised in Ealing, where she attended St Benedict's School. She later moved to train at the LTA national academy in Loughborough, and currently attends Loughborough Amherst School. Growing up, she idolised Maria Sharapova. Career Junior career 2023: Wimbledon singles quarterfinal In April 2023, she reached the final of the LTA national junior championships where she lost to Hannah Klugman. Competing as a 14 year-old at the Girls' singles of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships, Stojsavljevic secured a big win over the fourth seed and French Open junior finalist Lucciana Pérez Alarcón, and Australian 14th seed Emerson Jones, reaching the quarter-finals. Juniors major success: US Open singles title, Wimbledon doubles final In Ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nao Hibino
is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 56 in singles and No. 43 in doubles by the WTA. Hibino has won three singles titles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She has also won nine singles and eleven doubles tournaments on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. Hibino was the number-one-ranked Japanese player in the WTA rankings for five weeks starting on 11 January 2016, and reached this position again on 3 April 2023. Hibino made her breakthrough in 2015, when she won her first WTA Tour title in singles at the Tashkent Open. As a result, she debuted in the top 100. Since then she has spent several years in the top 100, and has been in the top 150 constantly except for a period between February 2022 and September 2022 after a layoff from October 2021 to late April 2022. She has represented Japan at national competitions, debuting in Fed Cup in 2016, and at the Summer Olympics in 2021. Personal life and background Hibino was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bianca Andreescu
Bianca Vanessa Andreescu (; born June 16, 2000) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked world No. 4 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA. Andreescu has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, at the 2019 BNP Paribas Open – Women's singles, 2019 Indian Wells Open and the 2019 Rogers Cup – Women's singles, 2019 Canadian Open, and a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major title at the 2019 US Open – Women's singles, 2019 US Open. She is the first Canadian to win a major singles title, and the first to win the Canadian Open in 50 years. Andreescu began playing tennis in her parents' home country of Romania before returning to Canada, the country of her birth. She had success as a junior, winning the Orange Bowl (tennis), Orange Bowl and two major doubles titles with compatriot Carson Branstine en route to reaching a career-best junior ranking of No. 3 in the world. After not playing any matches at the WTA Tour level in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glossary Of Tennis Terms
This page is a glossary of tennis terminology. A * Ace: Serve where the tennis ball lands inside the '' service box'' and is not touched by the receiver; thus, a shot that is both a serve and a winner is an ace. Aces are usually powerful and generally land on or near one of the corners at the back of the service box. Initially, the term was used to indicate the scoring of a point. * Action: Synonym of '' spin''. * Ad court: Left side of the court of each player, so called because the ''ad'' (''advantage'') point immediately following a deuce is always served to this side of the court. * Ad in: '' Advantage'' to the '' server''. * Ad out: '' Advantage'' to the '' receiver''. * Ad: Used by the chair umpire to announce the score when a player has the '' advantage'', meaning they won the point immediately after a '' deuce''. See scoring in tennis. * Advantage set: Set won by a player or team having won at least six games with a two-game advantage over the opponent (as opposed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Xinyu
Wang Xinyu (, ; born 26 September 2001) is a Chinese professional tennis player. Wang reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 32 on 9 October 2023, and set a doubles ranking of No. 16 on 20 May 2024. Partnering with Hsieh Su-wei, she won the women's doubles title at the 2023 French Open. She also won a silver medal in mixed doubles, alongside Zhang Zhizhen at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Personal life Wang was born in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Her father, Wang Peng (born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang), is a former head coach of the Shenzhen tennis team and the China Fed Cup team, Chinese women's national tennis team, but resigned from the latter to concentrate on his daughter's tennis career. Her mother was a former player in the Zhejiang women's basketball team. Both of them have devoted themselves to accompanying Wang everywhere. Wang showed great enthusiasm for tennis from early childhood and, coached by her father, she started playing properly at the age of five. Career 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Boulter
Katie Charlotte Boulter (born 1 August 1996) is an English professional tennis player. On 4 November 2024, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 23. On 6 January 2025, she peaked at No. 277 in the WTA doubles rankings. Boulter has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour as well as seven singles titles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She is the former British No. 1 in women's singles. Boulter was ranked the No. 10 junior tennis player in the world in March 2014. She is based at the Lawn Tennis Association's National Tennis Centre in Roehampton and was coached by Jeremy Bates, Nigel Sears and Mark Taylor. Early life Boulter was born in Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire. Boulter herself started playing tennis aged 5, and went on to represent Great Britain three years later, aged 8. She has said that when she was younger, beating her older brother was a motivating factor. "We used to practise together at this local court down the road from our h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
