Entry List:

No. 1: Serena Williams
No. 2: Caroline Wozniacki
No. 3: Jelena Jankovic
No. 6: Samantha Stosur
No. 7: Francesca Schiavone
No. 8: Elena Dementieva
No. 9: Na Li
No. 11: Vera Zvonareva
No. 12: Maria Sharapova
No. 13: Victoria Azarenka
No. 15: Yanina Wickmayer
No. 16: Svetlana Kuznetsova
No. 17: Marion Bartoli
No. 18: Shahar Peer
No. 19: Aravane Rezai
No. 20: Flavia Pennetta
No. 21: Nadia Petrova
No. 22: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
No. 24: Jie Zheng
No. 25: Lucie Safarova
No. 26: Alisa Kleybanova
No. 27: Maria Kirilenko
No. 28: Daniela Hantuchova
No. 29: Alexandra Dulgheru
No. 30: Alona Bondarenko
No. 31: Petra Kvitova
No. 32: Yaroslava Shvedova
No. 33: Tsvetana Pironkova
No. 34: Kaia Kanepi
No. 35: Sara Errani
No. 36: Andrea Petkovic
No. 37: Agnes Szavay
No. 38: Klara Zakopalova
No. 39: Ana Ivanovic
No. 40: Gisela Dulko
No. 42: Julia Goerges
No. 43: Barbora Zahlavova Strycova
No. 44: Melanie Oudin
No. 45: Dominika Cibulkova
No. 46: Polona Hercog
No. 47: Anabel Medina Garrigues
No. 57: Kimiko Date Krumm
No. 70: Dinara Safina
No. 80: Ayumi Morita
No. 112: Kurumi Nara
No. 306: Sachie Ishizu

With development and innovation of Sony Ericsson WTA Tour in 2009, Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis Tournament will have total prize money of US$2,000,000 and 56 Main Draw in 7 days.
In 2009 Tournament, Main Draw Entry Cutoff was 49 in Ranking and Top 1 － 47 players had possibility of Direct-in Entry. After Entry Cutoff, Dinara Safina, who was 1 in ranking at the time made Entry by using “Top 10 Wild Card” and Tournament gathered public attention by having such high level Entry as Gland Slam Tournament.

She could do with some luck at last! Hope there will be a decent draw for her, not the toughest one...


Looking forward to the tournament. Hope she wont have an early round exit.

Come on!

I don't get it how can Pavlyuchenkova beat Daniela 4 times this year and only take 3 games off Date Krum m (round 2 Seoul)? Lol!

I don't get it how can Pavlyuchenkova beat Daniela 4 times this year and only take 3 games off Date Krum m (round 2 Seoul)? Lol!

Date Krumm seems to play well in Seoul
But that still doesn't explain such a hammering of Pavlyuchenkova...
Can't believe there is almost 22 years difference between the two players!

I'll take Kerber in the first round. Daniela should be able to beat Kerber unless Daniela has an off-day or Kerber's inspired. This is pretty good compared with most of the recent openers Daniela's had.

Kerber gave Daniela a tough match in Charleston so she's got to be respected as an opponent and she beat Peer at Wimbledon. Kerber's best performances and result have been early in the year and since Wimbledon she really hasn't done that much. Li Na thrashed her in Copenhagen and Dulko beat her pretty easily at the US Open. Kerber took Li Na to three sets in Birmingham and beat Dulko in Bogota so it seems that Kerber doesn't do as well second time around. At the same time, Daniela has to go and beat her.

The second round will be difficult. Daniela's record against Shazza isn't good at all and Shazza's the defending champion so that's a really tough match although Daniela beat Shazza in Tokyo. Date Krumm beat Daniela in Seoul last year, she's a tricky opponent and she'll have home support.

We have to take this one match at a time and a win against Kerber would be a good start. Hopefully Daniela's fully fit and she plays well.

Tough draw as always. I dont like those 2nd round opponents. Masha is defending the title :/


There should be streams since Monday...

I would also like to see Daniela vs Sharapova. Hopefully it eventuates!