Japan Women's Open Tennis | |
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Tournament information | |
Founded | 2009 |
Editions | 8 (2016) |
Location |
Osaka, Japan (2009–2014) Tokyo, Japan (2015–) |
Venue |
Ariake Tennis Forest Park (2015-) Utsubo Tennis Center (2009-2014) |
Surface | Hard / outdoors |
Draw | 32M / 32Q / 16D |
Prize money | $250,000 |
Website | jw-open.jp |
Current champions | |
Women's singles | Christina McHale |
Women's doubles |
Shuko Aoyama Makoto Ninomiya |
The Japan Women's Open Tennis is a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. The event is affiliated with the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and is an International-level tournament on the WTA Tour. As successor to the Japan Open (where men and women played simultaneously, up to 2008) the event was held in women-only form for the first time in 2009, and was the second tournament of the season held in Japan: the Pan Pacific Open, a Premier Five tournament, was held two weeks before. In 2015, the event was moved from Osaka to Tokyo.