The Japan Open is a men's tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum, located in Koto, Tokyo. It has been held since 1972. In 2018, the venue switched to the Musashino Forest Sports Plaza as the Ariake Coliseum was renovated for the tennis events at the 2020 Summer Olympics. The championship includes men's singles and doubles competitions. The "All-Japan Championships" was founded in 1922. Before 1972, the All-Japan championships was an international event but after the Japan Open began, the All-Japan championships became a national event.
The Pan Pacific Open, currently sponsored by Toray Industries, is a women's outdoor hardcourt tennis tournament held annually in Tokyo, Japan. It is a WTA 500-level tournament.
The ANA Open is a professional golf tournament on the Japan Golf Tour. Founded as the Sapporo Open, it has been sponsored by All Nippon Airways since 1973, initially as the ANA Sapporo Open. It is usually held in September each year at the Sapporo Golf Club in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido.
Ana Bogdan is a Romanian professional tennis player. Having made her tour debut in 2009, she peaked at No. 39 in the WTA rankings in July 2023.
Kurumi Nara is a Japanese former professional tennis player.
Misaki Doi is a Japanese former professional tennis player. Her highest WTA rankings are No. 30 in singles and No. 77 in doubles.
World Wonder Ring Stardom, often referred to simply as Stardom, is a Japanese joshi puroresu or women's professional wrestling promotion based in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan. Stardom was founded in September 2010 by former All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) co-producer Rossy Ogawa, retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist Fuka Kakimoto, and former AJW veteran professional wrestler Nanae Takahashi. Since June 2024, Stardom is a subsidiary of New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW).
The Wuhan Open is a WTA 1000 tennis tournament held in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China and organized for female professional tennis players. It is one of the WTA 1000 tournaments on the WTA Tour and made its debut in the 2014 season.
Naomi Osaka is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam singles champion, with two Australian Open and two US Open titles. Her seven titles on the WTA Tour include two at the Premier Mandatory level. At the 2018 US Open and the 2019 Australian Open, Osaka won her first two major titles in back-to-back tournaments, becoming the first Japanese player to win a major singles title and the first woman to win successive major singles titles since Serena Williams in 2015.
Erika Ikuta is a Japanese actress, singer, and former first generation member of the Japanese idol girl group Nogizaka46. In addition to her work with Nogizaka46, Ikuta has appeared in multiple television and stage productions, including playing Cosette, Éponine and Fantine in a Japanese production of Les Misérables and voicing Asha in the Japanese dubbing of the Disney film Wish.
The 2018 Japan Golf Tour was the 46th season of the Japan Golf Tour, the main professional golf tour in Japan since it was formed in 1973.
This is a list of the main career statistics of professional tennis player Naomi Osaka. She was the champion of the 2018 US Open, 2019 Australian Open, 2020 US Open, and 2021 Australian Open.
The 2019 Japan Women's Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the eleventh edition of the Japan Women's Open, and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2019 WTA Tour. It was held at the Regional Park Tennis Stadium in Hiroshima, Japan, from September 9 through September 15, 2019.
The 2019 Toray Pan Pacific Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 36th edition of the Pan Pacific Open, and part of the Premier Series of the 2019 WTA Tour. It took place at the ITC Utsubo Tennis Center in Osaka, Japan, on 16–22 September 2019. This was the only time Osaka hosting the tournament after Tokyo was in preparation for the Summer Olympics the following year.
The 2020–21 Japan Golf Tour was the 48th season of the Japan Golf Tour, the main professional golf tour in Japan since it was formed in 1973.
The 2020 J.League Cup, known as the 2020 J.League YBC Levain Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 28th edition of J.League Cup, a Japanese association football cup competition. It began on 16 February 2020 and ended on 4 January 2021.
Suzan Lamens is a Dutch professional tennis player. Lamens has a best singles ranking of world No. 88, by the WTA, achieved on 21 October 2024. She also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 183, attained on 22 May 2023.
Mai Hontama (本玉真唯) is a Japanese tennis player. Hontama has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 105, by the WTA, achieved on 5 August 2024. She has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 109, set on 6 November 2023.
The 2022 Toray Pan Pacific Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 37th edition of the Pan Pacific Open, and part of the WTA 500 tournaments of the 2022 WTA Tour. It took place at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan. It was the first event since 2019, with the 2020 and 2021 events cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
WTA 1000 is a category of tennis tournaments on the WTA Tour organized by the Women's Tennis Association.
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