Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis 2015 World Top 5 players have announced their entry ! - 3 Tournaments Collaboration ticket sales for a limited time will commence on June 13 -

Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis Executive Committee

TOKYO - Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis Executive Committee today announced that the world top 5 players intend to participate in the Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis Tournament 2015 to be held on September 19 – 27, 2015 at Ariake Colosseum and Ariake Forest Park.

Following 5 players expressed their intention to play in this tournament: Ana Ivanovic, the defending champion who won 4 WTA tour titles last year (No.6/SRB), Caroline Wozniaki who was the runner up for the US open and PPO last year (No.5/DEN), Agnieszka Radwanska who was the champion for PPO 2011 and the runner up for the　Winbledon 2012 (No.13/POL), Eugenie Bouchard who reached Best 16 or higher in all Grand Slams last year and was the runner up for the Wimbledon 2014 (No.11/CAN), and Angelique Kerber, No.1 player in Germany (No.10/GER). All of them have been ranked in Top 10 at the previous year-end ranking, and have even been ranked in world Top 5. In short, world top players representing women’s tennis will gather in Ariake this autumn.

*World ranking as of June 8, 2015

As tennis rises in popular, all qualifying matches of PPO 2015 will be free admission in order to provide opportunities to watch the world level tennis live with more people, and be helpful to liven up tennis. Furthermore, it will be held during the Silver week holidays to be easy to come for more people. There will be various fan-friendly events during our tournament in order to attract not only tennis fans but also families. We are looking forward to seeing you there.

As the first attempt for us, the collaboration tickets for 3 tournaments to be held in Ariake: "Japan Women’s Open Tennis 2015", "Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis", and "Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships 2015", will go on sale for a limited time from 10:00am on June 13 (sat) to 9:59am on June 26 (fri). Early bird special one day ticket sales will commence on 10:00am, June 27 (sat).