The US$175,000 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships is being staged at Ariake Colosseum, Tokyo, Japan from September 29 until October 5, 2008 has attracted a strong field of entries. Heading the field is 18 years old and talented Dane, Caroline Wozniacki who is currently at her career best, WTA 17. This season Wozniacki has collected two titles from Stockholm and New Haven to join the list of other winners in the tour for the first time. She also made impressive run to fourth round at US Open.
Wozniacki will begin her campaign and will meet Argentinian Gisela Dulko in the first round. The two are tied 1 all in their meetings this year. Other first round matches are: Spaniard Annabel Medina Garrigues is the second seeded and is to face Chan Yung-Jan from Chinese Taipei. Third seeded Zheng Jie of China will be challenged by young Russian, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. While fourth seeded Maria Kirilenko from Russia will clash against Klara Zakopalova of Czech Republic.
The rest of the seeded players are Kaia Kanepi of Estonia as fifth seeded, and followed by struggling Israelian Shahar Peer as sixth seeded then Thai Tamarine Tanasugarn as seventh seeded and last but not least, Aleksandra Wozniak from Canada as eight seeded.
In their first round matches, Kanepi will be challenged by Czech Lucie Safarova, Peer will face wild card and former world number four from Japan, Kimiko Date Krumm. Truly darling of Japanese fans, Date Krumm won Japan Open in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1996. Meanwhile, Tanasugarn will battle against qualifier and Wozniak will play winner of Japan Open 2002, Jill Craybas of USA again after they met in the same round at recent WTA Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic in Bali.
Other wild cards are Japanese Aiko Nakamura and Ayumi Morita.
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