The 2019 Japan Women's Open was a women's

tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

tournament played on outdoor

hard court A hardcourt (or hard court) is a type of surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as Asphalt concrete, asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resin ...

s. It was the eleventh edition of the

Japan Women's Open 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 WTA 250 tournament on the WTA Tour. As successor to the Japan O ...

, and part of the

WTA International tournaments The WTA International tournaments was a category for tennis tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association from the 2009 WTA Tour until 2020, which replaced the previous Tier III and Tier IV categories. As of 2021 these events have been reclassifie ...

of the

2019 WTA Tour The 2019 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2019 tennis season. The 2019 WTA Tour calendar was composed of the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Te ...

. It was held at the Regional Park Tennis Stadium in

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has b ...

, Japan, from September 9 through September 15, 2019.

Point distribution

Prize money

_{¹ Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money}
_{² Per team}

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of August 26, 2019

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: *

Kurumi Nara is a Japanese former professional tennis player. In her career, she won one singles title on the WTA Tour, with seven singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Women's Circuit. On 18 August 2014, she achieved he ...

Risa Ozaki is a former professional Japanese tennis player. In her career, Ozaki won seven singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 24 April 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 70. On 6 March 2017, she peaked at No. 246 in the WT ...

Ayano Shimizu is a Japanese tennis player. Shimizu has a career-high singles ranking of 175 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), achieved on 13 May 2019, and a best WTA doubles ranking of 141, set on 19 May 2025. Shimizu has won eight singles and 18 dou ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Leylah Annie Fernandez Leylah Annie Fernandez (born 6 September 2002) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as No. 13 by the WTA on 8 August 2022. Her best doubles ranking is world No. 17, achieved on 23 October 2023. Fernandez won her ...

Zoe Hives Zoe Hives (born 24 October 1996) is a former professional Australian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 142 in singles and 144 in doubles, both achieved in 2019. Hives has won four singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Wom ...

Junri Namigata is a Japanese tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is 105, which she reached in February 2011. Her career-high doubles ranking is 101, achieved May 2015. Early life and amateur career Namigata was born in Koshigaya, Saitama Pref ...

Valeria Savinykh Valeria Dmitrievna Savinykh (; born 20 February 1991) is a Russian tennis player. In April 2012, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 99. On 20 November 2017, she peaked at No. 98 in the WTA doubles rankings. Savinykh has wo ...

Patricia Maria Țig Patricia Maria Țig (born 27 July 1994) is a Romanian tennis player. Țig has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 56, achieved on 26 October 2020. Her best doubles ranking of No. 155 was achieved on 14 November 2016. Țig has won one ...

Viktoriya Tomova Viktoriya Konstantinova Tomova (, born 25 February 1995) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 46 on 29 July 2024. Her best doubles ranking is No. 254, achieved on 11 August 2014. Tomo ...

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament *

Daria Gavrilova Daria Saville (née Gavrilova; born 5 March 1994) is a Russian-born Australian professional tennis player. She competed under her maiden name until her marriage to Luke Saville in 2021. On 28 August 2017, she reached her best singles rank ...

→ replaced by

Priscilla Hon Priscilla Hon (Chinese: 韓天遇; born 10 May 1998) is an Australian tennis player. She reached career-high WTA rankings in singles of No. 118 in October 2019, and No. 91 in doubles in April 2018. Personal life Hon was born in Brisbane in 19 ...

Barbora Krejčíková Barbora Krejčíková (; born 18 December 1995) is a Czech professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles and List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles by the Wome ...

→ replaced by

Nao Hibino is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 56 in singles and No. 43 in doubles by the WTA. Hibino has won three singles titles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She has also won nine singles and ...

Anna Karolína Schmiedlová Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (; born 13 September 1994) is a Slovak inactive professional tennis player. On 12 October 2015, she reached her best WTA singles ranking of world No. 26. She has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour, two singles t ...

→ replaced by

Katarzyna Kawa Katarzyna Kawa (; born 17 November 1992) is a Polish professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are No. 64 in doubles, set on 10 October 2022, and No. 112 in singles, achieved on 9 November 2020. She has won five WTA Challenger d ...

Retirements

;During the tournament *

Zarina Diyas Zarina Diyas (; ; born 18 October 1993) is a Kazakh professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked as high as No. 31 by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA. Diyas has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, at the 2017 Japan Women' ...

(low back injury)

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings are as of August 26, 2019

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: *

Erina Hayashi is a Japanese tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 322 in singles, achieved on 24 February 2020, and No. 210 in doubles, reached on 16 March 2020. She has won one singles title and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Women' ...

Moyuka Uchijima is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA rankings, WTA singles ranking of No. 52, achieved on 3 March 2025, and a doubles No. 101, reached on 12 June 2023. She has won thirteen titles in singles and eleven in doubles ...

Kyōka Okamura is a professional Japanese tennis player. Okamura has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 181 in singles and No. 229 in doubles. Career Okamura made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2014 Japan Women's Open, where she received a wildcard ...

Retirements

Greet Minnen Greet Minnen (born 14 August 1997) is a Belgian tennis player. Minnen has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 59 in singles and No. 45 in doubles, achieved on 16 October 2023 and on 8 January 2024, respectively. Career Juniors In her last yea ...

(right shoulder injury)

Champions

Singles

def.

Misaki Doi is a Japanese former professional tennis player. Her highest WTA rankings are No. 30 in singles and No. 77 in doubles. Doi reached two junior Grand Slam doubles finals – at Wimbledon in 2007 with Kurumi Nara, and at the Australian Open in ...

, 6–3, 6–2

Doubles

def.

Christina McHale Christina Maria McHale (born May 11, 1992) is an American professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are world No. 24 in singles and No. 35 in doubles. Known for an aggressive baseline game, McHale was recognized by ''The New Yor ...

, 3–6, 6–4, 0–4

References

External links

* {{2019 WTA Tour

Japan Women's Open

2019 in Japanese tennis