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Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships

ATP World Tour 500 Tennis Tournament - AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships - Tokyo Japan

Asian Tennis Has Roots In Land Of Rising Sun

The Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships is the longest-running ATP World Tour tennis tournament in Asia, first held in 1973. A combined ATP World Tour and Sony Ericsson WTA Tour event, it is played at Ariake Colosseum, which is an enormous tennis centre consisting of 48 tennis courts and a stadium with one of the first retractable roofs in tennis.

Name: Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships
Category: ATP World Tour 500
Place: Tokyo, Japan
Date: 05.10.2009-11.10.2009
Draw Size: S-32 D-16
Surface: Hard
Prize Money: $ 1,226,500
Ticket Hotline: + 81 3 3481 2511

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Who Played

Facts & Figures

Youzhny Back To Top Form - World No. 49 Mikhail Youzhny, who defeated three seeded players in succession to reach the final, was chasing his first ATP World Tour title since January 2008 at Chennai (d. Nadal).

Czech Makes QF Exit - Tomas Berdych lifted the 2008 title (d. del Potro), his first ATP World Tour title on Asian soil, but made a quarter-final exit to Mikhail Youzhny this year.

Hewitt's Terrific Record - Lleyton Hewitt, who fell in the semi-finals to Mikhail Youzhny, captured the 2001 title (d. Kratochvil). The Australian has always reached at least the quarter-finals in four visits to the Japanese capital.

Draws & Order of Play

Tsonga Lifts Fifth Career Title
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga strongly boosted his campaign to qualify for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals by clinching his third ATP World Tour title of the season. The second seed cruised to a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Mikhail Youzhny in the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships final. The No. 1 Frenchman is the sixth player this year to win three or more ATP World Tour titles.

Draws and Order of Play

Singles
Doubles
Singles Qualifying

Past Results
2009 Seeds
Points & Prize Money

Past Champions

Year	Draws	Singles	Doubles
2009	S\|D	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Julian Knowle / Jurgen Melzer
2008	S\|D	Tomas Berdych	Mikhail Youzhny / Mischa Zverev
2007	S\|D	David Ferrer	Jordan Kerr / Robert Lindstedt
2006	S\|D	Roger Federer	Ashley Fisher / Tripp Phillips
2005	S\|D	Wesley Moodie	Satoshi Iwabuchi / Takao Suzuki
2004	S\|D	Jiri Novak	Jared Palmer / Pavel Vizner
2003	S\|D	Rainer Schuettler	Justin Gimelstob / Nicolas Kiefer
2002	S\|D	Kenneth Carlsen	Jeff Coetzee / Chris Haggard
2001	S\|D	Lleyton Hewitt	Rick Leach / David Macpherson
2000	S\|D	Sjeng Schalken	Mahesh Bhupathi / Leander Paes
1999	S\|D	Nicolas Kiefer	Jeff Tarango / Daniel Vacek
1998	S\|D	Andrei Pavel	Sebastien Lareau / Daniel Nestor
1997	S\|D	Richard Krajicek	Martin Damm / Daniel Vacek
1996	S\|D	Pete Sampras	Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
1995	S\|D	Jim Courier	Mark Knowles / Jonathan Stark
1994	S\|D	Pete Sampras	Henrik Holm / Anders Jarryd
1993	S\|D	Pete Sampras	Ken Flach / Rick Leach
1992	S\|D	Jim Courier	Kelly Jones / Rick Leach
1991	S\|D	Stefan Edberg	Stefan Edberg / Todd Woodbridge
1990	S\|D	Stefan Edberg	Mark Kratzmann / Wally Masur
1989	S\|D	Stefan Edberg	Ken Flach / Robert Seguso
1988	S\|D	John McEnroe	John Fitzgerald / Johan Kriek
1987	S\|D	Stefan Edberg	Paul Annacone / Kevin Curren
1986	S\|D	Ramesh Krishnan	Matt Anger / Ken Flach
1985	S\|D	Scott Davis	Scott Davis / David Pate
1984	S\|D	David Pate	David Dowlen / Nduka Odizor
1983	S\|D	Eliot Teltscher
1982	S\|D	Jimmy Arias	Sherwood Stewart / Ferdi Taygan
1981	S\|D	Balazs Taroczy	Heinz Gunthardt / Balazs Taroczy
1980	S\|D	Ivan Lendl	Ross Case / Jaime Fillol Sr.
1979	S\|D	Terry Moor	Colin Dibley / Pat Dupre
1977	S\|D	Manuel Orantes	Geoff Masters / Kim Warwick
1976	S\|D	Roscoe Tanner	Bob Carmichael / Ken Rosewall
1975	S\|D	Raul Ramirez	Brian Gottfried / Raul Ramirez
1974	S\|D	Rod Laver	Raymond Moore / Onny Parun

Singles Players

#	Player	W-L	Best Finish
1	Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG)	6-4	F-'08
2	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)	6-1	W-'09
3	Gilles Simon (FRA)	1-1	R16-'09
4	Gael Monfils (FRA)	3-1	S-'09
5	Tomas Berdych (CZE)	10-3	W-'08
6	Radek Stepanek (CZE)	3-4	Q-'05
7	Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)	2-1	Q-'09
8	Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)	15-4	W-'01

Doubles Players

#	Player	W-L	Best Finish
1	Cermak / Mertinak	1-1	Q-'09
2	Damm / Lindstedt	0-1	R16-'09
3	Aspelin / Hanley	0-1	R16-'09
4	Parrott / Polasek	1-2	Q-'08

ATP World Tour Rankings Points / Prize Money (Singles)

	Points	Prize $
W	500	300,000
F	300	126,000
SF	180	55,500
QF	90	25,750
R16	45	12,250
R32	0	6,400
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Q	20
Q3	0	0
Q2	10	900
Q1	0	450

ATP World Tour Rankings Points / Prize Money (Doubles)

	Points	Prize $
W	500	63,600
F	300	32,700
SF	180	17,500
QF	90	9,500
R16		5,300
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