The women are playing the Toray Pan Pacific Open 2009, a hardcourt tournament in Tokyo, Japan. This is a WTA Premier event, which is the equivalent to a mens "Masters Series" event.
Top 4 seeds and their world ranking:
1. Dinara Safina (#1)
2. Venus Williams (#3)
3. Elena Dementieva (#4)
4. Caroline Wozniacki (#5)
Other notables in the tournament: Svetlana Kuznetsova, Vera Zvonareva, Jelena Jankovic, Victoria Azarenka, Maria Sharapova, Ana Ivanovic, Flavia Pennetta. A couple notable players not making the trip to Japan are Serena Williams and U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters.
**** Quick note. This will be ::pirate voice:: Aiiiiiiiiiiiiii Sugiyama's final tournament. She is retiring. (maybe she'll come back in a couple of years, its the IN thing right now.)
PREDICTION: Elena Dementieva over Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final.
The men have a couple tournaments this week. Two hardcourt tournaments. One in Bangkok, Thailand, and the other in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
I'll start with the one in Bangkok first.
Top 4 seeds and world ranking:
1. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (#7)
2. Gilles Simon (#10)
3. Sam Querrey (#25)
4. Viktor Troicki (#32)
Other notables in the PTT Thailand Open: Jurgen Melzer, Fabrice Santoro, John Isner, Philipp Petzschner, Marat Safin, and Thai player Kittipong Wachiramanowong. (probably the coolest name ever.)
PREDICTION: Tsonga over Querrey in the final.
Now moving on to the Proton Malaysian Open.
Top 4 seeds and world ranking:
1. Nikolay Davydenko (#8)
2. Fernando Verdasco (#9)
3. Robin Soderling (#11)
4. Fernando Gonzalez (#12)
This tournament is pretty stacked with competition for being a smaller tour event. Other notables are: Gael Monfils, Tomas Berdych, David Ferrer, Lleyton Hewitt, Marcos Baghdatis, Richard Gasquet.
PREDICTION: Robin Soderling over Fernando Verdasco in the final.
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