title: 2018 Toray Pan Pacific Open
text: # 2018 Toray Pan Pacific Open
  
  The 2018 Toray Pan Pacific Open is a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 35th edition of the Pan Pacific Open, and part of the Premier Series of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the Arena Tachikawa Tachihi in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, on 17–23 September 2018.
  
  ## Points and prize money
  
  ### Point distribution
  
  | Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q | Q2 | Q1 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Singles | 470 | 305 | 185 | 100 | 55 | 1 | 25 | 13 | 1 |
  | Doubles | 470 | 305 | 185 | 100 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
  
  ### Prize money
  
  | Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q2 | Q1 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Singles | $137,125 | $76,063 | $39,080 | $21,010 | $11,265 | $7,150 | $3,447 | $1,750 |
  | Doubles | $42,850 | $22,900 | $12,510 | $6,365 | $3,460 | — | — | — |
  
  ^* Qualifiers prize money is also the round of 32 prize money
  
  ^† Per team
  
  ## Singles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | Rank | Seeds |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | DEN | Caroline Wozniacki | 2 | 1 |
  | FRA | Caroline Garcia | 4 | 2 |
  | JPN | Naomi Osaka | 7 | 3 |
  | CZE | Karolína Plíšková | 8 | 4 |
  | USA | Sloane Stephens | 9 | 5 |
  | ESP | Garbiñe Muguruza | 14 | 6 |
  | AUS | Ashleigh Barty | 17 | 7 |
  | CZE | Barbora Strýcová | 25 | 8 |
  
  * Rankings are as of September 10, 2018
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:
  
  * Victoria Azarenka
  * Kurumi Nara
  * Kristýna Plíšková
  * Caroline Wozniacki
  
  The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:
  
  * Eugenie Bouchard
  * Gabriela Dabrowski
  * Zarina Diyas
  * Misaki Doi
  * Nao Hibino
  * Alison Riske
  
  ### Withdrawals
  
  * Mihaela Buzărnescu → replaced by Aliaksandra Sasnovich
  * Angelique Kerber → replaced by Belinda Bencic
  * Madison Keys → replaced by Anett Kontaveit
  * Elise Mertens → replaced by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
  * Anastasija Sevastova → replaced by Camila Giorgi
  * Carla Suárez Navarro → replaced by Donna Vekić
  
  ### Retirements
  
  * Victoria Azarenka
  
  ## Doubles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | CZE | Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková | CZE | Barbora Strýcová | 18 | 1 |
  | CAN | Gabriela Dabrowski | CHN | Xu Yifan | 27 | 2 |
  | TPE | Chan Hao-ching | CHN | Yang Zhaoxuan | 48 | 3 |
  | USA | Raquel Atawo | GER | Anna-Lena Grönefeld | 59 | 4 |
  
  * Rankings are as of September 10, 2018
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:
  
  * Erina Hayashi / Moyuka Uchijima
  
  ## Champions
  
  ### Singles
  
  * Karolína Plíšková def. Naomi Osaka 6–4, 6–4
  
  ### Doubles
  
  * Miyu Kato / Makoto Ninomiya def. Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková / Barbora Strýcová, 6–4, 6–4
  