Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis Tournament

Tokyo's biggest pro tennis tournament of the year features many of the world's top female players, who compete on the hard courts of Ariake Colosseum and Tennis Forest Park for a combined prize of over US$2 million. The sport's three top-ranked players – Victoria Azarenka, Maria Sharapova and Agnieszka Radwanska, last year's defending champion – are all taking part, though you'll have to look way down the list to find any of their Japanese counterpart (Ayumi Morita and Kimiko Date-Krumm made the cut, albeit only as wild cards). Note that September 21-22 is given over to preliminaries, but the main tournament doesn't start until September 23.