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Toray Pan Pacific Open: A top-class tough field including 14 of the world's Top 20 players are among the participants entered in next month's Toray Pan Pacific Open, one of the top events on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour which will be played in Tokyo, Japan. The prestigious outdoor hard-court tournament will be the final WTA 500 event of the year. A host of the WTA Tour's top players will go for big ranking points in one of the last opportunities to lock up a spot at the season-ending WTA Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Action at the Toray Pan Pacific Open begins on October 21, and the main-draw entry list was released this week with World No.3 Jessica Pegula the highest-ranked player to enter the fray. The event boasts former champions like Stefanie Graf, Martina Navratilova, Martina Hingis, Lindsay Davenport, Maria Sharapova and Petra Kvitova.

After missing many events in the year's first half due to injury, Pegula surged back to the top of the game this summer, successfully defending her WTA 1000 title in Canada and reaching her first Grand Slam singles final at the US Open.