The favorites had a successful day at the tournament in Tokyo, qualifying for the quarterfinals of the “WTA 500” tournament.

Daria Kasatkina, Caroline Garcia and Maria Sakkari in the WTA Tokyo quarters

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Roland Garros-2021 finalist) defeated young Czech Linda Noskova (18 years old, 44 WTA) in three sets with a score of 6-3, 4-6, 6-0.

Daria Kasatkina (sixth favorite) overtook the Greek Despina Papamikhail (220 WTA) after two hours of play, the score 6-4, 6-4.

Caroline Garcia (5th seed and winner of the 2022 Tournament of Champions) defeated Ukrainian Angelina Kalina (28 WTA), 6-4, 6-3. The match lasted one and a half hours.

Finally, Maria Sakkari (4th favorite and last week’s champion in Guadalajara) beat Japan’s Misaki Doi (331 WTA), 6-3, 6-1. The game lasted only 66 minutes.

WTA Tokyo, fourth schedule

Iga Svyatek (1) – Veronika Kudermetova (8)

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova – Kateryna Alexandrova

Caroline Garcia (5) – Maria Sakkari (4)

Darya Kasatkina (6) – Jessica Pegula (2).

The Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis (Tokyo) takes place from September 25 to October 1 on hard, is part of the WTA 500 category and has a total prize pool of $780,637. The main favorite is Iga Svyatek, and the crowned champion is Lyudmila Samsonova (2022).