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Tokyo draw: Zheng, Haddad Maia top the field in the last WTA 500 of 2024

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TOKYO -- The draw is out for the Toray Pan Pacific Open, the final WTA 500 of the Hologic WTA Tour season.

World No.7 Zheng Qinwen tops the draw, with Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia

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rounding out the Top 3 seeds. Defending champion Veronica Kudermetova is also set to return.

Anna Kalinskaya

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(illness) withdrew after the draw was conducted. 

Main-draw play begins on Monday, Oct. 21 at Ariake Coliseum

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Zheng returns to Tokyo fresh off her stellar run through the China swing, which included her first WTA 1000 semifinal at the China Open and first WTA 1000 final at the Dongfeng Voyah Wuhan Open. With that surge, the 22-year-old surged up the PIF Race to the WTA Finals Leaderboard to secure the final qualifying spot for the season-ending championships, a fitting end to a season which saw the Chinese star win Olympic gold and make her first Grand Slam final at the Australian Open. 

Zheng made the Tokyo final in her tournament debut in 2022. She returns this year as the No.1 seed with a bye into the second round, where she will face either Moyuka Uchijima

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, who will open against Ajla Tomljanovic
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in the first round.

Guadalajara champion Magdalena Frech

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anchor the second quarter of the draw. Shnaider, who moved into a seeded position after Kalinskaya withdrew, will face either defending champion Kudermetova or Viktoriya Tomova
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in the second round. 

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Daria Kasatkina

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or McCartney Kessler in her opener. 

No.2 seed Haddad Maia tops the final quarter of the draw. She will face either Bianca Andreescu

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, who moved into a seeded position after Badosa withdrew, will face a qualifier in the first round.