The 2010 HP Open was a tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 2nd edition of the HP Open

HP Open

The HP Open is a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. The event is affiliated with the Women's Tennis Association , and is an International-level tournament on the WTA Tour...

, and was classified as one of the WTA International tournaments

WTA International tournaments

The International Tournaments is the new category for tennis tournaments of Women's Tennis Association from the 2009 WTA Tour. Tournaments are replacing Tier III and Tier IV events...

 of the 2010 WTA Tour

2010 WTA Tour

The Women's Tennis Association Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the WTA. The 2010 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments , the WTA Premier tournaments , the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup , and the year-end...

. It was played in Osaka

Osaka

is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...

, Japan

Japan

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 from October 11 to October 17.

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
Australia	Samantha Stosur Samantha Stosur Samantha "Sam" Jane Stosur is an Australian professional tennis player. She won the 2011 US Open singles title and was a finalist at the 2010 French Open. Stosur is ranked World No. 6 and her career high in singles is World No. 4, achieved on 21 February 2011. She is a former world No...	8	1
France	Marion Bartoli Marion Bartoli Marion Bartoli is a French professional tennis player and the current French no. 1. She has won seven Women's Tennis Association singles titles and three doubles titles. She was also a runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships....	14	2
Israel	Shahar Pe'er Shahar Pe'er Shahar Pe'er is an Israeli professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is World No. 11, which she achieved on January 31, 2011 ....	18	3
Russia	Maria Kirilenko Maria Kirilenko Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko is a Russian professional tennis player. Kirilenko won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the China Open. Kirilenko reached no. 18, her career-high singles ranking, on the WTA tour in July 2008. She won the junior event at the 2002 Canadian...	26	4
Russia	Alla Kudryavtseva Alla Kudryavtseva Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She currently lives in Moscow, where she is coached by Nick Rybakov...	56	5
Japan	Kimiko Date Krumm	57	6
Czech Republic	Iveta Benešová Iveta Benešová Iveta Benešová is a professional tennis player. She began playing tennis at age of 7 and turned professional in 1998 in Prague. She has won two WTA Tour events and one Grand Slam in mixed doubles partnering with Jürgen Melzer at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships.-2006–2008:In the 2006 Australian...	70	7
Hungary	Gréta Arn Gréta Arn Gréta Arn is a professional tennis player from Hungary, and the current Hungarian No. 1. Arn turned professional in 1997....	88	8

• Seeds are based on the rankings of October 4, 2010.

Other Entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Ryoko Fuda

Ryoko Fuda

Ryoko Fuda is a Japanese women's tennis player. She turned pro in December 2003. She has competed in five tennis tournaments since 2003. Ryoko plays using her right hand. According to the WTA she was introduced to tennis when she was 5 by playing on neighborhood courts.-Personal:Ryoko Fuda was...

 Sachie Ishizu

Sachie Ishizu

Sachie Ishizu is a professional Japanese tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On June 06, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 224. She is coached by her father, Yasuhiko Ishizu. Sachie was the runner-up in the girls' singles event of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships,...

 Aiko Nakamura

Aiko Nakamura

, is a female Japanese tennis player. She was once the second highest WTA-ranked Japanese singles tennis player, at 107 , after Ai Sugiyama....

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Natalie Grandin

Natalie Grandin

Natalie Grandin is a professional tennis player from South Africa. Grandin has yet to compete outside of the qualifying rounds of a Grand Slam singles event. She is known for her variety of play, and volleying ability....

 Christina McHale

Christina McHale

Christina McHale is a professional American tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is No. 45, and in doubles it is No. 171. McHale has beaten numerous top WTA tour players, including current world no...

 Laura Robson

Laura Robson

Laura Robson is a British tennis player. She debuted on the International Tennis Federation junior tour in 2007, and a year later won the Wimbledon Junior Girls' Championship at the age of 14. As a junior, she also twice reached the final of the Australian Open, in 2009 and 2010. She won her...

 Tomoko Yonemura

Singles

  Tamarine Tanasugarn

Tamarine Tanasugarn

Tamarine Tanasugarn is a professional Thai tennis player. She was born in Los Angeles, United States, and turned professional in 1994. She has been in the top 20 in both singles and doubles....

def.   Kimiko Date Krumm, 7–5, 6–7(4), 6–1

• It was Tanasugarn's 1st title of the year, and her 4th overall.
• It was the oldest known final ever, at a combined age of 73.

Doubles

  Chang Kai-chen /   Lilia Osterloh

Lilia Osterloh

Lilia Osterloh is a tennis player from the United States, who started a professional career in August 1997....

def.   Shuko Aoyama

Shuko Aoyama

is a Japanese professional tennis player. Her best-ever ranking is No. 355 in singles and No. 228 in doubles .-External links:*...

 /   Rika Fujiwara

Rika Fujiwara

Rika Fujiwara is a Japanese professional tennis player. Her best-ever ranking is, singles No. 84 , doubles No. 13...

, 6–0, 6–3

External links

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