Get all the free WTA Osaka Open betting tips, predictions and picks along with their latest odds for the 2025 edition of the tournament, a women’s hardcourt competition played in the Asian tennis swing.
The Japan Open or WTA Osaka is a WTA 250 competition played on outdoor hardcourt surfaces and it is a part of the Asian swing on the tennis calendar.
First played in Osaka in 2009, it was then transferred to Tokyo in 2015 and then to Hiroshima in 2018 where it was held for two years.
For three years between 2020 and 2022 it was then suspended for a variety of reasons – including the pandemic and financial constraints – before it made its comeback in 2023. This time around it was played in Osaka again.
Samantha Stosur has won this title a whopping three times already, having also finished a runner-up on one occasion. Nao Hibino became the first Japanese player to clinch this trophy when she won it in 2019 before its three-year long hiatus.
WTA Osaka Open 2025 Tournament Preview
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Current Osaka Open 2025 Title-Winner Odds*
*as on October 16, 2024. Odds change regularly
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What does the WTA Japan Women’s Open 2025 Draw Look Like?
Here’s what the Japan Women’s Open 2024 draw looked like. We will will update you with the draw for the upcoming edition very soon.
- Frech v Osorio
- Kessler v Shibahara
- Kenin v Ito
- Cocciaretto v Ponchet
- Mertens v Hontama
- Birrell v Zheng
- Bouzas Maneiro v Saito
- Avanesyan v Krueger
- Tomova v Lamens
- Bronzetti v Bucsa
- Bogdan v Kudermetova
- Bouzkova v Uchijima
- Parry v E Andreeva
- Andreescu v Minnen
- Siegemund v Dart
- Volynets v Tauson
Pre-Tournament Osaka Open 2025 Title-Winner Odds
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WTA Osaka Open 2025 Tournament Predictions
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Daily WTA Osaka 2025 Predictions
In this section we will update the predictions for all the matches played on a daily basis. This is how things went in the 2024 edition of the tournament.
- WTA Osaka Open 2024 Predictions for October 14, 2024 for Women’s First Round Matches Here.
- WTA Osaka Open 2024 Predictions for October 15, 2024 for Women’s First Round Matches Here.
- WTA Osaka Open 2024 Predictions for October 16, 2024 for Women’s Second Round Matches Here.
- WTA Osaka Open 2024 Predictions for October 17, 2024 for Women’s Second Round Matches Here.
- WTA Osaka Open 2024 Predictions for October 18, 2024 for Women’s Quarterfinal Matches Here.
- WTA Osaka Open 2024 Predictions for October 19, 2024 for Women’s Semifinal Matches Here.
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WTA Japan Women’s Open 2025 Details
Here’s a list of basic information you would need to know before betting on the WTA Osaka 2025.
Venue
Much like was the case when the tournament was played in Osaka in its earlier days, it will be hosted at the Utsubo Tennis Center in 2025 as well. The arena has a capacity for 5000 fans at it centre court while the second court can accommodate a further 500 people.
Schedule
The WTA Japan Open 2024 will be held in the same week as the WTA Ningbo Open and will kick-start with the qualifiers on Saturday, October 11. The main draw event will start on Monday, October 13 while the tournament will go on till the final which will be hosted on Sunday, October 19.
Here’s the day by day playing schedule for the WTA Japan Women’s Open this year.
- October 11-12: Women’s Singles Qualifiers
- October 13-14: Women’s Singles First Round
- October 15-16: Women’s Singles Second Round
- October 17: Women’s Singles Quarterfinals
- October 18: Women’s Singles Semifinals
- October 19: Women’s Singles Final
Other Tournament Details
- Surface: Outdoor hardcourt
- Prize Money: $780,000 (approximate value, still awaiting the final details for 2025)
Main Draw Players
The player-list for the 2025 edition of the competition will be released as we get closer to the start of the tournament. Here’s how things were in the 2024 season for the Osaka Open.
Magdalena Frech and Leylah Fernandez were expected to be the top two seeds in the tournament but withdrew from it leaving Elise Mertens and Amanda Anisimova as the top seeds in the tournament.
Women’s Seeded Players
- Magdalena Frech (withdrew)
- Leylah Fernadez (withdrew)
- Elise Mertens
- Amanda Anisimova
- Elina Avanesyan
- Viktoriya Tomova
- Diane Parry
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto
Other Renowned Unseeded Women’s Players
- Eva Lys
- Sofia Kenin
- Kimberly Birrell
- Ashlyn Krueger
- Lucia Bronzetti
- Veronika Kudermetova
- Erika Andreescu
- Harriet Dart
- Clara Tauson
Women’s Singles Wildcards
- Bianca Andreescu
- Mai Hontama
- Sofia Kenin
- Sara Saito
Players Opting Out of the 2025 WTA Osaka Open
The following players will not be participating in this year’s Osaka Open.
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Previous WTA Osaka Winners
Women’s Singles
- 2024: Suzan Lamens
- 2023: Ashlyn Krueger
- 2022: Not Held
- 2021: Not Held
- 2020: Not Held
- 2019: Nao Hibino
- 2018: Hsieh Su-wei
- 2017: Zarina Diyas
- 2016: Christina McHale
- 2015: Yanina Wickmayer
- 2014: Samantha Stosur
- 2013: Samantha Stosur
- 2012: Heather Watson
- 2011: Marion Bartoli
- 2010: Tamarine Tanasugarn
What Happened in the 2024 Edition of the WTA Osaka Open?
Suzan Lamens clinched the 2024 edition of the Osaka Open in what turned out to be a surprise final between two qualifiers.
Only on four previous occasions since the WTA was formed had such an occurrence happened as Lamens and Kimberly Birrell made it to the title-decider round. Lamens proved to be an easy winner defeating Birrell 6-0, 6-4.
Lamens had earlier stunned Diane Parry in the semifinal and dropped just one set on her way to the final, which came in the quarterfinals against Ana Bogdan.
What Happened in the 2023 Edition of the WTA Osaka Open?
In what proved to be a stunning performance from Ashlyn Krueger, the American lifted the 2023 edition of the WTA Osaka without dropping a single set in the entire tournament.
Krueger overcame the top seeded Zhu Lin in the final in a match where she was stretched to a tie-breaker for the first time in the competition. She had earlier overcome Kateryna Baindl, Jessika Ponchet, Anna Kalinskaya and Japanese wildcard Mai Hontama in successive rounds to make the final.
Interestingly, in the following three Grand Slam appearances in 2024, at the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon, Krueger would be bundled out in the first round despite this change in fortunes in Osaka.
Third seeded Wang Xinyu made the semifinals while the sixth seeded Yulia Putintseva was a losing quarterfinalist in the tournament.
