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Preview Notes: Keb Hana Bank Korea Open Seoul, South Korea | September 17-23, 2018 | Usd $250,000

Preview Notes: Keb Hana Bank Korea Open Seoul, South Korea | September 17-23, 2018 | Usd $250,000

PREVIEW NOTES: KEB HANA BANK SEOUL, | SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2018 | USD $250,000

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SEOUL QUICK FACTS Main draw dates: Monday, September 17 - Sunday, September 23, 2018 Singles Final: Sunday, September 23, 2pm Doubles Final: Sunday, September 23, after singles final Venue: Olympic Tennis Courts Status: WTA International event Staging: Tournament’s 15th year Draw sizes: 32 singles / 16 doubles teams / 24 singles qualifying Surface: Hard / Outdoors Total prize money: USD $250,000 Tennis Ball: Dunlop Fort 2017 Singles Final: [1] Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) d. (BRA) 6-7(5) 6-1 6-4 2017 Doubles Final: [1] / (NED/SWE) d. /Peangtarn Pilpuech (THA/THA) 6-4 6-1

PRIZE MONEY AND RANKING POINT BREAKDOWN RANK RANK SINGLES USD $ DOUBLES USD $ POINTS POINTS Winner 43,000 280 Winner 12,300 280 Runner-Up 21,400 180 Runner-Up 6,400 180

Semifinalist 11,500 110 Semifinalist 3,435 110

1,820 Quarterfinalist 6,175 60 Quarterfinalist 60 Round of 16 3,400 30 Round of 16 960 1 Round of 32 2,100 1

RECENT PREVIOUS CHAMPIONS AND RUNNERS-UP

YEAR CHAMPION RUNNER-UP 2017 Jelena Ostapenko Beatriz Haddad Maia 2016 2015 Irina-Camelia Begu 2014 Karolina Pliskova 2013 Agnieszka Radwanska 2012 2011 María José Martínez Sánchez Blue highlight denotes player competing in the Follow WTA on Twitter: www.twitter.com/WTA Facebook: www.facebook.com/WTA YouTube: www.youtube.com/WTA

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MAIN DRAW QUICK HITS (excludes qualifiers)

Singles wildcards: Choi Ji-Hee (KOR), Jang Su-Jeong (KOR), Park Sohyun (KOR) Youngest singles player: Park Sohyun, 16 (July 2, 2002) Oldest singles player: Bethanie Mattek-Sands, 33 (March 23, 1985) Singles withdrawals: Sorana Cirstea (shoulder), (right thigh), (dental pain) Main draw debutantes: Choi Ji-Hee (KOR), (RUS), Dalila Jakupovic (SLO), Park Sohyun (KOR), (RUS), Tamara Zidansek (SLO)

TOURNAMENT TALKING POINTS  Jelena Ostapenko returns to South Korea as No.1 seed to defend the title she won – her second at WTA level – against Beatriz Haddad Maia 12 months ago  Ostapenko begins against 2016 champion Lara Arruabarrena, while No.2 seed Kiki Bertens has been drawn to face Luksika Kumkhum first up  Two other former champions are in the draw, Irina-Camelia Begu and former World No.2 Agnieszka Radwanska  – one of two mothers in the draw, along with Evgeniya Rodina – will contest the 800th match of her career should she advance to the semifinals  One to Watch – Twenty-year-old Tamara Zidansek is appearing in just her sixth WTA main draw this week, however, judging by her recent progress she is likely to be a fixture at this level for years to come. A serial champion on the ITF Circuit this year, the Slovene arrives in South Korea with 51 match wins to her name for the year – results which have seen her rise over 120 places since February

TOP FOUR SEEDS’ PREVIOUS TOURNAMENT HISTORY

PLAYER TOURNAMENT MAIN DRAW HISTORY WIN-LOSS WIN % [1] Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) WON (1): 2017 (d. Beatriz Maia in F) 5-0 1.000 [2] Kiki Bertens (NED) QF (1): 2012 (l. Kanepi) 2-4 0.333 1r (3): 2014 (l. Koukalova), 2015 (l. Duque-Mariño), 2017 (l. Hogenkamp) [3] (GRE) 1r (1): 2016 (l. Zhang) 0-1 0.000 [4] Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) QF (2): 2009 (l. Medina Garrigues), 2014 (l. McHale) 6-5 0.545 2r (2): 2012 (l. Koukalova), 2015 (l. Sasnovich) 1r (1): 2008 (l. Wickmayer)

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COUNTRY BREAKDOWN

Excluding qualifiers, a total of 18 countries are represented in the main draw, led by Russia, and South Korea with three players each:

Australia (1) Ajla Tomljanovic (2) , Chinese Taipei (1) Hsieh Su-Wei (1) Maria Sakkari (1) Jelena Ostapenko Luxembourg (1) Mandy Minella (1) Kiki Bertens (1) Agnieszka Radwanska (1) Irina-Camelia Begu Russia (3) , Margarita Gasparyan, Evgeniya Rodina (2) Magdalena Rybarikova, Anna Karolina Schmiedlova Slovenia (3) , Tamara Zidansek South Korea (3) Choi Ji-Hee, Jang Su-Jeong, Park Sohyun (1) Lara Arruabarrena (1) Johanna Larsson Switzerland (1) Stefanie Voegele Thailand (1) Luksika Kumkhum United States (1) Bethanie Mattek-Sands

WTA TV – LIVE ACTION FROM SEOUL Every main draw match from Seoul is LIVE and ON DEMAND on wtatv.com. Catch all the action at home or on the go. You won’t want to miss a minute of this year’s star-studded lineup in both singles and doubles. Want to watch multiple matches at once? On WTA TV, you can watch up to four matches simultaneously with the multibox feature.

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