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1 MATCH NOTES: TORAY PAN PACIFIC OPEN TOKYO, JAPAN SEPTEMBER 18-24, 2017 USD $1,000,000 PREMIER EVENT WTA Website: facebook.com/wta Tournament Website: facebook.com/torayppo WTA Communications: Alex Prior Chase Altieri TORAY PAN PACIFIC OPEN FINAL [3] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #6) vs. ANASTASIA PAVLYUCHENKOVA (RUS #23) Wozniacki leads 5-1 A LOOK AT THE FINALISTS PLAYER RANK AGE NAT YTD PRIZE $^ TOKYO (MD) W/L* YTD W/L* YTD TITLES CAREER PRIZE $^ CAREER W/L* [3] Caroline Wozniacki 6 27 DEN 2,255, ,341, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS 1,035, ,594, FINAL QUICK HITS *Includes current tournament / ^Does not include current tournament CAREER TITLES Two-time champion Caroline Wozniacki (2010, 2016) takes on unseeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in Sunday s Toray Pan Pacific Open final Wozniacki is bidding to become the fourth player to win title here three or more times, joining Gabriela Sabatini (1987, 1991, 1992), Martina Hingis (1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2007) and Lindsay Davenport (1998, 2001, 2003, 2004) Wozniacki has now won 25 matches in her 10 appearances at the tournament. Only Hingis (32), Davenport (27) and Agnieszka Radwanska (27) have posted more Pavlyuchenkova is the sixth unseeded player to reach the final here, following in the footsteps of Larisa Neiland (1993 R-Up), Magdalena Maleeva (2004 R-Up), Martina Hingis (2006 R-Up), Maria Sharapova (2009 Champion) Wozniacki (2016 Champion) and Naomi Osaka (2016 R-Up) Wozniacki is appearing in the 49th career final and seventh of 2017; she has won at least one title every year since 2008, but has finished runner-up in all six final appearances so far this season A two-time WTA singles title winner this year at International level (Monterrey, Rabat), Pavlyuchenkova is contesting her first Premier-level final since finishing runner-up at Moscow in 2015 Wozniacki fended off two match points in her quarterfinal win over Dominika Cibulkova. Only two players have saved match points en route to winning a WTA title in 2017: Elina Svitolina (Taipei City) and Mona Barthel (Prague) Pavlyuchenkova has gone the distance in all four matches this week. Her record in three-set matches in 2017 now stands at only Wozniacki (17-7) has gone the distance as many times on tour this season Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: 1

2 MATCH NOTES TOKYO - JAPAN Sep 18 - Sep 24, 2017 $1,000,000 PREMIER [3] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #6) vs. ANASTASIA PAVLYUCHENKOVA (RUS #23) Head to Head: CAROLINE WOZNIACKI leads CINCINNATI HARD O R16 ANASTASIA PAVLYUCHENKOVA mins 2010 TOKYO - PAN PACIFIC HARD O R16 CAROLINE WOZNIACKI mins 2010 WIMBLEDON GRASS O R3 CAROLINE WOZNIACKI mins 2010 PONTE VEDRA BEACH CLAY O QF CAROLINE WOZNIACKI mins 2010 MIAMI HARD O R16 CAROLINE WOZNIACKI mins 2009 NEW HAVEN HARD O R16 CAROLINE WOZNIACKI mins CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (27) $2,255,720 $24,341,896 0 / 25 0 / / / / WTA RANKING ROAD TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) TOKYO W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * ANASTASIA PAVLYUCHENKOVA (26) $1,035,269 $7,594,725 2 / 10 1 / / / / / / YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * / / / YTD / CAREER TOP 5 W-L (MD & Q) * 2-3 / / YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD & Q) * 4-4 / / YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD & Q) * 8-6 / * Updated entering 2017 Tokyo F ROAD TO THE FINAL [3] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #6) SF: d. [1] GARBIÑE MUGURUZA (ESP #1) 6-2,6-0 (1h00) QF: d. [5] DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK #9) 3-6,7-6(5),3-1 Ret'd (2h27) R16: d. SHELBY ROGERS (USA #59) 4-6,6-1,6-4 (2h01) R32: BYE vs. ANASTASIA PAVLYUCHENKOVA (RUS #23) SF: d. [7] ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #14) 6-0,6-7(4),6-4 (2h08) QF: d. BARBORA STRYCOVA (CZE #25) 5-7,6-3,6-1 (2h13) R16: d. QIANG WANG (CHN #57) 6-4,4-6,6-2 (2h01) R32: d. CATHERINE BELLIS (USA #41) 4-6,6-0,6-4 (1h56) Total games: 67 Won/lost: Sets won/lost: 6-2 Total time on court: 5h28 Average time on court: 1h49 Average rank of opponent: 23 Total games: 111 Won/lost: Sets won/lost: 8-4 Total time on court: 8h18 Average time on court: 2h05 Average rank of opponent: 34 Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

3 MATCH NOTES TOKYO - JAPAN Sep 18 - Sep 24, 2017 $1,000,000 PREMIER TOKYO Tournament History * Qualifying match CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 2016 F W - NAOMI OSAKA (JPN #66) SF W - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #4) QF W - MAGDA LINETTE (POL #109) R16 W - CARLA SUÁREZ NAVARRO (ESP #8) 7-6(4) R1 W - BELINDA BENCIC (SUI #26) SF L - BELINDA BENCIC (SUI #15) QF W - ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #9) R16 W - ANA KONJUH (CRO #68) F L - ANA IVANOVIC (SRB #10) (2) SF W - GARBIÑE MUGURUZA (ESP #26) QF W - CARLA SUÁREZ NAVARRO (ESP #19) R16 W - JARMILA WOLFE (AUS #91) SF L - ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #9) (5) QF W - LUCIE SAFAROVA (CZE #35) R16 W - MAGDALENA RYBARIKOVA (SVK #36) R2 W - FLAVIA PENNETTA (ITA #32) QF L - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #3) ANASTASIA PAVLYUCHENKOVA 2016 R16 L - ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #20) 7-6(5) 6-4 R1 W - ANDREA PETKOVIC (GER #44) R1 L - GARBIÑE MUGURUZA (ESP #26) (3) 2013 R1 L - SIMONA HALEP (ROU #18) (5) R2 L - NA LI (CHN #8) R1 W - CHANELLE SCHEEPERS (RSA #53) R2 L - VANIA KING (USA #90) (6) R1 W - ARANTXA RUS (NED #82) R16 L - CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #2) R2 W - KATERYNA BONDARENKO (UKR #92) R1 W - DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK #33) R16 L - MARION BARTOLI (FRA #14) R2 W - VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #3) 7-6(6) 7-5 R1 W - CARLA SUÁREZ NAVARRO (ESP #31) (3) R2* W - ALLA KUDRYAVTSEVA (RUS #103) R1* W - MEGHANN SHAUGHNESSY (USA #556) R16 W - NA LI (CHN #8) R2 W - DANIELA HANTUCHOVA (SVK #33) 7-6(3) 6-1 R1 W - BOJANA JOVANOVSKI PETROVIC (SRB #56) R16 L - KAIA KANEPI (EST #43) R2 W - JARMILA WOLFE (AUS #34) (4) F W - ELENA DEMENTIEVA (RUS #10) SF W - VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #11) (3) 6-4 QF W - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #9) 5-0 R16 W - ANASTASIA PAVLYUCHENKOVA (RUS #20) R2 W - GRETA ARN (HUN #109) R2 L - ALEKSANDRA WOZNIAK (CAN #35) R1 L - KATARINA SREBOTNIK (SLO #25) Follow WTA on Twitter: Facebook: YouTube: Insights from

4 WOZNIACKI: Tokyo Making 10th consecutive appearance at Toray Pan Pacific Open. Has advanced to the final for a fourth time, following title runs in 2010 (d. Dementieva in F) and 2016 (d. Osaka in F), and a runner up finish in 2014 (l. Ivanovic) Also a two time semifinalist, in 2013 (l. Kerber) and 2015 (l. Bencic) Bidding to become the fourth player to win title here three or more times also Sabatini (1987, 1991, 1992), Hingis (1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2007) and Davenport (1998, 2001, 2003, 2004) Enters this year s tournament ranked No.6 (as at September 18, 2017); Was ranked No.28 entering last year s tournament After 1r bye, recovered from 3 0 down in the final set against Rogers in 2r, winning 30 of the final 37 points to record 50th match win of the season. Came even closer to defeat in QF against Cibulkova, saving 2MP in second set before eventually winning via ret. (right thigh injury) This was her 24th three set match in 2017 (17 7 record) the joint most of any player on tour (level with final opponent Pavlyuchenkova) Upset Muguruza in SF to record her second win over reining No.1 in her past four tournaments (d. Ka.Pliskova at Toronto). Career win loss record against World No.1s now 2 6 Faces Pavlyuchenkova today in her seventh final of the season. Has finished R Up at previous six, at Doha (l. Ka.Pliskova), Dubai (l. Svitolina), Miami (l. Konta), Eastbourne (l. Ka.Pliskova), Bastad (l. Siniakova) and Toronto (l. Svitolina) Last player to lose six finals in a season was Sharapova in 2012 (3 6 record). Meanwhile, Davenport in 2000 was the last player to lose six straight finals in a season (4 8 record) Since winning her first title at 2008 Stockholm, has won at least one title every season. The only active player with a longer streak is S.Williams ( ) Owns 5 1 record against Russian players this campaign, with sole defeat coming in most recent of these against Makarova at US Open Season Produced mixed summer hard court results: was R Up at Toronto (l. Svitolina) and advanced to QF at Cincinnati (l. Ka.Pliskova) before falling 2r at US Open (l. Makarova) Upset No.1 Ka.Pliskova en route to Toronto final to score first victory over a current World No.1. Returned to Top 5 for first time since August 31, 2015 after Toronto run In other post Wimbledon outing, posted R Up finish at Bastad (l. Siniakova in F). At Wimbledon, fell in R16 for the sixth time in her career (l. Vandeweghe) In only grass court tune up event, posted runner up finish at Eastbourne (l. Ka.Pliskova), where she is a former champion (2009 d. Razzano in F) and three time semifinalist ( )

5 Has a 10 5 record against Top 10 players in 2017, defeating No.6 A.Radwanska (Doha), No.9 Keys (Indian Wells), No.6 Muguruza (Miami), No.3 Ka.Pliskova (Miami), No.9 Kuznetsova (Roland Garros), No.2 Halep (Eastbourne), No.10 A.Radwanska (Toronto), No.1 Ka.Pliskova (Toronto), No.9 Cibulkova and No.1 Muguruza (both at Tokyo [PPO]) Prior to Roland Garros, retired in 1r match vs. Rogers at Strasbourg (w/lower back injury). Same problem forced her to withdraw from Rome the previous week Other clay results this season included QF at Charleston (l. eventual R Up Ostapenko), 2r at Prague (l. Ostapenko) and 2r at Madrid (l. Suárez Navarro) After 2017 Madrid, returned to Top 10 (at No.10) in rankings for first time since September 2015 (when she was No.6, week of Tokyo [PPO]). Dropped out again a week later, but returned to the elite bracket after Roland Garros Upset No.3 Ka.Pliskova in Miami SF. Before this, previous win over a Top 3 player was against No.3 Halep at 2015 Stuttgart. Has now reached the final of each of the WTA s four Premier Mandatory tournaments, having previously won Beijing (2010) and Indian Wells (2011), and finished runner up at Madrid (2009) and Indian Wells (2010, 2013) Also during this year s Sunshine Double, reached QF at Indian Wells (l. Mladenovic) Opened 2017 season with back to back QF efforts at Auckland (l. Goerges) and Sydney (l. Strycova) Advanced to 3r at Australian Open for the seventh time in her career; fell to Konta in straight sets Grand Slam History 2017 US Open marked 42nd main draw appearance at a Grand Slam Made debut at 2007 Roland Garros (l. Dechy in 1r). Would go on to play 36 consecutive majors until streak was snapped by withdrawal from 2016 Roland Garros (w/right ankle injury) Is a two time Grand Slam runner up, losing the title match at the US Open in 2009 (l. Clijsters) and 2014 (l. S.Williams) At Australian Open, reached SF in 2013 (l. Li, having held match point), while at Roland Garros she is a two time quarterfinalist, in 2010 (l. eventual champion Schiavone) and again this year (l. eventual champion Ostapenko) Has reached R16 at Wimbledon on six occasions, including 2017 (l. Vandeweghe) Career Posted ninth successive Top 20 season in 2016, finishing at No.19 lowest year end ranking since 2007 (No.64) having played US Open on a ranking of No.74. Run to SF at Flushing Meadows heralded start of ranking recovery; defeated No.10 seed Kuznetsova and No.9 seed Keys en route before falling to eventual champion Kerber In subsequent Asian swing, won her 24th and 25th career singles titles at Tokyo [PPO] (d. Osaka in F) and Hong Kong (d. Mladenovic in F). Has won at least one title nine years running ( ) Also reached R16 at Wuhan and Beijing before closing out season with QF appearance at Luxembourg Prior to 2016 US Open, fell 1r at New Haven (l. Ostapenko), where she is a four time champion ( ; at one point enjoyed 21 match win streak at event) Flag bearer for Denmark at opening ceremony of Rio Olympics; reached 2r (l. eventual bronze medalist Kvitova) Missed entire clay season in 2016 w/right ankle injury

6 Returned to action following two and a half months out w/right ankle injury during grass swing, making comeback at Nottingham (l. Kontaveit in 2r). Prior to 2016 Nottingham, last tournament played was Miami (3r, l. Svitolina) Ended 2015 ranked No.17 first time since 2009 not finishing inside Top 10 (her six years prior inside Top 10 was longest active streak) Is a former World No.1, having held the ranking for 67 weeks; finished two seasons in the top spot 2010 and 2011 Ranks fourth among active players (behind S.Williams 72, V.Williams 49 and Sharapova 35) for singles titles (25) 20 of which have come on hard courts. Owns the most career singles titles without having won a Grand Slam (was previously Pam Shriver with 21 titles) By reaching 2017 Miami final became just the eighth player to reach $23 million in career prize money currently seventh on the all time list and will overtake Clijsters in sixth should she reach the round of 16 at 2017 US Open Other Information Ran 2014 New York City Marathon with charity Team for Kids, funds going to New York Road Runners youth programs Signed as a USANA Health Sciences brand ambassador in March As part of the announcement she launched the program s annual Aces for Humanity campaign to aid the USANA True Health Foundation, whose mission is to provide critical nutrition to those who are suffering or in need; money is donated for each ace served by the eight USANA Ambassadors on the WTA Coached by father, Piotr Wozniacki. Hitting partner is Sascha Bajin (formerly worked with Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka) PAVLYUCHENKOVA: Tokyo Making eighth successive main draw appearance at Toray Pan Pacific Open. Is through to final for the first time Best previous results here were 3r showings in 2009 (as a qualifier, l. Bartoli) and 2010 (l. Wozniacki) when the event held a 64 player draw. Since 2014, Tokyo [PPO] has shifted to a 32 player draw Taken to three sets in every match this week, including recovering from 3 0 down in the final set to upset No.7 seed Kerber in SFs. Has now played 24 three set matches in 2017 (14 10 record) only Wozniacki (17 7) has gone the distance as many times on tour this season Has spent 8hr 18min on court en route to final. By contrast Wozniacki who received 1r bye has played for 5hr 28min Owns 2 0 record in finals this year, winning titles at the International level events in Monterrey and Rabat. Last Premier final came at 2015 Moscow (l. Kuznetsova) Faces No.6 Wozniacki today in their first meeting in five years. Possesses 4 4 record against Top 10 in 2017, with wins over No.9 Kuznetsova (Sydney), No.10 Kuznetsova (Australian Open), No.5 Cibulkova (Indian Wells) and No.1 Kerber (Monterrey) Currently sits at No.17 on the Porsche Race to Singapore leaderboard will rise to No.13 by lifting the title

7 Season Enters 2017 Tokyo [PPO] following a 1r exit at US Open (l. McHale) after reaching QF at New Haven (l. Cibulkova) Made 1r exit at Cincinnati (l. Tsurenko) Began US Open Series with a QF run in her debut appearance at Stanford (l. eventual runner up Vandeweghe) and 2r showing at Toronto (l. Ka.Pliskova) After loss to Ka.Pliskova now holds a 2 3 record vs. Top 5 opponents in 2017, having defeated No.5 Cibulkova at Indian Wells and No.1 Kerber at Monterrey Made 1r exit at Wimbledon, where she lost to No.166 Ar.Rodionova fourth loss to player outside Top 100 in 2017 following No.171 Jabeur (Dubai), No.158 Mattek Sands (Miami) and No.126 Watson (Eastbourne) Prior to Wimbledon, made 2r exit in grass court opener at Mallorca (l. eventual R Up Goerges) and fell R16 at Eastbourne (l. Watson) Ended clay court season by falling 2r at Roland Garros (l. Cepede Royg). Earlier, reached 3r at Rome (l. Halep) and made 1r exit at Madrid (l. WC Cirstea) Posted a 10 match winning streak with back to back titles at Monterrey (d. Kerber in F) and Rabat (d. Schiavone in F) Sunshine Double results include QF run at Indian Wells (d. No.5 Cibulkova before falling to countrywoman Kuznetsova) and 3r exit at Miami (l. Mattek Sands) During Middle Eastern swing, fell 2r in Doha (l. Cibulkova) and 1r at Dubai (l. Jabeur) Posted QF run at Australian Open (l. eventual finalist V.Williams) Opened 2017 season with 1r loss at Auckland (l. Goerges) before making QF run at Sydney (d. Stosur and defending champion Kuznetsova en route, l. Bouchard) Won fifth career doubles title at Sydney (w/babos); first doubles title since winning 2013 Madrid (w/safarova); now 5 2 in doubles finals Grand Slam History Completed set of career Grand Slam QFs by reaching this stage at 2017 Australian Open (l. eventual R Up V.Williams) Had previously reached last eight at 2011 Roland Garros (l. eventual champion Schiavone), 2011 US Open (l. eventual champion S.Williams) and 2016 Wimbledon (l. eventual champion S.Williams) Made Grand Slam debut as 15 year old wildcard at 2007 Wimbledon (lost to Hantuchova ) Career Posted ninth successive Top 50 season in 2016; fourth Top 30 season in a row, at No.28. Has one Top 20 season finish, in 2011 (at No.16) In addition to reaching last eight at 2016 Wimbledon, reached a further six quarterfinals in 2016: Brisbane (l. Kerber), St Petersburg (l. Bencic), Acapulco (l. Wickmayer), Montréal (l. Keys), Linz (l. Cibulkova) and Moscow (l. Gavrilova) 1r win at 2016 Madrid snapped five match losing streak that began in QF at Acapulco

8 At the Slams, besides Wimbledon QF, fell 1r at Australian Open (l. Davis), reached 3r at Roland Garros (l. Kuznetsova) and 3r at US Open (l. eventual finalist Ka.Pliskova) Represented Russia at Rio Olympics, losing to eventual gold medalist Puig in 2r Ten time WTA singles champion, at 2010 Monterrey (d. Hantuchova in F), 2010 Istanbul (d. Vesnina in F), 2011 Monterrey (d. Jankovic in F), 2013 Monterrey (d. Kerber in F), 2013 Oeiras (d. Suárez Navarro in F), 2014 Paris [Indoors] (d. Sharapova in F), 2014 Moscow (d. Begu in F), 2015 Linz (d. Friedsam in F), 2017 Monterrey (d. Kerber in F) and 2017 Rabat (d. Schiavone in F). Also a five time runner up, most recently at 2015 Moscow (l. Kuznetsova) Owns a record vs. Top 5 ranked players, with wins against No.3 Jankovic (2009 Indian Wells), No.3 V.Williams (2009 Tokyo [PPO] and 2009 Beijing in back to back weeks), No.3 Zvonareva (2011 Roland Garros), No.5 Kerber (2012 Brisbane), No.5 Sharapova (2014 Paris [Indoors]), No.4 A.Radwanska (2014 Eastbourne), No.4 A.Radwanska (2016 Montréal), No.5 Cibulkova (2017 Indian Wells) and No.1 Kerber (2017 Monterrey) Played first WTA main draw as a wildcard at 2006 Moscow As well as twice winning the girls singles at the Australian Open (2006, 2007), won 2006 US Open junior title) and was runner up at 2006 Roland Garros and won four Grand Slam girls' doubles titles Named 2006 ITF Junior World Champion Other Information Introduced to tennis at age six by family Grandmother played basketball for USSR and grandfather was high level basketball referee; father was Olympic level canoeist (missed Games due to boycott) and mother a swimmer Coached by Simon Goffin. Previously coached by father, Sergey and brother, Aleks

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