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 | Pironkova was launched against the Japanese with a wild card24-09-2010 |
The best Bulgarian tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova will play given a "wild card" scheme for the main representative of the hosts Ayumi Morita in the first round of the strongest tournament in the Japanese capital Tokyo, with a prize fund $ 2 million.
32 th-ranked Pironkova has secured a point for the WTA rankings and 5400 dollars for their debut participation in the race, which begins on September 26.
20-year Morita is 96 and in the world right now. She is 164 centimeters high and weighs 54 kg. Japanese no tournament wins and has earned 617,067 dollars in prize money in his career so far.
Pironkova won convincingly their only meeting so far with Morita 6:0, 6:1 in the qualifications of Indian Wells in March.
In a new successful 23-year-old from Plovdiv will start 70 points and 10,275 dollars, and in the second round she will face the winner of the match between number 15 Nadia Petrova (Russia) and qualifier.