Tennis: Sharapova, Li to lead charge in Tokyo

TOKYO: Wimbledon finalist Maria Sharapova, French Open champion Li Na and world number one Caroline Wozniacki will headline this year’s Pan Pacific Open. Russian Sharapova, stunned by Czech Petra Kvitova in the women’s Wimbledon final earlier this month, has twice won the $2.05 million Tokyo event, which begins on September 25.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 13^th, 2011.