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2019 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships
2019 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships
Date	30 September – 6 October
Edition	46th
Category	ATP Tour 500
Draw	32S/16D
Surface	Hard / outdoor
Location	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Ariake Coliseum
Champions
Singles
	Novak Djokovic
Doubles
	Nicolas Mahut / Édouard Roger-Vasselin

The 2019 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 46th edition of the Japan Open, and part of the ATP Tour 500 series of the 2019 ATP Tour. It was held at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan, from September 30 through October 6, 2019. First-seeded Novak Djokovic won the singles title.^[1]

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank¹	Seed
SRB	Novak Djokovic	1	1
CRO	Borna Ćorić	14	2
BEL	David Goffin	15	3
FRA	Benoît Paire	23	4
FRA	Lucas Pouille	24	5
CRO	Marin Čilić	28	6
USA	Taylor Fritz	30	7
AUS	Alex de Minaur	31	8

¹ Rankings are as of September 23, 2019.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following player received entry as a special exempt:

Lloyd Harris

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Kevin Anderson → replaced by Lorenzo Sonego
Laslo Đere → replaced by Juan Ignacio Londero
Pierre-Hugues Herbert → replaced by Jordan Thompson
Kei Nishikori → replaced by Miomir Kecmanović
Milos Raonic → replaced by Yoshihito Nishioka
Stan Wawrinka → replaced by Filip Krajinović

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank¹	Seed
ESP	Marcel Granollers	ARG	Horacio Zeballos	12	1
FRA	Nicolas Mahut	FRA	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	35	2
USA	Rajeev Ram	GBR	Joe Salisbury	39	3
CRO	Mate Pavić	BRA	Bruno Soares	39	4