Last year, for its two-week tournament, the tennis association paid $1.1 million in rent to the city.

The 53-minute wipeout by Williams was exactly the start she wanted, because this two-week tournament will eventually test her health and her resolve.

I'd play a two-week tournament, and hold that trophy up.

The two-week tournament draws 450,000 spectators yearly and generates $14 million in tax revenues.

At the end of the two-week tournament, she was in the finals against Venus Williams.

Seats are routinely sold out in Tokyo, and through cooperation the nation is caught up in each two-week tournament.

"For a two-week tournament where you sometimes play back to back, my body just doesn't take it anymore," Becker said.

I will be in the stands with my parents for the matches on the final Friday of the two-week tournament, Sept. 5.

The prize money for this year's two-week tournament, which begins June 25, will be announced in April.

In 1972, attendance for the two-week tournament was 51,101.