Hunter and Tjen Win Japan Open Doubles Title in Osaka

Top seeds Storm Hunter of Australia and Janice Tjen of Indonesia won the women's doubles title at the Japan Women's Open in Osaka on Saturday, beating Jesika Maleckova and Miriam Skoch of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-1 in the final. The match lasted 67 minutes. The WTA official scores page for the tournament lists the same result, Hunter and Tjen winning two sets to none with the top seeding next to their names.

A final controlled from the service line

Hunter and Tjen did not face a single break point in the final. They won 32 of the 43 points played on their own serve, a record that left Maleckova and Skoch with few chances to change the course of the match. The first set was the closer of the two at 6-4. The second set ran away from the Czech pair, who won only one game as the top seeds closed out the title in straight sets.

The Japan Women's Open is a WTA 250 tournament. It is played in Osaka from October 19 to 25, 2026, and the doubles final fell on the Saturday of the closing weekend, one day before the tournament ends.

Three wins in match tiebreaks and straight sets on the way

The title run started with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Ingrid Martins and Sara Sorribes Tormo in the first round. The quarterfinal was harder. Hunter and Tjen lost the first set to Ya-Hsin Lee and Fang-Hsien Wu, then recovered to win 4-6, 6-3, 10-6. The semifinal on Friday, October 23 was also decided in a match tiebreak. They beat Isabelle Haverlag of the Netherlands and Lilli Tagger of Austria 6-2, 5-7, 10-8 to reach the final.

Tjen had a shorter week in singles at the same tournament. She lost in the first round to Ashlyn Krueger, 6-4, 6-4. Her doubles run lasted to the final day of her event, and it ended with the trophy.

Title counts for both players

The Osaka title is the fourth WTA Tour doubles title of Tjen's career. Her earlier titles came at Guangzhou and Chennai in 2025 and at Hobart in 2026. For Hunter, the win is the 11th WTA Tour doubles title of her career. She had reached the Japan Open doubles final in 2017 and again in 2025 without winning it. Saturday's result ended that wait at this tournament.

Tjen was born on May 6, 2002 in Jakarta. In 2025 she won the Chennai Open singles title, the first WTA Tour singles title by an Indonesian woman in 23 years, since Angelique Widjaja won at Pattaya in 2002. Her record in doubles this season now adds a second title for 2026, after Hobart, and it came as part of the top seeded pair in the draw.

No direct quote from either player was carried in the sources for this report, so none is presented here. The result stands on the official tournament scores and the match report from Osaka.