query: surface_played_on japan open 
supports: Monica Seles (, , born December 2, 1973) is a former Yugoslav world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. An ethnic Hungarian, she was born and raised in Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia. She became a naturalized American citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007. She won nine Grand Slam singles titles, eight of them while a citizen of Yugoslavia and the final as a citizen of United States of America. In 1990, Seles became the youngest-ever French Open champion at the age of 16. She went on to win eight Grand Slam singles titles before her 20th birthday and was the year-end World No. 1 in 1991 and 1992. However, on April 30, 1993, she was the victim of an on-court attack, when a man stabbed her in the back with a long knife; Seles did not return to tennis for over two years. Though she enjoyed some success after rejoining the tour in 1995, including a fourth Australian Open title in 1996, she was unable to consistently reproduce her best form. She played her last professional match at the 2003 French Open, but did not officially retire until February 2008. The International Tennis Hall of Fame is located in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It honors players and contributors to the sport of tennis and includes a museum, grass tennis courts, an indoor tennis facility, and a court tennis (or real tennis) facility. The Pan Pacific Open, currently sponsored by Toray Industries, is an outdoor hardcourt tennis tournament held annually in Tokyo, Japan. It is a WTA Premier Tournament on the WTA Tour. The Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum , located in Kt , Tokyo , Japan . Held since 1972 , the championship includes men 's singles and doubles competitions . Until 2008 it was a joint tournament for both men and women , but since 2008 Ariake Coliseum has hosted another women 's tournament , Toray Pan Pacific Open . On the women 's side the tournament was held since 1979 and had famous champions such as Kimiko Date ( 4 victories between 1992 to 1996 ) , Ai Sugiyama , Monica Seles and Maria Sharapova ( twice ) . Prior to the advent of the ATP Tour , the Japan Open was known as the Tokyo Outdoor Grand Prix and was part of the Grand Prix tennis tour between 1972 and 1989 . The Australian Open is a major tennis tournament held annually over the last fortnight of January in Melbourne, Australia. First held in 1905, the tournament is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events of the year  the other three being the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. It features men's and women's singles; men's, women's and mixed doubles and junior's championships; as well as wheelchair, legends and exhibition events. Prior to 1988 the tournament had been played on grass. Since 1988 two types of hardcourt surfaces have been used at Melbourne Park  green Rebound Ace to 2007 and blue Plexicushion from 2008.
candidates: grass hardcourt
answer: hardcourt