2013 Shenzhen Open

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2013 Shenzhen Open
Date 31 December 2012 – 6 January 2013
Edition 1st
Draw 32S / 16D
Prize money $500,000
Surface Hard
Location Shenzhen, China
Venue Shenzhen Longgang Sports Center
Champions
Singles
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Li Na
Doubles
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chan Hao-ching / Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chan Yung-jan
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The 2013 Shenzhen Open (known as 2013 Shenzhen Gemdale Open for sponsorship reason) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the inaugural edition of the Shenzhen Open, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2013 WTA Tour. It took place at the Shenzhen Longgang Sports Center in Shenzhen, China, from 31 December 2012 to 6 January 2013.

Tennis ball sport with racket and net

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to maneuver the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.

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The International Tournaments is a category for professional tennis tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association from the 2009 WTA Tour onwards, which replaced the previous Tier III and Tier IV categories. The winner of a WTA International adds 280 points to her WTA ranking.

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Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

CountryPlayerRank1Seed
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  CHN Li Na 71
Flag of France.svg  FRA Marion Bartoli 112
Flag of Serbia.svg  SRB Jelena Janković 223
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  TPE Hsieh Su-wei 254
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  CZE Klára Zakopalová 285
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  CHN Peng Shuai 406
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  GBR Laura Robson 537
Flag of Serbia.svg  SRB Bojana Jovanovski 568

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Anne Keothavong British tennis player

Anne Viensouk Keothavong is a retired British tennis player. During her career she won a total of 20 International Tennis Federation singles titles, 8 ITF doubles titles and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 48. She also reached the semifinals of six WTA International tournaments, and the semifinals of one Premier tournament. Anne was British No. 1 at the year-end rankings five times, and in 2009 became the first British player to make the WTA top 50 since 1993. In April 2001, aged 17, she became, until Katie Swan in 2016, the youngest player ever to play in the Fed Cup for Great Britain, and she is second to Virginia Wade's record for most Fed Cup ties played for Great Britain with 39.

Jessica Pegula American tennis player

Jessica Pegula is an American professional tennis player.

Stefanie Vögele Swiss tennis player

Stefanie Vögele is a professional Swiss tennis player. She reached her highest WTA singles ranking of No. 42 on 11 November 2013. Her career high in doubles is No. 103, which she reached on 12 January 2015.

The following player received entry as lucky loser:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament
Iveta Benešová Czech tennis player

Iveta Benešová is a Czech former tennis player. She began playing tennis at age of seven and turned professional in 1998. She won two WTA Tour singles and 14 doubles tournaments, and one Grand Slam title in mixed doubles, partnering with Jürgen Melzer at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. On 14 September 2012, she married Melzer and adopted his family name. She announced her retirement from professional tennis on 13 August 2014.

Jelena Janković Serbian tennis player

Jelena Janković is a Serbian professional tennis player. Janković is a former World No. 1 in singles, a ranking achieved preceding her finals appearance at the 2008 US Open. Janković has won 15 WTA singles titles and two doubles titles, her career highlights include winning the 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title with Jamie Murray, the 2010 Indian Wells Masters, the Internazionali BNL d'Italia twice, in 2007 and 2008, and the aforementioned appearance in the finals of the 2008 US Open. She is coached by her brother Marko.

Petra Martić tennis player

Petra Martić is a professional tennis player from Croatia.

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

CountryPlayerCountryPlayerRank1Seed
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  TPE Chan Hao-ching Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  TPE Chan Yung-jan 1221
Flag of Russia.svg  RUS Nina Bratchikova Flag of Slovakia.svg  SVK Janette Husárová 1232
Flag of Russia.svg  RUS Alla Kudryavtseva Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  CZE Klára Zakopalová 1453
Flag of Hungary.svg  HUN Tímea Babos Flag of Luxembourg.svg  LUX Mandy Minella 1614

Other entrants

The following pair received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

Han Xinyun Chinese tennis player

Han Xinyun;, also known as Monica Han, is a Chinese tennis player.

Zhou Yimiao, also spelled as Zhou Yi-Miao, is a professional Chinese tennis player.

Wang Qiang (tennis) Chinese tennis player

Wang Qiang is a Chinese professional tennis player.

Withdrawals

During the tournament

Champions

Singles

Li Na Chinese tennis player

Li Na is a retired Chinese professional tennis player, who achieved a career-high WTA-ranking of world No. 2 on 17 February 2014. Over the course of her career, Li won nine WTA singles titles including two Grand Slam singles titles at the 2011 French Open and 2014 Australian Open. Li's rise to prominence came after those victories, which made her the first Grand Slam singles champion from Asia. Prior to this, she was the first player representing an Asian country to appear in a Grand Slam singles final, a milestone she achieved at the 2011 Australian Open. Li was also the runner-up at the 2013 Australian Open and 2013 WTA Tour Championships, a three-time quarterfinalist at Wimbledon and a semifinalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and 2013 US Open. Among her other most notable accolades, she was the first Chinese player to win a WTA tour title at the Guangzhou International Women's Open in 2004, the first to reach a Grand Slam singles quarterfinal at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, and the first to break into the world's top 10. Her feats have sparked a major population growth of tennis players in East Asia, earning her the reputation as the region's tennis pioneer and trailblazer.

Doubles

Chan Hao-ching tennis player

Chan Hao-ching, also known as Angel Chan, is a professional tennis player representing Taiwan. She is primarily a doubles specialist, having won 16 WTA, 2 WTA Challenger, and 6 ITF titles in that discipline. Chan reached the final of the mixed-doubles competition at Wimbledon with Max Mirnyi in 2014, her first Grand Slam final. She reached two more in 2017, the Wimbledon women's doubles with Monica Niculescu, and the US Open mixed doubles with Michael Venus.

Irina Buryachok Ukrainian tennis player

Irina Buryachok is a former tennis player from Ukraine.

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