Wuhan Open

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Wuhan Open
Tennisball current event.svg 2024 Wuhan Open
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WTA Tour
Founded2014
Editions7 (2024)
Location Wuhan, Hubei
China
Venue Optics Valley International Tennis Center [1]
Category WTA 1000
SurfaceHard / Outdoors
Draw56S/32Q/28D
Prize moneyUS$ 3,221,715 [2]
Website www.wuhanopentennis.com
Current champions (2024)
SinglesFlag placeholder.svg Aryna Sabalenka
Doubles Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Anna Danilina
Flag placeholder.svg Irina Khromacheva

The Wuhan Open (currently sponsored by Dongfeng Voyah) is a WTA 1000 tennis tournament held in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China and organized for female professional tennis players. It is one of the WTA 1000 tournaments on the WTA Tour and made its debut in the 2014 season.

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The Wuhan Open is one of three Women's Tennis Association events in China that were new to the calendar in 2014, bringing the total number of women's professional tournaments in the country to six. [3] It is also one of two Premier-level stops in China. The tournament was scheduled in 2014 to run during the week of 22 September, and took over from the Pan Pacific Open held in Tokyo, Japan as a Premier 5-level event, then a WTA 500 and now, in 2025, a WTA 1000 tournament thereby making it the joint largest women's tennis tournament in East Asia, after the China Open in Beijing. [4] [5] It is on the calendar after the aforementioned Premier events in Tokyo (the Pan Pacific Open) and Beijing (the China Open), during the WTA's Asian swing.

The Wuhan Open returns to the WTA Tour in October 2024 after a four year hiatus, with enhanced status as a WTA 1000 Mandatory event and with $3,221,715 in prize money.

Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, is the hometown of two-time Grand Slam champion Li Na and 2024 Olympic Gold Medallist Qinwen Zheng. [6]

Results

Singles

YearChampionRunner-upScore
2014 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Petra Kvitová Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Eugenie Bouchard 6–3, 6–4 [7]
2015 Flag of the United States.svg Venus Williams Flag of Spain.svg Garbiñe Muguruza 6–3, 3–0, retired [8]
2016 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Petra Kvitová (2) Flag of Slovakia.svg Dominika Cibulková 6–1, 6–1 [9]
2017 Flag of France.svg Caroline Garcia Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ashleigh Barty 6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–4), 6–2
2018 Flag of Belarus.svg Aryna Sabalenka Flag of Estonia.svg Anett Kontaveit 6–3, 6–3
2019 Flag of Belarus.svg Aryna Sabalenka (2) Flag of the United States.svg Alison Riske 6–3, 3–6, 6–1
2020–2023Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2024 Flag placeholder.svg Aryna Sabalenka (3) Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zheng Qinwen 6–3, 5–7, 6–3

Doubles

YearChampionsRunners-upScore
2014 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Martina Hingis
Flag of Italy.svg Flavia Pennetta 		Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Cara Black
Flag of France.svg Caroline Garcia 		6–4, 5–7, [12–10] [10]
2015 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Martina Hingis (2)
Flag of India.svg Sania Mirza 		Flag of Romania.svg Irina-Camelia Begu
Flag of Romania.svg Monica Niculescu 		6–2, 6–3 [11]
2016 Flag of the United States.svg Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Lucie Šafářová 		Flag of India.svg Sania Mirza
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Barbora Strýcová 		6–1, 6–4 [12]
2017 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chan Yung-jan
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Martina Hingis (3) 		Flag of Japan.svg Shuko Aoyama
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yang Zhaoxuan 		7–6(7–5), 3–6, [10–4]
2018 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Elise Mertens
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Demi Schuurs 		Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Barbora Strýcová 		6–3, 6–3
2019 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Duan Yingying
Flag of Russia.svg Veronika Kudermetova 		Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Elise Mertens
Flag of Belarus.svg Aryna Sabalenka 		7–6(7–3), 6–2
2020–2023Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2024 Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Anna Danilina
Flag placeholder.svg Irina Khromacheva 		Flag of the United States.svg Asia Muhammad
Flag of the United States.svg Jessica Pegula 		6–3, 7–6(8–6)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "WUHAN OPEN". 3 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Wuhan 2024: Dates, draws, prize money and everything you need to know". 3 October 2024. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  3. ↑ "Tianjin Open tournament information" . Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Wuhan 2014 event". Bleacher Report . Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  5. ↑ Nguyen, Courtney (18 July 2014). "Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova sign up for inaugural Wuhan Open". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "WTA Wuhan information" . Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  7. ↑ "Petra Kvitova beats Eugenie Bouchard". BBC Sport. 27 September 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Venue Williams biggest win in five years". WTA. 3 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "BRILLIANT KVITOVA TAKES WUHAN TITLE" . Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  10. ↑ "Martina Hingis And Flavia Pennetta Win Wuhan Open". 27 September 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  11. ↑ "HINGIS & MIRZA WIN SEVENTH TITLE OF YEAR". WTA. 3 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  12. ↑ "MATTEK-SANDS & SAFAROVA STORM TO WUHAN TITLE, CONFIRM SINGAPORE RETURN". WTA. 1 October 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
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