Wuhan Open

The Wuhan Open (currently sponsored by Dongfeng Motor) is a tennis tournament held in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China and organized for female professional tennis players. It is one of the Premier 5 tournaments on the WTA Tour and made its debut in the 2014 season.

Wuhan Open
2019 Wuhan Open
Tournament information
Founded2014
Editions6 (2019)
LocationWuhan, Hubei
China
VenueOptics Valley International Tennis Center [1]
CategoryPremier 5
SurfaceHard / Outdoors
Draw56S/32Q/28D
Prize moneyUS$ 2,828,000 [2]
Websitewww.wuhanopen.org/en
Current champions (2019)
Women's singles Aryna Sabalenka
Women's doubles Duan Yingying
Veronika Kudermetova

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, thereby making it the second largest women's tennis tournament in East Asia, after the China Open in Beijing.[4][5] It is on the calendar between the aforementioned Premier events in Tokyo (the Pan Pacific Open) and Beijing (the China Open), during the WTA's Asian swing.

Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province and the most populous city in Central China, is the hometown of two-time Grand Slam champion Li Na.[6]

Results

Singles
Year Champion Runner-up Score
2014 Petra Kvitová Eugenie Bouchard6–3, 6–4[7]
2015 Venus Williams Garbiñe Muguruza6–3, 3–0, retired[8]
2016 Petra Kvitová (2) Dominika Cibulková6–1, 6–1[9]
2017 Caroline Garcia Ashleigh Barty6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–4), 6–2
2018 Aryna Sabalenka Anett Kontaveit6–3, 6–3
2019 Aryna Sabalenka (2) Alison Riske6–3, 3–6, 6–1

Doubles
Year Champions Runners-up Score
2014 Martina Hingis
Flavia Pennetta		 Cara Black
Caroline Garcia		6–4, 5–7, [12–10][10]
2015 Martina Hingis (2)
Sania Mirza		 Irina-Camelia Begu
Monica Niculescu		6–2, 6–3[11]
2016 Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Lucie Šafářová		 Sania Mirza
Barbora Strýcová		6–1, 6–4[12]
2017 Chan Yung-jan
Martina Hingis (3) 		Shuko Aoyama
Yang Zhaoxuan		7–6(7–5), 3–6, [10–4]
2018 Elise Mertens
Demi Schuurs		 Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková
Barbora Strýcová		6–3, 6–3
2019 Duan Yingying
Veronika Kudermetova		 Elise Mertens
Aryna Sabalenka		7–6(7–3), 6–2

See also

References
  1. "WUHAN OPEN". 3 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  2. "WUHAN OPEN". 3 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  3. "Tianjin Open tournament information". Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  4. "Wuhan 2014 event". Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  5. "Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova sign up for inaugural Wuhan Open". Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  6. "WTA Wuhan information". Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  7. "Petra Kvitova beats Eugenie Bouchard". 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". 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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