Wuhan Open

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Wuhan Open
2019 Wuhan Open
Tournament information
Founded2014
Editions6 (2019)
LocationWuhan, Hubei
China
VenueOptics Valley International Tennis Center[1]
CategoryWTA 1000
SurfaceHard / Outdoors
Draw56S/32Q/28D
Prize moneyUS$ 2,828,000 [2]
Websitewww.wuhanopen.org/en
Current champions (2019)
SinglesBelarus Aryna Sabalenka
DoublesChina Duan Yingying
Russia Veronika Kudermetova

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 WTA 1000 tournaments on the WTA Tour and made its debut in the 2014 season.

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, is the hometown of two-time Grand Slam champion Li Na.[6]

Results

Singles

Year Champion Runner-up Score
2014 Czech Republic Petra Kvitová Canada Eugenie Bouchard 6–3, 6–4[7]
2015 United States Venus Williams Spain Garbiñe Muguruza 6–3, 3–0, retired[8]
2016 Czech Republic Petra Kvitová (2) Slovakia Dominika Cibulková 6–1, 6–1[9]
2017 France Caroline Garcia Australia Ashleigh Barty 6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–4), 6–2
2018 Belarus Aryna Sabalenka Estonia Anett Kontaveit 6–3, 6–3
2019 Belarus Aryna Sabalenka (2) United States Alison Riske 6–3, 3–6, 6–1
2020–2023 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
2014 Switzerland Martina Hingis
Italy Flavia Pennetta
Zimbabwe Cara Black
France Caroline Garcia
6–4, 5–7, [12–10][10]
2015 Switzerland Martina Hingis (2)
India Sania Mirza
Romania Irina-Camelia Begu
Romania Monica Niculescu
6–2, 6–3[11]
2016 United States Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Czech Republic Lucie Šafářová
India Sania Mirza
Czech Republic Barbora Strýcová
6–1, 6–4[12]
2017 Chinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan
Switzerland Martina Hingis (3)
Japan Shuko Aoyama
China Yang Zhaoxuan
7–6(7–5), 3–6, [10–4]
2018 Belgium Elise Mertens
Netherlands Demi Schuurs
Czech Republic Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková
Czech Republic Barbora Strýcová
6–3, 6–3
2019 China Duan Yingying
Russia Veronika Kudermetova
Belgium Elise Mertens
Belarus Aryna Sabalenka
7–6(7–3), 6–2
2020–2023 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  5. ^ "Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova sign up for inaugural Wuhan Open". 18 July 2014. 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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