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.
| Wuhan Open | |
|---|---|
 2019 Wuhan Open | |
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| Tournament information | |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Editions | 6 (2019) |
| Location | Wuhan, Hubei China |
| Venue | Optics Valley International Tennis Center[1] |
| Category | WTA 1000 |
| Surface | Hard / Outdoors |
| Draw | 56S/32Q/28D |
| Prize money | US$ 2,828,000 [2] |
| Website | www |
| Current champions (2019) | |
| Singles |  Aryna Sabalenka |
| 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, is the hometown of two-time Grand Slam champion Li Na.[6]
Results edit
Singles edit
| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 |  Petra Kvitová |
 Eugenie Bouchard |
6–3, 6–4[7] |
| 2015 |  Venus Williams |
 Garbiñe Muguruza |
6–3, 3–0, retired[8] |
| 2016 | Petra Kvitová (2) |
 Dominika Cibulková |
6–1, 6–1[9] |
| 2017 |  Caroline Garcia |
 Ashleigh Barty |
6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–4), 6–2 |
| 2018 | Aryna Sabalenka |
 Anett Kontaveit |
6–3, 6–3 |
| 2019 | Aryna Sabalenka (2) |
Alison Riske |
6–3, 3–6, 6–1 |
| 2020–2023 | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | ||
Doubles edit
| 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 |
| 2020–2023 | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | ||
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "WUHAN OPEN". 3 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ "WUHAN OPEN". 3 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ "Tianjin Open tournament information". Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ^ "Wuhan 2014 event". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ "Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova sign up for inaugural Wuhan Open". 18 July 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ^ "WTA Wuhan information". Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ^ "Petra Kvitova beats Eugenie Bouchard". BBC Sport. 27 September 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ^ "Venue Williams biggest win in five years". WTA. 3 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ "BRILLIANT KVITOVA TAKES WUHAN TITLE". Retrieved 1 October 2016.
- ^ "Martina Hingis And Flavia Pennetta Win Wuhan Open". 27 September 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ^ "HINGIS & MIRZA WIN SEVENTH TITLE OF YEAR". WTA. 3 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ "MATTEK-SANDS & SAFAROVA STORM TO WUHAN TITLE, CONFIRM SINGAPORE RETURN". WTA. 1 October 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2016.