Wuhan Open
| Wuhan Open | |
|---|---|
 2024 Wuhan Open | |
 | |
| WTA Tour | |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Editions | 7 (2024) |
| Location | Wuhan, Hubei China |
| Venue | Optics Valley International Tennis Center[1] |
| Category | WTA 1000 |
| Surface | Hard / Outdoors |
| Draw | 56S/32Q/28D |
| Prize money | US$ 3,221,715 [2] |
| Website | www |
| Current champions (2024) | |
| Singles |  Aryna Sabalenka |
| Doubles |  Anna Danilina 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.
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
[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. | ||
| 2024 | Aryna Sabalenka (3) |
 Zheng Qinwen |
6–3, 5–7, 6–3 |
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. | ||
| 2024 | Anna Danilina Irina Khromacheva |
Asia Muhammad Jessica Pegula |
6–3, 7–6(8–6) |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "WUHAN OPEN". 3 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ "Wuhan 2024: Dates, draws, prize money and everything you need to know". 3 October 2024. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "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.