The 2017
Hong Kong Tennis Open (also known as the Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open for sponsorship reasons) was a professional
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
tournament played on
hard courts
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. It was the eighth edition of the tournament, and part of the
2017 WTA Tour
The 2017 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2017 tennis season. The 2017 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Fed ...
. It took place in
Victoria Park, Hong Kong
Victoria Park ( zh, t=維多利亞公園, s=维多利亚公园, p=Wéiduōlìyà Gōngyuán) is a public park in Causeway Bay, Wan Chai District, Hong Kong. The park is named after Queen Victoria, who has a statue in the park. It is around in ...
, from October 9 to 15.
Points and prize money
Point distribution
Prize money
1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money
* per team
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings are as of October 2, 2017
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
*
Lee Ya-hsuan
Lee Ya-hsuan (; born 20 July 1995) is a Taiwanese tennis player.
She has career-high WTA rankings
The WTA rankings are the ratings defined by the Women's Tennis Association, introduced in November 1975.
Iga Świątek is the curr ...
*
Elina Svitolina
Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina ( uk, Еліна Михайлівна Світоліна, ; born 12 September 1994) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She reached career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and 108 in doubles. Svitolina ...
*
Elena Vesnina
Elena Sergeyevna Vesnina (born 1 August 1986) is a Russian former professional tennis player and a former world No. 1 in doubles.
She is a four-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2013 French Open, 2014 US Open, and 2017 Wimbledon Cha ...
*
Zhang Ling
The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:
*
Misa Eguchi
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Shuko Aoyama
is a Japanese tennis player.
Aoyama became a professional tennis player after graduating from Waseda University. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 182, on 9 February 2015, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 4, ...
*
Jacqueline Cako
Jacqueline Cako (born August 30, 1991) is an American tennis player of Hungarian descent.
She has won two singles and 12 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In October 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 172. In April ...
*
Valentini Grammatikopoulou
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Alexa Guarachi
Alexa Guarachi Mathison (; born 17 November 1990) is an American-born Chilean tennis player who specialises in doubles.
She reached her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 11 in September 2021, and has won five titles on the WTA Tour, most ...
*
Priscilla Hon
*
Miyu Kato
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
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Catherine Bellis
Catherine Cartan "CiCi" Bellis (born April 8, 1999) is an American former tennis player. In early 2018, she was the second youngest player in the top 100 of the WTA rankings. Bellis has a career-high of 35, which she achieved in August 2017. She ...
→replaced by
Chang Kai-chen
*
Johanna Konta →replaced by
Zarina Diyas
Zarina Diyas ( kk, Зари́на Ди́ас; born 18 October 1993) is a Kazakh professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as No. 31 in the world by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Diyas has won one WTA singles title, at the ...
*
Aleksandra Krunić
Aleksandra Krunić ( sr-Cyrl, Александра Крунић; born 15 March 1993) is a Serbian professional tennis player. She has won one singles title and six doubles titles on the WTA Tour along with one singles title on WTA 125 tournament ...
→replaced by
Luksika Kumkhum
Luksika "Luk" Kumkhum ( th, ลักษิกา คำขำ; ; born 21 July 1993) is a Thai tennis player. She turned professional in 2011, and reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 66 on 19 November 2018. On 16 July 2018, she ...
*
Kristina Mladenovic →replaced by
Risa Ozaki
is a former professional Japanese tennis player.
In her career, Ozaki won six singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 24 April 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 70. On 6 March 2017, she peaked at No. 246 in the WTA ...
*
Kristýna Plíšková →replaced by
Nicole Gibbs
*
Sloane Stephens →replaced by
Misa Eguchi
*
Heather Watson
Heather Miriam Watson (born 19 May 1992) is a British professional tennis player. A former British No. 1, Watson has won nine titles over her career, including the mixed-doubles title at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships partnering Henri K ...
→replaced by
Lizette Cabrera
*
Zheng Saisai →replaced by
Kurumi Nara
;During the tournament
*
Elina Svitolina
Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina ( uk, Еліна Михайлівна Світоліна, ; born 12 September 1994) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She reached career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and 108 in doubles. Svitolina ...
*
Caroline Wozniacki
Doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
1 Rankings are as of October 2, 2017
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
*
Katherine Ip
Katherine Cheng Ip (; born 17 September 1995) is an American-born former Hong Kong tennis player.
Early career and education
Ip was ranked as high as 35 in the world in juniors and is one of the few tennis players in Hong Kong to have participat ...
/
Zhang Ling
*
Ng Kwan-yau
Ng Kwan-yau (; born 19 February 1997) is a Hong Kong female tennis player.
Career
As a professional tennis player, she has a career-high doubles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 452, achieved February 2020.
Playing for Hong ...
/
Wu Ho-ching
Champions
Singles
*
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Anastasia Sergeyevna "Nastia" Pavlyuchenkova (russian: Анастаси́я "Настя" Серге́евна Павлюче́нкова; born 3 July 1991) is an inactive Russian professional tennis player. A junior prodigy, Pavlyuchenkova won ...
def.
Daria Gavrilova, 5–7, 6–3, 7–6
(7–3)
Doubles
*
Chan Hao-ching
Chan Hao-ching (; ; born September 19, 1993), also known as Angel Chan, is a Taiwanese professional tennis player. She is primarily a doubles specialist, having won 18 WTA, 2 WTA Challenger and 6 ITF titles in that discipline. Chan reached the ...
/
Chan Yung-jan def.
Lu Jiajing
Lu Jiajing (; ; born 18 November 1989) is a Chinese tennis player.
She has won 18 singles and 28 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 18 March 2019, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 162. On 29 June 2015, she peaked at ...
/
Wang Qiang, 6–1, 6–1
References
External links
Official site
{{2017 WTA Tour
Hong Kong Open (tennis)
Hong Kong Open (tennis)
2017 in Hong Kong sport
Hong Kong Tennis Open
2017 in Chinese tennis