The 2017 Shenzhen Open (known as ''2017 Shenzhen Gemdale Open'' for sponsorship reason) was a
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
outdoor hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the
Shenzhen Open, and part of the
WTA International tournaments
The WTA International Tournaments was a category for professional tennis tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association from the 2009 WTA Tour until 2020, which replaced the previous Tier III and Tier IV categories. The winner of a WTA Internatio ...
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 at the
Shenzhen Longgang Sports Center in
Shenzhen
Shenzhen (; ; ; ), also historically known as Sham Chun, is a major sub-provincial city and one of the special economic zones of China. The city is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern province ...
,
China
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, from 1 to 7 January 2017.
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 as of December 26, 2016.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
*
Duan Yingying
Duan Yingying (; born 3 July 1989) is a Chinese former professional tennis player.
In her career, she won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, and two WTA Challenger doubles titles, as well as eleven singles and three d ...
*
Zhang Kailin
Zhang Kailin (; ; born 28 January 1990) is a former tennis player from China.
Zhang has won one doubles title on WTA 125 tournaments along five singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 September 2016, she reached her best sing ...
*
Zhu Lin
The following players received entry using a protected ranking:
*
Galina Voskoboeva
Galina Olegovna Voskoboeva (russian: Галина Олеговна Воскобоева; born 18 December 1984) is a professional Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 42 on 7 May 2012. He ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Chang Kai-chen
Chang Kai-chen (; ; born January 13, 1991) is a Taiwanese former professional tennis player.
Career
Her father is Chang Chin-lai and mother is Jun Yu-mei; she has two older brothers, Yao-lun and Yao-chung (both play tennis). Born and raised ...
*
Ons Jabeur
Ons Jabeur ( ar, أُنْس جَابِر, ʾUns Jābir, ; born 28 August 1994) is a Tunisian professional tennis player. She has a career high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of world No. 2 achieved on 27 June 2022. Jabeur is the curre ...
*
Nina Stojanović
Nina Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Нина Стојановић, ; born 30 July 1996) is a Serbian professional tennis player. On 2 March 2020, Stojanović reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 81. On 17 January 2022, she peaked at No. 37 in ...
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Stefanie Vögele
Stefanie Vögele (born 10 March 1990) is a former professional Swiss tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 42 on 11 November 2013. Her highest WTA ranking in doubles is 100, which she reached on 5 January 2015. O ...
The following players received entry as a Lucky loser:
*
Ana Bogdan
Ana Bogdan (born 25 November 1992) is a Romanian professional tennis player. Having made her tour debut in 2007, she peaked at No. 46 in the WTA rankings in October 2022.
Bogdan had a successful junior career, reaching world No. 2 on 5 January ...
*
Liu Fangzhou
Liu Fangzhou (; ; born 12 December 1995) is a Chinese tennis player.
On 24 April 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 127. On 16 June 2014, she peaked at No. 919 in the WTA doubles rankings.
Liu made her WTA Tour debut at t ...
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
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Anna-Lena Friedsam
Anna-Lena Friedsam (born 1 February 1994) is a German tennis player.
She has won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one WTA 125 singles title as well as 12 singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit in her career. She played also ...
→ replaced by
Maria Sakkari
Maria Sakkari ( gr, Μαρία Σάκκαρη, ; born 25 July 1995) is a Greek professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 3 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), which she first achieved on 21 March 2022, making her ...
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Yaroslava Shvedova
Yaroslava Vyacheslavovna Shvedova (; born 12 September 1987) is a Kazakhstani former professional tennis player. Before 2008, she represented her country of birth, Russia.
She won one singles title and 13 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, plus o ...
→ replaced by
Liu Fangzhou
Liu Fangzhou (; ; born 12 December 1995) is a Chinese tennis player.
On 24 April 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 127. On 16 June 2014, she peaked at No. 919 in the WTA doubles rankings.
Liu made her WTA Tour debut at t ...
*
Timea Bacsinszky
Timea Bacsinszky ( hu, Bacsinszky Tímea; born 8 June 1989) is a Swiss former professional tennis player who won four singles titles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as 13 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. A for ...
→ replaced by
Ana Bogdan
Ana Bogdan (born 25 November 1992) is a Romanian professional tennis player. Having made her tour debut in 2007, she peaked at No. 46 in the WTA rankings in October 2022.
Bogdan had a successful junior career, reaching world No. 2 on 5 January ...
Doubles main draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings as of December 26, 2016.
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
*
Ma Shuyue
Ma Shuyue (; ; born 29 June 1999) is a Chinese tennis player.
On 20 May 2019, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 204. On 10 June 2019, she peaked at No. 499 in the doubles rankings.
Ma made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at ...
/
Zhang Kailin
Zhang Kailin (; ; born 28 January 1990) is a former tennis player from China.
Zhang has won one doubles title on WTA 125 tournaments along five singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 September 2016, she reached her best sing ...
*
Duan Yingying
Duan Yingying (; born 3 July 1989) is a Chinese former professional tennis player.
In her career, she won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, and two WTA Challenger doubles titles, as well as eleven singles and three d ...
/
Wang Qiang
Champions
Singles
*
Kateřina Siniaková
Kateřina Siniaková (; ; born 10 May 1996) is a Czech professional tennis player who is the current world No. 1 in doubles.
She is a six-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having won the 2018 and 2021 French Opens, 2018 and 2022 Wimbled ...
def.
Alison Riske
Alison Riske-Amritraj (née Riske; born July 3, 1990) is an American professional tennis player. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in November 2019 and won her first WTA Tour title in October 2014 at the Tianjin Open.
...
, 6–3, 6–4
Doubles
*
Andrea Hlaváčková
Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew.
Origin of the name
The name derives from the Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós''), that ref ...
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Peng Shuai
Peng Shuai (; born 8 January 1986) is a Chinese retired professional tennis player. In February 2014, she was ranked world No. 1 doubles player by the WTA, becoming the first Chinese tennis player to achieve that ranking (in either single ...
def.
Raluca Olaru
Ioana Raluca Olaru (born 3 March 1989) is a professional tennis player from Romania. The winner of 11 singles and 15 doubles ITF titles, Olaru reached one WTA singles final, at the 2009 Gastein Ladies,WTA TourPetkovic, Olaru Into Final(25 Ju ...
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Olga Savchuk
Olga Mykolayivna Savchuk ( uk, Ольга Миколаївна Савчук; born 20 September 1987) is a retired tennis player from Ukraine. Savchuk grew up in the city of Makiyivka in Donetsk province. She resides in Nassau, Bahamas.
Her best ...
, 6–1, 7–5
References
External links
Official website
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2017 WTA Tour
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2017
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