The 2018 Tianjin Open was a women's professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 5th edition of the tournament, and part of the

2018 WTA Tour The 2018 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2018 tennis season. The 2018 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, supervised by the International Tennis Fe ...

. It took place at the ''Tuanbo International Tennis Centre'' in Tianjin, China between 8 and 14 October 2018.

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 1, 2018

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Liu Fangzhou * Karolína Plíšková * Yuan Yue The following player received entry through a protected ranking: * Timea Bacsinszky The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Jana Čepelová * Misaki Doi * Barbora Krejčíková * Veronika Kudermetova * Xun Fangying *

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Withdrawals

* Victoria Azarenka → replaced by Katie Boulter * Mihaela Buzărnescu → replaced by Duan Yingying * Maria Sharapova → replaced by Wang Yafan

Retirements

* Danielle Collins * Kateryna Kozlova *

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* Elise Mertens

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings are as of October 1, 2018

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: *

Guo Hanyu Guo Hanyu (; ; born 18 May 1998) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has won one WTA doubles and three singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, and has reached career-high WTA rankings of 278 in singles and 122 ...

/ Zhu Lin *

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The following pair received entry as alternates: *

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/ Emily Webley-Smith

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament * Gabriela Dabrowski

Retirements

* Lara Arruabarrena

Champions

Singles

* Caroline Garcia def. Karolína Plíšková 7–6^(9–7), 6–3

Doubles

* Nicole Melichar / Květa Peschke def. Monique Adamczak / Jessica Moore 6–4, 6–2

References

External links

* {{2018 WTA Tour Tianjin Open Tianjin Open Tianjin Open Tianjin Open