The 2018 Wuhan Open (also known as the 2018 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open for sponsorship reasons) was a women's

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 between September 23–29, 2018. It was the 5th edition of the Wuhan Open, and part of the WTA Premier 5 tournaments 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 ...

. The tournament was held at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in

Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei, Hubei Province in the China, People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the List of cities in China ...

, China.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of September 17, 2018

Other entrants

The following players received wild cards into the singles main draw: * ~~Victoria Azarenka~~ * Bernarda Pera * Samantha Stosur * Wang Qiang * Zheng Saisai The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw: *

Viktorija Golubic Viktorija Golubic ( sr, Викторија Голубић, Viktorija Golubić; ; born 16 October 1992) is a Swiss professional tennis player. Golubic has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, two singles WTA Challenger titles, as well as ten s ...

Sofia Kenin Sofia Anna "Sonya" Kenin (born November 14, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of No. 4 in the world, which she achieved on March 9, 2020. She was the 2020 WTA ...

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* Monica Puig * Kateřina Siniaková *

Sara Sorribes Tormo Sara Sorribes Tormo (; born 8 October 1996) is a Spanish professional tennis player. Sorribes Tormo has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. On the ITF Circuit, ...

* Wang Xiyu * Wang Yafan The following players received entry as lucky losers: * Markéta Vondroušová * Polona Hercog *

Monica Niculescu Monica Niculescu (born 25 September 1987) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as high as 28 in singles and 11 in doubles. Niculescu has won several titles: three singles and ten doubles ...

Withdrawals

* Victoria Azarenka → replaced by Markéta Vondroušová * Mihaela Buzărnescu → replaced by Kirsten Flipkens * Kaia Kanepi → replaced by

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 ...

Naomi Osaka is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam singles champio ...

→ replaced by Polona Hercog * Magdaléna Rybáriková → replaced by

Retirements

* Tímea Babos *

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* CoCo Vandeweghe * Wang Qiang

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of September 17, 2018

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: * Duan Yingying / Wang Yafan *

Jiang Xinyu Jiang Xinyu (; ; born 3 March 1999) is an inactive Chinese tennis player. On 29 May 2017, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 561. On 2 April 2018, she peaked at No. 88 in the doubles rankings. Jiang has won two doubles tit ...

/ Wang Qiang

Withdrawals

;During the tournament * Vania King

Retirements

* CoCo Vandeweghe

Champions

Singles

* Aryna Sabalenka def. Anett Kontaveit, 6–3, 6–3

Doubles

* Elise Mertens / Demi Schuurs def.

Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková (née Hlaváčková; ; born 10 August 1986) is a Czech retired professional tennis player. She is a three-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having won the 2011 French Open and 2013 US Open in women's doubles alo ...

Barbora Strýcová Barbora Strýcová (; born 28 March 1986), formerly known as Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, is a Czech former professional tennis player who was ranked List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles. She won her fir ...

, 6–3, 6–3

References

External links

Official website
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