2016 Wuhan Open
Appearance
2016 Wuhan Open | |
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Date | September 25 – October 1 |
Edition | 3rd |
Category | WTA Premier 5 |
Draw | 56S / 28D |
Surface | Hard / outdoor |
Location | Wuhan, China |
Venue | Optics Valley International Tennis Center |
2015 Champions | |
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The 2016 Wuhan Open (also known as the 2016 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open for sponsorship reasons) is a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts between September 25 and October 1, 2016. It is the 3rd edition of the Wuhan Open, and part of the WTA Premier 5 tournaments of the 2016 WTA Tour. The tournament is held at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in Wuhan, China.
Points and prize money
Point distribution
Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q | Q2 | Q1 |
Singles[1] | 900 | 585 | 350 | 190 | 105 | 60 | 1 | 30 | 20 | 1 |
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Doubles[1] | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Prize money
Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q2 | Q1 |
Singles[2][3] | $471,700 | $235,520 | $117,770 | $54,230 | $26,900 | $13,790 | $7,090 | $3,955 | $2,040 |
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Doubles[4] | $135,000 | $68,200 | $33,635 | $16,990 | $8,600 | $4,255 | — | — | — |
Singles main draw entrants
Seeds
Country | Player[5] | Ranking | Seeds |
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Angelique Kerber | 1 | 1 |
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Garbiñe Muguruza | 3 | 2 |
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Agnieszka Radwańska | 4 | 3 |
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Simona Halep | 5 | 4 |
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Karolína Plíšková | 6 | 5 |
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Venus Williams | 7 | 6 |
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Carla Suárez Navarro | 8 | 7 |
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Madison Keys | 9 | 8 |
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Svetlana Kuznetsova | 10 | 9 |
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Dominika Cibulková | 12 | 10 |
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Johanna Konta | 13 | 11 |
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Timea Bacsinszky | 14 | 12 |
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Roberta Vinci | 15 | 13 |
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Petra Kvitová | 16 | 14 |
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Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 17 | 15 |
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Samantha Stosur | 18 | 16 |
- Rankings are as of September 19, 2016
Other entrants
The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:
Louisa Chirico
Alizé Cornet
Julia Görges
Daria Kasatkina
Elizaveta Kulichkova
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Kateřina Siniaková
Heather Watson
Withdrawals
- Before the tournament
Kiki Bertens →replaced by Yaroslava Shvedova
Eugenie Bouchard →replaced by Shelby Rogers
Anna-Lena Friedsam →replaced by Daria Gavrilova
Ana Ivanovic →replaced by Zhang Shuai
Andrea Petkovic →replaced by Anastasia Sevastova
Sloane Stephens →replaced by Madison Brengle
Elena Vesnina →replaced by Caroline Wozniacki
Serena Williams →replaced by Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
Retirements
Timea Bacsinszky (Viral illness)
Irina-Camelia Begu (Rib injury)
Belinda Bencic (Low back injury)
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Viral illness)
Anastasija Sevastova (Right shoulder injury)
Heather Watson (Gastrointestinal illness)
Doubles main draw entrants
Seeds
Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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Caroline Garcia | ![]() |
Kristina Mladenovic | 7 | 1 |
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Chan Hao-Ching | ![]() |
Chan Yung-jan | 14 | 2 |
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Sania Mirza | ![]() |
Barbora Strýcová | 19 | 3 |
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Martina Hingis | ![]() |
Coco Vandeweghe | 21 | 4 |
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Bethanie Mattek-Sands | ![]() |
Lucie Šafářová | 22 | 5 |
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Tímea Babos | ![]() |
Yaroslava Shvedova | 23 | 6 |
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Andrea Hlaváčková | ![]() |
Lucie Hradecká | 23 | 7 |
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Julia Görges | ![]() |
Karolína Plíšková | 29 | 8 |
- Rankings are as of September 19, 2016
Other entrants
The following pair received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
Timea Bacsinszky /
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Simona Halep /
Jeļena Ostapenko
Han Xinyun /
Zhu Lin
Liu Chang /
Zhang Kailin
The following pair received entry as alternates:
Withdrawals
- Before the tournament
Retirements
Champions
Singles
Doubles
References
- ^ a b "Rankings explained". WTA. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ^ "Singles main draw" (PDF). WTATennis.com. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ^ "Singles qualifying draw" (PDF). WTATennis.com. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
- ^ "Doubles main draw" (PDF). WTATennis.com. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
- ^ "Wuhan Open Player List". Wuhan Open. Retrieved 8 September 2016.