The 2017 Wuhan Open (also known as the 2017 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open for sponsorship reasons) was a women's
tennis
Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
tournament played on outdoor
hard courts between September 24–30, 2017. It was the 4th edition of the
Wuhan Open, and part of the
WTA Premier 5 tournaments of the
2017 WTA Tour. The tournament was held at the
Optics Valley International Tennis Center in
Wuhan
Wuhan; is the capital of Hubei, China. With a population of over eleven million, it is the most populous city in Hubei and the List of cities in China by population, eighth-most-populous city in China. It is also one of the nine National cent ...
, China.
Points and prize money
Point distribution
Prize money
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
* Rankings are as of September 18, 2017
Other entrants
The following players received
wild cards into the singles main draw:
*
Duan Yingying
*
Jil Teichmann
*
Wang Yafan
The following players received entry using a
protected ranking into the singles main draw:
*
Sloane Stephens
The following players received entry from the singles
qualifying draw:
*
Ons Jabeur
*
Varvara Lepchenko
*
Magda Linette
*
Christina McHale
*
Monica Niculescu
*
Andrea Petkovic
*
Monica Puig
*
Maria Sakkari
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
*
Timea Bacsinszky
Timea Bacsinszky (; born 8 June 1989) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. A former top ten singles player, Bacsinszky reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9, on 16 May 2016. She won four singles and five doubles titles o ...
→ replaced by
Wang Qiang
*
Mirjana Lučić-Baroni → replaced by
Ashleigh Barty
Ashleigh Jacinta Barty (born 24 April 1996) is an Australian former professional tennis player and cricketer. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Assoc ...
*
Lucie Šafářová → replaced by
Yulia Putintseva
*
CoCo Vandeweghe → replaced by
Donna Vekić
Doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
* Rankings are as of September 18, 2017
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
*
Guo Shanshan /
Ye Qiuyu
*
Wang Qiang /
Wang Yafan
The following pair received entry as alternates:
*
Mona Barthel /
Carina Witthöft
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
*
Monica Niculescu
*
Jeļena Ostapenko
*
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Anastasia Sergeyevna "Nastia" Pavlyuchenkova (; born 3 July 1991) is a Russian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 11 on 8 November 2021. Pavlyuchenkova has won twelve singles titles ...
;During the tournament
*
Ashleigh Barty
Ashleigh Jacinta Barty (born 24 April 1996) is an Australian former professional tennis player and cricketer. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Assoc ...
Retirements
*
Ekaterina Makarova
Ekaterina Valeryevna Makarova (; ; born 7 June 1988) is a Russian former professional tennis player who was ranked List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles, and world No. 8 in singles.
She is a four-time Gra ...
*
Wang Qiang
*
Carina Witthöft
Champions
Singles
*
Caroline Garcia def.
Ashleigh Barty
Ashleigh Jacinta Barty (born 24 April 1996) is an Australian former professional tennis player and cricketer. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Assoc ...
, 6–7
(3–7), 7–6
(7–4), 6–2
Doubles
*
Chan Yung-jan /
Martina Hingis def.
Shuko Aoyama /
Yang Zhaoxuan, 7–6
(7–5), 3–6,
0–4
External links
Official website
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