2016 Wuhan Open Explained

Date:	September 25 – October 1
Edition:	3rd
Category:	WTA Premier 5
Draw:	56S / 28D
Prize Money:	$2,589,000
Surface:	Hard / outdoor
Location:	Wuhan, China
Venue:	Optics Valley Int'l Tennis Center
Champs:	Petra Kvitová
Champd:	Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Lucie Šafářová

The 2016 Wuhan Open (also known as the 2016 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts between September 25 and October 1, 2016. It was the 3rd edition of the Wuhan Open, and part of the WTA Premier 5 tournaments of the 2016 WTA Tour. The tournament was held at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in Wuhan, China.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event					Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	width=85		width=85		width=85
Singles^[1]	900	585	350	190	105	60	1	30	20	1
Doubles						1

Prize money

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style=background:#ededed	Singles^[2] ^[3]	$471,700	$235,520	$117,770	$54,230	$26,900	$13,790	$7,090	$3,955	$2,040
style=background:#ededed	Doubles^[4]	$135,000	$68,200	$33,635	$16,990	$8,600	$4,255

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player^[5]	Ranking	Seeds
	Angelique Kerber	1	1
Spain	Garbiñe Muguruza	3	2
Poland	Agnieszka Radwańska	4	3
Romania	Simona Halep	5	4
Czech Republic	Karolína Plíšková	6	5
	Venus Williams	7	6
Spain	Carla Suárez Navarro	8	7
	Madison Keys	9	8
	Svetlana Kuznetsova	10	9
Slovakia	Dominika Cibulková	12	10
United Kingdom	Johanna Konta	13	11
	Timea Bacsinszky	14	12
Italy	Roberta Vinci	15	13
Czech Republic	Petra Kvitová	16	14
Russian Federation		17	15
Australia	Samantha Stosur	18	16

• Rankings are as of September 19, 2016

Other entrants

The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:

• • • Sabine Lisicki Peng Shuai Zheng Saisai

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 Anastasija 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	Rank^1	Seed
France	Caroline Garcia	France	Kristina Mladenovic	7	1
	Chan Hao-Ching		Chan Yung-jan	14	2
India	Sania Mirza	Czech Republic	Barbora Strýcová	19	3
	Martina Hingis		CoCo Vandeweghe	21	4
	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Czech Republic	Lucie Šafářová	22	5
Hungary	Tímea Babos	Kazakhstan	Yaroslava Shvedova	23	6
Czech Republic	Andrea Hlaváčková	Czech Republic	Lucie Hradecká	23	7
	Julia Görges	Czech Republic	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:

• Alizé Cornet / Pauline Parmentier

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Irina-Camelia Begu

Retirements

Champions

Singles

See main article: 2016 Wuhan Open – Singles.

• Petra Kvitová def. Dominika Cibulková, 6–1, 6–1

Doubles

See main article: 2016 Wuhan Open – Doubles.

• Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Lucie Šafářová def. Sania Mirza / Barbora Strýcová, 6–1, 6–4.

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rankings explained . 21 August 2015 . WTA . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121214232116/http://www.wtatennis.com/all-about-rankings . 14 December 2012 .
2. Web site: Singles main draw. WTATennis.com. September 22, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151023110101/http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/posting/2015/1075/MDS.pdf. 2015-10-23. dead.
3. Web site: Singles qualifying draw. WTATennis.com. September 26, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151023110133/http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/posting/2015/1075/QS.pdf. 2015-10-23. dead.
4. Web site: Doubles main draw. WTATennis.com. September 26, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151010005531/http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/posting/2015/1075/MDD.pdf. 2015-10-10. dead.
5. Web site: Wuhan Open Player List. Wuhan Open. 8 September 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160910223415/http://en.wuhanopen.org/index.php/index-show-tid-55.html. 2016-09-10. dead.