2018 Tianjin Open Explained

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. It took place at the Tuanbo International Tennis Centre in Tianjin, China between 8 and 14 October 2018.^[1]

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	width=85	Q	width=85	Q2	width=85	Q1
Singles	280	180	110	60	30	1	18	12	1
Doubles	280	180	110	60	1

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32¹	width=85	Q2	width=85	Q1
Singles	$163,265	$81,251	$43,663	$13,068	$7,195	$4,444	$2,160	$1,270
Doubles *	$26,031	$13,544	$7,271	$3,852	$2,031

_{¹ Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money}

per team

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank¹	Seed
Czech Republic	Karolína Plíšková	7	1
France	Caroline Garcia	8	2
Belgium	Elise Mertens	14	3
Belarus	Aryna Sabalenka	16	4
	Hsieh Su-wei	29	5
	Petra Martić	36	6
	Danielle Collins	37	7
	Maria Sakkari	43	8

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:

Withdrawals

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

Retirements

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank¹	Seed
Romania	Irina-Camelia Begu	Czech Republic	Barbora Krejčíková	25	1
~~Canada~~	~~Gabriela Dabrowski~~	~~China~~	~~Xu Yifan~~	25	2
	Nicole Melichar	Czech Republic	Květa Peschke	32	3
	Kaitlyn Christian		Desirae Krawczyk	120	4