2016 Wuhan Open
DateSeptember 25 – October 1
Edition3rd
CategoryWTA Premier 5
Draw56S / 28D
Prize money$2,589,000
SurfaceHard / outdoor
LocationWuhan, China
VenueOptics Valley Int'l Tennis Center
Champions
Singles
Czech Republic Petra Kvitová
Doubles
United States Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Czech Republic Lucie Šafářová
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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 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
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
Doubles[4] $135,000 $68,200 $33,635 $16,990 $8,600 $4,255 — — —

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player[5] Ranking Seeds
 GER Angelique Kerber 1 1
 ESP Garbiñe Muguruza 3 2
 POL Agnieszka Radwańska 4 3
 ROU Simona Halep 5 4
 CZE Karolína Plíšková 6 5
 USA Venus Williams 7 6
 ESP Carla Suárez Navarro 8 7
 USA Madison Keys 9 8
 RUS Svetlana Kuznetsova 10 9
 SVK Dominika Cibulková 12 10
 GBR Johanna Konta 13 11
  SUI Timea Bacsinszky 14 12
 ITA Roberta Vinci 15 13
 CZE Petra Kvitová 16 14
 RUS Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 17 15
 AUS Samantha Stosur 18 16

Other entrants

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

The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Retirements

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 FRA Caroline Garcia  FRA Kristina Mladenovic 7 1
 TPE Chan Hao-Ching  TPE Chan Yung-jan 14 2
 IND Sania Mirza  CZE Barbora Strýcová 19 3
  SUI Martina Hingis  USA CoCo Vandeweghe 21 4
 USA Bethanie Mattek-Sands  CZE Lucie Šafářová 22 5
 HUN Tímea Babos  KAZ Yaroslava Shvedova 23 6
 CZE Andrea Hlaváčková  CZE Lucie Hradecká 23 7
 GER Julia Görges  CZE Karolína Plíšková 29 8

Other entrants

The following pair received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

The following pair received entry as alternates:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Retirements

Champions

Singles

Main article: 2016 Wuhan Open – Singles

Doubles

Main article: 2016 Wuhan Open – Doubles

References

  1. ^ a b "Rankings explained". WTA. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  2. ^ "Singles main draw" (PDF). WTATennis.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-10-23. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
  3. ^ "Singles qualifying draw" (PDF). WTATennis.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-10-23. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
  4. ^ "Doubles main draw" (PDF). WTATennis.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-10-10. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
  5. ^ "Wuhan Open Player List". Wuhan Open. Archived from the original on 2016-09-10. Retrieved 8 September 2016.

External links

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