2017 Wuhan Open
Date	September 24–30
Edition	4th
Category	WTA Premier 5
Draw	56S / 28D
Prize money	$2,666,000
Surface	Hard / outdoor
Location	Wuhan, China
Venue	Optics Valley Int'l Tennis Center
Champions
Singles
Caroline Garcia
Doubles
Chan Yung-jan / Martina Hingis
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The 2017 Wuhan Open (also known as the 2017 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis 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, China.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Ranking	Seeds
ESP	Garbiñe Muguruza	1	1
ROU	Simona Halep	2	2
CZE	Karolína Plíšková	4	3
DEN	Caroline Wozniacki	6	4
GBR	Johanna Konta	7	5
RUS	Svetlana Kuznetsova	8	6
SVK	Dominika Cibulková	9	7
LAT	Jeļena Ostapenko	10	8
POL	Agnieszka Radwańska	11	9
USA	Madison Keys	12	10
CZE	Petra Kvitová	13	11
GER	Angelique Kerber	14	12
FRA	Kristina Mladenovic	15	13
USA	Sloane Stephens	17	14
LAT	Anastasija Sevastova	18	15
RUS	Elena Vesnina	19	16

• 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 → replaced by Wang Qiang
• Mirjana Lučić-Baroni → replaced by Ashleigh Barty
• Lucie Šafářová → replaced by Yulia Putintseva
• CoCo Vandeweghe → replaced by Donna Vekić

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
TPE	Chan Yung-jan	SUI	Martina Hingis	5	1
RUS	Ekaterina Makarova	RUS	Elena Vesnina	10	2
IND	Sania Mirza	CHN	Peng Shuai	17	3
AUS	Ashleigh Barty	AUS	Casey Dellacqua	28	4
CAN	Gabriela Dabrowski	CHN	Xu Yifan	38	5
GER	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	CZE	Květa Peschke	42	6
POL	Alicja Rosolska	USA	Abigail Spears	56	7
FRA	Kristina Mladenovic	RUS	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	58	8

• 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

During the tournament

• Ashleigh Barty

Retirements

• Ekaterina Makarova
• Wang Qiang
• Carina Witthöft

Champions

Singles

• Caroline Garcia def. Ashleigh Barty, 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, [10–4]