title: 2017 Wuhan Open
text: # 2017 Wuhan Open
  
  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
  
  | Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q | Q2 | Q1 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Singles | 900 | 585 | 350 | 190 | 105 | 60 | 1 | 30 | 20 | 1 |
  | Doubles | 900 | 585 | 350 | 190 | 105 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
  
  ### Prize money
  
  | Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q2 | Q1 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Singles | $471,700 | $235,520 | $117,770 | $54,230 | $26,900 | $13,790 | $7,090 | $3,955 | $2,040 |
  | Doubles | $135,000 | $68,200 | $33,635 | $16,990 | $8,600 | $4,255 | — | — | — |
  
  ## 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 | $Rank^1$ | 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]
  