# 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]