# 2016 Wuhan Open

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 | 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 |
| 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 |
* Rankings are as of September 19, 2016

### Other entrants

The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:
* Sabine Lisicki
* Peng Shuai
* Zheng Saisai
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:
* Louisa Chirico
* Alizé Cornet
* Julia Görges
* Daria Kasatkina
* Elizaveta Kulichkova
* Bethanie Mattek-Sands
* Kateřina Siniaková
* Heather Watson

### Withdrawals
#### Before the tournament

* Kiki Bertens → replaced by Yaroslava Shvedova
* Eugenie Bouchard → replaced by Shelby Rogers
* Anna-Lena Friedsam → replaced by Daria Gavrilova
* Ana Ivanovic → replaced by Zhang Shuai
* Andrea Petkovic → replaced by Anastasija Sevastova
* Sloane Stephens → replaced by Madison Brengle
* Elena Vesnina → replaced by Caroline Wozniacki
* Serena Williams → replaced by Mirjana Lučić-Baroni

### Retirements

* Timea Bacsinszky (Viral illness)
* Irina-Camelia Begu (Rib injury)
* Belinda Bencic (Low back injury)
* Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Viral illness)
* Anastasija Sevastova (Right shoulder injury)
* Heather Watson (Gastrointestinal illness)

## Doubles main-draw entrants
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | 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 |
* Rankings are as of September 19, 2016

### Other entrants

The following pair received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
* Timea Bacsinszky / Svetlana Kuznetsova
* Simona Halep / Jeļena Ostapenko
* Han Xinyun / Zhu Lin
* Liu Chang / Zhang Kailin
The following pair received entry as alternates:
* Alizé Cornet / Pauline Parmentier

### Withdrawals
#### Before the tournament

* Irina-Camelia Begu

### Retirements
## Champions
### Singles

* Petra Kvitová def. Dominika Cibulková, 6–1, 6–1

### Doubles

* Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Lucie Šafářová def. Sania Mirza / Barbora Strýcová, 6–1, 6–4.