Wuhan Open
Hard court in Wuhan. The 2026 edition is played in October and has not started. Everything below is the 2025 tournament.
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What the Wuhan Open is
The Wuhan Open is a WTA 1000 tennis tournament held in Wuhan on hard courts, played in October. It is a women's event, so only one tour is in town. The main singles draw holds 64 players.
Wuhan sits in the middle of the Asian swing and is played in humid early-autumn conditions that make long matches punishing. By this stage of the year the players have been competing for nine months, and recovery between rounds is the quiet factor deciding results.
It is one of the last opportunities to earn serious ranking points before the race for the season finals closes, so the entry list is usually strong even when the travel is unforgiving. The tournament falls in a stretch where players are choosing between rest and qualification.
The hard courts are medium-paced, and the humidity slows the ball through the air, which lengthens rallies and rewards the players who have managed their season best.
Our dates count the main draw only. Qualifying runs the week before and most calendars fold it in, which is why a start date printed elsewhere can be a week earlier than the one at the top of this page. The full draw with scores is on its own page.
What the hard does here
The hard courts here are true and predictable, which is why the Wuhan Open produces fewer surprises than the clay or grass events and why the seedings usually hold. The full explanation of what each surface does is in the guides.
The practical consequence for anyone planning to watch: match length is the most predictable of the three surfaces, which makes the order of play more reliable than it is on clay.
The Wuhan Open draw
The main draw holds 64 players in single elimination, which is 6 rounds to the title and 63 matches in all. Seeds are spread through the bracket so the strongest cannot meet early, and qualifiers arrive already match-sharp. How seeding, byes and qualifying work is explained in the guides.
The Wuhan Open draw with every score is on its own page and updates while the tournament is being played.
How 2025 finished
Coco Gauff won the women's title in 2025, beating Jessica Pegula in the final by 6-4, 7-5. They were ranked 4 in the world at the time of writing.
A title here does not only change the trophy cabinet. It sets the number the same player has to defend twelve months later, and defending is the hardest thing in tennis: the points disappear on schedule whether or not the player is fit, in form or even entered.
What the Wuhan Open sheet says
7 of the 8 quarter-finalists in the women's draw were seeded, which is close to what the seedings predicted. Coco Gauff took the title from the number 3 seeding, and the final went 2 sets.
Numbers like these are the quickest way to read a tournament you did not watch. A draw where most of the seeds survive to the last eight was decided on quality; one where they did not was decided by conditions, scheduling or fatigue, and the surface section above usually explains which.
What the Wuhan Open is worth
A 1000-level title is worth 1000 points, the second-largest prize in the sport, and these events carry more of the ranking than the four majors do. How the 52-week list actually works is in the guides.
Whoever won here in 2025 is defending those points twelve months later: Coco Gauff in the women's draw. Defending is the hardest job in tennis, because the points leave on schedule whether or not the player is fit to replace them.
How to watch the Wuhan Open
Rights to the Wuhan Open are sold country by country, so the answer depends entirely on where you are sitting. There is no free-to-air option for this event in the major markets, which is normal below Grand Slam level.
Broadcast rights checked 2026-09-03. They are renegotiated regularly, so verify before planning around them.
The Wuhan Open is played in Wuhan, in east Asia, and matches run in the European small hours, so the replays matter more than the live coverage for most Western viewers.
There is no free-to-air route to this one in the major markets. That is typical below Grand Slam level: the free coverage in tennis is concentrated on the four majors, and only in the countries that host them or have a historic public-broadcast deal.
Wuhan runs a single-tour draw over a week and concentrates coverage on the main stadium. Play starts in the early afternoon local time and finishes late, which puts the whole tournament in the European small hours. If you are following from the West this is a results-page tournament rather than a live one, and the finals weekend is the only part reliably worth setting an alarm for.
The viewing guide goes through what each service covers across the season and what it leaves out.
Outside courts and early rounds
Matches away from the show courts are often not televised at all. Our betting partner streams them live to funded accounts, with prices on the same screen. Which service you reach depends on the country you are watching from.
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Common questions
When is the Wuhan Open played?
It is held in October. The 2026 edition has not been played yet, so the results on this page are from 2025, when the tournament ran 4 Oct to 12 Oct 2025.
What surface is the Wuhan Open played on?
Hard courts in Wuhan. It sits in the asian swing part of the season.
Who won the women's title in 2025?
Coco Gauff beat Jessica Pegula 6-4, 7-5 in the final.
How large is the draw?
64 players in the main singles draw, which is 6 rounds to the title.
Where can I watch the Wuhan Open?
Coverage is split country by country: WTA streaming, sold separately from the ATP in Worldwide, Tennis Channel in United States, local rights holders in Europe. There is no free-to-air option in the major markets. Early rounds on the outside courts are frequently not televised anywhere. Full guide to watching tennis.