Wuhan Open 2025: Where to Watch, Live Streaming, Broadcast Details, and Schedule

Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka will be aiming to win the Wuhan Open for the fourth time.

Wuhan Open 2025: Where to Watch, Live Streaming, Broadcast Details, and Schedule

L-R: Jessica Pegula, Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka, Coco Gauff (Image via X/US Open Tennis, We Are Tennis, #AusOpen, Coco Gauff)

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The penultimate WTA 1000 of the season, the China Open, will be concluded on October 5 and will see Linda Noskova clash with Amanda Anisimova. En route to the championship clash, the American knocked out compatriot and defending champion Coco Gauff in the semifinals. Noskova went past Jessica Pegula in the last four.

Many players have already landed in Wuhan for this season’s final WTA 1000 event. The Wuhan Open is a 56-player singles draw. From this, 43 have entered directly, while four are wild cards, and eight of them are qualifiers.

Aryna Sabalenka will enter the tournament as the first seed. The Wuhan Open is her first tournament since the US Open, where she beat home favorite Anisimova in straight sets to defend her title. Later, she cited an injury and withdrew from the China Open.

Sabalenka, who is chasing her fifth title of the season, will play the tournament as the defending champion. She has so far featured in eight finals this season, including at the US Open, Australian Open, and the French Open. Last year, she lifted her third Wuhan Open title by upsetting home favorite Qinwen Zheng.

Zheng made her Wuhan Open debut last year and withdrew from the tournament this season after re-injuring her elbow. She is replaced by Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro. The 2024 Paris Olympic champion returned to the court at the China Open after a successful surgery on her elbow. She played the home event despite not gaining complete fitness.

World No.2 Iga Swiatek will be making her debut in Wuhan. She skipped the tournament last year because of her three-week provisional suspension after she tested positive for the banned drug trimetazidine.

Before arriving in Wuhan, the Pole lost to Emma Navarro in the fourth round of the China Open. The six-time Grand Slam champion made her debut at the Korea Open to kick-start her campaign on the Asian swing. She was successful in clinching the title by beating Ekaterina Alexandrova in three sets.

World No.3 Gauff is still searching for her second title of the season. After playing two finals (in Madrid and Rome), Gauff was finally successful in grabbing a trophy by beating Sabalenka in three sets in the French Open final. Since then, Gauff failed to reach the semifinals of the next five tournaments, including at Wimbledon and the US Open.

Wuhan Open 2025 schedule

The qualifying rounds of the eighth edition of the Wuhan Open are underway at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in Wuhan, China. The main draw is scheduled to start on October 6. As it’s a weeklong WTA 1000 event, the final will be held on Sunday (October 12).

Aryna Sabalenka
Aryna Sabalenka (via US Open)
DateEvents
October 6, 20251st Round
October 7, 20252nd Round
October 8, 20253rd Round
October 10, 2025Quarterfinals
October 11, 2025Semifinals
October 12, 2025 Final

The total prize pool for this year’s Wuhan Open is $3,654,963. The winner and the runner-up will get  $596,000 and $351,003, respectively.

Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Amanda Anisimova, and Madison Keys have already grabbed a spot for the WTA Finals, scheduled to start on November 1 in Riyadh. Mirra Andreeva, Jessica Pegula, Jasmine Paolini, and Elena Rybakina will be fighting to qualify for the year-end championships. Keys, the reigning Australian Open champion, is not in Wuhan as she withdrew from the event because of an injury. She also did not play the China Open.

Where to watch the Wuhan Open 2025?

  • India – Tennis Channel
  • USA – Tennis Channel
  • UK – Sky Sports
  • Canada – TSN, DAZN
  • Australia – BeIN Sports
  • China – MIGU

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