The 2025 China Open marks the penultimate WTA 1000 event on the 2025 tennis calendar and Coco Gauff will return to defend her title, but she will not be the top seed in Beijing.<\/p>\n
This year marks the 26th edition of the China Open on the WTA Tour<\/a> calendar with Serena Williams winning the inaugural 2004 edition when it was still a Tier II event while in 2009 it was upgraded to a WTA Premier Mandatory with Svetlana Kuznetsova lifting the trophy.<\/p>\n Following the WTA tournament rebranding in 2020, the China Open and other WTA Premier Mandatory events were renamed WTA 1000 events, but the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and it only returned in 2023 with Iga Swiatek crowned champion<\/a>.<\/p>\n The WTA event will be staged from September 24 until October 4 at the National Tennis Center in Beijing \u2013 with the main showcourt the Diamond Court holding 15,000 fans \u2013 and here we give you all the other important information about the players.<\/p>\n The WTA 1000 event is a 96-player singles draw event with the top-32 entrants receiving seeded status.<\/p>\n Eight players have received wildcards, four players have entered using their protected ranking, 12 gain entry via the qualifying tournament while the rest enter through their position in the WTA Rankings.<\/p>\n All eight wildcards have gone to Chinese players with Yuan Yue \u2013 No 102 \u2013 the highest-ranked player, while Bianca Andreescu and Caty McNally are among the players to use their protected ranking to enter.<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu spurns major Korea Open opportunity as star misses match points in loss<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Aryna Sabalenka makes shock withdrawal as world No 1 battle set to heat up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka is the biggest name to withdraw from the event as she is struggling with a minor injury and she has been replaced by Alex Eala in the main draw.<\/p>\n Danielle Collins and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova are also out with Iva Jovic \u2013 who won her maiden tournament recently at the Guadalajara Open \u2013 and Solana Sierra their replacements.<\/p>\n With Sabalenka not playing, world No 2 Swiatek will go into P1 in the draw with defending champion Coco Gauff<\/a> headlining the bottom half of the draw as the second seed.<\/p>\n The top two are followed by Amanda Anisimova, Mirra Andreeva, Madison Keys, Jessica Pegula, Jasmine Paolini, Zheng Qinwen, Elena Rybakina and Ekaterina Alexandrova.<\/p>\n The answer is yes.<\/p>\n Raducanu<\/a> currently sits at No 33 in the WTA Rankings, but Sabalenka\u2019s withdrawal means she moves up one place to No 32 and earn the final seeding position.<\/p>\n 1. Iga Swiatek (2\u200b) Protected Rankings<\/strong> Wildcards<\/strong> The post China Open entry list: Who is top seed with Aryna Sabalenka out? Is Emma Raducanu seeded? Will Alex Eala play?<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2025 China Open marks the penultimate WTA 1000 event on the 2025 tennis calendar and Coco Gauff will return to defend her title, but she will not be the top seed in Beijing. This year marks the 26th edition of the China Open on the WTA Tour calendar with Serena Williams winning the inaugural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How many players will feature at the China Open?<\/h2>\n
WTA News<\/h2>\n
Any withdrawals and replacements?<\/h2>\n
Who are the top seeds?<\/h2>\n
Is Emma Raducanu seeded?<\/h2>\n
2025 China Open entry list<\/h2>\n
\n2. Coco Gauff (3)
\n3. Amanda Anisimova (4)
\n4. Mirra Andreeva (5)
\n5. Madison Keys (6)
\n6. Jessica Pegula (7)
\n7. Jasmine Paolini (8)
\n8. Zheng Qinwen (9)
\n9. Elena Rybakina (10)
\n10. Ekaterina Alexandrova (11)
\n11. Clara Tauson (12)
\n12. Elina Svitolina (13)
\n13. Naomi Osaka (14)
\n14. Karolina Muchova (15)
\n15. Daria Kasatkina (16)
\n16. Belinda Bencic (17)
\n17. Emma Navarro (18)
\n18. Diana Shnaider (19)
\n19. Paula Badosa (20)
\n20. Liudmila Samsonova (21)
\n21. Elise Mertens (22)
\n22. Victoria Mboko (23)
\n23. Je\u013cena Ostapenko (24)
\n24. Beatriz Haddad Maia (25)
\n25. Marta Kostyuk (26)
\n26. Veronika Kudermetova (27)
\n27. Leylah Fernandez (28)
\n28. Linda Noskov\u00e1 (29)
\n29. Sofia Kenin (30)
\n30. Anna Kalinskaya (31)
\n31. Dayana Yastremska (32)
\n33. Emma Raducanu (34)
\nMagdalena Frech
\nXinyu Wang
\nRebecca Sramkova
\nMagda Linette
\nAshlyn Krueger
\nOlga Danilovic
\nJessica Bouzas Maneiro
\nMccartney Kessler
\nTatjana Maria
\nMaya Joint
\nMarie Bouzkova
\nLois Boisson
\nHailey Baptiste
\nKatie Boulter
\nDonna Vekic
\nJaqueline Cristian
\nSonay Kartal
\nLaura Siegemund
\nAnastasia Potapova
\nPeyton Stearns
\nYulia Putintseva
\nAlycia Parks
\nLucia Bronzetti
\nAnn Li
\nEva Lys
\nMarketa Vondrousova
\nBarbora Krejcikova
\nCamila Osorio
\nMaria Sakkari
\nKamilla Rakhimova
\nSuzan Lamens
\nPolina Kudermetova
\nYuliia Starodubtseva
\nAntonia Ruzic
\nElena-gabriela Ruse
\nSorana Cirstea
\nViktorija Golubic
\nIva Jovic
\nSolana Sierra
\nAlex Eala<\/p>\n
\nBianca Andreescu (PR)
\nAnastasija Sevastova (PR)
\nCaty Mcnally (PR)
\nYafan Wang (PR)<\/p>\n
\nGuo Hanyu
\nShi Han
\nWang Xiyu
\nWei Sijia
\nYuan Yue
\nZhang Ruien
\nZhang Shuai
\nZhu Lin<\/p>\n