# 2018 Tianjin Open > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2018_Tianjin_Open > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2018_Tianjin_Open.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Tianjin_Open > Source revision: 1330450882 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Tennis tournament 2018 Tianjin Open Date October 8–14 Edition 5th Category WTA International Draw 32S / 16D Prize money $750,000 Surface Hard Location Tianjin, China Venue Tuanbo International Tennis Centre Champions Singles Caroline Garcia Doubles Nicole Melichar / Květa Peschke ← 2017 · Tianjin Open · 2019 → The **2018 Tianjin Open** was a women's professional [tennis](/source/Tennis) tournament played on [hard courts](/source/Hardcourt). It was the 5th edition of the tournament, and was part of the [WTA International](/source/WTA_International_tournaments) category of the [2018 WTA Tour](/source/2018_WTA_Tour). It took place at the *Tuanbo International Tennis Centre* in [Tianjin](/source/Tianjin), China between 8 October and 14 October 2018. Second-seeded [Caroline Garcia](/source/Caroline_Garcia) won the singles title.[1] ## Finals ### Singles Main article: [2018 Tianjin Open – Singles](/source/2018_Tianjin_Open_%E2%80%93_Singles) - [Caroline Garcia](/source/Caroline_Garcia) defeated [Karolína Plíšková](/source/Karol%C3%ADna_Pl%C3%AD%C5%A1kov%C3%A1) 7–6(9–7), 6–3 ### Doubles Main article: [2018 Tianjin Open – Doubles](/source/2018_Tianjin_Open_%E2%80%93_Doubles) - [Nicole Melichar](/source/Nicole_Melichar) / [Květa Peschke](/source/Kv%C4%9Bta_Peschke) defeated [Monique Adamczak](/source/Monique_Adamczak) / [Jessica Moore](/source/Jessica_Moore_(tennis)) 6–4, 6–2 ## Points and prize money ### Point distribution Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q Q2 Q1 Singles 280 180 110 60 30 1 18 12 1 Doubles 1 —N/a —N/a —N/a —N/a ### Prize money Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 321 Q2 Q1 Singles $163,265 $81,251 $43,663 $13,068 $7,195 $4,444 $2,160 $1,270 Doubles * $26,031 $13,544 $7,271 $3,852 $2,031 —N/a —N/a —N/a 1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money * per team ## Singles main-draw entrants ### Seeds Country Player Rank1 Seed CZE Karolína Plíšková 7 1 FRA Caroline Garcia 8 2 BEL Elise Mertens 14 3 BLR Aryna Sabalenka 16 4 TPE Hsieh Su-wei 29 5 CRO Petra Martić 36 6 USA Danielle Collins 37 7 GRE Maria Sakkari 43 8 - 1 Rankings are as of October 1, 2018 ### Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: - [Liu Fangzhou](/source/Liu_Fangzhou) - [Karolína Plíšková](/source/Karol%C3%ADna_Pl%C3%AD%C5%A1kov%C3%A1) - [Yuan Yue](/source/Yuan_Yue) The following player received entry through a protected ranking: - [Timea Bacsinszky](/source/Timea_Bacsinszky) The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: - [Jana Čepelová](/source/Jana_%C4%8Cepelov%C3%A1) - [Misaki Doi](/source/Misaki_Doi) - [Barbora Krejčíková](/source/Barbora_Krej%C4%8D%C3%ADkov%C3%A1) - [Veronika Kudermetova](/source/Veronika_Kudermetova) - [Xun Fangying](/source/Xun_Fangying) - [Zhang Yuxuan](/source/Zhang_Yuxuan) ### Withdrawals - [Victoria Azarenka](/source/Victoria_Azarenka) → replaced by [Katie Boulter](/source/Katie_Boulter) - [Mihaela Buzărnescu](/source/Mihaela_Buz%C4%83rnescu) → replaced by [Duan Yingying](/source/Duan_Yingying) - [Maria Sharapova](/source/Maria_Sharapova) → replaced by [Wang Yafan](/source/Wang_Yafan) ### Retirements - [Danielle Collins](/source/Danielle_Collins) - [Kateryna Kozlova](/source/Kateryna_Kozlova) - [Petra Martić](/source/Petra_Marti%C4%87) - [Elise Mertens](/source/Elise_Mertens) ## Doubles main-draw entrants ### Seeds Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed ROU Irina-Camelia Begu CZE Barbora Krejčíková 25 1 CAN Gabriela Dabrowski CHN Xu Yifan 25 2 USA Nicole Melichar CZE Květa Peschke 32 3 USA Kaitlyn Christian USA Desirae Krawczyk 120 4 - 1 Rankings are as of October 1, 2018 ### Other entrants The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: - [Guo Hanyu](/source/Guo_Hanyu) / [Zhu Lin](/source/Zhu_Lin_(tennis)) - [Liu Yanni](/source/Liu_Yanni) / [Wang Meiling](/source/Wang_Meiling) The following pair received entry as alternates: - [Ankita Raina](/source/Ankita_Raina) / [Emily Webley-Smith](/source/Emily_Webley-Smith) ### Withdrawals **Before the tournament** - [Gabriela Dabrowski](/source/Gabriela_Dabrowski) ### Retirements - [Lara Arruabarrena](/source/Lara_Arruabarrena) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Tianjin Open Overview"](http://www.wtatennis.com/tournament/2018-tianjin-china-1076). *wtatennis.com*. ## External links - [Official website](http://www.tianjinopen.com/en/) v t e Tianjin Open 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 v t e 2018 WTA Tour « 2017 2019 » Grand Slam events Australian Open (S, D, X) French Open (S, D, X) Wimbledon (S, D, X) US Open (S, D, X) WTA Premier Mandatory tournaments Indian Wells (S, D) Miami (S, D) Madrid (S, D) Beijing (S, D) WTA Premier 5 tournaments Doha (S, D) Rome (S, D) Montreal (S, D) Cincinnati (S, D) Wuhan (S, D) WTA Premier tournaments Brisbane (S, D) Sydney (S, D) St. Petersburg (S, D) Dubai (S, D) Charleston (S, D) Stuttgart (S, D) Birmingham (S, D) Eastbourne (S, D) San Jose (S, D) New Haven (S, D) Tokyo (S, D) Moscow (S, D) WTA International tournaments Auckland (S, D) Shenzhen (S, D) Hobart (S, D) Taipei (S, D) Budapest (S, D) Acapulco (S, D) Monterrey (S, D) Bogotá (S, D) Lugano (S, D) İstanbul (S, D) Prague (S, D) Rabat (S, D) Nuremberg (S, D) Strasbourg (S, D) Rosmalen (S, D) Nottingham (S, D) Santa Ponsa (S, D) Bucharest (S, D) Gstaad (S, D) Moscow (S, D) Nanchang (S, D) Washington D.C. 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