# 2020 WTA Shenzhen Open

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The **2020 Shenzhen Open** was a women's [tennis](/source/Tennis) tournament played on [outdoor hard courts](/source/Hard_court_(tennis)). It was the eighth edition of the [Shenzhen Open](/source/WTA_Shenzhen_Open), and part of the [WTA International tournaments](/source/WTA_International_tournaments) of the [2020 WTA Tour](/source/2020_WTA_Tour). It took place at the [Shenzhen Longgang Sports Center](/source/Shenzhen_Longgang_Sports_Center) in [Shenzhen](/source/Shenzhen), China, from 5 January until 11 January 2020. Fifth-seeded [Ekaterina Alexandrova](/source/Ekaterina_Alexandrova) won the singles title.[1]

## Finals

### Singles

Main article: [2020 WTA Shenzhen Open – Singles](/source/2020_WTA_Shenzhen_Open_%E2%80%93_Singles)

- [Ekaterina Alexandrova](/source/Ekaterina_Alexandrova) defeated [Elena Rybakina](/source/Elena_Rybakina), 6–2, 6–4

### Doubles

Main article: [2020 WTA Shenzhen Open – Doubles](/source/2020_WTA_Shenzhen_Open_%E2%80%93_Doubles)

- [Barbora Krejčíková](/source/Barbora_Krej%C4%8D%C3%ADkov%C3%A1) / [Kateřina Siniaková](/source/Kate%C5%99ina_Siniakov%C3%A1) defeated [Duan Yingying](/source/Duan_Yingying) / [Zheng Saisai](/source/Zheng_Saisai), 6–2, 3–6, [10–4]

## 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

### Prize money

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 321 Q2 Q1 Singles $175,000 $88,402 $46,800 $11,271 $6,450 $4,205 $4,251 $2,930 Doubles * $25,580 $13,600 $7,400 $4,100 $2,470

1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money * per team

## Singles main draw entrants

### Seeds

Country Player Rank1 Seed Switzerland Belinda Bencic 8 1 Belarus Aryna Sabalenka 11 2 Belgium Elise Mertens 17 3 China Wang Qiang 30 4 Russia Ekaterina Alexandrova 35 5 Spain Garbiñe Muguruza 36 6 Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina 37 7 China Zhang Shuai 40 8

- 1 Rankings as of December 30, 2019.

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

- [Duan Yingying](/source/Duan_Yingying)
- [Wang Xinyu](/source/Wang_Xinyu)
- [Wang Xiyu](/source/Wang_Xiyu)

The following players received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:

- [Kateryna Bondarenko](/source/Kateryna_Bondarenko)
- [Shelby Rogers](/source/Shelby_Rogers)

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

- [Irina-Camelia Begu](/source/Irina-Camelia_Begu)
- [Anna-Lena Friedsam](/source/Anna-Lena_Friedsam)
- [Margarita Gasparyan](/source/Margarita_Gasparyan)
- [Nicole Gibbs](/source/Nicole_Gibbs)

## Doubles main draw entrants

### Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed Belgium Elise Mertens Belarus Aryna Sabalenka 11 1 Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková Czech Republic Kateřina Siniaková 20 2 China Duan Yingying China Zheng Saisai 42 3 China Peng Shuai China Zhang Shuai 60 4

- 1 Rankings as of December 30, 2019

### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

- [Jiang Xinyu](/source/Jiang_Xinyu) / [Tang Qianhui](/source/Tang_Qianhui)
- [Ma Shuyue](/source/Ma_Shuyue) / [Yuan Yue](/source/Yuan_Yue)

The following pair received entry into the doubles main draw using a protected ranking:

- [Kateryna Bondarenko](/source/Kateryna_Bondarenko) / [Lidziya Marozava](/source/Lidziya_Marozava)

## References

1. ["Shenzhen Open Overview"](https://www.wtatennis.com/tournament/1063/shenzhen). *wtatennis.com*

## External links

- [Official website](http://www.shenzhenopentennis.com/2020/eng/index.php) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20200812083303/http://www.shenzhenopentennis.com/2020/eng/index.php) 2020-08-12 at the Wayback Machine

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