China will be having three representatives in the main draw of the upcoming 2016 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open next week after the 2016 Australian Open doubles semifinalist Zheng Saisai moved into the 56-player main draw to join Peng Shuai and the country's current WTA highest-ranked women's singles tennis player Zhang Shuai.

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The three Chinese elite tennis aces will be joining the biggest and brightest names of the sport at the WTA Premier event. The WTA Premier tournaments are the top tennis events on the Tour and come second only to the four Grand Slam tournaments (Australian Open, Wimbledon, French Open and US Open) in stature, prize money and ranking points.

The tourney's qualifying round will begin on Friday. The Official Draw of the tennis event will also take place on Friday at 4pm onsite in the Carnival Square, according to Tennis Panorama News.

China's Wuhan Open boasts a total prize purse of US$2,589,000. It will run from Sept. 23 to Oct. 1 and the Optics Valley International Tennis Center will be the playing ground of the said tournament.

Here is the list of the names of the tennis players who will be in the 2016 Wuhan Open's Main draw;

1	ANGELIQUE KERBER	25	LAURA SIEGEMUND
2	SERENA WILLIAMS	26	COCO VANDEWEGHE
3	GARBIÑE MUGURUZA	27	MONICA PUIG
4	AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA	28	MISAKI DOI
5	SIMONA HALEP	29	SARA ERRANI
6	KAROLINA PLISKOVA	30	JELENA JANKOVIC
7	VENUS WILLIAMS	31	YULIA PUTINTSEVA
8	CARLA SUÁREZ NAVARRO	32	EKATERINA MAKAROVA
9	MADISON KEYS	33	SHUAI ZHANG
10	SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA	34	YARASLAVA SHVEDOVA
11	DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA	35	LUCIE SAFAROVA
12	JOHANNA KONTA	36	ANDREA PETKOVIC
13	TIMEA BACSINSZKY	37	JELENA OSTAPENKO
14	ROBERTA VINCI	38	ANNIKA BECK
15	PETRA KVITOVA	39	DARIA GAVRILOVA
16	ANASTASIA PAVLYUCHENKOVA	40	EUGENIE BOUCHARD
17	SAMANTHA STOSUR	41	ANNA-LENA FRIEDSAM
18	ELINA SVITOLINA	42	YANINA WICKMAYER
19	BARBORA STRYCOVA	43	KRISTINA MLADENOVIC
20	IRINA-CAMELIA BEGU	44	MADISON BRENGLE
21	CAROLINE GARCIA	45	SABINE LISICKI (WC)
22	TIMEA BABOS	46	SAISAI ZHENG (WC)
23	BELINDA BENCIC	47	SHUAI PENG (WC)
24	CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (WC)	48	PLUS EIGHT QUALIFIERS

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