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China’s Zhang Shuai, Zheng Saisai, Peng Shuai to Compete in Wuhan Open 2016

China Wuhan Open

(Photo : gettyimages.com) Chinese tennis ace Peng Shuai will be among the 2016 Wuhan Open's main draw.

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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