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hu dikai, a reporter from jimu news

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on the afternoon of september 12, the wuhan open organizing committee announced the list of players for the 2024 wuhan open wta1000 main draw. jimu news reporters learned that the top nine women's tennis players in the world, including swiatek, sabalenka, pegula, rybakina, paulini, zheng qinwen, etc., will come to wuhan to participate in the 2024 wuhan open.

the 2024 wuhan open has been upgraded from a wta super five event to the wta 1000 level. there are only ten events of the same level in the world. the event level is second only to the four grand slam events. it is one of the three highest-level tennis events in china. at the same time, it is also the last wta 1000 event in the world this year, with a total prize money of over 3.22 million us dollars. this year's wuhan open singles main draw has a total of 56 draws, including 43 direct qualifiers, 1 special exemption, 4 wild cards and 8 qualifying winners. the top eight seeded players in the world will have a bye in the first round.

at the press conference, wang tao, the joint tournament director of wuhan open, introduced that this year's wuhan open lineup is unprecedentedly strong, including 7 grand slam singles champions and 4 "queens" who have successively topped the world's no. 1. in this list of the main draw, there are the top 20 players in the world. among them, the top nine players in the world ranking of women's tennis, including swiatek, sabalenka, pegula, rybakina, paulini, gauff, zheng qinwen, navarro, krejcikova, etc. will all come to wuhan to participate in the competition, and chinese golden flower yuan yue will also directly enter the main draw.

it is reported that world no. 1 swiatek is participating in the wuhan open for the first time and is also the favorite to win this year's wuhan open; world no. 2 sabalenka is the wuhan open champion in 2018 and 2019, and is also the champion of this year's australian open and us open; world no. 3 pegula is the runner-up of this year's us open; world no. 4 rybakina participated in the wuhan open with a wild card in 2019 and reached the quarterfinals; paolini is currently ranked fifth in the world and is the runner-up of this year's french open and wimbledon.

zheng qinwen, the runner-up of the 2024 australian open and the women's singles champion of the paris olympics, who has attracted much attention from chinese fans, will participate in the competition this year as a seeded player. in 2019, zheng qinwen participated in the wuhan open as a qualifier. she greeted her hometown folks in the form of an online video and invited everyone to watch the game on site. currently, zheng qinwen is training in beijing to prepare for the upcoming china open.

(source: jimu news)

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