the 2024 guangzhou open lineup is announced, and these female tennis stars will gather in guangzhou
2024-09-25
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the 2024 guangzhou international women's tennis open will be held at the guangzhou nansha international tennis center from october 20 to 27. on september 25, the tournament announced the singles finalists. this year coincides with the 20th anniversary of the founding of guangzhou open, and the participating lineup is star-studded and full of famous players. two grand slam champions raducanu and stephens, paris olympic games mixed doubles gold medalist siniakova, this year's australian open semi-finalist yastremska, chinese golden flowers yuan yue and wang yafan directly entered the main draw, and defending champion wang xiyu and former australian open champion kenin appeared on the substitute list and are also expected to appear in this year's guangzhou open.
yuan yue is one of the chinese players who has made the most rapid progress this year. she won her first title in austin at the beginning of the year and her highest ranking was 36th. this will be her second consecutive year to participate in the guangzhou open. wang yafan also made a huge breakthrough this year. she is the only chinese player who has won all four grand slams this year. she made it to the top 32 of the grand slam for the first time at the australian open and went one step further to the top 16 at the us open. this will be her second return to the guangzhou open after 2018.
at this year's paris olympics, siniakova and mahac won the mixed doubles gold medal, defeating the chinese pair wang xinyu/zhang zhizhen in the final. she also teamed up with czech compatriot krejcikova to achieve the "women's doubles golden slam". this season, siniakova's form has not diminished. in addition to the olympic gold medal, she also won the french open and wimbledon women's doubles championships with gauff and townsend respectively. siniakova's singles performance is also excellent, winning a total of 5 championships, and this year she also defeated zheng qinwen.
raducanu is the 2021 us open women's singles champion. that year, she won 10 consecutive games from the qualifying round to win the championship. she is the only qualifier in the open era to win a grand slam championship, writing the most incredible fairy tale story in women's tennis.
stephens is the 2017 us open women's singles champion and the 2018 french open women's singles runner-up. as early as 2014, stephens came to guangzhou open to compete. this year will be her first time to return to guangzhou open in 10 years. yastremska made a splash at this year's australian open, reaching the grand slam women's singles semi-finals for the first time in her career. because of the semi-final match with zheng qinwen, many chinese fans are very familiar with her. another former australian open women's singles semi-finalist and last year's guangzhou open runner-up linette will also continue to participate.
other contestants include: putintseva from kazakhstan, who defeated world number one swiatek at this year's wimbledon; avanesyan from armenia, who eliminated zheng qinwen and reached the round of 16 at this year's french open; slamkova, who just won her first career title in hua hin; and potapova, pozkova, kalinina and many other players ranked in the top 50 in the world.
in addition, 2019 guangzhou open champion and 2020 australian open champion kenin, 2023 guangzhou open champion wang xiyu, 2016 women's singles champion tsurenko and others all appeared on the substitute list.
text | reporter long xiphoto | provided by the organizer
