The Shenzhen Open will celebrate its seventh birthday at its long time home, the Shenzhen Longgang Sports Center. This year's tournament promises to be the best yet, as some of the most exciting women in world tennis gather for the US$750,000 prize. This International Series WTA tournament will be played December 29, 2018 to January 5, 2019.
This year’s field will include some of the most popular women players from both the international and domestic tennis scene including 5 Grand Slam singles titles Maria Sharapova, 2017 French Open Champion Jelena Ostapenko, 20 year-old Belarussian Aryna Sabalenka, and large group of Chinese competitors including Wang Qiang, Zhang Shuai and Zheng Saisai, and rising local star, Xinyu Wang.