From Seoul, South Korea, September 2018

1. Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open, China

ABOUT

The 2018 Wuhan Open (also known as the 2018 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open for sponsorship reasons) is a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts between September 23–29, 2018. It is the 5th edition of the Wuhan Open, and part of the WTA Premier 5 tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour. The tournament is held at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in Wuhan, China.

POINTS

Winner - 900 / Runner-up - 585 / Semifinalists - 350 / Quarter-finalists - 190

Round of 16 - 105 / Round of 32 - 60 / Round of 64 - 1

SEEDS

Except seed no 16, Asleigh Barty, all the other seeds were eliminated before the quarter-finals, at the date this article was published.

FINALISTS

Anett Kontaveit (Estonia, left) lost to Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus, right) in two sets, score 3-6 3-6.

 WINNER 

Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) is having a great second half of the year

FINAL HIGHLIGHTS

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2017 WINNER: Caroline Garcia (France) defeated Asleigh Barty (Australia) in the final

2017 Final Highlights

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2016 WINNER: Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) defeated Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia)

2015 WINNER: Venus Williams (USA) defeated Garbine Muguruza (Spain)

2014 WINNER: Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) defeated Eugenie Bouchard (Canada)

2. Tashkent Open, Uzbeckistan

ABOUT

The 2018 Tashkent Open is a WTA International tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is the 20th edition of the Tashkent Open, on the 2018 WTA Tour. It takes place at the Olympic Tennis School in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, between September 24 and 29, 2018.

POINTS

Winner - 280 / Runner-up - 180 / Semifinalists - 110 / Quarter-finalists - 60

Round of 16 - 30 / Round of 32 - 1

SEEDS

FINALISTS

Margarita Gasparyan (Russia) defeated Anastasia Potapova (Russia) in two sets, 6-6 6-1

 WINNER 

Margarita Gasparyan (Russia)

FINAL HIGHLIGHTS

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2017 WINNER: Kateryna Bondarenko (Ukraine) defeated Timea Babos (Hungary)

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From Ganghwa Island, South Korea, January 2018

Rainy weather at Shenzen on the day of the finals. 

After continuously being delayed,the game was finally played indoors,

thus it was not streamed online nor televised. 

Simona Halep won her first trophy of the year beating Czech Siniakova in a 3 sets match, 6-1, 2-6, 6-0.

Halep and Siniakova also met last year, in 2017, in the Shenzen final, when Siniakova won. 

Siniakova met Sharapova in the semifinals, where she had a tough match that she was able to win i the end. 

Halep's rival in the semifinals was another Romanian, Irina Camelia Begu. 

Begu and Halep played together as a team for the doubles competition which they won. 

<Simona Halep with the singles trophy>

<Simona Halep with both doubles and singles trophies>

<Halep and Begu with the doubles trophy>

Photos: Simona Halep's Instagram