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Tuesday in Beijing has the final round of qualifying for the expanded, 96-player women’s draw.
At the same time, the first round of the men’s event, which is a 500, gets under way.
Only three upsets in the first round, in terms of seeds. So almost all of the seeded players were be in action and facing each other.
Elina Svitolina is out with a hip injury; Elsa Jacquemot won the draw as a lucky loser ahead of No. 1 qualifying seed Emiliana Arango.
(Beijing is 12 hours ahead of EDT)
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China Open
Location: Beijing, China
Surface: Hard/Decoturf
Category: WTA 1000 (Joint event with an ATP 500)
Dates: Sept. 24 – Oct. 5, 2025
Prize money: $8,963,700
Draws: S96 – D32
Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025
Final results
Qualifying, final round
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(1st-round opponents in brackets)
[9] Anna Bondar (HUN) def [13] Diane Parry (FRA) 60 64 ([WC] Bianca Andreescu)
[3] Cristina Bucsa (ESP) def [22] Maria Lourdes Carlé (ARG) 75 64 (Donna Vekic)
[11] Dalma Galfi (HUN) def [21] Katarzyna Kawa (POL) 75 62 (Lois Boisson)
[17] Priscilla Hon (AUS) def [6] Elisabetta Cocciaretto (ITA) 62 64 (Viktorija Golubic)
Maddison Inglis (AUS) def. [20] Rebeka Masarova (SUI) 46 76 (5) 75 (Polina Kudermetova)
[18] Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (AND) def. [2] Elsa Jacquemot (FRA) 63 62 (Maya Joint)
[23] Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) def Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 64 61 ([Q] Janice Tjen)
[15] Ella Seidel (GER) def. [1] Emiliana Arango (COL) 64 75 (Magdalena Frech)
[14] Janice Tjen (INA) def [10] Viktoriya Tomova (HUN) 62 76 (2) ([Q] Aliaksandra Sasnovich)
[7] Moyuka Uchijima (JPN) def [24] Joanna Garland (TPE) 62 26 61 ([PR] Zhu Lin)
[16] Katie Volynets (USA) def Lanlana Taraudee (THA) 36 76 (4) 63 (Peyton Stearns)
[4] Anastasia Zakharova (RUS) def [19] Greet Minnen (BEL) 62 61 ([WC] Zhang Shuai)
[LL] Elsa Jacquemot (FRA) (Antonia Ruzic)
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