2018 Taiwan Open

The 2018 Taiwan Open was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the event and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour.

2018 Taiwan Open
Date	29 January – 4 February
Edition	3rd
Category	International
Draw	32S / 16D
Prize money	$250,000
Surface	Hard (i)
Location	Taipei, Taiwan
Venue	Heping Basketball Gymnasium
Champions
Singles
Tímea Babos
Doubles
Duan Yingying / Wang Yafan

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event1	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Q	Q2	Q1
Singles	280	180	110	60	30	1	18	12	1
Doubles					1	—	—	—	—

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 322	Q2	Q1
Women's singles	$43,000	$21,400	$11,500	$6,175	$3,400	$2,100	$1,020	$600
Women's doubles *	$12,300	$6,400	$3,435	$1,820	$960	—	—	—

<sub>¹ Qualifiers' prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money
* per team</sub>

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
CHN	Peng Shuai	27	1
CHN	Zhang Shuai	34	2
AUS	Samantha Stosur	41	3
HUN	Tímea Babos	51	4
KAZ	Yulia Putintseva	54	5
KAZ	Zarina Diyas	60	6
POL	Magda Linette	74	7
FRA	Pauline Parmentier	82	8

• ¹ Rankings as of January 15, 2018.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Eugenie Bouchard
• Chang Kai-chen
• Lee Ya-hsuan

The following players received entry using a protected ranking:

• Sabine Lisicki
• Wang Yafan

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Anna Blinkova
• Lizette Cabrera
• Han Xinyun
• Dalila Jakupović
• Junri Namigata
• Zhang Yuxuan

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

• Lu Jingjing

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Belinda Bencic → replaced by Kurumi Nara
• Margarita Gasparyan → replaced by Wang Yafan
• Daria Gavrilova → replaced by Zhu Lin
• Elina Svitolina → replaced by Lu Jingjing
• Lesia Tsurenko → replaced by Ana Bogdan
• Alison Van Uytvanck → replaced by Risa Ozaki

Retirements

• Ons Jabeur
• Zhu Lin

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
HUN	Tímea Babos	TPE	Chan Hao-ching	24	1
JPN	Miyu Kato	JPN	Makoto Ninomiya	79	2
UKR	Lyudmyla Kichenok	UKR	Nadiia Kichenok	96	3
AUS	Monique Adamczak	AUS	Storm Sanders	121	4

• ¹ Rankings as of January 15, 2018.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

• Chan Chin-wei / Liang En-shuo
• Hsu Ching-wen / Lee Ya-hsuan

Champions

Singles

Main article: 2018 Taiwan Open – Singles

• Tímea Babos def. Kateryna Kozlova, 7–5, 6–1

Doubles

Main article: 2018 Taiwan Open – Doubles

• Duan Yingying / Wang Yafan def. Nao Hibino / Oksana Kalashnikova, 7–6^(7–4), 7–6^(7–5)

See also

• List of sporting events in Taiwan