2017 Wuhan Open

The 2017 Wuhan Open (also known as the 2017 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open for sponsorship reasons) was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts between September 24–30, 2017. It was the 4th edition of the Wuhan Open, and part of the WTA Premier 5 tournaments of the 2017 WTA Tour. The tournament was held at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in Wuhan, China.

Seeds

 * Rankings are as of September 18, 2017

Other entrants
The following players received wild card s into the singles main draw:
 * 🇨🇳 Duan Yingying
 * Jil Teichmann
 * 🇨🇳 Wang Yafan

The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:
 * 🇺🇸 Sloane Stephens

The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:
 * 🇹🇳 Ons Jabeur
 * 🇺🇸 Varvara Lepchenko
 * 🇵🇱 Magda Linette
 * 🇺🇸 Christina McHale
 * 🇷🇴 Monica Niculescu
 * 🇩🇪 Andrea Petkovic
 * Monica Puig
 * Maria Sakkari

Withdrawals

 * Before the tournament
 * Timea Bacsinszky → replaced by 🇨🇳 Wang Qiang
 * Mirjana Lučić-Baroni → replaced by 🇦🇺 Ashleigh Barty
 * 🇨🇿 Lucie Šafářová → replaced by 🇰🇿 Yulia Putintseva
 * 🇺🇸 CoCo Vandeweghe → replaced by Donna Vekić

Seeds

 * Rankings are as of September 18, 2017

Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
 * 🇨🇳 Guo Shanshan / 🇨🇳 Ye Qiuyu
 * 🇨🇳 Wang Qiang / 🇨🇳 Wang Yafan

The following pair received entry as alternates:
 * 🇩🇪 Mona Barthel / 🇩🇪 Carina Witthöft

Withdrawals

 * Before the tournament
 * 🇷🇴 Monica Niculescu
 * Jeļena Ostapenko
 * 🇷🇺 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova


 * During the tournament
 * 🇦🇺 Ashleigh Barty

Retirements

 * 🇷🇺 Ekaterina Makarova
 * 🇨🇳 Wang Qiang
 * 🇩🇪 Carina Witthöft

Singles

 * 🇫🇷 Caroline Garcia def. 🇦🇺 Ashleigh Barty, 6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–4), 6–2

Doubles

 * Chan Yung-jan / Martina Hingis def. 🇯🇵 Shuko Aoyama / 🇨🇳 Yang Zhaoxuan, 7–6(7–5), 3–6, [10–4]