2018 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open

The 2018 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 5th edition of the event, and part of the International category of the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place in Nanchang, China, from July 23 – 29, 2018.

Seeds

 * Rankings are as of July 16, 2018

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
 * 🇨🇳 Yang Zhaoxuan
 * 🇨🇳 Zhang Shuai
 * 🇨🇳 Zheng Wushuang

The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:
 * 🇷🇺 Margarita Gasparyan

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
 * 🇯🇵 Hiroko Kuwata
 * Liang En-shuo
 * 🇹🇭 Peangtarn Plipuech
 * 🇮🇳 Karman Thandi
 * 🇨🇳 Xu Shilin
 * 🇨🇳 Xun Fangying

The following players received entry as lucky losers:
 * 🇯🇵 Momoko Kobori
 * 🇯🇵 Junri Namigata

Withdrawals

 * 🇸🇰 Jana Čepelová → replaced by 🇯🇵 Ayano Shimizu
 * 🇷🇸 Bojana Jovanovski Petrović → replaced by 🇨🇳 Lu Jingjing
 * 🇸🇰 Kristína Kučová → replaced by 🇨🇳 Lu Jiajing
 * 🇨🇳 Peng Shuai → replaced by 🇰🇷 Jang Su-jeong
 * Conny Perrin → replaced by 🇯🇵 Momoko Kobori
 * Arantxa Rus → replaced by 🇮🇳 Ankita Raina
 * 🇨🇳 Yang Zhaoxuan → replaced by 🇯🇵 Junri Namigata

Retirements

 * 🇷🇺 Vitalia Diatchenko

Seeds

 * Rankings are as of July 16, 2018

Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
 * 🇨🇳 Liu Yanni / 🇨🇳 Yuan Yue
 * 🇨🇳 Sun Xuliu / 🇨🇳 Zheng Wushuang

Singles

 * 🇨🇳 Wang Qiang def. 🇨🇳 Zheng Saisai 7–5, 4–0 ret.

Doubles

 * 🇨🇳 Jiang Xinyu / 🇨🇳 Tang Qianhui def. 🇨🇳 Lu Jingjing / 🇨🇳 You Xiaodi, 6–4, 6–4