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🇨🇳Ningbo Open 2026

Level: WTA 500
Draw: Women's Singles
Where: Ningbo, China
Surface: Hard
Dates: 17 – 25 Oct 2026

Champion

🇰🇿Elena Rybakina 1st seed

R16Kudermetova5-0 RET
QFKawa6-1 3-6 6-1
SFShnaider6-3 7-5
FinalFernandez6-2 6-2

4 wins, 1 set dropped. Rybakina’s run, match by match

The title paid

500ranking points

$185,500 prize money

Runner-up

🇨🇦Leylah Fernandez

325 pts

2025 champion

Elena Rybakina — retained the title

The week in numbers

28-player draw · 27 matches played

3/7

top seeds reached the quarter-finals

7

matches went to a deciding set

of 27 played

34

games in the longest match

Fernandez d. Sasnovich, R16

4

sets decided by a tiebreak

2

home players in the draw

of 28

Final four

Semi-final6-3 7-5🇰🇿E. Rybakina(1)🇷🇺D. Shnaider(6)Semi-final6-3 7-5🇨🇦L. Fernandez🇨🇿M. Bouzkova

Final6-2 6-2🇰🇿E. Rybakina(1)🇨🇦L. Fernandez

What each round was worth

and who took it

ResultPointsReached byPrize

Champion
500pts$185.5K
Elena Rybakina(1)
Runner-up
325pts$114.5K
Leylah Fernandez
Semifinal
195pts$66K
D. Shnaider(6), M. Bouzkova
Quarterfinal
108pts$33.5K
I. Jovic(4), E. Alexandrova, S. Bejlek, K. Kawa
Round of 16
60pts$17.8K
8 players — incl. seeds 3, 5, 8
Round of 32
30pts$12.7K
12 players — incl. seed 7

Past champions

2025
Elena Rybakina · d. Ekaterina Alexandrova
2024
Daria Kasatkina · d. Mirra Andreeva

Full draw How the 7 seeds fared All 27 matches

All 27 matches, round by round

Final

Elena Rybakina def. Leylah Fernandez6-2 6-2

Semifinals

Elena Rybakina def. Diana Shnaider6-3 7-5
Leylah Fernandez def. Marie Bouzkova6-3 7-5

Quarterfinals

Diana Shnaider def. Iva Jovic6-3 4-6 6-1
Elena Rybakina def. Katarzyna Kawa6-1 3-6 6-1
Leylah Fernandez def. Ekaterina Alexandrova4-6 6-2 6-1
Marie Bouzkova def. Sara Bejlek6-3 6-4

Round of 16

Ekaterina Alexandrova def. Marta Kostyuk6-4 RET
Leylah Fernandez def. Aliaksandra Sasnovich7-5 6-7(3) 6-3
Marie Bouzkova def. Anastasia Zakharova7-5 6-2
Sara Bejlek def. Sorana Cirstea7-6(3) 6-4
Diana Shnaider def. Alexandra Eala7-5 6-4
Elena Rybakina def. Polina Kudermetova5-0 RET
Iva Jovic def. Jasmine Paolini6-4 6-3
Katarzyna Kawa def. Belinda Bencic7-5 6-2

Round of 32

Alexandra Eala def. Diane Parry6-3 6-1
Aliaksandra Sasnovich def. Daria Kasatkina6-4 6-2
Leylah Fernandez def. Elise Mertens2-6 6-3 7-5
Marie Bouzkova def. Kamilla Rakhimova6-4 6-4
Sorana Cirstea def. Han Shi6-3 6-2
Belinda Bencic def. Jelena Ostapenko6-3 1-1 RET
Diana Shnaider def. Yulia Putintseva7-5 7-6(4)
Ekaterina Alexandrova def. Hanyu Guo6-2 6-3
Jasmine Paolini def. Anhelina Kalinina6-2 7-5
Katarzyna Kawa def. Daria Snigur1-6 6-2 6-4
Polina Kudermetova def. Cristina Bucsa7-6(5) 6-2
Sara Bejlek def. Alycia Parks4-6 6-3 6-3