The Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open is a WTA 250 event played on outdoor hard courts at Victoria Park Tennis Stadium. It closes the WTA’s Asian swing: in 2026 it runs the week after the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo and the Guangzhou Open, and the week before the WTA Finals. This guide covers the dates, format, points, history and every champion since the event returned in 2014.
2026 dates and format
- Main draw: Monday 2 November to Sunday 8 November 2026
- Draw ceremony: Saturday 31 October
- Finals: singles and doubles on Sunday 8 November
- Venue: Victoria Park Tennis Stadium, Hong Kong
- Surface: outdoor hard
- Category: WTA 250
- Singles draw: 32 players, made up of 23 direct entries, four qualifiers, four wild cards and one special exempt; the top four seeds receive byes into the second round
- Doubles draw: 16 teams
- Total financial commitment: US$283,347, according to the WTA
The 2026 qualifying dates had not been published by the WTA when this guide was written. [UNVERIFIED: 2026 qualifying dates, not published by the WTA; add once the tournament confirms]
The same week, the WTA 250 Chennai Open runs in India. The WTA Finals at Indian Wells begin on 8 November, the day of the Hong Kong final, according to the WTA.
Ranking points
As a WTA 250 with a 32-player singles draw, Hong Kong awards the standard WTA 250 points. [UNVERIFIED: points table taken from the WTA ranking point chart published by the ITF, which is headed “2025”; confirm it applies unchanged in 2026]
- Winner: 250
- Finalist: 163
- Semi-finalist: 98
- Quarter-finalist: 54
- Second round (last 16): 30
- First round: 1
- Qualifier: 18
History
The tournament was first played in 1980. It was held from 1980 to 1982 and once more in 1993, then returned to the WTA calendar in 2014, according to the WTA. Five editions followed, from 2014 to 2018.
The 2019 edition, scheduled for October, was postponed indefinitely in September 2019 during the protests in Hong Kong. Organisers said at the time that “a smooth running of the tournament can be better assured at a later time,” the Associated Press reported. The event was not held again until 2023, when the WTA described it as being staged for the first time since 2018. It has been played every year since.
Past champions
| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Victoria Mboko (CAN) | Cristina Bucsa (ESP) | 7-5, 6-7(9), 6-2 |
| 2024 | Diana Shnaider | Katie Boulter (GBR) | 6-1, 6-2 |
| 2023 | Leylah Fernandez (CAN) | Katerina Siniakova (CZE) | 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 |
| 2019–2022 | Not held | ||
| 2018 | Dayana Yastremska (UKR) | Wang Qiang (CHN) | 6-2, 6-1 |
| 2017 | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | Daria Gavrilova (AUS) | 5-7, 6-3, 7-6(3) |
| 2016 | Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) | Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) | 6-1, 6-7(4), 6-2 |
| 2015 | Jelena Jankovic (SRB) | Angelique Kerber (GER) | 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-1 |
| 2014 | Sabine Lisicki (GER) | Karolina Pliskova (CZE) | 7-5, 6-3 |
Champions are taken from the WTA’s past-winners list. Scores are from WTA match reports and, for 2014 to 2016, from AP and Reuters reports of the finals.
Mboko won the 2025 final in two hours and 49 minutes, the longest tour-level final of the season, according to the WTA and Tennis Canada. It was her second title of 2025 after Montreal, and she was 19. Bucsa was the runner-up.
Shnaider’s 2024 win was her fourth title of that season; she beat the defending champion, Fernandez, 6-4, 6-2 in the semi-finals. Yastremska won the 2018 title as an 18-year-old ranked No. 102, her first on the WTA Tour.
Records and notes
- No player has won the singles title twice since the tournament returned in 2014.
- Latisha Chan and Hao-Ching Chan won the doubles in 2016 and 2017, the only repeat champions on the modern list.
- Fernandez won her first eight matches at the event, taking the 2023 title, and reached the semi-finals in 2024 and 2025, according to the WTA.
- Canadians have won two of the last three titles, through Fernandez in 2023 and Mboko in 2025.
- In 2025, wild card Eudice Chong beat Suzan Lamens 6-3, 6-4. The WTA reported it was the first WTA main-draw match won by a player from Hong Kong since Zhang Ling at Guangzhou in 2014, and the first win by a home player at this tournament since Suzie Holm reached the second round in 1980.
The 2026 field
The WTA’s entry list, published on 8 October, is headed by 2024 champion Diana Shnaider, Sorana Cirstea, Alexandra Eala and Jasmine Paolini. Fernandez, the 2023 champion, and Bucsa, the 2025 runner-up, are both entered, as are Zheng Qinwen, Maria Sakkari, Paula Badosa, Ann Li, Kimberly Birrell and 2024 finalist Katie Boulter.
Defending champion Victoria Mboko is not on the entry list. The WTA said she had been out of action since June, when she retired at Queen’s with a knee injury and then withdrew from Wimbledon. Wild cards had not been announced when this guide was written. GTN’s report on the 2026 Hong Kong entry list has the full list and alternates.
How to watch
No 2026 broadcast partners had been published by the WTA or the tournament when this guide was written. The WTA lists broadcasters by country on its where-to-watch page, which is updated before each event.
For how the Hong Kong week fits the end of the season, see GTN’s Asian swing explainer and the guides to the Toray Pan Pacific Open and Guangzhou Open, which are played the week before.
