The China Open in Beijing is the biggest combined event of the autumn Asian swing. It pairs a WTA 1000 with a 96-player draw and an ATP 500, both played on the outdoor hard courts of the China National Tennis Center. For the women it is the second-to-last 1000-level event of the season. For the men it is the ATP 500 that leads into the Shanghai Masters. This guide covers how the tournament works, what players earn and who has won it, with the current year’s field in a dated section at the end.
The venue
The tournament has been played at the China National Tennis Center in Beijing since 2009, a site built for the 2008 Olympic tennis event. Its main stadium, Diamond Court, holds 15,000 people. Before the move the event used the Beijing Tennis Center, and in its first incarnation in the 1990s it was a men’s indoor carpet event. The women have competed in Beijing since 2004.
Two tournaments, two formats
The women’s event runs across two weeks, the format used at the combined WTA 1000s such as Indian Wells and Miami. The singles draw holds 96 players, with the top 32 seeds given a first-round bye, and the doubles draw holds 32 teams. The champion earns 1,000 ranking points.
The men’s event is a one-week ATP 500 with a 32-player singles draw, played alongside the first week of the women’s tournament. The men’s champion earns 500 points, the finalist 330, the semifinalists 200 and the quarterfinalists 100. Because the men’s final falls before the women’s second week has finished, the two singles champions are crowned on different days.
Beijing sits in the middle of the Asian swing. For the women it comes before the last WTA 1000 of the year in Wuhan. For the men it runs in the same week as the ATP 500 in Tokyo and finishes the day before the Shanghai Masters begins.
Women’s prize money and points (2026)
| Round reached | Ranking points | Prize money (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Champion | 1,000 | $1,151,380 |
| Finalist | 650 | $612,340 |
| Semifinal | 390 | $340,190 |
| Quarterfinal | 215 | $193,645 |
| Fourth round | 120 | $105,720 |
| Third round | 65 | $61,865 |
| Second round | 35 | $36,110 |
| First round | 10 | $24,335 |
The WTA lists the total financial commitment for the 2026 women’s event at $9,415,725. The men’s prize money breakdown is published by the ATP closer to the event. For how these figures are set across the tours, see how prize money works in professional tennis.
Past champions
Novak Djokovic is the most successful man in Beijing, with six titles and a 29-0 match record there according to the ATP. Rafael Nadal won the title at 19 in 2005, which makes him the event’s youngest men’s champion. Jannik Sinner has reached the final in each of his three appearances, winning in 2023 and 2025 and losing the 2024 final to Carlos Alcaraz, who won it 6-7(6), 6-4, 7-6(3).
The women’s roll of honour includes Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka. The most recent champions are Iga Swiatek in 2023, Coco Gauff in 2024 and Amanda Anisimova in 2025, who beat Linda Noskova 6-0, 2-6, 6-2 in the final.
How to watch
Men’s matches stream on Tennis TV, the ATP’s own subscription service. Women’s broadcast rights are sold by region, and the WTA publishes the current rights holder for each country on its where-to-watch page. Beijing is on China Standard Time, 12 hours ahead of New York during the tournament, so day sessions fall overnight in the Americas and late evening matches land in the European morning.
Season Snapshot: 2026
Updated 19 September 2026. The women’s event runs from 30 September to 11 October, with the singles final scheduled for Sunday 11 October, not before 7 p.m. local time. The men’s event runs from 30 September to 6 October.
The WTA’s entry list, published before the US Open ended, is headed by Aryna Sabalenka, with defending champion Anisimova returning. Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Mirra Andreeva and Noskova are also entered. World No. 1 Elena Rybakina is on the entry list, but on 18 September the Kazakhstan Tennis Federation said she needs at least two weeks of treatment for an Achilles tendon injury and withdrew her from the Billie Jean King Cup Finals. Beijing starts 12 days after that statement.
The men’s entry list published by the ATP on 1 September is led by Sinner, the defending champion, with Alexander Zverev, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Djokovic, Flavio Cobolli and Alex de Minaur behind him. At the time the list was published, Sinner had not played since winning Wimbledon in July because of injury. Djokovic is entered for the first time since 2015. Final seedings and withdrawals are confirmed when the draws are made.
