With 700 championship points, Gerges will also jump to 14th in the year-end world rankings, a career-high high. In the doubles final, which started early in the afternoon, there was a wonderful civil war between Duan Yingying/Han Xinyun, who defeated compatriots Zhang Shuai/Lu Jingjing in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1, to be crowned the women's doubles champion in Zhuhai for the first time, which is also the first WTA Tour title since the two Chinese girls were paired.

After the match, Guo Caiwu presented the championship trophy to Gerges, and Liu Wenbin, Director of the Tennis Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of China, and Graf presented the event mascot and flowers to Gerges. Lan Yadong, Chairman of Hengqin Life Insurance Co., Ltd., presented the runner-up trophy to Van der Weg, and Wang Lingping, Director of Zhuhai Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, and Chen Yu, Vice President of Huafa Modern Service Investment Holding Co., Ltd., presented the mascot and flowers to Van der Weg respectively. After the previously concluded doubles competition, Sun Hengyi, Deputy Mayor of Zhuhai City, presented the championship trophy to Duan Yingying/Han Xinyun, and Mr. Yang Chuan, Director of the Hengqin New Area Management Committee, presented the runner-up trophy to Zhang Shuai/Lu Jingjing.

During the six-day competition, there were many excitement inside and outside the stadium, the fan experience was richer, and the popularization of the people was more in-depth. Among them, the Zhuhai Food Festival, Bubble Carnival and other activities held at the same time as the event have made the popularity outside the venue explode day by day, and the unique memory of Zhuhai has been further rooted in the hearts of the people. In particular, the Huafa Center Stadium on the final day was almost full, and netizens and TV viewers from many countries at home and abroad watched all 22 wonderful matches through live TV broadcasts and replays.

At 1:30 p.m., the women's doubles final was the first to start, with Zhang Shuai/Lu Jingjing facing Duan Yingying/Han Xinyun, which was also the first time in three years that two pairs of Chinese players competed for the championship. On the way to the finals, both pairs fought their way through the encirclement with unmatched victories. However, in the final, because Zhang Shuai/Lu Jingjing has rarely played doubles in recent years, Duan Yingying/Han Xinyun, who cooperated more tacitly, almost mastered the situation on the court, and attacked the opponent's serve twice in the opening game, and soon won 6-2. After a set in hand, Duan Yingying/Han Xinyun became more and more courageous, whether it was the bottom line or the point grabbing in front of the net, they frequently scored points, 6-1 and then the next city, locking the victory.

The singles finale, which debuted at 4 o'clock, was a battle between Germany's sister Gergers and United States heavy artillery Vanderwig. Germany's first sister Gergers continued her good form at the end of the season, beating Van der Weg 7-5/6-1 with a seven-game scoring streak, winning nine consecutive wins in the season and winning the title in China for the first time. It was also the highest-ranking women's singles title of her career, and Gerges will reach No. 14 in the world rankings next week, ending the season with a top 15 performance for the first time.

The first set was a spectacular affair as Gerges didn't get into the groove quickly and was broken by Van der Wigg to take a 3-0 lead, with the latter taking a 5-3 advantage into his own service game. But in the face of adversity, Gerges suddenly broke out, broke back twice at the critical moment, and cashed in the handicap with a beautiful forehand slash to win the handicap, 7-5. Entering the second set became a personal performance for the German, Vanderwig was powerless in the face of Gergers's hot hand, losing seven games in a row when he was 2-0 down, and although he barely stopped the decline to win a game, it was also the last game of his whole match, and the imposing Gergers broke all the way to seal the victory 6-1 and lift the second championship trophy of the season.

As a leader in Zhuhai's urban construction and cultural promotion, Huafa Group relies on the hosting of the Zhuhai WTA Super Elite Tournament to give full play to its rich experience and resources accumulated in the fields of art, music, culture, art, etc., and further deepen cross-border integration around the concept of "sports +". A series of activities such as food festivals, beer corners, selfie corners, bubble carnivals, ecological photography exhibitions, and children's drawing competitions have innovatively injected more new elements and connotations into the Zhuhai Elite Competition.

    People who came to watch the game lined up in a "long line" at the entrance

Among them, on the basis of the successful international food festival held last year, the event launched the "Zhuhai Food Festival" for the first time, which is more based on the dissemination of local culture, and uses the platform of international events to convey the charm of Chinese cuisine, especially South China food culture, to the world. The top 10 restaurants in Zhuhai were unveiled together, and 50 exquisite dishes were of high quality and low price, completely conquering the taste buds of the audience and leaving an evocative memory of Zhuhai.

A bustling food festival at night

The first Zhuhai Little Painter Painting Contest aims to popularize and promote tennis culture for the majority of children and teenagers, so that more children can learn about tennis, understand tennis and feel the charm of tennis through painting. During the WTA Super Classic in Zhuhai, children were also invited to watch the tournament live and get up close and personal with top tennis stars. Coupled with the new launch of the hand-in-hand caddie activity, the combination of "tennis + children" has also achieved the cutest scenery of this year's WTA Super Elite in Zhuhai.

The winning work of the Little Painter Painting Competition

Since its debut in 2015, the Zhuhai WTA Super Classic has adhered to the international standard, while upholding the open and innovative mentality and pragmatic spirit of being pragmatic and progressive, laying the development idea of "specialization, branding and marketization". Through one after another classic "City + Tennis" series of promotional activities, the three major values created by the tournament - the international influence of the city, the value of the city's livelihood and the value of the city's economy - have also become increasingly prominent.

Graf Zhuhai Centre Tennis Show

On the morning of November 4th, Graf landed in Zhuhai Center, the tallest building in Zhuhai and Macao, and presented a tennis performance from a height of 330 meters to the world. This promotion activity with the theme of "Winning the Top of the Greater Bay Area" is also another landmark creative activity perfectly presented by Huafa Group after last year's Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge tennis show, which not only shows Zhuhai's rapid changes and new image to the world, but also expresses Zhuhai's confidence and ambition to actively respond to the national strategy and connect with the world at a higher starting point and a higher platform.

The caddies of the tournament took a group photo with Sevastova and Van der Weg

The series of activities such as tennis entering the campus, tennis entering the community, eight-city caddie selection, and college VS star competition have profoundly interpreted the intention of the event to be based on public opinion and private competition, and the people's livelihood value of the event has surged. The "Tennis into Campus" series of activities launched in May this year has benefited more than 20 primary and secondary schools in the city; Launched in August this year, the "Tennis into the Community" public welfare activity will go into 100 communities to carry out tennis popularization work by the end of the year. Among them, Batty's visit to Yung Wing School and the experience of woodblock New Year painting rubbing during the competition made the player from Australia and WTA officials deeply feel the breadth and depth of traditional Chinese culture.

Football star Barty visits Yung Wing School

Of course, in just three years, the economic benefits brought to Zhuhai by the Zhuhai WTA Super Classic cannot be ignored. Under the linkage of the event, Zhuhai's tourism, catering, hotel and many other industries have achieved the development of multiplier benefits. According to the data, the first event in 2015 generated a consumer value of 465 million yuan, and in 2016, the overall economic value of the event reached 560 million yuan, and this number is expected to hit a new high this year.

As one of the national strategies, the establishment of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area conforms to the global and Chinese development trends, and also provides a rare historical development opportunity for relevant cities. The completion of major projects such as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link has provided a solid foundation for the integration of the three places. The complementarity of industrial resources will become a "new lever" to promote the cultural integration of the three places.

Players from the Greater Bay Area in the competition

Since the start of the preparations for this year's event, the event has held a number of sports and cultural exchange activities for Hong Kong, Macao and various cities and regions in the Pearl River Delta, hoping to rely on the platform of the international competition to help build a high-quality living circle in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. During the competition, the "Greater Bay Area Youth Tennis Team Invitational Tournament" was launched for the first time, attracting the enthusiastic participation of a total of 14 youth teams from the four major bay areas and Taipei cities, which not only promoted the cultural interaction, interconnection and integration of the Greater Bay Area, but also pushed Zhuhai to the forefront of the world's bay area again.

Sixteen teams from the four major bay areas participated in the competition

With the implementation of the national "Belt and Road" initiative and the gradual deepening of the construction of the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area", as the strategic fulcrum of the "Belt and Road" and the "innovation city of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area", Zhuhai will further usher in a good opportunity for its own breakthrough. As the organizer of the Zhuhai WTA Super Elite Tournament, Huafa Group will continue to take high-end sports events as the carrier, shoulder the mission, live up to the responsibility, help Zhuhai "cultural tourism city" and "happy city construction", enhance Zhuhai's urban soft power with culture, and provide new momentum for Zhuhai to go global.