The 2023 Zhuhai WTA Super Elite Tournament is hosted by the Chinese Tennis Association and the Zhuhai Municipal People's Government, undertaken by Huafa Group, and operated and implemented by Huafa Sports, a subsidiary of Huafa Modern Service Sector.

The Zhuhai WTA Super Classic was held at the Hengqin International Tennis Center for five consecutive years from 2015 to 2019, and has won unanimous praise from the WTA and previous players for its high-quality hardware facilities and top-level event service level. Since the tournament was held five years ago, the WTA Super Classic Zhuhai has made tennis culture take root in the city, becoming one of Zhuhai's shining cards, and making Zhuhai continue to shine on the world stage. Over the past five years, the tournament has attracted nearly 200,000 visitors and generated more than US$3 billion in global media influence.

To let the world know about a city, sports events are undoubtedly one of the most effective mediums. As the organizer of the event, Huafa Group has carefully built the business card of the Zhuhai WTA Super Elite in the past five years, creating influence with culture, providing new development impetus for Zhuhai, a "city of youth and vitality", and unswervingly promoting the improvement of Zhuhai's urban soft power and the development of cultural and sports undertakings in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. With the return of high-level international sports events such as the Zhuhai WTA Super Classic and the ATP Zhuhai Tennis Championship, Huafa Group will once again focus the world's attention on this rapidly developing southern coastal city, and let the world see the new development of the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin and the charming Zhuhai in the new era.

As the operator of the event, Huafa Sports adheres to the concept of "making sports a life", continuously improves and improves the quality of the event, is committed to bringing high-quality and diversified sports to the public, creating an unparalleled sports experience, creating sports opportunities for the public, encouraging the public to participate in sports, advocating the correct sports concept and lifestyle, and realizing the full integration of public life and sports.

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is one of the most attractive and diverse regions in China, and Zhuhai is based on its new positioning and mission in the construction of the Greater Bay Area, and uses the window of international tennis events to showcase the open, inclusive and dynamic Greater Bay Area to the world. Embodying the efforts of Huafa Group and all walks of life in Zhuhai, the WTA Super Classic will return to Zhuhai after four years, which will surely play a positive role in boosting the city awareness, brand effect, economic development and cultural inheritance of Zhuhai and even the Greater Bay Area, forming a strong brand effect and a circular cumulative effect of benign interaction.

Founded in 2015, the Zhuhai WTA Super Classic will enter its sixth year this year, looking back on the past five years, the wonderful journey along the way, so that everyone who has witnessed it has been moved. United States legend Serena Williams, Czech star Kvitova, a favorite of Chinese fans, reached the top in the singles event, Germany beauty Gerges, now retired "ball queen" Barty and this year's Australian Open champion Sabalenka have won the cup here. In 2018, the singles lineup of the tournament ushered in the appearance of two local players, Wang Qiang and Zhang Shuai, for the first time, creating a beautiful situation of "Chinese double flowers". In the past five years, this tennis seed has taken root in Zhuhai and is endless.

Former world No. 1 Barty won the Women's Singles title in 2018

The first event invited Li Na, a Chinese tennis star who made a comeback after giving birth, to serve as the image ambassador of the event, which made the first Zhuhai WTA Super Classic Tournament quickly out of the circle. Germany legend Graf became the global ambassador of the event the following year, and boarded the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, which was named one of the "New Seven Wonders of the World" by the United Kingdom Guardian in the same year. In 2017, it topped the Zhuhai Center, a new landmark in Zhuhai and Macao, expressing Zhuhai's response to the national strategy of "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area". In 2018, it joined hands with the world's largest amphibious aircraft Kunlong AG600 developed by China to stage a tennis show, promoting "Made in China" to the world; In 2019, he made an elegant appearance at the opening ceremony and unveiled the "Zhuhai-Hong Kong-Macao Youth Tennis Exchange Base". Every time Graf appears, it touches the pulse of the national strategy and Zhuhai's development, greatly enhancing Zhuhai's global exposure and influence.

Graff

The WTA Super Classic Zhuhai is the only elite tournament in China, where women's singles players ranked 9 to 19 in the annual championship points will gather in Zhuhai to perform. In addition, a Chinese player will be awarded a singles wildcard to the tournament, and the best Chinese female players will compete in Zhuhai to compete with the world's top players, forming a 12-member singles squad, each of which will be the final squad of the tour, as well as six pairs of top doubles players. The Zhuhai WTA Super Classic adopts a "group stage + knockout" format that is different from the traditional tour, which makes the event process suspenseful and arouses fans' interest in watching the game and heated discussions.

According to this week's finalists, the singles players ranked 9 to 19 in the championship standings are Bencic, Mukhova, Maia, Krejcikova, Case, Kasatkina, Sakkari, Ostapenko, Kudermetova, Samsonova and Vekic respectively, each of whom is a tennis star with both attention and topicality. Fans' attention to China's 20-year-old rising star Zheng Qinwen, who currently sits 26th in the championship standings, won her first WTA Tour title at the WTA 250 Palermo in Italy last month and is expected to qualify for the WTA Super Classic in Zhuhai for the first time if she can continue her excellent form in the second half of the season.

Brenda Perry, Co-Tournament Director of the WTA Super Classic Zhuhai 2023, said: "We are delighted that Zhuhai will once again welcome elite professional female tennis players from around the world and China to the competition after four years. The top 20 players at the end of the 2023 season will be invited to participate in the prestigious WTA Super Classic in Zhuhai, a special achievement that only a few players can achieve! The hospitality of the people of Zhuhai and Guangdong is world-renowned and we look forward to joining us in welcoming these elite United Kingdom athletes back to Zhuhai and China. ”

In October this year, the eyes of the world tennis world will once again converge on Zhuhai. The total prize money of the 2023 WTA Super Classic in Zhuhai rose to US$2.6 million, the highest ever in the tournament, and the singles champion could earn 700 world ranking points. Tickets for the event will go on sale on August 28, please continue to pay attention to the official website of the event (www.wtaelitetrophy.com) or the WeChat public account of "Zhuhai Tennis" or "Huafa Sports" for ticket purchase channels and methods.

Following the official announcement of the opening of the ATP Zhuhai Tennis Championships, the arrival of the WTA Super Elite will undoubtedly inject another "booster" into the vigorous development of Zhuhai tennis and even the resumption of the Chinese season. As the only city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area with both ATP and WTA tournaments, Zhuhai will continue to give full play to its unique geographical advantages and present the top international tennis matchups for Chinese fans. We look forward to following the ATP Zhuhai Tennis Championships in September, and then meeting fans from all over the world in the City of Romance in October.