WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai

Those women ranked just below the elite who contested the WTA Finals in Singapore, are competing in Zhuhai, China for the Hengqin Life WTA Elite Trophy.

The twelve players are split into four groups (seeded as shown)

AZALEA 

Dasha Kasatkina (1)

Madison Keys (6)

Qiang Wang (11)

CAMELLIA

Anastasija Sevastova (2)

Garbiñe Muguruza (7)

Shuai Zhang (12)

ORCHID 

Aryna Sabalenka (3)

Caroline Garcia (8)

Ash Barty (9)

ROSE

Elise Mertens (4)

Julia Goerges (5)

Anett Kontaveit (10)

Winners from each group will be semi finalists and from there a champion will eventually be decided.

A doubles tournament is run in conjunction with the singles event - two groups of three teams, LILY and BOUGAINVILLEA 

Today features the first round robin matches 

• Aryna Sabalenka (3) v Ash Barty (9)
• Elise Mertens (4) v Anett Kontaveit (10)
• Dasha Kasatkina (1) v Qiang Wang (11) 
• Lyudmyla Kichenok / Nadiia Kichenok (3) v Xinyu Jiang / Zhaoxuan Yang (5) (from the BOUGAINVILLEA group)