On March 11, with the sunny day, the 2025 Shenzhen Guangming International Tennis Open was officially waved at the Guangming District Mass Sports Center, and the W50 main match of the 2025 ITF International Women's Tennis Tour Shenzhen Guangming Station officially started. In the preliminaries that have ended earlier, Wang Yuhan, Feng Shuo, Xun Fangying and Hong Kong, China's Hu Kecheng, a total of 4 golden flowers stood out and won the main competition.

The event held a simple but grand opening ceremony, accompanied by the solemn Chinese national flag, and the national anthem of the People's Republic of China was played and sung.

Subsequently, Qiu Haohang, Deputy Secretary of the Guangming District Party Committee and District Mayor of Shenzhen, Huang Weiping, Chairman of the CPPCC of Guangming District, Shenzhen, Wang Xinliang, Silver Medal Referee of the International Tennis Federation and Chief Referee of the Tournament, Lin Shaochong, Vice Chairman of the Guangdong Tennis Association, Wu Zhiwei, Member of the Standing Committee of the Guangming District Committee of Shenzhen and Minister of the Propaganda Department, Wang Pengcheng, Chairman of Shenzhen Sports Industry Group, Bao Xiaohong, Director of the Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau of Guangming District, Shenzhen, and Xu Anbi, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shenzhen Guangming District Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd., kicked off the event. It marks the official start of the 2025 Shenzhen Guangming International Tennis Open and the 2025 ITF International Women's Tennis Tour Shenzhen Guangming Station W50 main event.

The qualifying rounds of the tournament ended on March 10, and except for the four Chinese players, the rest of the main competition spots were divided between Erika Sema, Viktoria Morvayova, Kristiana Sidorovo and Kira Pavlova.

Photo: Photo by Li Jianyi

China's 17-year-old Wang Yuhan, who won the J200 World Junior Tennis Championships at the Nonthaburi in Thailand last week, continued his hot form, winning 7-1 in the first set with Jana Kolodynska, and then winning the second set 6-2 to advance to the main draw with a 2-0 (7-6(1), 6-2) victory.

On the other hand, Xun Fangying lost the first set 5-7 against France's Tiphanie Lemaitre, the second seed in the qualifying round, but then adjusted her form and won two consecutive sets to win 2-1 (5-7, 2-6, 4-6) to become the fourth Chinese player to advance from the qualifying round.

The W50 main match of the 2025 ITF International Women's Tennis Tour Shenzhen Guangming Station officially started at 10 o'clock this morning, and the first round of women's singles and women's doubles competitions was launched on the first day.

Zhao Xinsong, secretary general of the Shenzhen Guangming District Tennis Association, said in an interview that the holding of the event not only promotes the public's understanding of tennis, improves the tennis competition goals of Guangming teenagers, and promotes parents' awareness of their children's career development, but also drives urban consumption to a certain extent. With the participation of professional players with teams, the competition time covers Monday to Sunday, and the surrounding business, hotel, and catering industries will benefit from the team consumption of the contestants; The masses can watch the game up close, and their cognition of international and professional competitions has grown from scratch; The children trained by the Guangming Tennis Association can experience high-level competitions from the scene and clarify their own goals.

The ITF Women's International Tennis Tour is an international tennis federation tour event organized by the International Tennis Federation for female adult tennis professionals. Since 2023, the tournament has been settled in Guangming, Shenzhen, a groundbreaking initiative that has brought an unprecedented tennis boom to Guangming District, and will be upgraded to W50 in 2024, playing a positive role in the competition for world points and improving the world ranking for Chinese tennis players.

This year, the tournament system has made another breakthrough, in addition to holding the women's tennis tour, it will be the first time to land the M25 level event of the ITF International Men's Tennis Tour, and continue to make efforts to build an event system where international professional players gather in Guangming to carry out peak duels, which has effectively promoted the popularization and development of tennis in Shenzhen and even Guangdong Province, and fully demonstrated the new look of "vitality and sports".

The 2025 ITF International Women's Tennis Tour Shenzhen Guangming Station W50 attracted a total of 327 players from 41 countries and regions including China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), Thailand, the United States, Israel, Australia, South Korea, Serbia and Canada.

The competition is authorized by the ITF International Tennis Federation, hosted by the Tennis Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of China, the Chinese Tennis Association, and the People's Government of Guangming District, Shenzhen, supported by the Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau of Guangming District, Shenzhen, Sports Industry Group Co., Ltd., and Guangdong Tennis Association.

In addition, the event has also been strongly sponsored and supported by well-known enterprises and units such as Adidas, Yonex, Shutu Sports Protection, ELECTROX, Guangdong Radio and Television Sports Channel, Guangzhou Daily, and Quantenni, providing a full range of services and guarantees for the event.

Attached is the schedule for today's (March 11).

Singles main draw form

Doubles main draw form

The event will be broadcast live from March 11, and viewers who cannot watch the event live can continue to pay attention to the event through the official account of Yueqiuren Sports, Yueqiuren Weibo, all tennis and other platforms.