| 2018 Taiwan Open | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | 29 January – 4 February | |||
| Edition | 3rd | |||
| Category | International | |||
| Draw | 32S / 16D | |||
| Prize money | $250,000 | |||
| Surface | Hard (i) | |||
| Location | Taipei,Taiwan | |||
| Venue | Heping Basketball Gymnasium | |||
| Champions | ||||
| Singles | ||||
 Tímea Babos | ||||
| Doubles | ||||
 Duan Yingying /Wang Yafan | ||||
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The2018Taiwan Open was a women'stennis tournament played on indoorhard courts. It was the third edition of the event and part of theWTA International tournaments of the2018 WTA Tour.
| Event1 | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | 280 | 180 | 110 | 60 | 30 | 1 | 18 | 12 | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doubles | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 322 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Women's singles | $43,000 | $21,400 | $11,500 | $6,175 | $3,400 | $2,100 | $1,020 | $600 |
| Women's doubles * | $12,300 | $6,400 | $3,435 | $1,820 | $960 | — | — | — |
1 Qualifiers' prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money
* per team
| Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHN | Peng Shuai | 27 | 1 |
| CHN | Zhang Shuai | 34 | 2 |
 AUS | Samantha Stosur | 41 | 3 |
| HUN | Tímea Babos | 51 | 4 |
 KAZ | Yulia Putintseva | 54 | 5 |
| KAZ | Zarina Diyas | 60 | 6 |
 POL | Magda Linette | 74 | 7 |
 FRA | Pauline Parmentier | 82 | 8 |
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
The following players received entry using a protected ranking:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
Belinda Bencic → replaced by
Kurumi Nara
Margarita Gasparyan → replaced byWang YafanDaria Gavrilova → replaced byZhu Lin
Elina Svitolina → replaced byLu JingjingLesia Tsurenko → replaced by
Ana Bogdan
Alison Van Uytvanck → replaced byRisa Ozaki| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HUN | Tímea Babos |  TPE | Chan Hao-ching | 24 | 1 |
| JPN | Miyu Kato | JPN | Makoto Ninomiya | 79 | 2 |
| UKR | Lyudmyla Kichenok | UKR | Nadiia Kichenok | 96 | 3 |
| AUS | Monique Adamczak | AUS | Storm Sanders | 121 | 4 |
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
Tímea Babos def.Kateryna Kozlova, 7–5, 6–1Duan Yingying /Wang Yafan def.Nao Hibino /
Oksana Kalashnikova, 7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–5)
