{"id":949731,"date":"2026-11-02T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949731\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T10:00:16","slug":"star-studded-opening-at-hong-kong-tennis-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949731\/","title":{"rendered":"Star-studded opening at Hong Kong Tennis Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katie Boulter of Britain hits a return to Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland during the women’s singles opening-round match at the Hong Kong Open tennis tournament on Nov 2, 2026. (DJ CLARK\/CHINA DAILY)<\/p>\n

The Hong Kong Tennis Open 2026 officially served off with a star-studded opening at Victoria Park Tennis Stadium on Monday, launching a week of world-class WTA action running through Sunday.<\/p>\n

The opening day featured 23-time Grand Slam singles and doubles champion Venus Williams, 46, headlining the evening session against fellow American Mary Stoiana in a bid for a spot in the second round.<\/p>\n

Local wildcard Adithya Karunaratne will make her WTA main-draw debut against China’s sixth-seeded Wang Xinyu, alongside marquee opening-round matchups featuring British No 1 Katie Boulter and fourth seed Maria Sakkari of Greece.<\/p>\n

Fans can look forward to an electrifying week ahead as second seed and world No 19 Alexandra Eala of the Philippines will launch her campaign on Tuesday, leading a competitive field contending for the WTA 250 title in Asia\u2019s world city.<\/p>\n

China Daily photographer DJ Clark captured the action-packed moments on Monday.<\/p>\n

Katie Boulter of Britain hits a return to Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland during the women’s singles opening-round match at the Hong Kong Open tennis tournament on Nov 2, 2026. (DJ CLARK\/CHINA DAILY)Viktorija Golubic (bottom) of Switzerland serves to Katie Boulter of Britain during the women’s singles opening-round match at the Hong Kong Open tennis tournament on Nov 2, 2026. (DJ CLARK\/CHINA DAILY)Kenneth Lau Ip-keung (center), a member of the Executive Council and Legislative Council and chairman of the Heung Yee Kuk, officates at the coin-toss ceremony ahead of the women’s singles opening-round match between Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic (left) and Britain’s Katie Boulter (right) at the Hong Kong Open tennis tournament on Nov 2, 2026. (DJ CLARK\/CHINA DAILY)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter of Britain hits a return to Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland during the women’s singles opening-round match…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[516916,69099,64,63,63023,26600,18935,281865,85,747,11549,191684,359776],"class_list":["post-949731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-adithya-karunaratne","tag-alexandra-eala","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-hong-kong-open","tag-katie-boulter","tag-maria-sakkari","tag-mary-stoiana","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-venus-williams","tag-wang-xinyu","tag-wta-250"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}