The 2025 China Tennis Tour CTA1000 Huzhou Open Tennis Championships will be held from April 21 to 27 at the newly completed Huzhou International Clay Tennis Center.
Li Zhe
The Huzhou Tennis Open attracted many domestic tennis masters to participate, and the 38-year-old Tianjin veteran Li Zhe is undoubtedly one of the most eye-catching players in this tournament. Li Zhe, who has reached the highest singles ranking of No. 193 in the world and has 16 ITF singles titles and 55 ITF doubles titles, made his Grand Slam singles debut at the 2019 Australian Open, and won a silver medal in men's doubles at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou and a silver medal in the men's team at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon. Since turning professional tennis in 2004, Li Zhe has been active in the arena for more than 20 years.
Jin Yuquan
Chen Xing said
The men's singles lineup is led by Jin Yuquan and Chen Xingdao, two young players born in the 00s, Jin Yuquan from Shandong is the highest-ranked male player in the ATP singles world in this tournament, and he once partnered with Li Zekai to win the men's doubles championship in CTA1000 Anning Station in 2022. Guangdong's Chen Xingdao, a two-time singles champion on the China Tennis Tour, is undoubtedly one of the favourites to win the men's singles title.
Liu Fangzhou
Nima Dolma
On the women's side, Tianjin's Liu Fangzhou and Nima Zhuoma are the top two seeds, Liu Fangzhou is one of the players with the highest total singles wins in the history of the Chinese tennis tour, having won the women's singles title five times at the 2021 CTA800 Rizhao Station, the 2021 CTA800 Changzhou Station and the 2020, 2022 and 2025 Professional Finals. The Tianjin star has six ITF singles titles and four ITF doubles titles, and was runner-up in the women's singles at WTA125K Jiangxi in 2014, with the highest WTA singles world ranking of No. 127. Nima Zhuoma from Guangdong is a Tibetan girl who has won six Chinese tennis tournaments, including one singles title and five doubles titles.
Xiao Zhenghua
Xiao Zhenghua from Zhejiang, who has been training in Huzhou since she was young, has made great achievements in the field of doubles, winning eight ITF doubles titles in the past two years, and was the runner-up in women's doubles at last year's 2024 Huzhou International Tennis Open with Huzhou local player Ye Qiuyu.
The tournament is divided into four events: men's and women's singles and men's and women's doubles, the qualifiers will be held on April 21, the main competition will be held on April 22, and the finals of each event will be played on April 27. There are 32 spots for singles and 64 for qualifiers, and 16 for doubles.
The Huzhou International Clay Tennis Center, where the tournament was held, was officially opened at the end of March this year, with 14 clay courts built according to Roland Garros standards and 4 high-standard acrylic hard courts, including a 5,000-seat center court and a 2,000-seat secondary court, which is second to none in Asia. With the help of the city card of "clay tennis", Huzhou, located in the center of the Yangtze River Delta, is striving to build a "famous clay tennis city in China".