China Open 2026, where to watch and live stream

The China Open runs in Beijing, China from 30 Sep – 6 Oct, played on medium-paced hard court. Bounces and pace sit between clay and grass, which rewards all-court players who can defend, attack and serve in roughly equal measure. It is a Masters 1000 / WTA 1000, the tier directly below the Slams and mandatory for the world top thirty outside of injury. The singles champion takes 1,000 ranking points, plus a prize pool that sits second only to the Slams.

Play starts in 56 days, on Wednesday 30 September, with the main draw running through to Tuesday 6 October.

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The China Open in Beijing runs on a medium-paced hard at the National Tennis Center, an upgrade of the venue built for the 2008 Olympics. The show court, the Diamond Court, has a retractable roof and seats roughly 15,000; the outer stadiums have a lower ceiling and produce a duller, more contained sound. Beijing in early October sits cool through the day, with lower humidity than Shanghai and a genuine chance of overnight temperature swings down to single digits, and the ball noticeably picks up on the show court under floodlights in the second week.

The combined ATP 500 and WTA 1000 format, running in parallel across the same site the same fortnight, gives the tournament roughly the same field density as an early-round Grand Slam. Iga Swiatek has been to three consecutive women’s finals here. Carlos Alcaraz won the 2024 men’s title in three sets over Sinner. The medium hard rewards the deep, heavy topspin baseliner rather than the flatter server, which is why the finals draw here consistently pulls from the top of the current rankings rather than serving up an opportunistic outsider.