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Eight-day professional tennis tournament at Hangzhou's Olympic Sports Centre Tennis Centre; tickets 50-1280 RMB sold online.
The tournament is scheduled for 22 to 29 September 2026 at the Tennis Centre within the Olympic Sports Centre in Hangzhou. The announcement, issued on 7 August 2026 and sourced to the municipal sports bureau and the Hangzhou Sports Industry Development Group, gives no session-by-session schedule, no start times for play and no player list.
Prices run from 50 to 1,280 yuan. The organisers describe both the price range and the tier structure as continuing unchanged from the previous edition.
Sales opened in two phases. An early-bird phase began at 10:18 on Friday 7 August, described as a benefit for returning spectators: an S+ tier was added alongside the existing B tier, with early-bird pricing down to 66 per cent of face value, and a number of themed products went on sale — parent-and-child, two-person, Mid-Autumn and weekend tickets among them. The full range of ticket types went on sale at 11:18 on 11 August, with online seat selection opening at the same moment. A limited group-buy scheme covering some price tiers was announced for that phase, available only through the Hangzhou event one-stop platform.
Six sales channels were named: the Hangzhou event one-stop platform, Damai, Piaoxingqiu, the Juss Sports app, Ctrip (including its overseas version) and Douyin. All six were said to open simultaneously.
Binjiang District is running a "sports consumption week" programme across the tournament period, bundling local retail, cultural and tourism offers around the event. The first batch of sports consumption vouchers was released when full sales opened, in four denominations: 20 yuan off 100, 60 off 250, 120 off 450 and 300 off 900. Further batches are to be added from time to time depending on take-up of the first, with no dates given. The vouchers can be claimed through all channels and applied to full-price tickets, two-person packages and full-tournament passes; after discounts, the organisers put the effective price at as little as 69 per cent of face value. Each ID may claim one voucher per denomination, and one voucher may be used per order.
This is the part on which the announcement is thinnest, and it is worth being explicit about what is missing rather than inferring it.
The organisers have not published whether ticket purchase requires real-name registration against an identity document, whether a Chinese mobile number is needed to create an account on any of the six channels, whether a WeChat or Alipay account is required to complete payment, or whether international cards are accepted. Nor is it stated whether the voucher scheme's "one per ID" rule can be satisfied by a passport or applies only to holders of a Chinese identity card. Whether entry to the venue itself requires the purchaser's document to match the ticket is also not addressed.
The only element pointing towards overseas buyers is the inclusion of Ctrip's international version among the named channels; the announcement says nothing further about it, and does not confirm that the full ticket range, the group-buy scheme or the vouchers are available there. Travellers who need certainty on any of the above should treat it as unconfirmed and check directly with a channel before making travel plans around a specific session.
This entry was compiled automatically from the organiser's own page and every date in it was checked back against that page before publishing. Nobody from our team has been to this one, and we have not called the organisers — where they have not published something, this page says so rather than filling the gap.
Status: organizer: not stated in text — the article only credits 市体育局 (Municipal Sports Bureau) and 杭州市体育产业发展集团 as the source of the material (资料/), not as organizers, so left null. region: 'Zhejiang' is not written in the article body; only inferred from the site footer's 浙ICP/浙网文 filing codes — verify. Ticketing per text: early-bird sale opened 2026-08-07 10:18, full ticket sale 2026-08-11 11:18 with online seat selection; channels 杭州赛会一站通, 大麦网, 票星球, 久事体育APP, 携程 (incl. overseas version), 抖音. Price range 50-1280 RMB, with sports vouchers (满100-20 / 满250-60 / 满450-120 / 满900-300) and discounts as low as 69%. Group-buy activity limited to the 杭州赛会一站通 platform. Tour level/sanctioning body (ATP/WTA), draw, and players are not mentioned in the text. Additional voucher rounds are described as 不定时加推 (issued at unspecified later times). Source: the organiser's own page, fetched and verified on 2026-08-23 (https://hznews.hangzhou.com.cn/chengshi/content/2026-08/07/content_9274291.htm) · checked 2026-08-23