Tour: WTA · Level: 500-level · Surface: hard court · Location: Ningbo · Dates: Oct 13, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026
Elena Rybakina def. Ekaterina Alexandrova, 3-6 6-0 6-2.
Live tournament updates, live draw, set-by-set match scores, point-by-point flow, per-point stat attribution (aces, winners, unforced errors), live point + game + match win-probability, live tournament winner predictions that update after every completed match, per-round reach odds from R128 through the title, player stats, head-to-head history, surface form, player injury and return status, and round-by-round fantasy scoring.
Ningbo Open 2026 ships live odds of winning the title and reaching every round (R128 through the title) for every player in the draw. Odds re-condition after every completed match. Our hit-rate against sportsbook lines is published openly, sliced by surface, tour, and round.
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Matches: 6 · Completed: 2 · Players in draw: 6
Ningbo Open 2026 bracket — late-round matchups from R16 through the Final. Scroll horizontally to see every round; tap any match for the live score, set-by-set stats, and head-to-head history. Pair the bracket with the Predictions tab for each player's odds of reaching every round, updated after every completed match. View the complete draw with all rounds (R128 through the Final) with seed positions and match predictions.
Full Ningbo Open 2026 results — 2 completed matches so far, grouped by round below. Tap any match for the live set-by-set score, point-by-point flow, and head-to-head history.
| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Elena Rybakina | Ekaterina Alexandrova | 3-6 6-0 6-2 |
| 2024 | Daria Kasatkina | Mirra Andreeva | 6-0 4-6 6-4 |
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Ningbo Open is open as a free fantasy contest on The Drop Shot. Build a salary-cap roster from the field in a single-tournament contest, or draft a season-long team across the full ATP and WTA calendar in a snake-draft fantasy tennis league. Pricing weights surface history and recent form against Ningbo Open's surface — so a clay specialist costs more here than at a hard-court event. Every match on the draw above scores live for your fantasy team, with pre-match win probabilities, set-by-set stats, and live point-by-point updates.
The Ningbo Open is one of the WTA tour's younger fixtures, but its roots predate its current billing. Founded in 2010, it spent its early years as a WTA 125 stop before a long dormancy, returning as a WTA 250 in 2023 and jumping to WTA 500 status from 2024. That fast-tracked promotion dropped it squarely into the mid-October Asian hardcourt swing, where it shares calendar real estate with the China Open and Wuhan Open — three big-money events compressing the back half of the WTA's autumn into a few crowded weeks.
What sets Ningbo apart is timing rather than tradition. It lands late enough that the draw doubles as a final WTA Finals qualification sprint, with seeding points and Singapore-style stakes giving early-round matches outsized weight. The hardcourts at the Ningbo International Conference Hotel Tennis Center play medium-paced — quick enough to reward flat hitters and big servers, but not the lightning conditions of an indoor finale — which has produced champions from across the stylistic spectrum.
The short list of winners already skews toward the tour's upper tier. In 2025, Elena Rybakina recovered from dropping the opening set to Ekaterina Alexandrova, reeling off 6-0, 6-2 in the final two sets to lift the trophy. A year earlier, Daria Kasatkina edged a then-teenage Mirra Andreeva 6-0, 4-6, 6-4 in a three-set final — an early marker of Andreeva's arrival and a reminder of how quickly the event has attracted marquee names.
As of mid-2026, Rybakina is the last name engraved on the trophy, and the 2026 edition (Oct. 13–19) carries its now-standard 500-level pull. For a tournament barely two seasons into its elevated tier, the early roll of finalists suggests Ningbo's status is catching up to its ambitions.