Draw released for Wuhan Open: Barty, Pliskova and Svitolina part of stacked line up

The draw has been released for the Wuhan Open with an all-star line up taking part in the event starting on Sunday as the hard court swing continues.

Ashleigh Barty is the top seed and she receives a bye through to the second round; where she will face either Daria Kasatskina or Caroline Garcia.

Other top names including Elina Svitolina, Karolina Pliskova and Simona Halep; have all received byes. Despite that the likes of Madison Keys, Caroline Wozniacki and Angelique Kerber fall just outside that; so will play in the first round.

They will face tough tests in the form of Camila Giorgi, Su-Wei Hsieh and Monica Puig respectively in what is one of the toughest events in the hard court season it seems.

View the draw in full below: