Last year's winner was Nour El Sherbini , who started the tournament as number one in the world rankings. El Sherbini reached the final again after a five-set win over Nour El Tayeb in the semifinals, in which she met her compatriot Raneem El Weleily as in 2016 . El Weleily had prevailed against Camille Serme in three sets in the second semi-final . This time El Weleily won the final game with 3:11, 12:10, 11: 7 and 11: 5 and thus became world champion for the first time. For the first time in the history of the competition, no player from England reached the quarter-finals.
The field of participants consisted of 32 players, eight of them for qualifiers. The 16 best players were seeded. Per Wildcard received Jenny Duncalf a spot in the main draw.
At the tournament, the following prize money and world ranking points were paid out or credited for reaching the respective round. Players who entered the main field from qualification received the specified qualification points in addition to those for reaching the respective round. Otherwise the amounts are not to be understood as cumulative. The total prize pool was $ 279,000.
N. El Sherbini
D. Urquhart
S. Watanabe
E. Whitlock
J. Chan
J. Chinappa
T. Evans
N. Gilis
C. Serme
O. Blatchford
J. King
H. Naughton
N. David