WTA Qatar Open

The Qatar Ladies Open, currently sponsored by Total and called the Qatar Total Open, is a women's tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Held since 2001, this WTA Tour event was a Tier I-tournament in 2008, and was played on outdoor hardcourts. After a two-year break the tournament returned in 2011 and is held at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex.

Qatar Ladies Open
2020 Qatar Total Open
Tournament information
Founded	2001 (2001)
Location	Doha Qatar
Venue	Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex
Category	Premier (2011, 2015, 2017, 2019) Premier 5 (2012–2014, 2016, 2018)
Surface	Hard - outdoors
Draw	56S / 32Q / 28D
Prize money	US$3,240,445 (2020)
Website	qatartennis.org
Current champions (2020)
Women's singles	Aryna Sabalenka
Women's doubles	Hsieh Su-wei Barbora Strýcová

History

The first tournament was held in 2001 as Qatar Total FinaElf Open for the prize money of $170,000, as a Tier III tournament.[1] In 2004, the tournament got Tier II category because of an increase in prize money to $585,000,[2] and in 2007 to $600,000.[3] For the 2008 season, which was the last season it was held, the tournament became Tier I for the prize money of $2,500,000.[4] The event then took a two-year break due to the venue hosting the WTA Tour Championship, thus not being played in 2009 or 2010. The tournament returned in 2011 as a Premier Event with the prize money of $721,000 and a 32-competitor singles draw (16-pair doubles draw).[5] The tournament received Premier 5 status from 2012–2014, but in the 2015 WTA Season the tournament was back to a Premier event. It then switched back to being a Premier 5 tournament in 2016, when the Dubai Tennis Championships was downgraded to Premier. Now, the two tournaments alternate between Premier 5 and Premier status every year.

The event is held at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex which currently has a capacity of 6,911. It was originally much smaller but had a makeover in 2008.[6] Its prize money as of 2016 was $2,517,250 and the tournament director is Saad Al Mohannadi.[7]

Past finals

Victoria Azarenka serving at the 2012 Qatar Ladies Open

Two-time world No. 1. Simona Halep took home her first Premier trophy from the Khalifa International Complex in 2014.

Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
↓  Tier III tournament  ↓
2001	Martina Hingis	Sandrine Testud	6–3, 6–2
2002	Monica Seles	Tamarine Tanasugarn	7–6^(8–6), 6–3
2003	Anastasia Myskina	Elena Likhovtseva	6–3, 6–1
↓  Tier II tournament  ↓
2004	Anastasia Myskina (2)	Svetlana Kuznetsova	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
2005	Maria Sharapova	Alicia Molik	4–6, 6–1, 6–4
2006	Nadia Petrova	Amélie Mauresmo	6–3, 7–5
2007	Justine Henin	Svetlana Kuznetsova	6–4, 6–2
↓  Tier I tournament  ↓
2008	Maria Sharapova (2)	Vera Zvonareva	6–1, 2–6, 6–0
2009-2010	Not Held
↓  Premier tournament  ↓
2011	Vera Zvonareva	Caroline Wozniacki	6–4, 6–4
↓  Premier 5 tournament  ↓
2012	Victoria Azarenka	Samantha Stosur	6–1, 6–2
2013	Victoria Azarenka (2)	Serena Williams	7–6^(8–6), 2–6, 6–3
2014	Simona Halep	Angelique Kerber	6–2, 6–3
↓  Premier tournament  ↓
2015	Lucie Šafářová	Victoria Azarenka	6–4, 6–3
↓  Premier 5 tournament  ↓
2016	Carla Suárez Navarro	Jeļena Ostapenko	1–6, 6–4, 6–4
↓  Premier tournament  ↓
2017	Karolína Plíšková	Caroline Wozniacki	6–3, 6–4
↓  Premier 5 tournament  ↓
2018	Petra Kvitová	Garbiñe Muguruza	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
↓  Premier tournament  ↓
2019	Elise Mertens	Simona Halep	3–6, 6–4, 6–3
↓  Premier 5 tournament  ↓
2020	Aryna Sabalenka	Petra Kvitová	6–3, 6–3

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓  Tier III tournament  ↓
2001	Sandrine Testud Roberta Vinci	Kristie Boogert Miriam Oremans	7–5, 7–6
2002	Janette Husárová Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	Alexandra Fusai Caroline Vis	6–3, 6–3
2003	Janet Lee Wynne Prakusya	María Vento-Kabchi Angelique Widjaja	6–1, 6–3
↓  Tier II tournament  ↓
2004	Svetlana Kuznetsova Elena Likhovtseva	Janette Husárová Conchita Martínez	7–6, 6–2
2005	Francesca Schiavone Alicia Molik	Cara Black Liezel Huber	6–3, 6–4
2006	Daniela Hantuchová Ai Sugiyama	Li Ting Sun Tiantian	6–4, 6–4
2007	Martina Hingis Maria Kirilenko	Ágnes Szávay Vladimíra Uhlířová	6–1, 6–1
↓  Tier I tournament  ↓
2008	Květa Peschke Rennae Stubbs	Cara Black Liezel Huber	6–1, 5–7, [10–7]
2009-2010	Not Held
↓  Premier tournament  ↓
2011	Květa Peschke (2) Katarina Srebotnik	Liezel Huber Nadia Petrova	7–5, 6–7^(2–7) , [10–8]
↓  Premier 5 tournament  ↓
2012	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	6–3, 6–1
2013	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci (2)	Nadia Petrova Katarina Srebotnik	2–6, 6–3, [10–6]
2014	Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik	6–4, 6–0
↓  Premier tournament  ↓
2015	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	Hsieh Su-wei Sania Mirza	6–4, 6–4
↓  Premier 5 tournament   ↓
2016	Chan Hao-ching Chan Yung-jan	Sara Errani Carla Suárez Navarro	6–3, 6–3
↓  Premier tournament  ↓
2017	Abigail Spears (2) Katarina Srebotnik (2)	Olga Savchuk Yaroslava Shvedova	6–3, 7–6^(9–7)
↓  Premier 5 tournament   ↓
2018	Gabriela Dabrowski Jeļena Ostapenko	Andreja Klepač María José Martínez Sánchez	6–3, 6–3
↓  Premier tournament  ↓
2019	Chan Hao-ching (2) Latisha Chan (2)	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Demi Schuurs	6–1, 3–6, [10–6]
↓  Premier 5 tournament   ↓
2020	Hsieh Su-wei (2) Barbora Strýcová	Gabriela Dabrowski Jeļena Ostapenko	6–2, 5–7, [10–2]

See also

• List of tennis tournaments
• WTA Tier I Events
• WTA Tour Championships

References

1. "2001 Results". Retrieved 4 April 2016.
2. "Doha results 2004". Retrieved 4 April 2016.
3. http://www.tennislive.net/wta-women/qatar-total-open-doha-2007/. Retrieved 4 April 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
4. "Qatar 2008 results and prize money". Retrieved 4 April 2016.
5. "2011 Qatar Ladies Open information" (PDF). Retrieved 4 April 2016.
6. "Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex rebuild". Retrieved 4 April 2016.
7. "WTA tournaments 2016". Retrieved 4 April 2016.

External links

• Official website
• Qatar Total Open. WTA Tour profile.