Dubai Tennis Championships

Dubai Tennis Championships
Tournament information
Tour	ATP Tour WTA Tour
Founded	1993; 31 years ago (1993)
Location	Dubai United Arab Emirates
Venue	Aviation Club Tennis Centre
Surface	Hard – outdoors
Website	Official website
Current champions (2024)
Men's singles	Ugo Humbert
Women's singles	Jasmine Paolini
Men's doubles	Tallon Griekspoor Jan-Lennard Struff
Women's doubles	Storm Hunter Kateřina Siniaková
ATP Tour Category ATP Tour 500 Draw 32S / 24Q / 16D Prize money US$2,941,785 (2024)
WTA Tour Category WTA 1000 Draw 56S / 32Q / 28D Prize money US$3,211,715 (2024)

The tournament takes place at the end of February and organizes a men's and women's event. The tournament takes place under the patronage of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. In 2001 the ATP upgraded the tournament from an ATP 250 level to the more prestigious ATP 500 level tournament. On the WTA Tour, it alternated yearly between a WTA 1000 level tournament and a WTA 500 level tournament, until 2024, when it remained a WTA 1000 event from the prior year. Prior to the 1990s there was an annual Dubai Tennis Championship played at the British Embassy.

The Dubai Tennis Championships was the third tournament in pro tennis history to award equal prize money for both men and women, until 2021.^{[citation needed]}

The courts usually have a medium-fast speed considered to be similar in speed to the Shanghai and Swiss Indoor (Basel) courts.^{[citation needed]}

 

The Dubai Tennis Championships debuted at the Aviation Club in 1993 as an ATP 250 tournament. At the time there was no formal stadium and the tournament was hosted on hardcourts surrounded by temporary scaffold seating to host a total of 3000 viewers across all courts.

In 1996, the Dubai Tennis Championships took place at the newly erected Dubai Tennis Stadium at the Aviation Club. The construction of the Dubai Tennis Stadium also led to the development of various food & beverage entertainment locations in and around the stadium base, like the Irish and Century Villages. In 2012, a 293-bedroom hotel was constructed on-site that hosts many of the players and officials during the 2 week event.

The inaugural ATP men's tournament was won by Karel Nováček in 1993 who was ranked world number 23 at the time. The inaugural WTA women's tournament debuted in 2001 as a Premier tournament and was won by Martina Hingis.

For five years, Swiss Roger Federer, on the men's side, and Belgian Justine Henin, on the women's side, dominated the singles' tournaments. Between 2003 and 2007, Federer and Henin each won the singles title four times. However, in 2008, neither player managed to reach the finals; Andy Roddick and Elena Dementieva became the new champions.

In 2005, the Dubai Tennis Championships implemented equal prize money policy becoming the third professional tennis event to do so after the US Open and Australian Open.

In February 2009, Israeli player Shahar Pe'er was denied an entry visa by the United Arab Emirates, a country that did not have diplomatic relations with Israel at the time. Tournament director Salah Tahlak said that Pe'er was refused on the grounds that her appearance could incite anger in the Arab country, after she had already faced protests earlier at the ASB Classic over the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict. A number of top-seeded players, among them Venus Williams, condemned the action not to grant Pe'er a visa.

In response, the Dubai Tennis Championship was fined a record US$300,000. The fine was appealed by DTC, but the WTA Tour Board rejected the appeal. Pe'er was awarded a guarantee to enter the next (2010) edition of the event, plus US$44,250, an amount equal to the average prize money she earned per tournament in 2008. A number of highly ranked tennis players, including 2008 winner Andy Roddick, pulled out of the men's event (ATP 500 Dubai) which was scheduled to take place the week after the women's event. As a result, the UAE issued Israeli Andy Ram a visa for the men's tournament.

 

In the men's singles, Roger Federer (winner in 2003–05, 2007, 2012, 2014–15, 2019, runner-up in 2006, 2011) holds the records for most titles (eight), most finals (ten), and most consecutive titles (three), sharing the last record with Novak Djokovic (winner in 2009–11, 2013, 2020, runner-up in 2015). In the women's singles, Justine Henin (2003–04, 2006–07) holds the record for most titles (four) and shares with Venus Williams (2009–10, 2014) and Elina Svitolina (2017–18) the record for most consecutive titles (two). In men's doubles, Mahesh Bhupathi (1998, 2004, 2008, 2012–13) has won the most overall titles (five), and co-holds with Grant Connell (1995–96) the record for most consecutive titles (two). In women's doubles, Liezel Huber (2007–09, 2011–12) took the most titles (five) and, alongside partner Cara Black (2007–09), the most back-to-back titles (three).

Men's singles

 

 

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
↓  ATP Tour 250  ↓
1993	Karel Nováček	Fabrice Santoro	6–4, 7–5
1994	Magnus Gustafsson	Sergi Bruguera	6–4, 6–2
1995	Wayne Ferreira	Andrea Gaudenzi	6–3, 6–3
1996	Goran Ivanišević	Albert Costa	6–4, 6–3
1997	Thomas Muster	Goran Ivanišević	7–5, 7–6(7–3)
1998	Àlex Corretja	Félix Mantilla	7–6(7–0), 6–1
1999	Jérôme Golmard	Nicolas Kiefer	6–4, 6–2
2000	Nicolas Kiefer	Juan Carlos Ferrero	7–5, 4–6, 6–3
↓  ATP Tour 500  ↓
2001	Juan Carlos Ferrero	Marat Safin	6–2, 3–1 Ret.
2002	Fabrice Santoro	Younes El Aynaoui	6–4, 3–6, 6–3
2003	Roger Federer	Jiří Novák	6–1, 7–6(7–2)
2004	Roger Federer (2)	Feliciano López	4–6, 6–1, 6–2
2005	Roger Federer (3)	Ivan Ljubičić	6–1, 6–7(6–8), 6–3
2006	Rafael Nadal	Roger Federer	2–6, 6–4, 6–4
2007	Roger Federer (4)	Mikhail Youzhny	6–4, 6–3
2008	Andy Roddick	Feliciano López	6–7(8–10), 6–4, 6–2
2009	Novak Djokovic	David Ferrer	7–5, 6–3
2010	Novak Djokovic (2)	Mikhail Youzhny	7–5, 5–7, 6–3
2011	Novak Djokovic (3)	Roger Federer	6–3, 6–3
2012	Roger Federer (5)	Andy Murray	7–5, 6–4
2013	Novak Djokovic (4)	Tomáš Berdych	7–5, 6–3
2014	Roger Federer (6)	Tomáš Berdych	3–6, 6–4, 6–3
2015	Roger Federer (7)	Novak Djokovic	6–3, 7–5
2016	Stan Wawrinka	Marcos Baghdatis	6–4, 7–6(15–13)
2017	Andy Murray	Fernando Verdasco	6–3, 6–2
2018	Roberto Bautista Agut	Lucas Pouille	6–3, 6–4
2019	Roger Federer (8)	Stefanos Tsitsipas	6–4, 6–4
2020	Novak Djokovic (5)	Stefanos Tsitsipas	6–3, 6–4
2021	Aslan Karatsev	Lloyd Harris	6–3, 6–2
2022	Andrey Rublev	Jiří Veselý	6–3, 6–4
2023	Daniil Medvedev	Andrey Rublev	6–2, 6–2
2024	Ugo Humbert	Alexander Bublik	6–4, 6–3

Women's singles

 

 

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
↓  Premier tournament   ↓
2001	Martina Hingis	Nathalie Tauziat	6–4, 6–4
2002	Amélie Mauresmo	Sandrine Testud	6–4, 7–6(7–3)
2003	Justine Henin-Hardenne	Monica Seles	4–6, 7–6(7–4), 7–5
2004	Justine Henin-Hardenne (2)	Svetlana Kuznetsova	7–6(7–3), 6–3
2005	Lindsay Davenport	Jelena Janković	6–4, 3–6, 6–4
2006	Justine Henin-Hardenne (3)	Maria Sharapova	7–5, 6–2
2007	Justine Henin (4)	Amélie Mauresmo	6–4, 7–5
2008	Elena Dementieva	Svetlana Kuznetsova	4–6, 6–3, 6–2
↓  Premier 5 tournament   ↓
2009	Venus Williams	Virginie Razzano	6–4, 6–2
2010	Venus Williams (2)	Victoria Azarenka	6–3, 7–5
2011	Caroline Wozniacki	Svetlana Kuznetsova	6–1, 6–3
↓  Premier tournament   ↓
2012	Agnieszka Radwańska	Julia Görges	7–5, 6–4
2013	Petra Kvitová	Sara Errani	6–2, 1–6, 6–1
2014	Venus Williams (3)	Alizé Cornet	6–3, 6–0
↓  Premier 5 tournament   ↓
2015	Simona Halep	Karolína Plíšková	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
↓  Premier tournament   ↓
2016	Sara Errani	Barbora Strýcová	6–0, 6–2
↓  Premier 5 tournament   ↓
2017	Elina Svitolina	Caroline Wozniacki	6–4, 6–2
↓  Premier tournament   ↓
2018	Elina Svitolina (2)	Daria Kasatkina	6–4, 6–0
↓  Premier 5 tournament   ↓
2019	Belinda Bencic	Petra Kvitová	6–3, 1–6, 6–2
↓  Premier tournament   ↓
2020	Simona Halep (2)	Elena Rybakina	3–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–5)
↓  WTA 1000 tournament   ↓
2021	Garbiñe Muguruza	Barbora Krejčíková	7–6(8–6), 6–3
↓  WTA 500 tournament   ↓
2022	Jeļena Ostapenko	Veronika Kudermetova	6–0, 6–4
↓  WTA 1000 tournament   ↓
2023	Barbora Krejčíková	Iga Świątek	6–4, 6–2
2024	Jasmine Paolini	Anna Kalinskaya	4–6, 7–5, 7–5

Men's doubles

 

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓  ATP Tour 250  ↓
1993	John Fitzgerald   Anders Järryd	Grant Connell   Patrick Galbraith	6–2, 6–1
1994	Todd Woodbridge   Mark Woodforde	Darren Cahill   John Fitzgerald	6–7, 6–4, 6–2
1995	Grant Connell   Patrick Galbraith	Tomás Carbonell   Francisco Roig	6–2, 4–6, 6–3
1996	Grant Connell (2)   Byron Black	Karel Nováček   Jiří Novák	6–0, 6–1
1997	Sander Groen   Goran Ivanišević	Sandon Stolle   Cyril Suk	7–6, 6–3
1998	Mahesh Bhupathi   Leander Paes	Donald Johnson   Francisco Montana	6–2, 7–5
1999	Wayne Black   Sandon Stolle	David Adams   John-Laffnie de Jager	4–6, 6–1, 6–4
2000	Jiří Novák   David Rikl	Robbie Koenig   Peter Tramacchi	6–2, 7–5
↓  ATP Tour 500  ↓
2001	Joshua Eagle   Sandon Stolle (2)	Daniel Nestor   Nenad Zimonjić	6–4, 6–4
2002	Mark Knowles   Daniel Nestor	Joshua Eagle   Sandon Stolle	3–6, 6–3, [13–11]
2003	Leander Paes   David Rikl (2)	Wayne Black   Kevin Ullyett	6–3, 6–0
2004	Mahesh Bhupathi (2)   Fabrice Santoro	Jonas Björkman   Leander Paes	6–2, 4–6, 6–4
2005	Martin Damm   Radek Štěpánek	Jonas Björkman   Fabrice Santoro	6–2, 6–4
2006	Paul Hanley   Kevin Ullyett	Mark Knowles   Daniel Nestor	1–6, 6–2, [10–1]
2007	Fabrice Santoro (2)   Nenad Zimonjić	Mahesh Bhupathi   Radek Štěpánek	7–5, 6–7(3–7), [10–7]
2008	Mahesh Bhupathi (3)   Mark Knowles (2)	Martin Damm   Pavel Vízner	7–5, 7–6(9–7)
2009	Rik de Voest   Dmitry Tursunov	Martin Damm   Robert Lindstedt	4–6, 6–3, [10–5]
2010	Simon Aspelin   Paul Hanley	Lukáš Dlouhý   Leander Paes	6–2, 6–3
2011	Sergiy Stakhovsky   Mikhail Youzhny	Jérémy Chardy   Feliciano López	4–6, 6–3, [10–3]
2012	Mahesh Bhupathi (4)   Rohan Bopanna	Mariusz Fyrstenberg   Marcin Matkowski	6–4, 3–6, [10–5]
2013	Mahesh Bhupathi (5)   Michaël Llodra	Robert Lindstedt   Nenad Zimonjić	7–6(8–6), 7–6(8–6)
2014	Rohan Bopanna (2)   Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Daniel Nestor   Nenad Zimonjić	6–4, 6–3
2015	Rohan Bopanna (3)   Daniel Nestor (2)	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi   Nenad Zimonjić	6–4, 6–1
2016	Simone Bolelli   Andreas Seppi	Feliciano López   Marc López	6–2, 3–6, [14–12]
2017	Jean-Julien Rojer   Horia Tecău	Rohan Bopanna   Marcin Matkowski	4–6, 6–3, [10–3]
2018	Jean-Julien Rojer (2)   Horia Tecău (2)	James Cerretani   Leander Paes	6–2, 7–6(7–2)
2019	Rajeev Ram   Joe Salisbury	Ben McLachlan   Jan-Lennard Struff	7–6(7–4), 6–3
2020	John Peers   Michael Venus	Raven Klaasen   Oliver Marach	6–3, 6–2
2021	Juan Sebastián Cabal   Robert Farah	Nikola Mektić   Mate Pavić	7–6(7–0), 7–6(7–4)
2022	Tim Pütz   Michael Venus	Nikola Mektić   Mate Pavić	6–3, 6–7(5–7), [16–14]
2023	Maxime Cressy   Fabrice Martin	Lloyd Glasspool   Harri Heliövaara	7–6(7–2), 6–4
2024	Tallon Griekspoor   Jan-Lennard Struff	Ivan Dodig   Austin Krajicek	6–4, 4–6, [10–6]

Women's doubles

 

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓  Premier tournament   ↓
2001	Yayuk Basuki   Caroline Vis	Åsa Svensson   Karina Habšudová	6–0, 4–6, 6–2
2002	Barbara Rittner   María Vento-Kabchi	Sandrine Testud   Roberta Vinci	6–3, 6–2
2003	Svetlana Kuznetsova   Martina Navratilova	Cara Black   Elena Likhovtseva	6–3, 7–6(9–7)
2004	Janette Husárová   Conchita Martínez	Svetlana Kuznetsova   Elena Likhovtseva	6–0, 1–6, 6–3
2005	Virginia Ruano Pascual   Paola Suárez	Svetlana Kuznetsova   Alicia Molik	6–7(7–9), 6–2, 6–1
2006	Květa Peschke   Francesca Schiavone	Svetlana Kuznetsova   Nadia Petrova	3–6, 7–6(7–1), 6–3
2007	Cara Black   Liezel Huber	Svetlana Kuznetsova   Alicia Molik	7–6(8–6), 6–4
2008	Cara Black (2)   Liezel Huber (2)	Zheng Jie   Yan Zi	7–5, 6–2
↓  Premier 5 tournament   ↓
2009	Cara Black (3)   Liezel Huber (3)	Maria Kirilenko   Agnieszka Radwańska	6–3, 6–3
2010	Nuria Llagostera Vives   María José Martínez Sánchez	Květa Peschke   Katarina Srebotnik	7–6(7–5), 6–4
2011	Liezel Huber (4)   María José Martínez Sánchez (2)	Květa Peschke   Katarina Srebotnik	7–6(7–5), 6–3
↓  Premier tournament   ↓
2012	Liezel Huber (5)   Lisa Raymond	Sania Mirza   Elena Vesnina	6–2, 6–1
2013	Bethanie Mattek-Sands   Sania Mirza	Nadia Petrova   Katarina Srebotnik	6–4, 2–6, [10–7]
2014	Alla Kudryavtseva   Anastasia Rodionova	Raquel Kops-Jones   Abigail Spears	6–2, 5–7, [10–8]
↓  Premier 5 tournament   ↓
2015	Tímea Babos   Kristina Mladenovic	Garbiñe Muguruza   Carla Suárez Navarro	6–3, 6–2
↓  Premier tournament   ↓
2016	Chuang Chia-jung   Darija Jurak	Caroline Garcia   Kristina Mladenovic	6–4, 6–4
↓  Premier 5 tournament   ↓
2017	Ekaterina Makarova   Elena Vesnina	Andrea Hlaváčková   Peng Shuai	6–2, 4–6, [10–7]
↓  Premier tournament   ↓
2018	Chan Hao-ching   Yang Zhaoxuan	Hsieh Su-wei   Peng Shuai	4–6, 6–2, [10–6]
↓  Premier 5 tournament   ↓
2019	Hsieh Su-wei   Barbora Strýcová	Lucie Hradecká   Ekaterina Makarova	6–4, 6–4
↓  Premier tournament   ↓
2020	Hsieh Su-wei (2)   Barbora Strýcová (2)	Barbora Krejčíková   Zheng Saisai	7–5, 3–6, [10–5]
↓  WTA 1000 tournament   ↓
2021	Alexa Guarachi   Darija Jurak (2)	Xu Yifan   Yang Zhaoxuan	6–0, 6–3
↓  WTA 500 tournament   ↓
2022	Veronika Kudermetova   Elise Mertens	Lyudmyla Kichenok   Jeļena Ostapenko	6–1, 6–3
↓  WTA 1000 tournament   ↓
2023	Veronika Kudermetova (2)   Liudmila Samsonova	Chan Hao-ching   Latisha Chan	6–4, 6–7(4–7), [10–1]
2024	Storm Hunter   Kateřina Siniaková	Nicole Melichar-Martinez   Ellen Perez	6–4, 6–2