Wta Qatar Open

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
Tournament information
Founded	2001; 23 years ago (2001)
Location	Doha Qatar
Venue	Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex
Category	WTA 1000 (2024)
Surface	Hard - outdoors
Draw	56S / 32Q / 28D
Prize money	US$3,211,715 (2024)
Website	qatartennis.org
Current champions (2024)
Singles	Iga Świątek
Doubles	Demi Schuurs Luisa Stefani

The first tournament was held in 2001 as Qatar Total FinaElf Open for the prize money of $170,000, as a Tier III tournament. In 2004, the tournament got Tier II category because of an increase in prize money to $585,000, and in 2007 to $600,000. 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. 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). The tournament received Premier 5 status from 2012 to 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. Since then, the two tournaments alternated between Premier 5 and Premier (now known as WTA 1000 and WTA 500) status every year, until 2024, when both events were held as WTA 1000 events.

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. Its prize money as of 2016 was $2,517,250 and the tournament director is Saad Al Mohannadi.

 

 

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
↓  WTA 500 tournament  ↓
2021	Petra Kvitová (2)	Garbiñe Muguruza	6–2, 6–1
↓  WTA 1000 tournament  ↓
2022	Iga Świątek	Anett Kontaveit	6–2, 6–0
↓  WTA 500 tournament  ↓
2023	Iga Świątek (2)	Jessica Pegula	6–3, 6–0
↓  WTA 1000 tournament  ↓
2024	Iga Świątek (3)	Elena Rybakina	7–6(10–8), 6–2

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]
↓  WTA 500 tournament  ↓
2021	Nicole Melichar   Demi Schuurs	Monica Niculescu   Jeļena Ostapenko	6–2, 2–6, [10–8]
↓  WTA 1000 tournament  ↓
2022	Coco Gauff   Jessica Pegula	Veronika Kudermetova   Elise Mertens	3–6, 7–5, [10–5]
↓  WTA 500 tournament  ↓
2023	Coco Gauff (2)   Jessica Pegula (2)	Lyudmyla Kichenok   Jeļena Ostapenko	6–4, 2–6, [10–7]
↓  WTA 1000 tournament  ↓
2024	Demi Schuurs (2)   Luisa Stefani	Caroline Dolehide   Desirae Krawczyk	6–4, 6–2

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