WTA Dubai

This article deals with the women's tournament in Dubai, for the men's tournament see ATP Dubai .

Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships
WTA tour
venue	Dubai United Arab Emirates
First run	2001
category	WTA Premier 5
Tournament type	Free place tournament
Game surface	Hard court
draw	56E / 32Q / 28D
Prize money	US $ 2,365,250
Center Court	5,000 spectators
Website	Official website
As of December 17, 2016

Main Square (2006)

The WTA Dubai (officially: Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships ) is a women's tennis tournament of the WTA Tour , which is held in the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates . Since 2015, it has been exchanging value with the tournament in Doha every year : In the odd years it belongs to the Premier 5 category , while in the even years it is classified as Premier .

Venue

The tournament will be held in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Center (previously: Aviation Club Tennis Center), which opened in 1996. The main square has a capacity of 5,000 spectators.

Conflict over Shahar Peer 2009

The tournament got into talk in 2009 apart from sport. Israeli player Shahar Peer has been denied both a visa (the United Arab Emirates does not have diplomatic relations with Israel ) and entry into the tournament, which is a combined men's and women's tournament. Tournament director Salah Tahlak justified this by saying that the presence of peers could have caused anger in the Arab world, as was the case at the tournament in Auckland in response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts in 2008/09 . The process made waves; some players, including Venus Williams and Svetlana Kuznetsova , and WTA chairman Larry Scott were outraged, the Tennis Channel refused a broadcast and the Wall Street Journal announced its sponsorship. Because of this, some top players, including Andy Roddick , canceled their participation. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal also withdrew from the tournament, but both justified this with an injury. The WTA finally sued the tournament management for their approach with a fine of 300,000 US dollars.

Winners list

singles

year	Winner	Final opponent	Result
↓ Category: Tier II ↓
2001	Martina Hingis	Nathalie Tauziat	6: 4, 6: 4
2002	Amélie Mauresmo	Sandrine Testud	6: 4, 7: 6 3
2003	Justine Henin-Hardenne (1)	Monica Seles	4.6, 7: 6 4 , 7: 5
2004	Justine Henin-Hardenne (2)	Svetlana Kuznetsowa	7: 6 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	Jelena Dementjewa	Svetlana Kuznetsowa	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2
↓ Category: Premier 5 ↓
2009	Venus Williams (1)	Virginie Razzano	6: 4, 6: 2
2010	Venus Williams (2)	Viktoriya Azaranka	6: 3, 7: 5
2011	Caroline Wozniacki	Svetlana Kuznetsova	6: 1, 6: 3
↓ Category: Premier ↓
2012	Agnieszka Radwańska	Julia Goerges	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
↓ Category: Premier 5 ↓
2015	Simona Halep (1)	Karolína Plíšková	6: 4, 7: 6 4
↓ Category: Premier ↓
2016	Sara Errani	Barbora Strýcová	6-0, 6-2
↓ Category: Premier 5 ↓
2017	Elina Switolina (1)	Caroline Wozniacki	6: 4, 6: 2
↓ Category: Premier ↓
2018	Elina Switolina (2)	Darja Kassatkina	6: 4, 6: 0
↓ Category: Premier 5 ↓
2019	Belinda Bencic	Petra Kvitová	6: 3, 1: 6, 6: 2
↓ Category: Premier ↓
2020	Simona Halep (2)	Jelena Rybakina	3: 6, 6: 3, 7: 6 5

Double

year	Winners	Final opponents	Result
↓ Category: Tier II ↓
2001	Yayuk Basuki Caroline Vis	Åsa Carlsson Karina Habšudová	6: 0, 4: 6, 6: 2
2002	Barbara Rittner Maria Vento-Kabchi	Sandrine Testud Roberta Vinci	6: 3, 6: 2
2003	Svetlana Kuznetsova Martina Navrátilová	Cara Black Jelena Lichowzewa	6: 3, 7: 6
2004	Janette Husárová Conchita Martínez	Svetlana Kuznetsova Jelena Lichowzewa	6: 0, 1: 6, 6: 3
2005	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suarez	Svetlana Kuznetsova Alicia Molik	6: 7, 6: 2, 6: 1
2006	Květa Peschke Francesca Schiavone	Svetlana Kuznetsova Nadja Petrowa	3.6, 7: 6, 6: 3
2007	Cara Black Liezel Huber	Svetlana Kuznetsova Alicia Molik	7: 6 6 , 6: 4
2008	Cara Black Liezel Huber	Zheng Jie Yan Zi	7: 5, 6: 2
↓ Category: Premier 5 ↓
2009	Cara Black Liezel Huber	Marija Kirilenko Agnieszka Radwańska	6: 3, 6: 3
2010	Nuria Llagostera Vives María José Martínez Sánchez	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik	7: 6 5 , 6: 4
2011	Liezel Huber María José Martínez Sánchez	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik	7: 6 5 , 6: 3
↓ Category: Premier ↓
2012	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond	Sania Mirza Jelena Wesnina	6: 2, 6: 1
2013	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sania Mirza	Nadja Petrowa Katarina Srebotnik	6: 4, 2: 6, [10: 7]
2014	Alla Kudrjawzewa Anastassija Rodionova	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	6: 2, 5: 7, [10: 8]
↓ Category: Premier 5 ↓
2015	Tímea Babos Kristina Mladenovic	Garbiñe Muguruza Carla Suárez Navarro	6: 3, 6: 2
↓ Category: Premier ↓
2016	Chia-jung Chuang Darija Jurak	Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic	6: 4, 6: 4
↓ Category: Premier 5 ↓
2017	Ekaterina Makarova Jelena Wesnina	Andrea Hlaváčková Peng Shuai	6: 2, 4: 6, [10: 7]
↓ Category: Premier ↓
2018	Chan Hao-ching Yang Zhaoxuan	Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai	4: 6, 6: 2, [10: 8]
↓ Category: Premier 5 ↓
2019	Hsieh Su-wei Barbora Strýcová (1)	Lucie Hradecká Jekaterina Makarowa	6: 4, 6: 4
↓ Category: Premier ↓
2020	Hsieh Su-wei Barbora Strýcová (2)	Barbora Krejčíková Zheng Saisai	7: 5, 3: 6, [10: 5]

Web links

Commons : Dubai Tennis Championships  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Event information. (No longer available online.) In: dubaidutyfreetennischamionships.com. Archived from the original on August 26, 2017 ; accessed on February 6, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ No entry of peers for security reasons. In: handelsblatt.com . February 17, 2009, accessed February 14, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Tennis: Israelis are refused entry to Dubai. In: Spiegel Online . February 15, 2009, accessed February 14, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Dubai tennis cites security fear in barring Israeli. In: sports.espn.go.com. February 17, 2009, accessed February 14, 2015 . 
5. ^ Andrew Baker: Dubai sponsor withdraws over Shahar Peer visa row. In: telegraph.co.uk. February 17, 2009, accessed February 14, 2015 . 
6. ^ WTA fines Dubai; Roddick won't defend title. In: sports.espn.go.com. February 20, 2009, accessed February 14, 2015 .