WTA Qatar Open

Qatar Ladies Open

The Qatar Ladies Open, known as the Qatar Total Open for sponsorship reasons, is 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. Total S.A. was the main tournament sponsor. After a two year break the tournament returned in 2011.

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. In 2004, the tournament got Tier II category because of an increase in prize money to $600,000, and in 2007 to $1,340,000. 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 tournament 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). In 2012, The tournament got Premier 5 status due to the success of last year's tournament that featured seven of the top ten players and also due to the recent history of the Dubai Tennis Championships.

Past finals

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(6), 6–3
2003	Anastasia Myskina	Elena Likhovtseva	6–3, 6–1
↓  Tier II tournament  ↓
2004	Anastasia Myskina	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	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

Doubles

Year	Champion	Runner-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 Katarina Srebotnik	Liezel Huber Nadia Petrova	7–5, 6–7(2), [10–8]
↓  Premier 5 tournament  ↓
2012	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	6–3, 6–1

See also

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

References

• Official website
• Qatar Total Open. WTA Tour.