2020 Dubai Tennis Championships | |
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Date | 17–22 February (women) 24–29 February (men) |
Edition | 28th (men) / 20th (women) |
Category | ATP Tour 500 (men) WTA Premier (women) |
Draw | 32S / 16D (men) 30S / 28D (women) |
Prize money | $2,950,420 (men) (2020) $2,643,670 (women) (2020) |
Surface | Hard, Outdoor |
Location | Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
Venue | Aviation Club Tennis Centre |
Champions | |
Men's singles | |
Novak Djokovic | |
Women's singles | |
Simona Halep | |
Men's doubles | |
John Peers / Michael Venus | |
Women's doubles | |
Hsieh Su-wei / Barbora Strýcová |
The 2020 Dubai Tennis Championships (also known as the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for sponsorship reasons) was an ATP Tour 500 event on the 2020 ATP Tour [1] and a Premier tournament on the 2020 WTA Tour. [2] Both events were held at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The women's tournament took place from February 17 to 22 and the men's tournament from February 24 to 29.
The Women's event was expanded to 30 places in the main draw, and 48 places in qualifying; following the cancellation of the Hungarian Ladies Open, which was scheduled in the same week as the Dubai Tennis Championships. [3]
Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
Men's singles | 500 | 300 | 180 | 90 | 45 | 0 | 20 | N/A | 10 | 0 |
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Men's doubles | 0 | N/A | 45 | 25 | ||||||
Women's singles | 470 | 305 | 185 | 100 | 55 | 1 | 25 | 18 | 13 | 1 |
Women's doubles | 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Country | Player | Ranking1 | Seed |
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SRB | Novak Djokovic | 1 | 1 |
GRE | Stefanos Tsitsipas | 6 | 2 |
FRA | Gaël Monfils | 9 | 3 |
ITA | Fabio Fognini | 11 | 4 |
ESP | Roberto Bautista Agut | 12 | 5 |
RUS | Andrey Rublev | 14 | 6 |
RUS | Karen Khachanov | 17 | 7 |
FRA | Benoît Paire | 20 | 8 |
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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USA | Rajeev Ram | GBR | Joe Salisbury | 11 | 1 |
CRO | Ivan Dodig | SVK | Filip Polášek | 17 | 2 |
GER | Kevin Krawietz | GER | Andreas Mies | 25 | 3 |
NED | Wesley Koolhof | CRO | Nikola Mektić | 38 | 4 |
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
The following pair received entry from the qualifying draw:
Country | Player | Ranking1 | Seed |
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ROU | Simona Halep | 2 | 1 |
CZE | Karolína Plíšková | 3 | 2 |
UKR | Elina Svitolina | 4 | 3 |
SUI | Belinda Bencic | 5 | 4 |
USA | Sofia Kenin | 7 | 5 |
BLR | Aryna Sabalenka | 13 | 7 |
CRO | Petra Martić | 15 | 8 |
ESP | Garbiñe Muguruza | 16 | 9 |
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
The following player received entry as a special exempt:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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TPE | Hsieh Su-wei | CZE | Barbora Strýcová | 3 | 1 |
TPE | Chan Hao-ching | TPE | Latisha Chan | 24 | 2 |
USA | Nicole Melichar | CHN | Xu Yifan | 27 | 3 |
CAN | Gabriela Dabrowski | CHN | Zhang Shuai | 29 | 4 |
CZE | Barbora Krejčiková | CHN | Zheng Saisai | 33 | 5 |
CZE | Květa Peschke | NED | Demi Schuurs | 35 | 6 |
CHN | Duan Yingying | RUS | Veronika Kudermetova | 42 | 7 |
JPN | Shuko Aoyama | JPN | Ena Shibahara | 53 | 8 |
The following pairs received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:
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