2021 Dubai Tennis Championships | |
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Date | 7–13 March (women) 14–20 March (men) |
Edition | 29th (men) / 21st (women) |
Category | ATP World Tour 500 (men) WTA 1000 (women) |
Draw | 48S / 16D (men) 56S / 28D (women) |
Prize money | $1,897,805 (men) $1,835,490 (women) |
Surface | Hard, Outdoor |
Location | Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
Venue | Aviation Club Tennis Centre |
Champions | |
Men's singles | |
Aslan Karatsev | |
Women's singles | |
Garbiñe Muguruza | |
Men's doubles | |
Juan Sebastián Cabal / Robert Farah | |
Women's doubles | |
Alexa Guarachi / Darija Jurak |
The 2021 Dubai Tennis Championships (also known as the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for sponsorship reasons) was an ATP 500 event on the 2021 ATP Tour [1] and a WTA 1000 tournament on the 2021 WTA Tour. [2] Both events were originally scheduled for February 15 to 21 and February 22 to 28 for women's and men's tournaments, respectively. They were rescheduled to March 7 to 13 and March 14 to 20 due to the Australian Open reschedule and were held at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
This was Karatsev's first ATP Tour singles title.
Country | Player | Ranking1 | Seed |
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AUT | Dominic Thiem | 4 | 1 |
RUS | Andrey Rublev | 8 | 2 |
CAN | Denis Shapovalov | 11 | 3 |
ESP | Roberto Bautista Agut | 13 | 4 |
BEL | David Goffin | 14 | 5 |
ESP | Pablo Carreño Busta | 16 | 6 |
RUS | Karen Khachanov | 21 | 8 |
AUS | Alex de Minaur | 23 | 9 |
SRB | Dušan Lajović | 27 | 11 |
GBR | Dan Evans | 28 | 12 |
POL | Hubert Hurkacz | 30 | 13 |
SRB | Filip Krajinović | 32 | 14 |
USA | Taylor Fritz | 33 | 15 |
ITA | Jannik Sinner | 34 | 16 |
ITA | Lorenzo Sonego | 35 | 17 |
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
The following player received entry using as a special exempt:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
The following players received entry as lucky losers:
Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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COL | Juan Sebastián Cabal | COL | Robert Farah | 3 | 1 |
CRO | Nikola Mektić | CRO | Mate Pavić | 7 | 2 |
NED | Wesley Koolhof | POL | Łukasz Kubot | 19 | 3 |
CRO | Ivan Dodig | SVK | Filip Polášek | 19 | 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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UKR | Elina Svitolina | 5 | 1 |
CZE | Karolína Plíšková | 6 | 2 |
BLR | Aryna Sabalenka | 8 | 3 |
CZE | Petra Kvitová | 10 | 4 |
NED | Kiki Bertens | 11 | 5 |
SUI | Belinda Bencic | 12 | 6 |
POL | Iga Świątek | 15 | 8 |
ESP | Garbiñe Muguruza | 16 | 9 |
BEL | Elise Mertens | 18 | 10 |
USA | Madison Keys | 19 | 11 |
CZE | Markéta Vondroušová | 20 | 12 |
CRO | Petra Martić | 21 | 13 |
KAZ | Elena Rybakina | 23 | 14 |
EST | Anett Kontaveit | 24 | 15 |
GRE | Maria Sakkari | 25 | 16 |
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
The following players received entry as lucky losers:
Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
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BEL | Elise Mertens | BLR | Aryna Sabalenka | 3 | 1 |
CZE | Barbora Krejčíková | CZE | Kateřina Siniaková | 15 | 2 |
USA | Nicole Melichar | NED | Demi Schuurs | 23 | 3 |
JPN | Shuko Aoyama | JPN | Ena Shibahara | 29 | 4 |
HUN | Tímea Babos | RUS | Veronika Kudermetova | 32 | 5 |
CAN | Gabriela Dabrowski | USA | Coco Gauff | 57 | 6 |
USA | Hayley Carter | BRA | Luisa Stefani | 61 | 7 |
CHI | Alexa Guarachi | CRO | Darija Jurak | 63 | 8 |
The following pairs received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:
The following pairs received entry into the doubles main draw using protected rankings:
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