The 2006 Qatar Ladies Open (known as the 2006 Qatar Total Open for sponsorship reasons), was a

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s. It was the 6th edition of the

Qatar Total Open The Qatar Open, currently sponsored by TotalEnergies and called the Qatar TotalEnergies Open, is a professional tennis WTA 1000 tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Held since 2001, this WTA Tour event was a Tier I-tournament in 2008, and was played o ...

, and was part of the Tier II Series of the

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. It took place at the

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, from February 27 through March 5, 2007.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

¹ Points per the WTA. ² Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money
^* per team

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of February 20, 2006.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: *

Martina Hingis Martina Hingis (, ; born 30 September 1980) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 209 weeks ( fifth-most of all time) and as the world No. ...

Selima Sfar Selima Sfar ( ; born 8 July 1977) is a Tunisian former tennis player. She turned professional in 1999 and has been ranked as high as 75th in the world (16 July 2001). Sfar is the second highest ranked female Tunisian and Arab player. She has exp ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Li Ting *

Eleni Daniilidou Eleni Daniilidou (; ; born 19 September 1982) is a Greek former tennis player from the island of Crete. She is considered one of the best Greek tennis players of the Open Era, winning five singles titles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tou ...

Shikha Uberoi Shikha Devi Uberoi (born 5 April 1983) is an Indian-American former professional tennis player, who formerly represented India in international tournaments and a former Indian No. 1. After Nirupama Sanjeev, she is also the second Indian female ...

Neha Uberoi Neha Uberoi, also known by her married name Neha Uberoi Khangoora (born 6 February 1986), is an American former professional tennis player and a psychotherapist (LCSW) . On 29 January 2007, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 19 ...

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of February 20, 2006.

Other entrants

The following pair received wildcards into the doubles main draw: *

Antonia Matic Antonia Matic (; born 31 December 1984) is a former professional German tennis player. Her highest singles ranking is 225 (achieved September 2004) and her highest doubles ranking is 135 (August 2004). Antonia won four doubles titles on the IT ...

Tatiana Poutchek Tatiana Poutchek (; ; born 9 January 1979) is a retired tennis player and current captain of the Belarus Billie Jean King Cup team. Her career-high ranking is No. 55 in the world, achieved on 22 July 2002. Many of Poutchek's greatest career res ...

The following pair received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Angelika Bachmann Angelika Bachmann (born 16 May 1979) is a German former professional tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of t ...

Kira Nagy Kira Nagy (born 29 December 1977) is a former tennis player from Hungary. During her professional years, she won 18 singles and ten doubles titles at tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit. Kira won her first match on the WTA Tour in 2007 at th ...

Withdrawals

;During the tournament *

Květa Peschke Květoslava Peschke (, née Hrdličková; born 9 July 1975) is a Czech former professional tennis player who was ranked world No. 1 in doubles. She reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 26 in November 2005, winning one WTA singles titl ...

Francesca Schiavone Francesca Schiavone (; born 23 June 1980) is an Italian former professional tennis player. She had career-high rankings of world No. 4 in women's singles and No. 8 in women's doubles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Schiavone won eight W ...

Finals

Singles

Nadia Petrova Nadezhda Viktorovna "Nadia" Petrova ( ; born 8 June 1982) is a Russian former professional tennis player. A former top-five player in both singles and doubles, she reached a career-high ranking of No. 3 in the world in both disciplines (doing s ...

defeated

Amélie Mauresmo Amélie Simone Mauresmo (; born 5 July 1979) is a French former professional tennis player, tennis coach, and tournament director. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 39 weeks. Maur ...

, 6–3, 7–5 * It was the 2nd singles title for Petrova in her career.

Doubles

Daniela Hantuchová Daniela Hantuchová (; born 23 April 1983) is a Slovak tennis commentator and retired player. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first WTA Tour title at the Indian Wells Open, defeating Martin ...

Ai Sugiyama is a Japanese former tennis player. She reached the world No. 1 ranking in women's doubles on the WTA Tour and had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. In her career, she won six singles and 38 doubles ...

defeated Li Ting /

Sun Tiantian Sun Tiantian ( zh, s=孙甜甜, p=Sūn Tiántián; ; born 12 October 1981) is a Chinese tennis player. She won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles along with her partner Li Ting. Sun reached a career-high singles ...

, 6–4, 6–4 * It was the 7th title for Hantuchová and the 32nd title for Sugiyama in their respective doubles careers.

External links

Official Results Archive (ITF)

Official Results Archive (WTA)
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