The 2018

Qatar Total Open The Qatar Ladies Open, currently sponsored by TotalEnergies and called the Qatar TotalEnergies Open, is a women's tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Held since 2001, this WTA Tour event was a Tier I-tournament in 2008, and was played on outdoo ...

was a professional women's tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 16th edition of the event and a WTA Premier 5 tournament on the

2018 WTA Tour The 2018 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2018 tennis season. The 2018 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, supervised by the International Tennis Fe ...

. It took place at the International Tennis and Squash complex in Doha, Qatar between 12 and 17 February 2018.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

_{*per team}

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings as of February 5, 2018.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Fatma Al-Nabhani * Çağla Büyükakçay * Ons Jabeur * Maria Sharapova The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

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* Anna Blinkova * Kateryna Bondarenko * Duan Yingying * Monica Niculescu * Naomi Osaka * Bernarda Pera * Markéta Vondroušová

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament * Ashleigh Barty → replaced by Donna Vekić *

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→ replaced by Aleksandra Krunić * Mirjana Lučić-Baroni → replaced by Tímea Babos * CoCo Vandeweghe → replaced by Mona Barthel ;During the tournament * Simona Halep

Retirements

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* Daria Kasatkina * Magdaléna Rybáriková

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of February 5, 2018.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: * Fatma Al-Nabhani / Jessy Rompies *

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/ Ons Jabeur * Dominika Cibulková / Vera Zvonareva The following pairs received entry as alternates: * Mona Barthel / Carina Witthöft

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament *

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Retirements

* Barbora Strýcová

Champions

Singles

* Petra Kvitová def. Garbiñe Muguruza, 3–6, 6–3, 6–4 It was Kvitová's first Doha title and second of the year and 22nd WTA title overall.

Doubles

* Gabriela Dabrowski / Jeļena Ostapenko def. Andreja Klepač / María José Martínez Sánchez, 6–3, 6–3

External links

Main website
{{2018 WTA Tour

Qatar Ladies Open 2018 in Qatari sport