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Qatar TotalEnergies Open 2025: Preview, broadcast details, and schedule

Originally posted on FirstSportz | By Gouri Das | Last updated Feb 10, 2025 1:36 PM ET

The season’s first WTA 1000 event kick-started on the outdoor hard courts of the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Sunday (February 9). It’s the 23rd edition of the tournament and the first of the back-to-back WTA 1000 events in the Middle East Swing.

The total prize pool is $3,654,963 and the singles winner will pocket $597,000, while the runner-up will receive $351,801. World No. 2 Iga Swiatek will enter the tournament as the defending champion. But she will face stiff competition from her opponents and several top players have signed up for the event following the Australian Open.

The Pole ace, who last lifted a WTA title at the 2024 French Open, is also bidding to become the only second woman in this century to win a tournament four times on the trot. World No. 1 and 2020 Qatar Open champion Aryna Sabalenka, World No. 3 Coco Gauff, Jasmine Paolini, Elena Rybakina, and Jessica Pegula among several others headline the draw.

Madison Keys, the World No. 6, who won her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open with a three-set win over Sabalenka in the final, is one of the seeded players to withdraw from the tournament as she is nursing a hamstring injury. World No. 11 Danielle Collins and 2024 Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova have also pulled out of the tournament because of injuries as well.

Qatar TotalEnergies Open 2025 schedule

The Qatar Open will run from February 9 to February 15. The qualifying rounds, which started on February 7, were wrapped up the following day.

Date	Events
February 9, 2025	1st round
February 10, 2025	1st round
February 11, 2025	2nd round
February 12, 2025	4th round
February 13, 2025	Quarterfinals
February 14, 2025	Semifinals
February 15, 2025	Final

The tournament was held for the first time in 2001 and saw notable names like Maria Sharapova, Martina Hingis, Justine Henin , and Monica Seles, among others, lift the title. After the conclusion of the Qatar Open, the players will shift their focus to the second WTA 1000 event in Dubai.

The Dubai Tennis Championships is scheduled to start on 16 February, and the final is set to be held on February 22. Right after the WTA events in Doha, the city will host the Mens’ ATP 500 event, the Qatar ExxonMobil Open.