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Tournament: Qatar TotalEnergies Open 2024
Location: Doha, Qatar
Dates: February 11 - February 17, 2024
Level: WTA 1000
Total Financial Commitment: $3,211,715
Surface: Hard (Outdoor)

Seed Player Entry Ranking

1 Iga Swiatek 1
2 Aryna Sabalenka 2
3 Elena Rybakina 3
4 Coco Gauff 4
5 Jessica Pegula 5
6 Ons Jabeur 6
7 Marketa Vondrousova 7
8 Maria Sakkari 8
9 Karolina Muchova 9
10 Jelena Ostapenko 10
11 Barbora Krejcikova 11
12 Beatriz Haddad Maia 12
13 Daria Kasatkina 13
14 Liudmila Samsonova 14
15 Qinwen Zheng 15
16 Veronika Kudermetova 17
Caroline Garcia 19
Ekaterina Alexandrova 20
Victoria Azarenka 22
Elina Svitolina 23
Magda Linette 24
Donna Vekic 25
Emma Navarro 26
Sorana Cirstea 27
Elise Mertens 28
Anastasia Potapova 29
Anhelina Kalinina 30
Jasmine Paolini 31
Lin Zhu 32
Lesia Tsurenko 33
Marie Bouzkova 34
Leylah Fernandez 35
Xinyu Wang 36
Marta Kostyuk 37
Karolina Pliskova 38
Varvara Gracheva 39
Petra Martic 40
Sofia Kenin 41
Tatjana Maria 42
Caroline Dolehide 43
Sloane Stephens 44
Arantxa Rus 45
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 46
Naomi Osaka SR

Qualifying Draw

POL M. Frech (1) vs RUS M. Timofeeva
USA A. Parks vs RUS K. Rakhimova (15)

ITA L. Bronzetti (2) vs GER L. Siegemund
AUS K. Birrell vs USA D. Collins (10)

ESP S. Sorribes Tormo (3) vs HUN T. Babos
JPN N. Hibino vs ESP C. Bucsa (12)

ITA M. Trevisan (4) vs ALT
ESP R. Masarova vs BEL G. Minnen (13)

FRA D. Parry (5) vs RUS E. Andreeva
QAT M. Al-Naimi vs CHN Z. Bai (16)

CHN X. Wang (6) vs BLR A. Sasnovich
AUS A. Rodionova vs RUS D. Shnaider (11)

BUL V. Tomova (7) vs BRA L. Pigossi
USA B. Pera vs KAZ Y. Putintseva (9)

CHN Y. Yuan (8) vs CHN S. Zheng
TUR I. Oz vs USA A. Krueger (14)

Friday start. Friday Start. Friday start.

It's a Muslim country. Friday is their equivalent to our Sunday, so people can go watch.

Main Draw Singles

1 SWIATEK, Iga/Bye
CIRSTEA, Sorana ROU vs STEPHENS, Sloane USA
Q/LL Qualifier/LL vs Q/LL Qualifier/LL
Q/LL Qualifier/LL vs 14 ALEXANDROVA, Ekaterina

10 HADDAD MAIA, Beatriz BRA vs WANG, Xinyu CHN
Q/LL Qualifier/LL vs AZARENKA, Victoria
WC RADUCANU, Emma GBR vs KALININA, Anhelina UKR
Bye/8 OSTAPENKO, Jelena LAT

4 JABEUR, Ons TUN/Bye
TSURENKO, Lesia UKR vs WC SONMEZ, Zeynep TUR
RUS, Arantxa NED vs MARTIC, Petra CRO
OSAKA, Naomi JPN vs 15 GARCIA, Caroline FRA

9 KREJCIKOVA, Barbora CZE vs POTAPOVA, Anastasia
WC KALINSKAYA, Anna vs PLISKOVA, Karolina CZE
Q/LL Qualifier/LL vs NOSKOVA, Linda CZE
Bye/7 SAKKARI, Maria GRE


5 ZHENG, Qinwen CHN/Bye
Q/LL Qualifier/LL vs LINETTE, Magda POL
Q/LL Qualifier/LL vs WC BADOSA, Paula ESP
FERNANDEZ, Leylah CAN vs 12 SAMSONOVA, Liudmila

16 NAVARRO, Emma USA vs PAOLINI, Jasmine ITA
STEARNS, Peyton USA vs MERTENS, Elise BEL
GRACHEVA, Varvara FRA vs ZHU, Lin CHN
Bye/3 RYBAKINA, Elena KAZ

6 VONDROUSOVA, Marketa CZE/Bye
Q/LL Qualifier/LL vs MARIA, Tatjana GER
DOLEHIDE, Caroline USA vs KOSTYUK, Marta UKR
PAVLYUCHENKOVA, Anastasia vs 11 KASATKINA, Daria

13 KUDERMETOVA, Veronika vs Q/LL Qualifier/LL
BOUZKOVA, Marie CZE vs KENIN, Sofia USA
VEKIC, Donna CRO vs SINIAKOVA, Katerina CZE
Bye/2 GAUFF, Coco USA

Saturday Order of Play

Centre Court
Starts at 7:30 AM

CRO D. VEKIC vs CZE K. SINIAKOVA
UPCOMING
ROU S. CIRSTEA vs USA S. STEPHENS
UPCOMING
USA A. KRUEGER vs ESP P. BADOSA
UPCOMING
USA E. NAVARRO (16) vs ITA J. PAOLINI

Grandstand 1
Starts at 6:00 AM

USA C. DOLEHIDE vs UKR M. KOSTYUK
UPCOMING
RUS V. KUDERMETOVA (13) vs USA D. COLLINS
UPCOMING
FRA V. GRACHEVA vs CHN L. ZHU

Grandstand 2
Starts at 6:00 AM

UKR L. TSURENKO vs TUR Z. SONMEZ
UPCOMING
BEL G. MINNEN vs GER T. MARIA
UPCOMING
RUS E. ANDREEVA vs RUS D. SHNAIDER
UPCOMING
RUS V. KUDERMETOVA/RUS A. PANOVA vs ESP C. BUCSA/ROU M. NICULESCU

Grandstand 3
Starts at 7:00 AM

BUL V. TOMOVA vs RUS E. ALEXANDROVA (14)
UPCOMING
QAT M. AL-NAIMI/TUR I. OZ vs UKR A. KALININA/CHN Y. XU

Grandstand 4
Starts at 7:00 AM

FRA C. GARCIA/FRA K. MLADENOVIC vs CZE M. BOUZKOVA/CZE M. VONDROUSOVA
UPCOMING
BRA I. GAMARRA MARTINS/TPE F. WU vs USA C. DOLEHIDE/USA D. KRAWCZYK
UPCOMING
TPE H. CHAN/MEX G. OLMOS (8) vs JPN M. KATO/INA A. SUTJIADI

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too many byes as usual.. if they want to protect players who have played deep the previous week, the simple solution would be to provide byes only to those who have played the finals of a wta event the previous week, rather than by ranking..too many young, unranked players are probably being kept out by these byes..

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 2:23 am too many byes as usual.. if they want to protect players who have played deep the previous week, the simple solution would be to provide byes only to those who have played the finals of a wta event the previous week, rather than by ranking..too many young, unranked players are probably being kept out by these byes..

Young unranked players aren`t getting into a WTA 1000 event without a wildcard.

Low-ranked then!

this court looks about 10% slower than Abu Dhabi.. good for powerful hitters and Swiatek..not so Sloane, Leylah etc. We shall see..

ORDER OF PLAY - MONDAY, 12 FEBRUARY 2024

CENTRE COURT
REVISED

36 64 24* TBF R64
[Q] Ashlyn Krueger USA vs [WC] Paula Badosa ESP
Followed by
[Q] Magdalena Frech POL vs Victoria Azarenka
Followed by
Naomi Osaka JPN vs [15] Caroline Garcia FRA
Followed by
[1] Iga Swiatek POL vs Sorana Cirstea ROU
Followed by
[6] Marketa Vondrousova CZE vs [Q] Greet Minnen BEL

GRANDSTAND 1
Starting at 2:00 PM

[WC] Emma Raducanu GBR vs Anhelina Kalinina UKR
Followed by
[Q] Nao Hibino JPN vs Magda Linette POL
Followed by
[Q] Bernarda Pera USA vs Linda Noskova CZE
Followed by
[WC] Anna Kalinskaya vs Karolina Pliskova CZE

GRANDSTAND 2
Starting at 2:00 PM

Peyton Stearns USA vs Elise Mertens BEL
Followed by
Arantxa Rus NED vs Petra Martic CRO
Followed by
[10] Beatriz Haddad Maia BRA vs Xinyu Wang CHN
Followed by
Eri Hozumi JPN/Makoto Ninomiya JPN vs [6] Lyudmyla Kichenok UKR/Jelena Ostapenko LAT

GRANDSTAND 3
Starting at 3:00 PM

Leylah Fernandez CAN vs [12] Liudmila Samsonova
Followed by
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs [11] Daria Kasatkina
Followed by
Leylah Fernandez CAN/Oksana Kalashnikova GEO vs Sara Errani ITA/Jasmine Paolini ITA
Followed by
Ekaterina Alexandrova/Irina Khromacheva vs Shuko Aoyama JPN/Aleksandra Krunic SRB


GRANDSTAND 4
Starting at 2:00 PM

00* TBF R64
[16] Emma Navarro USA vs Jasmine Paolini ITA
Followed by
[9] Barbora Krejcikova CZE vs Anastasia Potapova
Followed by
Marie Bouzkova CZE vs Sofia Kenin USA
Followed by
Timea Babos HUN/Donna Vekic CRO vs Anastasia Potapova/Vera Zvonareva
Followed by
Anna Danilina KAZ/Nadiia Kichenok UKR vs [5] Demi Schuurs NED/Luisa Stefani BRA

Krejcikova has withdrawn with a back injury...

"I think she’s OK. I think the (slow) court in Doha won’t be great for her because she doesn’t create her own speed. Maybe in Dubai it will be a little faster." Navratilova agrees with me about the court at Doha.
Her comment was on Vondrousova.. though I dont agre with her that a slow court is bad for Vondrousova.. her game, with all that spin and angles, works well on slow courts..

Fernandez beating Samsonova is mildy surprising.