2016 Qatar Total Open

2016 Qatar Total Open
Date	21 – 27 February
Edition	14th
Category	WTA Premier 5
Draw	56S / 26D
Prize money	$2,818,000
Surface	Hard
Location	Doha, Qatar
Venue	Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex
2015 Champions
Singles
Lucie Šafářová
Doubles
Raquel Kops-Jones / Abigail Spears

The 2016 Qatar Total Open will be a professional women's tennis tournament played on hard courts. It will be the 14th edition of the event and part of the WTA Premier 5 series of the 2016 WTA Tour. It will take place at the International Tennis and Squash complex in Doha, Qatar between 21 and 27 February 2016.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

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Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
USA	Serena Williams	1	1
GER	Angelique Kerber	2	2
ROU	Simona Halep	3	3
POL	Agnieszka Radwańska	4	4
ESP	Garbiñe Muguruza	5	5
CZE	Petra Kvitová	8	6
SUI	Belinda Bencic	9	7
CZE	Lucie Šafářová	10	8
ESP	Carla Suárez Navarro	11	9
ITA	Roberta Vinci	13	10
CZE	Karolína Plíšková	14	11
SUI	Timea Bacsinszky	16	12
RUS	Svetlana Kuznetsova	18	13
DEN	Caroline Wozniacki	19	14
SRB	Jelena Janković	20	15
UKR	Elina Svitolina	21	16

• ¹ Rankings as of February 15, 2016.

Other Entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Peng Shuai →replaced by Tsvetana Pironkova
• Maria Sharapova →replaced by Bethanie Mattek-Sands

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

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• ¹ Rankings as of February 15, 2016.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

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Champions

Singles

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Doubles

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External links

• Official Website