2021 Qatar Total Open
women's tennis tournament
The 2021 Qatar Total Open was a professional women's tennis tournament, played in Doha, Qatar between the 1st and the 6th of March 2021. The tournament was played on hard courts at the International Tennis and Squash Complex, and was a WTA 500 event on the 2021 WTA Tour. Typically played in February one to two weeks following the Australian Open, the tournament was played in March this year in order to adjust for the delayed start of the 2021 tournament, which was held three weeks later than usual due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Finals
Singles
Petra Kvitová def. Garbiñe Muguruza, 6–2, 6–1.
It was Kvitová's first title of 2021 and the 28th of her career.
Doubles
Nicole Melichar / Demi Schuurs def. Monica Niculescu / Jeļena Ostapenko, 6–2, 2–6, [10–8]
Points and prize money
Point distribution
Prize money
1Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money.
*per team
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
1 Rankings determined by February 22, 2021.
Other entrants
The following players will receive wildcards into the singles main draw:
Victoria Azarenka
Çağla Büyükakçay
Jeļena Ostapenko
Mayar Sherif
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:
Zheng Saisai
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Anna Blinkova
Jessica Pegula
Kristýna Plíšková
Laura Siegemund
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
Misaki Doi
Withdrawals
Before the tournament
Bianca Andreescu → replaced by Ons Jabeur
Amanda Anisimova → replaced by Misaki Doi
Ashleigh Barty → replaced by Wang Qiang
Simona Halep → replaced by Amanda Anisimova
Sofia Kenin → replaced by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Iga Świątek → replaced by Svetlana Kuznetsova
Markéta Vondroušová → replaced by Zheng Saisai
During the tournament
Victoria Azarenka
Doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
Rankings determined by February 22, 2021.
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