2021 Abu Dhabi Women's Tennis Open
Tennis tournament
| 2021 Abu Dhabi Women's Tennis Open | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | 6–13 January | |||
| Edition | 1st | |||
| Category | WTA 500 | |||
| Draw | 64S / 28D | |||
| Surface | Hard / outdoor | |||
| Location | Abu Dhabi, UAE | |||
| Venue | Zayed Sports City International Tennis Centre | |||
| Champions | ||||
| Singles | ||||
 Aryna Sabalenka | ||||
| Doubles | ||||
 Shuko Aoyama / Ena Shibahara | ||||
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The 2021 Abu Dhabi Women's Tennis Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the inaugural professional edition of the tournament and a WTA 500 tournament on the 2021 WTA Tour. It took place at the Zayed Sports City International Tennis Centre in Abu Dhabi, from 6 January to 13 January 2021. Fourth-seeded Aryna Sabalenka won the singles title.[1]
Finals
Singles
Aryna Sabalenka def. 
Veronika Kudermetova, 6–2, 6–2
Doubles
Shuko Aoyama / Ena Shibahara def. 
Hayley Carter / 
Luisa Stefani, 7–6(7–5), 6–4
Points and prize money
Point distribution
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | 470 | 305 | 185 | 100 | 55 | 30 | 1 | 25 | 13 | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doubles | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Prize money
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | $68,570 | $50,130 | $26,745 | $12,675 | $6,480 | $4,100 | $2,500 | $1,925 | $1,000 |
| Doubles | $20,890 | $13,370 | $8,350 | $4,310 | $2,670 | $2,020 | — | — | — |
| Doubles prize money per team | |||||||||
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
| Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|
 USA | Sofia Kenin | 4 | 1 |
 UKR | Elina Svitolina | 5 | 2 |
 CZE | Karolína Plíšková | 6 | 3 |
| BLR | Aryna Sabalenka | 10 | 4 |
 ESP | Garbiñe Muguruza | 15 | 5 |
 KAZ | Elena Rybakina | 19 | 6 |
 BEL | |||
| CZE | Markéta Vondroušová | 21 | 8 |
 GRE | Maria Sakkari | 22 | 9 |
 EST | Anett Kontaveit | 23 | 10 |
| USA | Jennifer Brady | 24 | 11 |
| CZE | Karolína Muchová | 27 | 12 |
| KAZ | Yulia Putintseva | 28 | 13 |
| USA | |||
 TUN | Ons Jabeur | 31 | 15 |
 CRO | Donna Vekić | 32 | 16 |
 RUS | Ekaterina Alexandrova | 33 | 17 |
- 1 Rankings are as of December 21, 2020
Other entrants
The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:
Yaroslava Shvedova
Zhu Lin
The following player received entry as an alternate:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Kateryna Bondarenko
Anna Bondár- Anastasia Gasanova
Amandine Hesse
Lucie Hradecká
Lucrezia Stefanini- Bianca Turati
- Yang Zhaoxuan
The following players received entry as lucky losers:
Withdrawals
- before the tournament
- Amanda Anisimova → replaced by
Ulrikke Eikeri 
Belinda Bencic → replaced by Vera Zvonareva
Sorana Cîrstea → replaced by 
Despina Papamichail- Danielle Collins → replaced by
Tamara Zidanšek - Fiona Ferro → replaced by
Jodie Burrage - Caroline Garcia → replaced by Jasmine Paolini
- Svetlana Kuznetsova → replaced by Wang Xiyu
Elise Mertens → replaced by Valentini Grammatikopoulou
Jeļena Ostapenko → replaced by Marta Kostyuk- Kateřina Siniaková → replaced by Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Patricia Maria Țig → replaced by Anastasia Potapova
- Alison Van Uytvanck → replaced by Jamie Loeb
- Zheng Saisai → replaced by
Leylah Fernandez
- during the tournament
Retirements
Doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 TPE | Hsieh Su-wei | CZE | Barbora Krejčíková | 8 | 1 |
| BEL | BLR | ||||
| USA | Nicole Melichar |  NED | Demi Schuurs | 23 | 3 |
| BEL |  FRA | ||||
| JPN | Shuko Aoyama | JPN | Ena Shibahara | 45 | 5 |
 CHI | Alexa Guarachi | USA | Desirae Krawczyk | 51 | 6 |
 CHN | Xu Yifan | CHN | Yang Zhaoxuan | 64 | 7 |
| USA | Hayley Carter |  BRA | Luisa Stefani | 68 | 8 |
- Rankings are as of December 21, 2020
Other entrants
The following pairs received entry into the doubles main draw using a protected ranking:
The following pairs received entry into the doubles main draw as alternates:
Withdrawals
- Before the tournament
- Elise Mertens / Aryna Sabalenka → replaced by
Nadia Podoroska / 
Sara Sorribes Tormo - Kirsten Flipkens / Kristina Mladenovic → replaced by Jasmine Paolini / Martina Trevisan
- During the tournament
References
- ^ "Abu Dhabi WTA Women's Tennis Open". wtatennis.com.
External links
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