WTA 500 Abu Dhabi 2/1 - 2/7 2026

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Tournament: Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open presented by Abu Dhabi Sports Council
Location: ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Duration: February 1 - February 7, 2026
Level: WTA 500
Total Financial Commitment: :$1,206,446
Surface: Hard

Abu Dhabi, UAE WTA 500
Date: 2/1/2026 Original Cut Off: 32 Ranking Date: 1/5/2026
Draw Size: 30 Direct Acceptances: 19 Wild Cards: 6 Qualifiers: 4 Special Exempts: 1

Main Draw Singles

5 Elena Rybakina (KAZ)
10 Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS)
10 Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) SR
11 Belinda Bencic (SUI)
14 Clara Tauson (DEN)
15 Emma Navarro (USA)
17 Liudmila Samsonova (RUS)
18 Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) SR
19 Elise Mertens (BEL)
22 Leylah Fernandez (CAN)
23 Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)
24 Qinwen Zheng (CHN)
25 Paula Badosa (ESP)
27 Dayana Yastremska (UKR)
28 Sofia Kenin (USA)
30 Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) SR
31 McCartney Kessler (USA)
32 Maya Joint (AUS)
33 Anna Kalinskaya (RUS)

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Abu Dhabi Q, UAE WTA 500
Date: 1/31/2026 Original Cut Off: 73 Ranking Date: 1/12/2026
Draw Size: 16 Direct Acceptances: 14 Wild Cards: 2

Qualifying Entry List

33 Anna Kalinskaya (RUS)
40 Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (ESP)
48 Daria Kasatkina (AUS)
49 Alexandra Eala (PHI)
51 Cristina Bucsa (ESP)
53 Magda Linette (POL)
56 Janice Tjen (INA)
58 Elsa Jacquemot (FRA)
60 Tereza Valentova (CZE)
61 Ashlyn Krueger (USA)
63 Sonay Kartal (GBR)
66 Hailey Baptiste (USA)
76 Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS)
73 Shuai Zhang (CHN)
84 Renata Zarazua (MEX)
86 Simona Waltert (SUI)

[ptmcmahon]

Pretty easy prediction for one withdrawl.

[Oploskoffie]

Dasha playing quallies Hope she gets moving in the right direction soon.

[ponchi101]

Pretty easy prediction for one withdrawl.

Agree. There is no way Leylah shows up after the AO.

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Qualifying Draw

(1) Elsa Jacquemot vs Chloe Paquet
Ekaterina Ovcharenko vs (6) Sara Bejlek

(2) Sonay Kartal vs Yuliia Starodubtseva
Priscilla Hon vs (8) Aliaksandra Sasnovich

(3) Hailey Baptiste vs (WC) Teodora Kostovic
Arina Rodionova vs (5) Simona Waltert

(4) Renata Zarazua vs Vera Zvonareva
(WC) Ellen Perez vs (7) Oksana Selekhmeteva

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Main Draw Singles

(1) Belinda Bencic/Bye
Qualifier vs Cristina Bucsa
Ashlyn Krueger vs Qualifier
Qualifier vs (7) Jelena Ostapenko

(3) Clara Tauson/Bye
Daria Kasatkina vs Qualifier
McCartney Kessler vs Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
(WC) Ajla Tomljanović vs (6) Leylah Fernandez

(5) Liudmila Samsonova vs Sofia Kenin
Janice Tjen vs Maya Joint
(WC) Hailey Baptiste vs (WC) Teodora Kostović
Bye/(4) Emma Navarro

(8) Paula Badosa vs Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
Alexandra Eala vs (WC) Zeynep Sonmez
Dayana Yastremska vs Beatriz Haddad Maia
Bye/(2) Ekaterina Alexandrova

[ptmcmahon]

Pretty easy prediction for one withdrawl.

Agree. There is no way Leylah shows up after the AO.

Did she even show up at AO?

[ashkor87]

would have been very surprised if Rybakina had actually played.

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Day 1 Order of Play

Stadium Court
Starts at 2:00 AM Round of 32

ESP P. Badosa (8) vs BLR A. Sasnovich
Starts: 11:00 (Venue) 02:00 (Your time)
Round of 32
Upcoming
INA J. Tjen vs AUS M. Joint
Follows previous match
Round of 32
Upcoming
UKR D. Yastremska vs BRA B. Haddad Maia
Follows previous match
Round of 32
Upcoming
RUS O. Selekhmeteva vs LAT J. Ostapenko (7)
Not before: 17:00 (Venue) 08:00 (Your time)
Round of 32
Upcoming
PHI A. Eala vs TUR Z. Sonmez
Follows previous match

ADCB Court 1
Starts at 2:00 AM

Round of 32
GBR S. Kartal vs ESP C. Bucsa
Starts: 11:00 (Venue) 02:00 (Your time)
Round of 32
Upcoming
AUS D. Kasatkina vs SUI S. Waltert
Follows previous match
Round of 16
Upcoming
AUS Perez /NED Schuurs (3) vs JPN Aoyama /RUS Zvonareva
Follows previous match
Round of 16
Upcoming
RUS Alexandrova /AUS Joint vs SRB Kostovic/UKR Yastremska
After Suitable Rest - Not Before 4:30 PM

Court 2
Starts at 2:00 AM

Round of 32
USA A. Krueger vs CZE S. Bejlek
Starts: 11:00 (Venue) 02:00 (Your time)
Round of 16
Upcoming
CRO Jurak Schreiber/POL Piter vs SVK Mihalikova /GBR Nicholls (4)
Not before: 12:30 (Venue) 03:30 (Your time)
Round of 16
Upcoming
TPE Chan /DEN Tauson vs RUS Khromacheva /SLO Klepac
Follows previous match

[ashkor87]

The first tournament after a major is always chaotic..i would expect good players, who did not go deep at the AO, to do well here..Alexandrova Bencic,..Dubai is a faster court , so look for a different set of people to do well .Paolini Coco, Andreeva..

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Day 2 Order of Play

Stadium Court
Starts at 2:00 AM

USA Muhammad /NZL Routliffe (1) vs USA Kenin /USA Krawczyk
Starts: 11:00 (Venue) 02:00 (Your time)
Upcoming
RUS L. Samsonova (5) vs INA J. Tjen
Not before: 13:00 (Venue) 04:00 (Your time)
Upcoming
USA M. Kessler vs CAN L. Fernandez (6)
Follows previous match
Upcoming
USA H. Baptiste vs USA E. Navarro (4)
Not before: 17:00 (Venue) 08:00 (Your time)
Upcoming
DEN C. Tauson (3) vs SUI S. Waltert
Follows previous match

ADCB Court 1
Starts at 6:30 AM

CZE Krejcikova /LAT Ostapenko vs RUS Samsonova /CHN Xu
After Rest - Not Before 4:00 PM
Upcoming
CAN Fernandez /FRA Mladenovic vs PHI Eala /INA Tjen
After Rest - Not Before 6:30 PM