2020 Dubai Tennis Championships

The Women's event was expanded to 30 places in the main draw, and 48 places in qualifying; following the cancellation of the Hungarian Ladies Open, which was scheduled in the same week as the Dubai Tennis Championships.^[3]

Points

Point distribution

ATP singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Ranking1	Seed
SRB	Novak Djokovic	1	1
GRE	Stefanos Tsitsipas	6	2
FRA	Gaël Monfils	9	3
ITA	Fabio Fognini	11	4
ESP	Roberto Bautista Agut	12	5
RUS	Andrey Rublev	14	6
RUS	Karen Khachanov	17	7
FRA	Benoît Paire	20	8

• Rankings are as of February 17, 2020.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Prajnesh Gunneswaran
• Malek Jaziri
• Mohamed Safwat

The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:

• Lu Yen-hsun

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Lloyd Harris
• Lorenzo Musetti
• Dennis Novak
• Yasutaka Uchiyama

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Roger Federer → replaced by Yoshihito Nishioka
• Jo-Wilfried Tsonga → replaced by Ričardas Berankis

ATP doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
USA	Rajeev Ram	GBR	Joe Salisbury	11	1
CRO	Ivan Dodig	SVK	Filip Polášek	17	2
GER	Kevin Krawietz	GER	Andreas Mies	25	3
NED	Wesley Koolhof	CRO	Nikola Mektić	38	4

• Rankings are as of February 17, 2020.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

• Abdulrahman Al Janahi / Fares Al Janahi
• Matthew Ebden / Leander Paes

The following pair received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Henri Kontinen / Jan-Lennard Struff

WTA singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Ranking1	Seed
ROU	Simona Halep	2	1
CZE	Karolína Plíšková	3	2
UKR	Elina Svitolina	4	3
SUI	Belinda Bencic	5	4
USA	Sofia Kenin	7	5
NED	Kiki Bertens	8	6
BLR	Aryna Sabalenka	13	7
CRO	Petra Martić	15	8
ESP	Garbiñe Muguruza	16	9

• Rankings are as of February 10, 2020.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Kim Clijsters
• Ons Jabeur
• Garbiñe Muguruza
• Elina Svitolina

The following player received entry as a special exempt:

• Elena Rybakina

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Jennifer Brady
• Sorana Cîrstea
• Veronika Kudermetova
• Kristina Mladenovic
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Kateřina Siniaková

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

• Hsieh Su-wei

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Bianca Andreescu → replaced by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Ashleigh Barty → replaced by Wang Qiang
• Kiki Bertens → replaced by Hsieh Su-wei
• Madison Keys → replaced by Barbora Strýcová
• Johanna Konta → replaced by Anastasija Sevastova

WTA doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
TPE	Hsieh Su-wei	CZE	Barbora Strýcová	3	1
TPE	Chan Hao-ching	TPE	Latisha Chan	24	2
USA	Nicole Melichar	CHN	Xu Yifan	27	3
CAN	Gabriela Dabrowski	CHN	Zhang Shuai	29	4
CZE	Barbora Krejčiková	CHN	Zheng Saisai	33	5
CZE	Květa Peschke	NED	Demi Schuurs	35	6
CHN	Duan Yingying	RUS	Veronika Kudermetova	42	7
JPN	Shuko Aoyama	JPN	Ena Shibahara	53	8

• Rankings are as of February 10, 2020.

Other entrants

The following pairs received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:

• Monique Adamczak / Yana Sizikova
• Caroline Garcia / Sania Mirza

Withdrawals

During the tournament

• Markéta Vondroušová (right adductor strain)

Champions

Men's singles

• Novak Djokovic def. Stefanos Tsitsipas, 6–3, 6–4

Women's singles

• Simona Halep def. Elena Rybakina, 3–6, 6–3, 7–6^(7–5)

Men's doubles