Dubai Tennis Championships 2026: Where to Watch, Live Streaming, Broadcast Details, and Schedule

Mirra Andreeva will be bidding to defend her title at the Dubai Open, where last year, she defeated Clara Tauson.

Dubai Tennis Championships 2026: Where to Watch, Live Streaming, Broadcast Details, and Schedule

L-R: Amanda Anisimova, Coco Gauff, Mirra Andreeva, Elena Rybakina (Image via X/Tiempo De Tenis, Bastien Fachan, The Tennis Letter, Jimmy48 Photography)

In Short
  • The WTA 1000 Dubai Tennis Championship features 56 players, including defending champion Mirra Andreeva.
  • World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka and World No.2 Iga Swiatek will not participate in the tournament.
  • The main draw runs from February 15 to February 21, 2026, with a total prize pool of $4,088,211.

The Middle East Swing will end after the WTA 1000 Dubai Tennis Championship, which features 56 players, 43 of whom received direct entries, while eight of them are wild card entrants. Mirra Andreeva will be entering the tournament as the defending champion.

Last year, the Russian ace defeated Clara Tauson. Eight seeded players have received first-round byes- Elena Rybakina, Amanda Anisimova, Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Andreeva, Jasmine Paolini, Elina Svitolina, and Ekaterina Alexandrova.

Belinda Bencic, Paolini, and Svitolina have won the Dubai event at least once. The Italian ace defeated Anna Kalinskaya in the final back in 2024.

Svitolina clinched the title twice- in 2017 against Caroline Wozniacki and defended it the following season by beating Daria Kasatkina. At that time, however, the tournament used to award 900 points to the winner, as it used to be a Premier 5 tournament.

Two big names are missing from the draw. World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka, after losing to Elena Rybakina in the Australian Open final, in what was also her fourth Grand Slam singles final defeat, skipped the WTA 1000 Qatar Open and has also decided to withdraw from the Dubai event. Last year in the Middle East swing, Sabalenka suffered early round exits in both the two WTA 1000 tournaments.

Because she sits comfortably on top of the rankings table, she deemed it best to skip the two mandatory events and recover well before making her comeback at Indian Wells, the first tournament of the Sunshine Doubles, where last year Andreeva defeated her. The other name missing from the draw is World No.2 Iga Swiatek.

The six-time Grand Slam champion is once again dealing with form issues. After finally getting hold of the United Cup trophy with Poland by defeating Switzerland in the final, Swiatek succumbed to defeat in the Australian Open quarterfinals against Rybakina and in the quarterfinals of the Qatar Open against Maria Sakkari. Rybakina will be the first seed in the Dubai event. The Kazakh ace lost in the final back in 2020 against Simona Halep.

Dubai Tennis Championships 2026 schedule

The qualifying rounds of the Dubai Open were held from February 13 to February 14 at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre. The primary draw started on February 15, with the final scheduled to be held on February 21.

Mirra Andreeva
Mirra Andreeva (Image via X/#AusOpen)
Date Event
February 15, 2026First round
February 16, 2026First round
February 17, 2026Second round
February 18, 2026Third round
February 19, 2026Quarterfinals
February 20, 2026Semifinals
February 21, 2026Final

The total prize pool of the second WTA 1000 of the year is $4,088,211, and from this, the winner will receive $665,000, while the runner-up will get $385,001.

The winner will get 1000 ranking points, while the runner-up will get 650 points. Those reaching the semifinals will be awarded 390 points, while the quarterfinalists will get 215 points. Players reaching the second and third rounds will get 65 and 120 points, respectively, while those playing in the first round will have just 10 points.

In the final of the Qatar Open (season’s first WTA 1000 event), Karolina Muchova beat reigning Canadian Open champion Victoria Mboko, denying the 19-year-old her second title at this level.

Former player Justine Henin won the Dubai Open in 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007, and holds the record for most titles in the tournament. Venus Williams has won the title thrice (2009, 2010, and 2014), but she will be skipping the event.

Where to watch the Dubai Tennis Championships 2026?

  • USA – Tennis Channel
  • UK – Sky Sports
  • Canada – TSN
  • Australia – beIN Sports
  • UAE – DAZN
  • India: Tennis Channel

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