What is the Prize Money for the 2026 Dubai Tennis Championships?

World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka and World No.2 Iga Swiatek will be skipping the Dubai Tennis Championships.

What is the Prize Money for the 2026 Dubai Tennis Championships?

L-R: Amanda Anisimova, Mirra Andreeva, Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina (Image via X/TNT Sports, The Tennis Letter, #AusOpen, Jimmy48 Photography)

In Short
  • The total prize pool for the 2026 Dubai Tennis Championships is $4,088,211.
  • The champion will receive $665,000, while the runner-up will earn $385,001.
  • Ranking points awarded range from 10 for first-round players to 1000 for the winner.

Now that the Qatar Open is done and dusted, the tennis world has shifted its focus toward the second WTA 1000 of the season, as well as the last tournament of the Middle East Swing- the Dubai Tennis Championships. In the Qatar Open final, Karolina Muchova denied Victoria Mboko her second WTA 1000 of her career with a straight-set win.

Aryna Sabalenka, after losing back-to-back Australian Open finals (this time to Elena Rybakina), skipped the Doha event. And she has withdrawn from the Dubai event as well and is expected to be back on the tour for the first leg of the Sunshine Doubles, the WTA 1000 Indian Wells.

Iga Swiatek, who completed a three-peat in Doha from 2022 to 2024 and lost to Maria Sakkari in the quarterfinals this year, also pulled out of the Dubai 1000 tournament. She lost to Barbora Krejcikova in the final back in 2023. Rybakina will be entering the Dubai event as the first seed. The Kazakh ace finished as runner-up in 2020, losing to Simona Halep.

In the 56-player draw, 43 have received direct entries, eight are qualifiers, and four of them are wild cards. Eight seeded players have received first-round byes. They are: Rybakina, Amanda Anisimova, Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Mirra Andreeva, Jasmine Paolini, Elina Svitolina, and Ekaterina Alexandrova.

Andreeva will be entering the competition as the defending champion. Last year, she defeated Clara Tauson to win her career’s first Big Title. She doubled her tally by upsetting Sabalenka in the Indian Wells final later.

Paolini is also a former champion in Dubai. In 2024, she beat Anna Kalinskaya in the final. Svitolina, who returned to the top 10 after her semifinal run at the Australian Open, won back-to-back titles in Dubai, defeating Caroline Wozniacki in 2017 and Daria Kasatkina the following year. But that time, the Dubai event was held under the category of Premier 5 tournament (900 instead of 1000 ranking points were awarded to the winners).

Prize money for the 2026 Dubai Tennis Championships

The qualifying rounds of the Dubai Open kicked off on February 13 on the outdoor hard courts at Aviation Club Tennis Center. The main draw of the weeklong WTA 1000 tournament started on February 15, and the final is scheduled to be held on February 21. A total of 1000 ranking points will be awarded to the winner, while the runner-up will receive 650 points.

Mirra Andreeva (2)
Mirra Andreeva (Image via X/HQ pics)

The semifinalists and the quarterfinalists will be awarded 390 and 215 points, respectively, while those reaching the third round will get 120 points, and those reaching the second round will gain 65 points. Only 10 points will be given to the players in the first round.

The total prize pool of the Dubai tournament is $4,088,211. The winner and the runner-up will be pocketing $665,000 and $385,001, respectively.

First round$18,300
Second round$26,000
Third round $49,250
Quarterfinals$98,500
Semifinals$197,000
Runner-up$385,001
Champion$665,000

Victoria Mboko, who lifted her career’s first title at the WTA 1000 Canadian Open last year by defeating four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka, is the 11th seed in the tournament. She will officially be ranked career-best No.10 on Monday.

Belinda Bencic, the ninth seed, is a former champion, winning in 2019 against Petra Kvitova. After ending the United Cup as runner-up with Switzerland and losing in the second round of the Australian Open, she skipped the Doha event as she got sick in Abu Dhabi.

Former player Justine Henin holds the record for most titles here, winning in 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007. Seven-time Grand Slam singles champion Venus Williams lifted three titles here (2009, 2010, and 2014). Williams, who has yet to hang up her racket, won’t be playing in the ongoing tournament.

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