What is the prize money for the 2025 Qatar TotalEnergies Open?
The winner of the 2025 Qatar Open will earn more than what World No. 2 Iga Swiatek pocketed after beating Elena Rybakina in the final last time.
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Coco Gauff, Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka (Images via WTA/X)
The 23rd edition of the Qatar Open will run from February 9 to February 15 at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha. Season’s first WTA 1000 event and the first of the two consecutive tournaments of the same category of the Middle East Swing will see several top players battle it out against each other to take home the staggering prize money the event is offering.
Five-time Grand Slam winner Iga Swiatek, the defending champion, will be targeting history. She will be aiming to become the second woman in the century to win a tournament four consecutive times.
Caroline Wozniacki achieved this feat in New Haven (2008-2011). But things are not expected to be easier for the World No. 2, who is searching for her first WTA title since lifting her historic fourth French Open in 2024.
Three-time Grand Slam singles champion and top seed Aryna Sabalenka, 2022 US Open champion Coco Gauff, 2022 Wimbledon champion and last year’s Qatar Open runner-up Elena Rybakina, and two-time Grand Slam singles finalist Jasmine Paolini too have signed up for the event in Doha. Three-time Grand Slam finalist Ons Jabeur, the highest ranked Arab player, will be making her 10th main-draw appearance.
Prize money for the 2025 Qatar TotalEnergies Open
For the season’s first WTA tournament, the total prize pool is $3,654,963 which is slightly more than what the tournament offered last year ($3,211,715). Last year in the final, Iga Swiatek after her straight-set win over Elena Rybakina, bagged $523,485. The winner this year, however, will win a bit more than what Swiatek took home.
Women’s Singles Qatar Open prize money:
| First round | $16,900 |
| Second round | $23,500 |
| Round of 16 | $41,600 |
| Quarterfinals | $83,470 |
| Semifinals | $181,400 |
| Finalist | $351,801 |
| Champion | $597,000 |
Before Swiatek, the player who won back-to-back Qatar Open titles was Victoria Azarenka in 2012-2013. The two-time Grand Slam champion will be making her ninth appearance in the tournament.
Madison Keys, after winning her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open with a three-set victory over Aryna Sabalenka, is yet to play a tournament and withdrew from the Qatar Open as she suffered a hamstring injury. Apart from the World No.6 other seeded players, 2024 Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova and Danielle Collins also pulled out of the event due to injury problems.
Right after the conclusion of the women’s event, the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex will host the Qatar ExxonMobil, the ATP 500 tournament. The WTA players, however, will start preparing for the second 1000 tournament, the Dubai Tennis Championships, which is set to start on February 15.
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