Description
The Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships is an annual professional tennis tournament held in February in Dubai, UAE. The tournament takes place on the hard courts of the Aviation Club Tennis Centre. The men's tournament belongs to the ATP 500 category with a prize pool of about $2.9 million since 2009. The tournament features 32 players in singles and 16 pairs in doubles. The women's tournament belongs to the WTA 1000 category since 2015. In odd-numbered years, the prize fund is about $ 2.8 million, and in even-numbered years it is about $ 700 thousand within the WTA 500 series. There are 56 singles players and 28 doubles pairs in odd-numbered years, and 32 singles players and 16 doubles pairs in even-numbered years.