2021 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship Entry List with Barty, Halep, Kenin, Svitolina

WTA 1000 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship occurs in the second week of March, gathering a stellar field of players and standing as one of the three strongest events in the season's opening months.

The field could barely be more potent, with only three top-20 players skipping the event, including Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka. Ashleigh Barty, the defending champion Simona Halep, Sofia Kenin, Elina Svitolina, Karolina Pliskova and in-form Aryna Sabalenka are the top seeds, with exciting matches coming from the very first round.

Belinda Bencic, Victoria Azarenka and Garbine Muguruza are not even in the top-8 seeds, and it promises to be one of the best WTA tournaments of the season outside the Majors. In the last year's final, Halep defeated Elena Rybaking 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 after two and a half hours, and we should get more high-quality encounters in Dubai in 40 days.

1 BARTY, ASHLEIGH (AUS) 1
2 HALEP, SIMONA (ROU) 2
3 KENIN, SOFIA (USA) 4
4 SVITOLINA, ELINA (UKR) 5
5 PLISKOVA, KAROLINA (CZE) 6
6 SABALENKA, ARYNA (BLR) 7
7 ANDREESCU, BIANCA (CAN) 8
8 KVITOVA, PETRA (CZE) 9
9 BERTENS, KIKI (NED) 10
10 BENCIC, BELINDA (SUI) 12
11 AZARENKA, VICTORIA (BLR) 13
12 MUGURUZA, GARBIÑE (ESP) 15
13 KEYS, MADISON (USA) 16
14 SWIATEK, IGA (POL) 17
15 MARTIC, PETRA (CRO) 18
16 RYBAKINA, ELENA (KAZ) 19
17 MERTENS, ELISE (BEL) 20
18 VONDROUSOVA, MARKETA (CZE) 21
19 SAKKARI, MARIA (GRE) 22
20 KONTAVEIT, ANETT (EST) 23
21 BRADY, JENNIFER (USA) 24
22 KERBER, ANGELIQUE (GER) 25
23 RISKE, ALISON (USA) 26
24 MUCHOVA, KAROLINA (CZE) 27
25 PUTINTSEVA, YULIA (KAZ) 28
26 JABEUR, ONS (TUN) 30
27 ANISIMOVA, AMANDA (USA) 31
28 VEKIC, DONNA (CRO) 32
29 ALEXANDROVA, EKATERINA (RUS) 33
30 WANG, QIANG (CHN) 34
31 ZHANG, SHUAI (CHN) 35
32 KUDERMETOVA, VERONIKA (RUS) 36
33 KUZNETSOVA, SVETLANA (RUS) 37
34 STRYCOVA, BARBORA (CZE) 38
35 PAVLYUCHENKOVA, ANASTASIA (RUS) 39
36 LINETTE, MAGDA (POL) 41
37 ZHENG, SAISAI (CHN) 42
38 FERRO, FIONA (FRA) 43
39 GARCIA, CAROLINE (FRA) 44
40 OSTAPENKO, JELENA (LAT) 45
41 COLLINS, DANIELLE (USA) 46
42 SHVEDOVA, YAROSLAVA (KAZ) 47 SR
43 HERCOG, POLONA (SLO) 49

Alternates

1 MLADENOVIC, KRISTINA (FRA) 50
2 SIEGEMUND, LAURA (GER) 51
3 CORNET, ALIZÉ (FRA) 53
4 SEVASTOVA, ANASTASIJA (LAT) 54
5 TIG, PATRICIA MARIA (ROU) 56