Halep won the Dubai tournament in , and made it to the quarterfinals last year, losing to eventual champion Belinda Bencic. The two-time major champion and former world number 1 has definitely looked impressive this year.

Muguruza made it to the semifinals at the Shenzhen Open and to the quarterfinals at the Brisbane International, withdrawing from the latter.

Muguruza still piled up wins over three top 10 players, Elina Svitolina, Kiki Bertens, and Simona Halep, all without dropping a single set.

She made it to the semifinals last year, losing to eventual champion Belinda Bencic in three sets. She lost in the first round at the Brisbane International and in the third round at the Australian Open.

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Select Live Streaming 4. Karolina Pliskova World no. Kim Clijsters As glittering as the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships field is in , it received a further boost when Clijsters announced that she would be making her return to professional tennis at the tournament when it begins on Monday 17 February.

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Thomas Muster. Nicolas Kiefer. Juan Carlos Ferrero. Marat Safin. Younes El Aynaoui. Roger Federer. Roger Federer 2. Roger Federer 3. Rafael Nadal.

Roger Federer 4. Mikhail Youzhny. Andy Roddick. David Ferrer. Novak Djokovic 2. Novak Djokovic 3. Roger Federer 5. Andy Murray. Novak Djokovic 4. Roger Federer 6.

Roger Federer 7. Stan Wawrinka. Marcos Baghdatis. Fernando Verdasco. Roberto Bautista Agut. Lucas Pouille. Roger Federer 8.

Stefanos Tsitsipas. Novak Djokovic 5. Martina Hingis. Nathalie Tauziat. Sandrine Testud. Justine Henin-Hardenne.

Monica Seles. Justine Henin-Hardenne 2. Svetlana Kuznetsova. Lindsay Davenport. Justine Henin-Hardenne 3. Maria Sharapova. Justine Henin 4.

This list of participants for the edition of the tournament saw Simona Halep start off the top seed and she was joined by Karolina Pliskova, Elina Svitolina and Belinda Bencic among others.

Kim Clijsters also participated in the tournament as a wild-card making it her first match in her third comeback. Rybakina starts off her campaign with a first round win over the Australian Open winner Sofia Kenin and then proceeded to defeat Katerina Siniakova, second seeded Karolina Pliskova and Petra Martic to enter the final.

Also participating in the tournament was the comeback queen Kim Clijsters who lost her first round match to Garbine Muguruza but not before she had threatened to take it to the third set.

Two-time defending champion Elina Svitolina went out to Belinda Bencic in the semifinals, who went on to defeat Petra Kvitova in the final to win the title.

Bencic faced six match-points against Aryna Sabalenka in an earlier match but came back strongly to beat her and then overcame Kvitova , , to clinch her second tournament win at the Premier-5 level.

After an easy couple of wins in the first two rounds, Bencic needed a third set tie-breaker and in that tie-breaker to beat Sabalenka, before bouncing out Simona Halep in three sets as well.

This was followed by the victories over Svitolina and second seeded Kvitova. Third seeded Halep and fourth seeded Karolina Pliskova made it as far as the quarterfinal while the top seed Naomi Osaka was sent packing in the second round itself, having entered the competition on the back of the Australian Open title.

The edition was won by the World No.