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Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open 2023

Women's Singles

Level: WTA 500
Where: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Surface: Hard
Dates: 6 – 12 Feb 2023

Champion

🇨🇭Belinda Bencic 2nd seed

4 wins, 1 set dropped. Bencic’s run, match by match

The title paid

500ranking points

about $165K at this tier

Runner-up

🇷🇺Liudmila Samsonova 8th seed

Lost 1-6 7-6(8) 6-4 · 325 pts

The week in numbers

28-player draw · 27 matches played

6/8

top-8 seeds reached the quarter-finals

12

matches went to a deciding set

of 27 played

36

games in the longest match

Haddad Maia d. Putintseva, R16

10

sets decided by a tiebreak

Final four

Semi-final6-2 6-3🇨🇭B. Bencic(2)🇧🇷B. Haddad Maia(6)Semi-final6-4 1-6 6-4🇷🇺L. Samsonova(8)🇨🇳Q. Zheng

Final1-6 7-6(8) 6-4🇨🇭B. Bencic(2)🇷🇺L. Samsonova(8)

What each round was worth

and who took it

ResultPointsReached byPrize

Champion
500pts$165K
Belinda Bencic(2)
Runner-up
325pts$96K
Liudmila Samsonova(8)
Semifinal
195pts$53K
B. Haddad Maia(6), Q. Zheng
Quarterfinal
108pts$29K
D. Kasatkina(1), E. Rybakina(3), V. Kudermetova(4), S. Rogers
Round of 16
60pts$16K
8 players — incl. seeds 5, 7
Round of 32
30pts$9.5K
12 players

Full draw How the 8 seeds fared All 27 matches

All 27 matches, round by round

Final

Belinda Bencic def. Liudmila Samsonova1-6 7-6(8) 6-4

Semifinals

Belinda Bencic def. Beatriz Haddad Maia6-2 6-3
Liudmila Samsonova def. Qinwen Zheng6-4 1-6 6-4

Quarterfinals

Belinda Bencic def. Shelby Rogers7-6(5) 6-2
Liudmila Samsonova def. Veronika Kudermetova6-3 6-3
Qinwen Zheng def. Daria Kasatkina6-1 6-2
Beatriz Haddad Maia def. Elena Rybakina3-6 6-3 6-2

Round of 16

Veronika Kudermetova def. Elise Mertens6-1 7-5
Shelby Rogers def. Anett Kontaveit4-6 6-3 4-1 RET
Qinwen Zheng def. Jelena Ostapenko7-6(10) 6-1
Belinda Bencic def. Marta Kostyuk6-4 7-5
Elena Rybakina def. Karolina Pliskova6-4 6-2
Beatriz Haddad Maia def. Yulia Putintseva6-4 6-7(5) 7-6(4)
Liudmila Samsonova def. Barbora Krejcikova7-5 7-6(6)
Daria Kasatkina def. Jil Teichmann1-6 6-0 6-2

Round of 32

Anett Kontaveit def. Shuai Zhang4-6 7-6(4) 6-4
Marta Kostyuk def. Sorana Cirstea6-2 1-6 6-2
Elise Mertens def. Martina Trevisan6-0 6-2
Jelena Ostapenko def. Danielle Rose Collins7-5 1-6 7-5
Qinwen Zheng def. Rebecca Marino6-3 6-3
Karolina Pliskova def. Ysaline Bonaventure6-1 6-3
Barbora Krejcikova def. Elena Gabriela Ruse6-1 6-4
Beatriz Haddad Maia def. Marie Bouzkova4-6 6-3 6-0
Liudmila Samsonova def. Claire Liu3-6 6-2 6-0
Jil Teichmann def. Dayana Yastremska6-3 7-6(5)
Yulia Putintseva def. Bianca Vanessa Andreescu7-6(2) 6-2
Shelby Rogers def. Leylah Fernandez6-4 6-7(5) 6-1