March 16, 2026

Open Court

MORE TENNIS THAN YOU'LL EVER NEED

This week before back-to-back 1000s is a HUGE opportunity for a whole lot of players to pick up titles and ranking points.

Foremost among them is Emma Raducanu, who feels at home in Cluj-Napoca because of her father’s heritage, but who came up against a popular home girl in her final year on the circuit, who would love nothing more than to pick off one more title in Sorana Cirstea. Which she did; Raducanu left it all on the court in the semifinals.

In Mubadala, a 500, it wasn’t not quite the same tasty treat as No. 2 Ekaterina Alexandrova took on qualifier Sara Bejlek. Who had herself a week.

And in Ostrava, no Czechs in the singles final although three of them fill feature in the doubles final.

In Doha, the qualifying was in the final round.

(Ostrava is 6 hours ahead of ET; Cluj-Napoca is 7 hours ahead; Abu Dhabi 9 hours ahead).

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Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Category: WTA 500 
Surface: Hard Court
Dates: Feb. 2 – 8, 2026
Prize Money: $1,206,446
Draws: S28 – D16

Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026
Final results

Singles final 

[Q] Sara Bejlek (CZE) def [2] Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS) 76 (5) 61

Doubles final

Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS) / Maya Joint (AUS) def [4] Tereza Mihalikova (SVK) / Olivia Nicholls (GBR) 6 76 (5) [10-8]

   

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Transylvania Open
Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Category: WTA 250 
Surface: Hard Court
Dates:  Feb. 2 -8, 2026
Prize Money: $283,347
Draws: S32 – D16

Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026
Final results

Singles final 

[3] Sorana Cirstea (ROU) def [1] Emma Raducanu (GBR) 60 62

Doubles final 

[3] Kamilla Rakhimova (UZB) / Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) def Wang Xinyu / Zheng Saisai (CHN) 76 (7) 63

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Ostrava Open
Location: Ostrava, Czechia
Category: WTA 250  
Surface: Hard Court
Dates:  Feb. 3 – 8, 2026
Prize Money: $283,347
Draws: S30 – D16

Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026
Final results

Singles final 

Katie Boulter (GBR) def Tamara Korpatsch (GER)  57 62 61

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Doubles final 

[4] Anastasia Detiuc (CZE) / Sabrina Santamaria (USA) def [WC] Lucie Havlickova / Dominika Salkova (CZE) 64 76 (4)

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Qatar TotalEnergies Open 
Location: Doha, Qatar
Category: WTA 1000  
Surface: Hard Court
Dates:  Feb. 9- 16, 2026
Prize Money: $4,0880211
Draws: S56 – D28

Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026
Final results
Qualifying, final round

(1st-round opponents in brackets)

[9] Varvara Gracheva (FRA) def [2] Elisabetta Cocciaretto (ITA) 62 61 (Laura Siegemund)

[5] Sonay Kartal (GBR) def. [15] Kimberly Birrell (AUS) 75 63 (Magda Linette)

[11] Camila Osorio (COL) def Storm Hunter (AUS) 61 75 (Emma Raducanu)

[16] Alycia Parks (USA) def [6] Solana Sierra (ARG) 75 63 ([15] Diana Shnaider)

Moyuka Uchijima (JPN) def Yuliia Starodubtseva (UKR) 26 64 64 (Daria Kasatkina)

[1] Tereza Valentova (CZE) def. [14] Ella Seidel (GER) 36 62 64 (Alexandra Eala)

[PR] Vera Zvonareva (RUS) def [4] Magdalena Frech (POL) 63 76 (1)  ([WC] Peyton Stearns)

Anastasia Zakharova (RUS) def [8/WC] Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) 64 64 (Jelena Ostapenko)  – 

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[LL] Solana Sierra (ARG) (Karolina Pliskova)

[LL] Magdalena Frech (POL) ([13] Liudmila Samsonova)

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