Tour: WTA · Level: 500-level · Surface: hard court · Location: Abu Dhabi · Dates: Feb 1, 2026 – Feb 7, 2026
Sara Bejlek def. Ekaterina Alexandrova, 7(7)-6(5) 6-1.
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Abu Dhabi Open 2026 ships live odds of winning the title and reaching every round (R128 through the title) for every player in the draw. Odds re-condition after every completed match. Our hit-rate against sportsbook lines is published openly, sliced by surface, tour, and round.
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Matches: 27 · Players in draw: 28
Abu Dhabi Open 2026 bracket — late-round matchups from R16 through the Final. Scroll horizontally to see every round; tap any match for the live score, set-by-set stats, and head-to-head history. Pair the bracket with the Predictions tab for each player's odds of reaching every round, updated after every completed match. View the complete draw with all rounds (R128 through the Final) with seed positions and match predictions.
Full Abu Dhabi Open 2026 results — 27 completed matches so far, grouped by round below. Tap any match for the live set-by-set score, point-by-point flow, and head-to-head history.
| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Sara Bejlek | Ekaterina Alexandrova | 7(7)-6(5) 6-1 |
| 2025 | Belinda Bencic | Ashlyn Krueger | 4-6 6-1 6-1 |
| 2024 | Elena Rybakina | Daria Kasatkina | 6-1 6-4 |
| 2023 | Belinda Bencic | Laura Samson | 1-6 7(10)-6(8) 6-4 |
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Abu Dhabi Open is open as a free fantasy contest on The Drop Shot. Build a salary-cap roster from the field in a single-tournament contest, or draft a season-long team across the full ATP and WTA calendar in a snake-draft fantasy tennis league. Pricing weights surface history and recent form against Abu Dhabi Open's surface — so a clay specialist costs more here than at a hard-court event. Every match on the draw above scores live for your fantasy team, with pre-match win probabilities, set-by-set stats, and live point-by-point updates.
The Abu Dhabi Open was born of necessity and stuck around. Launched in 2021 as the inaugural event of the WTA's newly minted 500 tier, it gave a disrupted tour a safe early-season anchor and a launching pad toward the relocated Australian Open qualifying. After a one-year gap it returned in 2023, absorbing the calendar slot left by the suspension of WTA events in Russia, and has held its early-February date since — folded into the Gulf hardcourt run that also takes in Dubai and the WTA Qatar Open.
What sets it apart is less the trophy than the timing and the setting. Played on outdoor hard courts at Zayed Sports City's International Tennis Centre, it sits in the narrow window between the Australian Open and the Middle East's bigger 1000-level stops — a place where players either carry Melbourne momentum or use the desert sun to reset. The medium-paced hard surface and dry desert air reward clean ball-strikers over pure grinders, and the modest draw size keeps the field top-heavy.
Its champions roll reflects that. Belinda Bencic is the event's defining figure, winning both the 2023 final over Laura Samson and the 2025 title, the latter after dropping the opening set 6-4 to Ashlyn Krueger before taking the last two 6-1, 6-1. In between, Elena Rybakina bullied her way past Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-4 for the 2024 crown — the kind of front-running, first-strike tennis the courts reward.
The most recent edition crowned a first-time winner: Sara Bejlek edged Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-6, 6-1, a breakthrough that fits the tournament's role as proving ground for the tour's rising names rather than a guaranteed stop for the established elite.