# 2016 Qatar Total Open

The 2016 Qatar Total Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 14th edition of the event and part of the WTA Premier 5 series of the 2016 WTA Tour. It took place at the International Tennis and Squash complex in Doha, Qatar between 21 and 27 February 2016.

## Points and prize money
### Point distribution

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | 900 | 585 | 350 | 190 | 105 | 60 | 1 | 30 | 20 | 1 |
| Doubles | 900 | 585 | 350 | 190 | 105 | 1 | — | — | — | — |

### Prize money

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | $518,500 | $259,300 | $129,520 | $59,730 | $29,580 | $15,185 | $7,800 | $4,340 | $2,230 |
| Doubles * | $148,300 | $75,010 | $37,130 | $18,700 | $9,470 | $4,680 | — | — | — |
$_{*perteam}$

## Singles main-draw entrants
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | Seed |
| GER | Angelique Kerber | 2 | 1 |
| ROU | Simona Halep | 3 | 2 |
| POL | Agnieszka Radwańska | 4 | 3 |
| ESP | Garbiñe Muguruza | 5 | 4 |
| CZE | Petra Kvitová | 8 | 5 |
| SUI | Belinda Bencic | 9 | 6 |
| CZE | Lucie Šafářová | 10 | 7 |
| ESP | Carla Suárez Navarro | 11 | 8 |
| ITA | Roberta Vinci | 13 | 9 |
| CZE | Karolína Plíšková | 14 | 10 |
| SUI | Timea Bacsinszky | 16 | 11 |
| RUS | Svetlana Kuznetsova | 18 | 12 |
| DEN | Caroline Wozniacki | 19 | 13 |
| SRB | Jelena Janković | 20 | 14 |
| UKR | Elina Svitolina | 21 | 15 |
| ITA | Sara Errani | 22 | 16 |
* $^1$ Rankings as of February 15, 2016.

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
* Fatma Al-Nabhani
* Eugenie Bouchard
* Çağla Büyükakçay
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
* Kateryna Bondarenko
* Jana Čepelová
* Kirsten Flipkens
* Ana Konjuh
* Anastasija Sevastova
* Donna Vekić
* Elena Vesnina
* Wang Qiang

### Withdrawals
#### Before the tournament

* Mona Barthel → replaced by Daria Kasatkina
* Irina-Camelia Begu → replaced by Misaki Doi
* Alizé Cornet → replaced by Zheng Saisai
* Camila Giorgi → replaced by Yaroslava Shvedova
* Peng Shuai (right hand injury) → replaced by Tsvetana Pironkova
* Maria Sharapova (forearm injury) → replaced by Bethanie Mattek-Sands
* Serena Williams (flu) → replaced by Denisa Allertová

### Retirements

* Andrea Petkovic (left thigh injury)

## Doubles main-draw entrants
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | Seed |
| SUI | Martina Hingis | IND | Sania Mirza | 2 | 1 |
| USA | Bethanie Mattek-Sands | KAZ | Yaroslava Shvedova | 10 | 2 |
| FRA | Caroline Garcia | FRA | Kristina Mladenovic | 20 | 3 |
| TPE | Chan Hao-ching | TPE | Chan Yung-jan | 21 | 4 |
| CZE | Andrea Hlaváčková | CZE | Lucie Hradecká | 22 | 5 |
| HUN | Tímea Babos | GER | Julia Görges | 36 | 6 |
| USA | Raquel Atawo | USA | Abigail Spears | 39 | 7 |
| SLO | Andreja Klepač | SLO | Katarina Srebotnik | 49 | 8 |
* $^1$ Rankings as of February 15, 2016.

### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
* Fatma Al-Nabhani / Varvara Lepchenko
* Simona Halep / Raluca Olaru
* Petra Kvitová / Barbora Strýcová
* Ons Jabeur / Olla Mourad

### Withdrawals
#### During the tournament

* Petra Kvitová (right leg injury)

## Champions
### Singles

* Carla Suárez Navarro def. Jeļena Ostapenko, 1–6, 6–4, 6–4

### Doubles

* Chan Hao-ching / Chan Yung-jan def. Sara Errani / Carla Suárez Navarro, 6–3, 6–3