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Barbora Krejcikova scripted what will probably be remembered as one of the upsets of the 2023 season by beating Iga Swiatek 6-4, 6-2 to win her maiden WTA 1000 title at the Dubai Tennis Championships.
The Czech registered her second successive win over the Pole, previously beating her in the final of the AGEL Open in Ostrava last season. She will subsequently climb 14 spots up to 16th in the WTA rankings.
Having previously beaten World No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka and World No. 3 Jessica Pegula, Krejcikova became only the fifth woman to defeat the top three players in the world in a single tournament over the past 40 years after Steffi Graf (1999 French Open), Serena Williams (2002 Miami Open), Venus Williams (2008 WTA Finals) and Aryna Sabalenka (2022 WTA Finals).
The Czech's exploits in Dubai will see her earn $454,500 while runner-up Iga Swiatek will pocket $267,690. The total prize pool for the women's tournament is $2,788,468 and the two finalists will earn a combined $722,190 while the semifinalists Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff will each pocket $138,000.
The four quarterfinalists, namely Karolina Pliskova, Madison Keys, Aryna Sabalenka and Karolina Muchova will each get paid $63,350. The players who reached the Round of 16 of the Dubai Tennis Championships will each receive $31,650 while those who made it to the second round will each pocket $17,930. The competitors who were out in the first round will earn $12,848 each.
Among the players who failed to make it to the main draw, the ones who exited in the second qualifying round will pocket $7650 each while those who were eliminated in the opening qualifying round will receive $4000 each.
Veronika Kudermetova and Liudmila Samsonova won the women's doubles event at the Dubai Tennis Championships
Veronika Kudermetova and Liudmila Samsonova won the women's doubles title at the Dubai Tennis Championships by beating the Chinese Taipei pair of Chan Hao-ching and Latisha Chang 6-4, 6-7(4) [10-1] in the final.
Kudermetova and Samsonova will earn $148,845 while Chan and Chang will pocket $75,310. The semifinalists will earn $37,275 per team while the pairs who exited in the quarterfinals will each receive $18,765.
The doubles teams who exited in the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships will each get paid $9510 while those who were eliminated in the opening round will each pocket $4695.
