2016 Dubai Tennis Championships

_{*per team}

Country	Player	Ranking1	Seed
SRB	Novak Djokovic	1	1
SUI	Stan Wawrinka	4	2
CZE	Tomáš Berdych	8	3
ESP	Roberto Bautista Agut	18	4
SRB	Viktor Troicki	21	5
ESP	Feliciano López	25	6
SVK	Martin Kližan	27	7
GER	Philipp Kohlschreiber	29	8

• Rankings were as of February 15, 2016.

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Yuki Bhambri
• Marsel İlhan
• Malek Jaziri

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Thomas Fabbiano
• Lucas Pouille
• Franko Škugor
• Mikhail Youzhny

Before the tournament

• Roger Federer (knee injury) → replaced by Simone Bolelli
• Janko Tipsarević → replaced by Denis Istomin

• Novak Djokovic (eye infection/problem/ailment)
• Nick Kyrgios (back pain/problem)

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
NED	Jean-Julien Rojer	ROU	Horia Tecău	11	1
IND	Rohan Bopanna	ROU	Florin Mergea	20	2
CAN	Vasek Pospisil	SRB	Nenad Zimonjić	30	3
FIN	Henri Kontinen	AUS	John Peers	40	4

• Rankings were as of February 15, 2016.

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

• Mahesh Bhupathi / Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
• Sergei Bubka / Sergiy Stakhovsky

The following pair received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Hyeon Chung / Jiří Veselý

Country	Player	Ranking1	Seed
ROU	Simona Halep	3	1
ESP	Garbiñe Muguruza	5	2
ESP	Carla Suárez Navarro	8	3
CZE	Petra Kvitová	9	4
SUI	Belinda Bencic	11	5
CZE	Karolína Plíšková	13	6
ITA	Roberta Vinci	16	7
RUS	Svetlana Kuznetsova	17	8

• Rankings were as of February 8, 2016.

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Julia Görges
• Simona Halep
• Petra Kvitová
• Karolína Plíšková

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Jana Čepelová
• Tsvetana Pironkova
• Yaroslava Shvedova
• Zheng Saisai

Before the tournament

• Timea Bacsinszky (gastrointestinal illness) → replaced by Coco Vandeweghe
• Angelique Kerber (right upper thigh injury) → replaced by Camila Giorgi
• Peng Shuai (right hand injury) → replaced by Caroline Garcia
• Agnieszka Radwańska (left leg injury) → replaced by Lesia Tsurenko
• Lucie Šafářová (ongoing illness and bacterial infection) → replaced by Madison Brengle
• Serena Williams (illness) → replaced by Barbora Strýcová
• Caroline Wozniacki (left knee injury) → replaced by Daria Gavrilova

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
USA	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	KAZ	Yaroslava Shvedova	10	1
FRA	Caroline Garcia	FRA	Kristina Mladenovic	20	2
CZE	Andrea Hlaváčková	CZE	Lucie Hradecká	22	3
HUN	Tímea Babos	GER	Julia Görges	36	4

• Rankings were as of February 8, 2016.

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

• Fatma Al-Nabhani / Tsvetana Pironkova
• Petra Kvitová / Alicja Rosolska

• Stan Wawrinka def. Marcos Baghdatis 6–4, 7–6^(15–13)

• Sara Errani def. Barbora Strýcová 6–0, 6–2

• Simone Bolelli / Andreas Seppi def. Feliciano López / Marc López 6–2, 3–6, [14–12]

• Chuang Chia-jung / Darija Jurak def. Caroline Garcia / Kristina Mladenovic 6–4, 6–4