The Dubai championships run two consecutive weeks at the Aviation Club: a WTA event and an ATP event, in a stadium seating around 5,000 — small enough that the courtside experience is unusually close for a tournament of this rank.
No attendance figure is collected in this pass.
It sits in the Gulf swing between the Australian Open and the American hard-court season, which has made it a fixture for the top of both tours since 1993.
The scheduling point for a visitor: these are two separate tournaments with separate ticketing a week apart, routinely listed as one. A reader booking "the Dubai tennis" may arrive for the wrong tour.
PlanningA fortnight bridging late February and early March — women's week and men's week, not one tournament.
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