2018 Qatar Total Open

2018 Qatar Total Open
Date	12–17 February
Edition	16th
Category	WTA Premier 5
Draw	56S / 28D
Prize money	$2,666,000
Surface	Hard
Location	Doha, Qatar
Venue	Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex
Champions
Singles
	Petra Kvitová
Doubles
	Gabriela Dabrowski / Jeļena Ostapenko
	← 2017; Qatar Open; 2019 →;

The 2018 Qatar Total Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 16th edition of the event and a WTA Premier 5 tournament on the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the International Tennis and Squash complex in Doha, Qatar between 12 and 17 February 2018.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 56	Q	Q2	Q1
Singles	900	585	350	190	105	60	1	30	20	1
Doubles	900	585	350	190	105	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 56	Q2	Q1
Singles	$591,750	$295,900	$147,750	$68,125	$33,750	$17,325	$8,900	$4,955	$2,550
Doubles*	$169,280	$85,600	$42,360	$21,235	$10,805	$5,335	N/A	N/A	N/A

_{*per team}

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank¹	Seed
DEN	Caroline Wozniacki	1	1
ROU	Simona Halep	2	2
UKR	Elina Svitolina	3	3
ESP	Garbiñe Muguruza	4	4
CZE	Karolína Plíšková	5	5
LAT	Jeļena Ostapenko	6	6
FRA	Caroline Garcia	7	7
GER	Angelique Kerber	9	8
GER	Julia Görges	10	9
GBR	Johanna Konta	11	10
FRA	Kristina Mladenovic	13	11
USA	Madison Keys	14	12
LAT	Anastasija Sevastova	15	13
SVK	Magdaléna Rybáriková	18	14
BEL	Elise Mertens	20	15
CZE	Petra Kvitová	21	16

¹ Rankings as of February 5, 2018.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Ashleigh Barty → replaced by Donna Vekić
Ana Konjuh → replaced by Aleksandra Krunić
Mirjana Lučić-Baroni → replaced by Tímea Babos
CoCo Vandeweghe → replaced by Mona Barthel

During the tournament

Simona Halep

Retirements