Qatar ExxonMobil Open

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Qatar ExxonMobil Open

ATP Tour
Location	Doha Qatar
Venue	Khalifa International Tennis Complex
Category	International Series
Surface	Hard / Outdoors
Draw	32S/32Q/16D
Prize Money	$1,000,000
Website	qatartennis.org

The Qatar ExxonMobil Open is tennis tournament held in the city of Doha, in the country of Qatar. The Qatar ExxonMobil Open is one of the first tennis tournaments of the year, held in the first full week of January. Held since 1993, both men's singles and double are held at the tournament.

1 Past finals
- 1.1 Singles
- 1.2 Doubles
2 2005
3 External links

[edit] Past finals

[edit] Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
1993	Boris Becker	Goran Ivanišević	7-6⁴, 4-6, 7-5
1994	Stefan Edberg	Paul Haarhuis	6-3, 6-2
1995	Stefan Edberg	Magnus Larsson	7-6⁴, 6-1
1996	Petr Korda	Younes El Aynaoui	7-6⁵, 2-6, 7-6⁵
1997	Jim Courier	Tim Henman	7-5, 6-7⁵, 6-2
1998	Petr Korda	Fabrice Santoro	6-0, 6-3
1999	Rainer Schüttler	Tim Henman	6-4, 5-7, 6-1
2000	Fabrice Santoro	Rainer Schüttler	3-6, 7-5, 3-0 ret.
2001	Marcelo Ríos	Bohdan Ulihrach	6-3, 2-6, 6-3
2002	Younes El Aynaoui	Félix Mantilla	4-6, 6-2, 6-2
2003	Stefan Koubek	Jan-Michael Gambill	6–4, 6–4
2004	Nicolas Escudé	Ivan Ljubičić	6–3, 7-6⁴
2005	Roger Federer	Ivan Ljubičić	6-3, 6-1
2006	Roger Federer	Gaël Monfils	6-3, 7-6⁵
2007	Ivan Ljubičić	Andy Murray	6-4, 6-4
2008	Andy Murray	Stanislas Wawrinka	6-4, 4-6, 6-2

[edit] Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1993	Boris Becker Patrik Kühnen	Shelby Cannon Scott Melville	6-2, 6-4
1994	Olivier Delaître Stephane Simian	Shelby Cannon Byron Talbot	6-3, 6-3
1995	Stefan Edberg Magnus Larsson	Andrei Olhovskiy Jan Siemerink	7-6, 6-2
1996	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	7-6, 6-3
1997	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	Patrik Fredriksson Magnus Norman	6-3, 6-2
1998	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	Olivier Delaître Fabrice Santoro	6-4, 3-6, 6-4
1999	Alex O'Brien Jared Palmer	Piet Norval Kevin Ullyett	6-3, 6-4
2000	Mark Knowles Max Mirnyi	Alex O'Brien Jared Palmer	6-3, 6-4
2001	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	Juan Balcells Andrei Olhovskiy	6-3, 6-1
2002	Donald Johnson Jared Palmer	Jiří Novák David Rikl	6-3, 7-6⁵
2003	Martin Damm Cyril Suk	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6-4, 7-6⁸
2004	Martin Damm Cyril Suk	Stefan Koubek Andy Roddick	6-2, 6-4
2005	Albert Costa Rafael Nadal	Andrei Pavel Mikhail Youzhny	6-3, 4-6, 6-3
2006	Jonas Björkman Max Mirnyi	Christophe Rochus Olivier Rochus	2-6, 6-3, 10-8 (Match TB)
2007	Nenad Zimonjić Mikhail Youzhny	Martin Damm Leander Paes	6-1, 7-6³
2008	Philipp Kohlschreiber David Škoch	Jeff Coetzee Wesley Moodie	6-4, 4-6, 11-9 (Match TB)

[edit] 2005

The tournament in 2005 was held from January 3rd to January 9th.

Players:

Roger Federer, David Ferrer, Jan Hernych, Greg Rusedski, Nicolas Mahut, Uros Vico, Fillipo Volandri, Feliciano Lopez, Sebastien Grosjean, Gilles Muller, Sergii Stakhovsky, Hyung-Taik Lee, Karol Beck, Igor Andreev, Ivo Karlovic, Nikolay Davydenko, Ivan Ljubičić, Stanislas Wawrinka, Marc Lopez, Bohdan Ulirach, Mahammd Abdulla, Fernando Verdasco, Rafael Nadal, Mikhail Youzhny, Andrei Pavel, Marco Chiudinelli, David Sanchez, Albert Costa, Fabrice Santoro, Thomas Johansson, Gael Monfils, and Gastón Gaudio.

In the final, 1^st seed Roger Federer defeated 6^th seed Ivan Ljubičić (6-3, 6-1) for his 23^rd singles title, and took home $975,000 (USD). In doubles, Albert Costa and Rafael Nadal defeated Andrei Pavel and Mikhail Youzhny (6-3, 4-6, 6-3) for the title.