Nothing major or historic typically happens in February, but if you like to see a lot of tennis, in different places and on different surfaces, this is the month for you.
6–12 February
The Dallas Open is one of only 10 United States tournaments on the ATP Tour and the only ATP Tour indoor championship in the United States. It includes Over 60 world-class ATP Tour professionals playing in singles and doubles (28-player singles main draw, and 16-team doubles draw) and over 20 hours of live domestic television and international distribution to 100 countries.
Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe are the mostly highly touted players, from any country, at the Dallas Open. They’re the top two seeds at this 250, which includes 12 Americans in its 28-player field.
The 2023 Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open is an upcoming professional women’s tennis tournament to be played on outdoor hard courts. It will be the second edition of the tournament as a WTA 500 event on the 2023 WTA Tour. It wil take place at the Zayed Sports City International Tennis Centre in Abu Dhabi.
More than 60 singles and doubles matches will be spread across eight days, with some of the WTA’s top stars. No. 8 Daria Kasatkina is the top seed, followed by Belinda Bencic, Australian Open finalist Elena Rybakina, Veronika Kudermetova and Jelena Ostapenko.
The 2023 Open Sud de France is a tennis tournament to be played on indoor hard courts. It will be the 36th edition of the event, and part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the 2023 ATP Tour. It will take place at the Arena Montpellier in Montpellier, France.
The tournament, which has a long history that dates back to 1987, welcomes a lot of players, who are trying to follow up on good form after the first major of the season or get back to winning ways.
After suffering a painful loss in the fourth round in Melbourne, Holger Rune will want to win his first title of the season at the 2023 Montpellier Open. The young Dane is the first-seeded player at the event.
Also here: Jannik Sinner, Borna Coric, Robert Bautista Agut, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.
The 2023 Upper Austria Ladies Linz Open is one of the WTA 250 events in the WTA calendar and it’s held in Austria.
In 2023, only one former champion will make an appearance in Linz as Camila Giorgi is set to compete at the event.
However, the highest-ranked player on the entry list, is Maria Sakkari, who should be the top-seed at the event.
She will be followed by Ekaterina Alexandrova, Irina-Camelia Begu, and Petra Martic, who should all occupy seeded spots. Anhelina Kalinina, Bernarda Pera, Donna Vekic and Anastasia Potapova will all play in Austria too.
The Cordoba Open is the 5th edition of the Córdoba Open, and part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the 2023 ATP Tour. It is the first clay-court tournament of the season and also the opening leg of the Latin American swing, aptly coined the “Golden Swing”. It takes place at the Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes in Córdoba, Argentina.
The tournament usually attended by many home players, as an Argentinian was in the final of the event three times out of the first four tournaments.
13-19 February
The Qatar Total Open is a WTA 500 tennis tournament that is played on outdoor hardcourts at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha, Qatar.
The Tournament has been a popular event on the WTA calendar with many of the top WTA players playing in the tournament each year.
The Delray Beach Open is an ATP World Tour 250 series men’s professional tennis tournament held each year in Delray Beach, Florida, United States.
The tournament is set to feature a strong field of players, including some of the top names in the game. Leading the way in the entry list is American Taylor Fritz, who won the biggest title of his career in the United States, in Indian Wells.
Joining Fritz in the field are fellow compatriots Tommy Paul, Jenson Brooksby and John Isner. Moreover, Reilly Opelka should make an appearance at. the event, as he was struggling with an injury previously and should return back to the action.
The Argentina Open (or ATP Buenos Aires) is an annual clay court tennis tournament that takes place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It will be the 26th edition of the ATP Buenos Aires event, and part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the 2023 ATP Tour.
The youngest world no. 1 in the history of men’s tennis, Carlos Alcaraz, will be the highest-seeded player at the event as he will return to tennis after an injury, that kept him out of the 2023 Australian Open.
The 2021 champion Diego Schwartzman as well as the 2018 winner Dominic Thiem will both compete in Buenos Aires.
20–26 February
The Rio Open is an annual men’s tennis tournament to be played on outdoor clay courts. A relative newcomer to international tennis, the event started in 2014, originally as a joint men’s and women’s tournament. The female competition was discontinued after 2016, however. It will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Rio Open is an ATP 500 event and the entry list is almost identical to the Argentina Open played in Buenos Aires only one week before players move to Brazil.
The youngest world no. 1 in the history of men’s tennis, Carlos Alcaraz will be the top-seeded player in Rio de Janeiro. He will be also the defending champion, but not the only former champion in the draw.
Dominic Thiem, who won the event in 2017, and Diego Schwartzman, the 2018 champion, and Laslo Djere, winner of the 2019 edition, will also compete at the 2023 Rio Open.
The 2023 Dubai Tennis Championships (also known as the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for sponsorship reasons) is an upcoming professional ATP 500 event on the 2023 ATP Tour and a WTA 1000 tournament on the 2023 WTA Tour. Both events will be held at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The women’s tournament will take place from February 19 to 25 and the men’s tournament from February 27 to March 4.
The ATP Acapulco Open is an outdoor hardcourt tennis tournament on the ATP Tour that is held in Acapulco, Mexico.
The tournament is held at the Arena GNP Seguros and is an ATP 500 event that serves as a warm-up tournament ahead of the first Master’s 1000 tournament of the year in Indian Wells.
Carlos Alcaraz, will be competing at the 2023 Mexican Open and he can meet Casper Ruud, who is also one of the players featured on the entry list, in a rematch of their 2022 US Open final.
The 2023 Australian Open finalist, Stefanos Tsitsipas will also play in Acapulco and some winners of ATP 1000 events from last year will be present in Mexico too.
The ATP Qatar Open (Qatar ExxonMobil Open) is a hard court ATP 250 tennis tournament that takes place annually in Doha, Qatar.
Rafael Nadal leads the entry list for this ATP 250 event, but after the first major of the season, the Spaniard announced that he will be out for 6-8 weeks, and most likely, he will not compete at the 2023 Qatar Open. Although having the 22-time Grand Slam champion is something that every event wishes for, even without Nadal, the tournament should be a spectacle.
Andrey Rublev and Felix Auger-Aliassime should be two highest-seeded players at the event in Nadal’s absence. They will be joined by three players that have experience with Grand Slam final.
The Open 13 Provence is an annual men’s tennis tournament that is part of the ATP 250 tour.
In 2023, the Marseille Open 13 Provence will be held for the 31st time and it will be played on the hard courts of the Palais des sports de Marseille.
Since 2009, the tournament in Marseille is of the ATP 250 category, and therefore it offers prize money and points that attract a lot of players. In 2023, it’s no different as the entry list includes names such as Holger Rune, Jannik Sinner, or Gael Monfils.
The 2023 Merida Open is an upcoming WTA 250 tournament organised for female professional tennis players on outdoor hard courts as part of the 2023 WTA Tour. The event will take place at the Yucatán Country Club in Mérida, Mexico.
In 2023, Alycia Parks is one of the most interesting names on the entry list as the young American showed her qualities in the past few months. But there will be also players with experience, such as the 2017 US Open champion, Sloane Stephens.