Qatar ExxonMobil Open

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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.

[edit] Past winners

Year	Singles winner	Doubles winners
2007	Ivan Ljubičić	Nenad Zimonjić/Mikhail Youzhny
2006	Roger Federer	Jonas Björkman/Max Mirnyi
2005	Roger Federer	Albert Costa/Rafael Nadal
2004	Nicolas Escude	Martin Damm/Cyril Suk
2003	Stefan Koubek	Martin Damm/Cyril Suk
2002	Younes El Aynaoui	Donald Johnson/Jared Palmer
2001	Marcelo Ríos	Mark Knowles/Daniel Nestor
2000	Fabrice Santoro	Mark Knowles/Max Mirnyi
1999	Rainer Schüttler	Alex O'Brien/Jared Palmer
1998	Petr Korda	Mahesh Bhupathi/Leander Paes
1997	Jim Courier	Jacco Eltingh/Paul Haarhuis
1996	Petr Korda	Mark Knowles/Daniel Nestor
1995	Stefan Edberg	Stefan Edberg/Magnus Larsson
1994	Stefan Edberg	Olivier Delaitre/Stephane Simian
1993	Boris Becker	Boris Becker/Patrik Kühnen

[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.