Saudi trailblazer Yara Alhogbani handed Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open qualifier wildcard

Saudi Arabia's first professional female tennis player, Yara Alhogbani, will have the chance to compete against some of the game's biggest stars next month after she was handed a wildcard into the qualifiers for the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open.

Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan)
Ons Jabeur (Tunisia)
Maria Sakkari (Greece)
Barbora Krejčíková (Czech Republic)
Beatriz Haddad Maia (Brazil)
Jeļena Ostapenko (Latvia)
Liudmila Samsonova
Daria Kasatkina 
Veronika Kudermetova 
Caroline Garcia (France) 
Magda Linette (Poland) 
Sorana Cîrstea (Romania) 
Anastasia Potapova 
Anhelina Kalinina (Ukraine)  
Jasmine Paolini (Italy) 
Emma Navarro (USA) 
Lesia Tsurenko (Ukraine)
Naomi Osaka (Japan) - wildcard
Emma Raducanu (Great Britain) - wildcard
Alexandra Eala (Philippines) - wildcard

The second edition of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open will take place February 3-11 at Zayed Sports City's International Tennis Centre, and 10 of the world's top 20 have been confirmed for the WTA 500 tournament, including Kazakh world No 3 Elena Rybakina, Tunisia's sixth-ranked Ons Jabeur and Geece's world No 8 Maria Sakkari.

Further star power was added to the field in the form of Japan's four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka and former US Open winner Emma Raducanu of Great Britain after both players received wildcards.

Now Alhogbani will have the opportunity to test her skills against the WTA Tour's top players, but she will first need to navigate two rounds of qualifying. Six qualifiers, along with four wildcards, will join the 18 direct entries to make up the 28-player main draw.

“I’m very happy to have been awarded a wildcard for the qualifiers at this year’s Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open and I’m looking forward to testing myself against some great players,"