Dubai 2013 seeds and past champions.

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2012	Roger Federer	Andy Murray	7–5, 6–4
2011	Novak Djokovic	Roger Federer	6–3, 6–3
2010	Novak Djokovic	Mikhail Youzhny	7–5, 5–7, 6–3
2009	Novak Djokovic	David Ferrer	7–5, 6–3
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2008	Andy Roddick	Feliciano López	6–7(8–10), 6–4, 6–2
2007	Roger Federer	Mikhail Youzhny	6–4, 6–3
2006	Rafael Nadal	Roger Federer	2–6, 6–4, 6–4
2005	Roger Federer	Ivan Ljubičić	6–1, 6–7(6–8), 6–3
2004	Roger Federer	Feliciano López	4–6, 6–1, 6–2
2003	Roger Federer	Jiří Novák	6–1, 7–6(7–2)
2002	Fabrice Santoro	Younes El Aynaoui	6–4, 3–6, 6–3
2001	Juan Carlos Ferrero	Marat Safin	6–2, 3–1, retired

 

Country	Player	Rank	Seed
SRB	Novak Djokovic	1	1
SUI	Roger Federer	2	2
CZE	Tomáš Berdych	6	3
ARG	Juan Martin del Potro	7	4
FRA	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	8	5
SRB	Janko Tipsarević	9	6
ITA	Andreas Seppi	18	7
GER	Philipp Kohlschreiber	19	8