2003 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open – Singles

Monica Seles was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Lina Krasnoroutskaya.

Anastasia Myskina won the title, defeating Elena Likhovtseva 6–3, 6–1 in an all-Russian final.

Seeds
• # 🇺🇸 Monica Seles (second round)
 * The top two seeds received a bye into the second round.

• # 🇷🇺 Anastasia Myskina (champion)

• # 🇧🇬 Magdalena Maleeva (quarterfinals)

• # 🇹🇭 Tamarine Tanasugarn (first round)

• # 🇷🇺 Elena Likhovtseva (finals)

• # 🇮🇹 Francesca Schiavone (first round)

• # 🇪🇸 Conchita Martínez (quarterfinals)

• # 🇦🇺 Nicole Pratt (quarterfinals)

Seeds

 * 1) n/a
 * 2) 🇦🇺 Evie Dominikovic (first round)
 * 3) 🇪🇸 María Sánchez Lorenzo (qualifying competition)
 * 4) 🇭🇺 Petra Mandula (first round)
 * 5) n/a
 * 6)  Wynne Prakusya (second round)
 * 7) 🇸🇰 Ľubomíra Kurhajcová (second round)
 * 8) 🇮🇹 Mara Santangelo (first round)

Qualifiers
• # 🇨🇳 Zheng Jie

• # 🇪🇸 Arantxa Parra Santonja

• # 🇨🇳 Sun Tiantian

• # 🇬🇧 Lucie Ahl