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2009 WTA Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 tournaments

The WTA Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 tournaments, which are part of the WTA Premier tournaments, make up the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the WTA called the WTA Tour. There are four Premier Mandatory tournaments: Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Beijing and five Premier 5 tournaments: Dubai, Rome, Cincinnati, Canada and Tokyo.[1]

2009 Premier Mandatory / Premier 5
Details
DurationFebruary 16 – October 11
Edition20th
Tournaments9
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titlesRussia Dinara Safina (2)
Most tournament finalsRussia Dinara Safina (3)
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Main article: 2009 WTA Tour

Tournaments edit

Tournament Country Location Surface Date Prize money[2]
Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships United Arab Emirates Dubai Hard Feb 16 – 22 $2,000,000
BNP Paribas Open[3] United States Indian Wells Hard Mar 9 – 22 $4,500,000
Sony Ericsson Open United States Key Biscayne Hard Mar 23 – Apr 5 $4,500,000
Internazionali BNL d'Italia[4] Italy Rome Clay (red) May 4 – 10 $2,000,000
Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open[5] Spain Madrid Clay (red) May 11 – 17 $4,500,000
W&S Financial Group Women's Open[6][7] United States Mason Hard Aug 10 – 16 $2,000,000
Rogers Cup[8] Canada Toronto Hard Aug 17 – 24 $2,000,000
Toray Pan Pacific Open Japan Tokyo Hard Sep 28 – Oct 4 $2,000,000
China Open China Beijing Hard Oct 5 – 11 $4,500,000

Results edit

* First-time champion
Tournament Singles champions Runners-up Score Doubles champions Runners-up Score
Dubai

Singles – Doubles

  Venus Williams   Virginie Razzano 6–4, 6–2   Cara Black
  Liezel Huber 		  Maria Kirilenko
  Agnieszka Radwańska 		6–3, 6–3
Indian Wells

Singles – Doubles

  Vera Zvonareva   Ana Ivanovic 7–6(7–5), 6–2   Victoria Azarenka*   Gisela Dulko
  Shahar Pe'er 		6–4, 3–6, [10–5]
  Vera Zvonareva
Miami

Singles – Doubles

  Victoria Azarenka   Serena Williams 6–3, 6–1   Svetlana Kuznetsova   Květa Peschke
  Lisa Raymond 		4–6, 6–1, [10–3]
  Amélie Mauresmo*
Rome

Singles – Doubles

  Dinara Safina   Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–3, 6–2   Hsieh Su-wei
  Peng Shuai 		  Daniela Hantuchová
  Ai Sugiyama 		7–5, 7–6(7–5)
Madrid

Singles – Doubles

  Dinara Safina   Caroline Wozniacki 6–2, 6–4   Cara Black
  Liezel Huber 		  Květa Peschke
  Lisa Raymond 		4–6, 6–3, [10–6]
Cincinnati

Singles – Doubles

  Jelena Janković   Dinara Safina 6–4, 6–2   Cara Black
  Liezel Huber 		  Nuria Llagostera Vives
  María José Martínez Sánchez 		6–3, 0–6, [10–2]
Toronto

Singles – Doubles

  Elena Dementieva   Maria Sharapova 6–4, 6–3   Nuria Llagostera Vives
  María José Martínez Sánchez 		  Samantha Stosur
  Rennae Stubbs 		2–6, 7–5, [11–9]
Tokyo

Singles – Doubles

  Maria Sharapova   Jelena Janković 5–2, ret.   Alisa Kleybanova*   Daniela Hantuchová
  Ai Sugiyama 		6–4, 6–2
  Francesca Schiavone
Beijing

Singles – Doubles

  Svetlana Kuznetsova   Agnieszka Radwańska 6–2, 6–4   Hsieh Su-wei
  Peng Shuai 		  Alla Kudryavtseva
  Ekaterina Makarova 		6–3, 6–1

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "2009 Tournaments | WTA Official". Women's Tennis Association. Archived from the original on 2022-09-20.
  2. ^ "2009 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Tournament Calendar". Archived from the original on 22 August 2009. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  3. ^ "2009 Indian Wells Masters Draw" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 May 2012.
  4. ^ Bud Collins (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). New York City: New Chapter Press. pp. 740–741. ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0.
  5. ^ "2009 Madrid Open Draw" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2012.
  6. ^ From Club Court to Center Court by Phillip S. Smith, page 3 (2008 Edition; ISBN 978-0-9712445-7-3).
  7. ^ "Compendium 2022 Web Final" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 September 2022.
  8. ^ "2009 Canada Masters Draw" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 October 2022.

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