2009 WTA Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 tournaments

2009 Premier Mandatory / Premier 5

Details
Duration	February 16 – October 11
Edition	20th
Tournaments	9
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titles	Dinara Safina (2)
Most tournament finals	Dinara Safina (3)
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Main article: 2009 WTA Tour

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]

Tournaments

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

* 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

• WTA Premier tournaments
• 2009 WTA Tour
• 2009 ATP Masters 1000
• 2009 ATP Tour

References

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.

External links

• Women's Tennis Association (WTA) official website
• International Tennis Federation (ITF) official website