2009 WTA Premier tournaments explained

The 2009 WTA Premier tournaments were 19 of the tennis tournaments on the 2009 WTA Tour. The WTA Tour is the elite tour for women's professional tennis. The WTA Premier tournaments all rank below the Grand Slam events and above the WTA International tournaments. They are divided into three levels: Premier Mandatory (Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Beijing), Premier 5 (Dubai, Roma, Cincinnati, Canada and Tokyo), and Premier (10 tournaments in Europe, United States and Australia).

Schedule

Premier

Week of	Tournament	Champions	Runners-up	Quarterfinalists
12 January	Medibank International Sydney Sydney, Australia	Elena Dementieva 6–3, 2–6, 6–1		Caroline Wozniacki Agnieszka Radwańska Svetlana Kuznetsova Alizé Cornet
12 January	Medibank International Sydney Sydney, Australia	Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai 6–0, 6–1	Nathalie Dechy Casey Dellacqua
9 February	Open GDF Suez Paris, France	Amélie Mauresmo 7–6(7), 2–6, 6–4		Émilie Loit Nathalie Dechy Agnieszka Radwańska Alizé Cornet
9 February	Open GDF Suez Paris, France	Cara Black Liezel Huber 6–4, 3–6, [10–4]	Květa Peschke Lisa Raymond	Émilie Loit Nathalie Dechy Agnieszka Radwańska Alizé Cornet
13 April	Family Circle Cup Charleston, USA	Sabine Lisicki 6–2, 6–4	Caroline Wozniacki	Dominika Cibulková Virginie Razzano Melinda Czink Elena Vesnina
13 April	Family Circle Cup Charleston, USA	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Nadia Petrova 6–7(5), 6–2, [11–9]	Līga Dekmeijere Patty Schnyder
27 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–4, 6–3	Dinara Safina	Agnieszka Radwańska Jelena Janković Gisela Dulko Marion Bartoli
27 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Nadia Petrova 5–7, 6–3, [10–7]	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta
18 May	Warsaw Open Warsaw, Poland	Alexandra Dulgheru 7–6(3), 3–6, 6–0		Maria Sharapova Ioana Raluca Olaru Galina Voskoboeva Klára Zakopalová
18 May	Warsaw Open Warsaw, Poland	Raquel Kops-Jones Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-1, 6–1	Yan Zi Zheng Jie
15 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	Caroline Wozniacki 7–6(5), 7–5		Agnieszka Radwańska Anabel Medina Garrigues Ekaterina Makarova Vera Dushevina
15 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	Akgul Amanmuradova Ai Sugiyama 6–4, 6–3	Samantha Stosur Rennae Stubbs
27 July	Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA	Marion Bartoli 6–2, 5–7, 6–4		Serena Williams Jelena Janković Daniela Hantuchová Maria Sharapova
27 July	Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA	Serena Williams Venus Williams 6–4, 6–1	Chan Yung-jan Monica Niculescu
3 August	LA Women's Tennis Championships p/b Herbalife Los Angeles, USA	Flavia Pennetta 6–4, 6–3		Zheng Jie Agnieszka Radwańska Urszula Radwańska Vera Zvonareva
3 August		Chuang Chia-jung Yan Zi 6–0, 4–6, [10–7]	Maria Kirilenko Agnieszka Radwańska
24 August	Pilot Pen Tennis p/b Schick New Haven, USA	Caroline Wozniacki 6–2, 6–4		Svetlana Kuznetsova Anna Chakvetadze Magdaléna Rybáriková Virginie Razzano
24 August	Pilot Pen Tennis p/b Schick New Haven, USA	Nuria Llagostera Vives María José Martínez Sánchez 6–2, 7–5	Iveta Benešová Lucie Hradecká
19 October	Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia	Francesca Schiavone 6-3, 6-0	Olga Govortsova	Tsvetana Pironkova Maria Kirilenko Vera Dushevina Jelena Janković
19 October	Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia	Maria Kirilenko Nadia Petrova 6-2, 6-2	Maria Kondratieva Klára Zakopalová

References

Web site: sonyericssonwtatour.com . 2009 Tournament Archive . 2010-10-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101009175610/http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/page/TournamentArchive/0%2C%2C12781~0~2009%2C00.html . 9 October 2010 . live .