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 ofTournamentChampionsRunners-upSemifinalistsQuarterfinalists12 January Medibank International Sydney Sydney, Australia Elena Dementieva 6–3, 2–6, 6–1 Dinara Safina Serena Williams Ai Sugiyama Caroline Wozniacki Agnieszka Radwańska Svetlana Kuznetsova Alizé Cornet Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai 6–0, 6–1 Nathalie Dechy Casey Dellacqua9 February Open GDF Suez Paris, France Amélie Mauresmo 7–6(7), 2–6, 6–4 Elena Dementieva Serena Williams Jelena Janković Émilie Loit Nathalie Dechy Agnieszka Radwańska Alizé Cornet Cara Black Liezel Huber6–4, 3–6, [10–4] Květa Peschke Lisa Raymond13 April Family Circle Cup Charleston, USA Sabine Lisicki 6–2, 6–4 Caroline Wozniacki Elena Dementieva Marion Bartoli Dominika Cibulková Virginie Razzano Melinda Czink Elena Vesnina Bethanie Mattek-Sands Nadia Petrova 6–7(5), 6–2, [11–9] Līga Dekmeijere Patty Schnyder27 April Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–4, 6–3 Dinara Safina Flavia Pennetta Elena Dementieva Agnieszka Radwańska Jelena Janković Gisela Dulko Marion Bartoli Bethanie Mattek-Sands Nadia Petrova 5–7, 6–3, [10–7] Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta18 May Warsaw Open Warsaw, Poland Alexandra Dulgheru7–6(3), 3–6, 6–0 Alona Bondarenko Anne Keothavong Daniela Hantuchová Maria Sharapova Ioana Raluca Olaru Galina Voskoboeva Klára Zakopalová Raquel Kops-Jones Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-1, 6–1 Yan Zi Zheng Jie15 June Aegon International Eastbourne, UK Caroline Wozniacki7–6(5), 7–5 Virginie Razzano Marion Bartoli Aleksandra Wozniak Agnieszka Radwańska Anabel Medina Garrigues Ekaterina Makarova Vera Dushevina Akgul Amanmuradova Ai Sugiyama6–4, 6–3 Samantha Stosur Rennae Stubbs27 July Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA Marion Bartoli 6–2, 5–7, 6–4 Venus Williams Samantha Stosur Elena Dementieva Serena Williams Jelena Janković Daniela Hantuchová Maria Sharapova Serena Williams Venus Williams6–4, 6–1 Chan Yung-jan Monica Niculescu3 August LA Women's Tennis Championships p/b Herbalife Los Angeles, USA Flavia Pennetta 6–4, 6–3 Samantha Stosur Sorana Cîrstea Maria Sharapova Zheng Jie Agnieszka Radwańska Urszula Radwańska Vera Zvonareva Chuang Chia-jung<br/ > Yan Zi6–0, 4–6, [10–7] Maria Kirilenko Agnieszka Radwańska24 August Pilot Pen Tennis p/b Schick New Haven, USA Caroline Wozniacki 6–2, 6–4 Elena Vesnina Amélie Mauresmo Flavia Pennetta Svetlana Kuznetsova Anna Chakvetadze Magdaléna Rybáriková Virginie Razzano Nuria Llagostera Vives<br/ > María José Martínez Sánchez6–2, 7–5 Iveta Benešová Lucie Hradecká19 October Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia Francesca Schiavone 6-3, 6-0 Olga Govortsova Alona Bondarenko Alisa Kleybanova Tsvetana Pironkova Maria Kirilenko Vera Dushevina Jelena Janković Maria Kirilenko Nadia Petrova6-2, 6-2 Maria Kondratieva Klára Zakopalová
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