The Diamond Games (due to sponsorship known for the last time as BNP Paribas Fortis Diamond Games and before that Proximus Diamond Games, GDF-Suez Diamond Games and Thomas Cook Diamond Games) was a professional women's tennis tournament organised in Antwerp, Belgium. The tournament took place in the Sportpaleis, at the beginning of February.
In 2009, with the restructuring of the WTA Tour and the retirement of both Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin, the tournament lost its status of being a WTA Tour tournament and evolved into an annual exhibition tennis event before returning to the WTA calendar in 2015. Later that year, however, the WTA announced that in 2016, the Diamond Games would be replaced on the WTA calendar with a new tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The Diamond Games offered a trophy to any player who won the singles three times in five years. In 2007, Amélie Mauresmo won a golden racquet decorated with diamonds. A new trophy was unveiled in 2008, which featured a golden racquet and a ball, and was decorated with 2008 diamonds.
Past finals
Singles YearChampionsRunners-upScore ↓ Tier II tournament ↓2002 Venus Williams Justine Henin 6–3, 5–7, 6–3.2003 Venus Williams (2) Kim Clijsters 6–2, 6–42004 Kim Clijsters Silvia Farina Elia 6–3, 6–02005 Amélie Mauresmo Venus Williams 4–6, 7–5, 6–42006 Amélie Mauresmo (2) Kim Clijsters 3–6, 6–3, 6–32007 Amélie Mauresmo (3) Kim Clijsters 6–4, 7–6(7–4)2008 Justine Henin Karin Knapp 6–3, 6–32009–14 Only exhibition tournaments held ↓ Premier tournament ↓2015 Andrea Petkovic Carla Suárez Navarro Walkover
Doubles YearChampionsRunners-upScore ↓ Tier II tournament ↓2002 Magdalena Maleeva Patty Schnyder Nathalie Dechy Meilen Tu 6–3, 6–7(3–7), 6–32003 Kim Clijsters Ai Sugiyama Nathalie Dechy Émilie Loit 6–2, 6–02004 Cara Black Els Callens Myriam Casanova Eleni Daniilidou 6–2, 6–12005 Cara Black (2) Els Callens (2) Anabel Medina Dinara Safina 3–6, 6–4, 6–42006 Dinara Safina Katarina Srebotnik Stéphanie Foretz Michaëlla Krajicek 6–1, 6–12007 Cara Black (3) Liezel Huber Elena Likhovtseva Elena Vesnina 7–5, 4–6, 6–12008 Cara Black (4) Liezel Huber (2) Květa Peschke Ai Sugiyama 6–1, 6–32009–14 Only exhibition tournaments held ↓ Premier tournament ↓2015 Anabel Medina Garrigues Arantxa Parra Santonja An-Sophie Mestach Alison Van Uytvanck 6–4, 3–6, [10–5]
See also Belgian Open – women's tournament (1987–2002) Brussels Open – women's tournament (2011–2013)
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