2009 WTA Premier tournaments

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

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Premier

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Week of Tournament Champions Runners-up Semifinalists Quarterfinalists
12 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 Dellacqua
9 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 Huber

6–4, 3–6, [10–4]
  Květa Peschke
  Lisa Raymond
13 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 Schnyder
27 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 Pennetta
18 May Warsaw Open
Warsaw, Poland
  Alexandra Dulgheru
7–6(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 Jie
15 June Aegon International
Eastbourne, UK
  Caroline Wozniacki
7–6(5), 7–5
  Virginie Razzano   Marion Bartoli
  Aleksandra Wozniak
  Agnieszka Radwańska
  Anabel Medina Garrigues
  Ekaterina Makarova
  Vera Dushevina
  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
  Venus Williams   Samantha Stosur
  Elena Dementieva
  Serena Williams
  Jelena Janković
  Daniela Hantuchová
  Maria Sharapova
  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
  Samantha Stosur   Sorana Cîrstea
  Maria Sharapova
  Zheng Jie
  Agnieszka Radwańska
  Urszula Radwańska
  Vera Zvonareva
  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
  Elena Vesnina   Amélie Mauresmo
  Flavia Pennetta
  Svetlana Kuznetsova
  Anna Chakvetadze
  Magdaléna Rybáriková
  Virginie Razzano
  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   Alona Bondarenko
  Alisa Kleybanova
  Tsvetana Pironkova
  Maria Kirilenko
  Vera Dushevina
  Jelena Janković
  Maria Kirilenko
  Nadia Petrova

6-2, 6-2
  Maria Kondratieva
  Klára Zakopalová

References

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  • "2009 Tournament Archive". sonyericssonwtatour.com. Archived from the original on 9 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-10.