Maria Sharapova was initially set to make her season debut here after sitting out several months with a shoulder injury. However, she eventually withdrew. She was replaced by Jelena Janković.[1]Katarina Srebotnik also withdrew from the event with an ongoing injury.
2009, open, suez, women, professional, tennis, tournament, played, indoor, hardcourts, 17th, edition, open, suez, formerly, known, open, france, premier, tournament, 2009, tour, took, place, stade, pierre, coubertin, paris, france, from, february, until, febru. The 2009 Open GDF Suez was a women s professional tennis tournament played on indoor hardcourts It was the 17th edition of the Open GDF Suez formerly known as the Open Gaz de France and was a Premier tournament on the 2009 WTA Tour It took place at Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris France from 9 February until 15 February 2009 2009 Open GDF SuezDate9 15 FebruaryEdition17thCategoryPremierDraw32S 16DSurfaceHard indoorLocationParis FranceVenueStade Pierre de CoubertinChampionsSinglesAmelie MauresmoDoublesCara Black Liezel Huber 2008 Open GDF Suez 2010 The top three seeds were Serena Williams the 2009 Australian Open singles champion and twice the winner of this event Jelena Jankovic a former World No 1 and Elena Dementieva the 2008 Olympic gold medalist in singles and a 2009 Australian Open semifinalist Agnieszka Radwanska home favourite Alize Cornet Patty Schnyder Anabel Medina Garrigues and two time champion Amelie Mauresmo also played this event Contents 1 Entrants 1 1 Seeds 1 2 Other entrants 2 Prize money amp points 3 Finals 3 1 Singles 3 2 Doubles 4 References 5 External linksEntrants editSeeds edit Maria Sharapova was initially set to make her season debut here after sitting out several months with a shoulder injury However she eventually withdrew She was replaced by Jelena Jankovic 1 Katarina Srebotnik also withdrew from the event with an ongoing injury Athlete Nationality Ranking SeedingSerena Williams nbsp United States 1 1Jelena Jankovic nbsp Serbia 3 2Elena Dementieva nbsp Russia 4 3Agnieszka Radwanska nbsp Poland 10 4Alize Cornet nbsp France 13 5Patty Schnyder nbsp Switzerland 16 6Anabel Medina Garrigues nbsp Spain 20 7Amelie Mauresmo nbsp France 24 8Rankings as of February 9 2009 Other entrants edit The following players received wildcards into the main draw nbsp Jelena Jankovic nbsp Daniela Hantuchova nbsp Virginie Razzano nbsp Nathalie DechyThe following players received entry from the qualifying draw nbsp Emilie Loit nbsp Karolina Sprem nbsp Oxana Lyubtsova nbsp Anastasija SevastovaPrize money amp points editThe total prize money for the tournament was US 700 000 upgraded from the previous year s US 600 000 Total prize money US 700 000 2 Round Singles DoublesPrize money US WTA ranking points Prize money US WTA ranking pointsWinner 107 000 470 34 000 470Finalist 56 000 320 17 800 320Semifinal 30 000 200 9 400 200Quarterfinal 15 925 120 4 950 120Round of 16 8 950 60 2 650 1Round of 32 4 580 1 Qualified 20 Qualifying 3rd round 2 460 12 Qualifying 2nd round 1 320 8 Qualifying 1sf round 700 1 Finals editSingles edit Main article 2009 Open GDF Suez Singles nbsp Amelie Mauresmo defeated nbsp Elena Dementieva 7 6 7 2 6 6 4 It was Mauresmo s only title of the year and 25th and last of her career It was her 3rd win at the event also winning in 2001 and 2006 Doubles edit Main article 2009 Open GDF Suez Doubles nbsp Cara Black nbsp Liezel Huber defeated nbsp Kveta Peschke nbsp Lisa Raymond 6 4 3 6 10 4 References edit Jelena Jankovic Last Minute Replacement opengdfsuez com 2009 02 06 Archived from the original on 12 February 2009 Retrieved 2009 02 12 Prize Money opengdfsuez com Archived from the original on 11 February 2009 Retrieved 2009 02 12 External links editOfficial website nbsp This WTA Tour tennis tournament article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2009 Open GDF Suez amp oldid 1134295285, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
