WTA Antwerp

BNP Paribas Fortis Diamond Games
WTA tour
venue	Antwerp Belgium
First run	1999
Last event	2015
category	WTA Premier
Tournament type	Indoor tournament
Game surface	Hard court
draw	28M / 32Q / 16D
Prize money	US $ 731,000
Website	Official website
As of February 7, 2015

Ana Ivanović

The WTA Antwerp (officially: BNP Paribas Fortis Diamond Games ) was a tennis tournament of the WTA Tour that was held in Antwerp . Up to and including 2001 it was a clay court tournament; In 2002 and 2003 the game was played on carpeting, then on hard courts.

From 2002 the tournament, which was held in the Sportpaleis at the beginning of February , offered a very special trophy . If a player succeeded in winning three tournaments within five years, she received a gold tennis racket decorated with diamonds . After her two victories in 2002 and 2003, Venus Williams had the best chance of winning the extra prize in 2005, but she lost the final to Amélie Mauresmo . With her title win, which she successfully defended in 2006 and 2007, the Frenchwoman then secured this unique trophy. In 2006 and 2007 she defeated Kim Clijsters , who was the only player in the final four times, but could only win the tournament once.

After seven years of abstinence, the 2015 tournament returned to the tournament calendar with its old place of work.

Winners lists

singles

year	Winner	Final opponent	Result
↓ Category: Tier IV ↓
1999	Justine Henin	Sarah Pitkowski	6: 1, 6: 2
2000	Amanda Coetzer	Cristina Torrens Valero	4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3
↓ Category: Tier V ↓
2001	Barbara Rittner	Klára Koukalová	6: 3, 6: 2
↓ Category: Tier II ↓
2002	Venus Williams	Justine Henin	6: 3, 5: 7, 6: 3
2003	Venus Williams	Kim Clijsters	6: 2, 6: 4
2004	Kim Clijsters	Silvia Farina Elia	6: 3, 6: 0
2005	Amélie Mauresmo	Venus Williams	4: 6, 7: 5, 6: 4
2006	Amélie Mauresmo	Kim Clijsters	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
2007	Amélie Mauresmo	Kim Clijsters	6: 4, 7: 6 4
2008	Justine Henin	Karin Knapp	6: 3, 6: 3
↓ Category: Premier ↓
2015	Andrea Petković	Carla Suarez Navarro	without a fight

Double

year	Winners	Final opponents	Result
↓ Category: Tier IV ↓
1999	Laura Golarsa Katarina Srebotnik	Louise Pleming Meghann Shaughnessy	6: 4, 6: 2
2000	Sabine Appelman's Kim Clijsters	Jennifer Hopkins Petra Rampre	6: 1, 6: 1
↓ Category: Tier V ↓
2001	Els Callens Virginia Ruano Pascual	Kristie Boogert Miriam Oremans	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 4
↓ Category: Tier II ↓
2002	Magdalena Maleewa Patty Schnyder	Nathalie Dechy Miles Tu	6: 3, 6: 7 3 , 6: 3
2003	Kim Clijsters Ai Sugiyama	Nathalie Dechy Émilie Loit	6: 2, 6: 0
2004	Cara Black Els Callens	Myriam Casanova Eleni Daniilidou	6: 2, 6: 1
2005	Cara Black Els Callens	Anabel Medina Garrigues Dinara Safina	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4
2006	Dinara Safina Katarina Srebotnik	Stéphanie Foretz Michaëlla Krajicek	6: 1, 6: 1
2007	Cara Black Liezel Huber	Jelena Lichowzewa Jelena Wesnina	7: 5, 4: 6, 6: 1
2008	Cara Black Liezel Huber	Ai Sugiyama Květa Peschke	6: 1, 6: 3
↓ Category: Premier ↓
2015	Anabel Medina Garrigues Arantxa Parra Santonja	To-Sophie Mestach Alison Van Uytvanck	6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 5]

Web links

Commons : WTA Antwerpen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mauresmo gets a diamond racket
2. ^ Clijsters To Be Tournament Director. Retrieved October 10, 2014 .