2009 Family Circle Cup

January 2025 2009 Family Circle Cup April 13–19 37th 56S / 16D $1,000,000 Premier Clay / outdoor Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. Family Circle Tennis Center 87,786 GER Sabine Lisicki USA Bethanie Mattek-Sands RUS Nadia Petrova The 2009 Family Circle Cup was a women's tennis event on the 2009 WTA Tour, which took place from April 13 to April 19, 2009. It was the 37th edition of the tournament and was hosted at the Family Circle Tennis Center, in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. It was the second and last event of the clay court season played on green clay courts. The total prize money offered at this tournament was US$1,000,000. Sabine Lisicki, who was seeded 16th, won the singles title.https://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/04/19/tennis.final/index.html Lisicki claims maiden WTA Tour title CNN April 19, 2009Lisicki makes title breakthrough in Charleston https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-04-20/lisicki-makes-title-breakthrough-in-charleston/1656182 ABC April 20, 2009 Finals Singles 2009 Family Circle Cup – Singles GER Sabine Lisicki defeated DEN Caroline Wozniacki, 6–2, 6–4 It was Lisicki's only singles title of the year and the first of her career. Doubles 2009 Family Circle Cup – Doubles USA Bethanie Mattek-Sands / RUS Nadia Petrova defeated LAT Līga Dekmeijere / SUI Patty Schnyder, 6–7(5–7), 6–2, [11–9] Entrants Seeds Athlete Nationality Ranking* Seeding Elena Dementieva RUS Russia 3 1 Venus Williams USA United States 5 2 Vera Zvonareva RUS Russia 6 3 Nadia Petrova RUS Russia 10 4 Caroline Wozniacki DEN Denmark 12 5 Marion Bartoli FRA France 13 6 Dominika Cibulková SVK Slovakia 19 7 Patty Schnyder SUI Switzerland 17 8 Aleksandra Wozniak CAN Canada 29 9 Peng Shuai CHN China 35 10 Alyona Bondarenko UKR Ukraine 41 11 Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA United States 38 12 Virginie Razzano FRA France 42 13 Olga Govortsova BLR Belarus 59 14 Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová CZE Czech Republic 68 15 Sabine Lisicki GER Germany 63 16 Rankings as of April 13, 2009. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the main draw: RUS Elena Dementieva USA Mallory Cecil RUS Anastasia Pivovarova USA Alexandra Stevenson The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: USA Shenay Perry USA Madison Brengle USA Angela Haynes LAT Anastasija Sevastova USA Melanie Oudin USA Abigail Spears CAN Marie-Ève Pelletier SVK Lenka Wienerová References External links Official website ITF tournament draws WTA tournament draws Family Circle Cup Category:Charleston Open Family Circle Cup Family Circle Cup Family Circle Cup