2005 WTA Tour Championships – Doubles
Appearance
Doubles | |
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2005 WTA Tour Championships | |
Champions | Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur |
Runners-up | Cara Black Rennae Stubbs |
Score | 6–7(5–7), 7–5, 6–4 |
Draw | 4 |
Seeds | 2 |
Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur defeated Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs in the final, 6–7(5–7), 7–5, 6–4 to win the doubles tennis title at the 2005 WTA Tour Championships.
Nadia Petrova and Meghann Shaughnessy were the reigning champions, but did not qualify this year.
This marked the final professional appearance for 1994 Wimbledon champion Conchita Martínez before her retirement in 2006. Partnering Virginia Ruano Pascual, she was defeated by Raymond and Stosur in the semifinals.
Seeds
[edit]- Cara Black / Rennae Stubbs (final)
- Lisa Raymond / Samantha Stosur (champions)
Draw
[edit]Key
[edit]- Q = Qualifier
- WC = Wild card
- LL = Lucky loser
- Alt = Alternate
- SE = Special exempt
- PR = Protected ranking
- ITF = ITF entry
- JE = Junior exempt
- w/o = Walkover
- r = Retired
- d = Defaulted
- SR = Special ranking
Finals
[edit]Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
1 | Cara Black Rennae Stubbs | 6 | 77 | ||||||||||
Elena Likhovtseva Vera Zvonareva | 4 | 64 | |||||||||||
1 | Cara Black Rennae Stubbs | 77 | 5 | 4 | |||||||||
2 | Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur | 65 | 7 | 6 | |||||||||
Conchita Martínez Virginia Ruano Pascual | 5 | 7 | 3 | ||||||||||
2 | Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur | 7 | 5 | 6 |