Diamond Games

Diamond Games
Defunct tennis tournament
Founded	2002
Abolished	2015
Location	Antwerp Belgium
Venue	Sportpaleis Merksem
Category	Tier II (2002–2009) WTA Premier (2015)
Surface	Hard (indoors)
Draw	28S / 16D
Prize money	$731,000
Website	Sport.be

The Diamond Games (due to sponsorship known for the last time as BNP Paribas Fortis Diamond Games and before that Proximus Diamond Games, GDF-Suez Diamond Games and Thomas Cook Diamond Games) was a professional women's tennis tournament organised in Antwerp, Belgium. The tournament took place in the Sportpaleis, at the beginning of February.

In 2009, with the restructuring of the WTA Tour and the retirement of both Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin, the tournament lost its status of being a WTA Tour tournament and evolved into an annual exhibition tennis event before returning to the WTA calendar in 2015. Later that year, however, the WTA announced that in 2016, the Diamond Games would be replaced on the WTA calendar with a new tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The Diamond Games offered a trophy to any player who won the singles three times in five years. In 2007, Amélie Mauresmo won a golden racquet decorated with diamonds. A new trophy was unveiled in 2008, which featured a golden racquet and a ball, and was decorated with 2008 diamonds.

Past finals

Singles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓  Tier II tournament  ↓
2002	Venus Williams	Justine Henin	6–3, 5–7, 6–3
2003	Venus Williams (2)	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 (2)	Kim Clijsters	3–6, 6–3, 6–3
2007	Amélie Mauresmo (3)	Kim Clijsters	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
2008	Justine Henin	Karin Knapp	6–3, 6–3
2009–14	Only exhibition tournaments held
↓  Premier tournament  ↓
2015	Andrea Petkovic	Carla Suárez Navarro	Walkover

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓  Tier II tournament  ↓
2002	Magdalena Maleeva Patty Schnyder	Nathalie Dechy Meilen Tu	6–3, 6–7(3–7), 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 (2) Els Callens (2)	Anabel Medina Dinara Safina	3–6, 6–4, 6–4
2006	Dinara Safina Katarina Srebotnik	Stéphanie Foretz Michaëlla Krajicek	6–1, 6–1
2007	Cara Black (3) Liezel Huber	Elena Likhovtseva Elena Vesnina	7–5, 4–6, 6–1
2008	Cara Black (4) Liezel Huber (2)	Květa Peschke Ai Sugiyama	6–1, 6–3
2009–14	Only exhibition tournaments held
↓  Premier tournament  ↓
2015	Anabel Medina Garrigues Arantxa Parra Santonja	An-Sophie Mestach Alison Van Uytvanck	6–4, 3–6, [10–5]

See also

• Belgian Open – women's tournament (1987–2002)
• Brussels Open – women's tournament (2011–2013)

External links

• Official website