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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
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, 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,

See also

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

References

1. "WTA Event In Antwerp Will Be Replaced With New Tournament In St. Petersburg". Vavel. 18 August 2015. Retrieved 2015-09-26.
2. "WTA Heads to St. Petersburg in 2016". Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Retrieved 2015-09-26.
3. "Amelie's diamond day". The Sydney Morning Herald. 19 February 2007. Retrieved 2015-09-26.
4. "The custom tennis racquet money can't buy". GiveMeSport. Archived from the original on 2018-09-20. Retrieved 2015-09-26.

External links

• Official website

v t e Justine Henin
45 WTA Tour-Level Titles: 43 SGL & 2 DBL
Entourage	Carlos Rodriguez (former coach; 1995–2008, 2010–2011) Pat Etcheberry (former fitness coach) Gilles Cervara (former hitting partner) Pierre-Yves Hardenne (former boyfriend & assistant, 1998—2006; fiancé: 2001—2002; husband: 2002—2006) Title-winning doubles partners Kim Clijsters Virginie Razzano Meghann Shaughnessy Elena Bovina
Career	Statistics World No.1 (singles) Belgium BJK Cup team Belgium Hopman Cup team
Rivalries	Rivalry with Kim Clijsters Rivalry with Serena Williams
Year-end No.1	SGL 2003 2006 2007
Grand Slam titles	Australian Open SGL 2004 French Open SGL 2003 2005 2006 2007 Junior SGL 1997 Wimbledon Nil US Open SGL 2003 2007
WTA Tour titles	WTA Finals SGL 2006 Madrid 2007 Madrid WTA 1000 & analogues Dubai Open Nil Indian Wells Open SGL 2004 Miami Open Nil Charleston & Berlin Open → Madrid Open SGL 2002 (B) 2003 (C) 2003 (B) 2005 (C) 2005 (B) Italian Open Nil Canadian Open SGL 2003 (T) 2007 (T) San Diego → Cincinnati Open Nil Japan Open Nil Zurich & Moscow Open → China Open SGL 2003 (Z) 2007 (Z) DBL with Elena Bovina 2002 (Z) WTA 500 SGL 2002 Linz 2003 Dubai 2003 San Diego 2004 Sydney 2004 Dubai 2005 Warsaw 2006 Sydney 2006 Dubai 2006 Eastbourne 2006 New Haven 2007 Dubai 2007 Doha 2007 Warsaw 2007 Eastbourne 2007 Stuttgart 2008 Sydney 2008 Antwerp 2010 Stuttgart WTA 250 SGL 1999 Antwerp 2001 Gold Coast 2001 Canberra 2001 's-Hertogenbosch 2010 's-Hertogenbosch DBL with Meghann Shaughnessy 2002 Gold Coast
Other professional titles 7 singles & 2 doubles	ITF Tour SGL 1997 Le Touquet 1997 Koksijde 1997 Gelos 1998 Grenelefe 1998 Ramat Hasharon 1998 Reims 2000 Liège DBL with Kim Clijsters 1998 Ramat Hasharon with Virginie Razzano 2000 Cergy
National representation	Olympics SGL Gold at 2004 Athens BJK Cup 2001
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