2009 LA Women's Tennis Championships

2009 LA Women's Tennis Championships
Date	August 3 – August 9
Edition	36th
Surface	Hard / Outdoor
Location	Carson, CA, USA
Venue	Home Depot Center
Champions
Singles
Flavia Pennetta
Doubles
Chuang Chia-jung / Yan Zi

The 2009 LA Women's Tennis Championships (also known as the 2009 LA Women's Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 36th edition of the LA Women's Tennis Championships, and was part of the Premier Series of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was held at the Home Depot Center in Carson, near Los Angeles, California, United States, from August 3 through August 9, 2009. It was the second women's event on the 2009 US Open Series.

Champions

Singles

Flavia Pennetta defeated Samantha Stosur 6–4, 6–3.

• It was Pennetta's second title of the year and eighth overall.

Doubles

Chuang Chia-jung / Yan Zi defeated Maria Kirilenko / Agnieszka Radwańska 6–0, 4–6, 10–7.

Entrants

Seeds

Player	WTA Tour Rank^*	Seeds
Dinara Safina	1	1
Vera Zvonareva	7	2
Victoria Azarenka	8	3
Caroline Wozniacki	9	4
Nadia Petrova	10	5
Ana Ivanovic	11	6
Dominika Cibulková	12	7
Agnieszka Radwańska	13	8
Marion Bartoli	14	9
Flavia Pennetta	15	10
Virginie Razzano	17	11
Li Na	18	12
Samantha Stosur	20	13
Zheng Jie	22	14
Kaia Kanepi	23	15
Francesca Schiavone	24	16
Sabine Lisicki	25	17

• Seedings are based on the rankings of July 27, 2009.
• Maria Bartoli withdrew, so Sabine Lisicki became the No. 17 seed.

Other Entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw

• Vania King
• Coco Vandeweghe
• Michelle Larcher de Brito

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Jill Craybas
• Melanie Oudin
• Chanelle Scheepers
• Michaëlla Krajicek
• Carly Gullickson
• Olga Savchuk
• Anastasia Rodionova
• Kimiko Date-Krumm

The following player received the lucky loser spot:

• Varvara Lepchenko

External links

• Official Website