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New Bali Tourney Format:
In 2009, the Bali tourney will become The Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, to be held from November 4-8 as the last event of the WTA season. At Bali, the top 10 players who have won at least one International Series tournament during the year (tournaments with $220,000 prize money) and who are not playing in singles at the previous week's WTA Championships in Doha (where the 8 top players compete), along with two wild card players, will play in a round-robin format (4 groups of 3 players each). The four group winners will play in Saturday's semifinals.The tourney will pay $600,000 in total prize money. If player wins three "International" tourneys during the season and wins the Tournament of Champions, they will receive a $1,000,000 bonus. WTA story
Bali 2008:
On Sunday in Bali, in the final of the Commonwealth Bank Classic, 29-year-old 2nd-seeded # 15 Patty Schnyder from Baech, Switzerland, handily defeated 17-year-old unseeded # 68 Tamira Paszek from Dornbirn, Austria, 6-3, 6-0 (Patty is shown after match point, and both ladies with the goodies after the match). Patty's prize is $35,000, Tamira's, $19,000.|
It was Patty's 500th career match victory. Patty said: "I played some great tennis right from the start. I never lost my focus. We had some great rallies and I was hitting with precision and control, and although [Tamira] gave me a tough time in the beginning and came up with some great shots, I hung in there and knew I could win if I just kept playing at the level I was." Bali player's blog by Patty Schnyder Tamira said: "I felt a bit tired today. But Patty played an amazing game. She played great tennis today so it was really tough for me. We had very long rallies and I was really tired in the end. But I had a great week and I’m really happy with that." tourney story - WTA story Patty now leads Tamira 2-1 in career matches. Tamira defeated Patty in the 3rd round of the 2007 US Open, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(1); Patty defeated Tamira earlier this year in the 1st round in Doha, 6-4, 6-0. Patty is now 11-13 in WTA singles finals; her most recent title had been in 2005 in Cincinnati, but she has reached six finals since, including the final earlier this year in Bangalore. Patty has a 33-19 match record in 2008. |
 Patty at the Baliwelcome party on Monday |
Tamira is now 1-1 in WTA singles finals; she won her title in Portoroz in 2006. Tamira has a 15-15 match record this year.
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WTA SCOREBOARD: Bali
Commonwealth Bank Classic, Bali, Indonesia
Commonwealth Bank Classic venue address: Grand Hyatt Bali, P.O. Box 53, Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia Tel: +62 361 77 1234 Fax: +62 361 77 2038 The Grand Hyatt Bali is located on the Nusa Dua Peninsula, close to Sanur, Kuta and downtown Denpasar, and 20 minutes from Ngurah Rai International Airport. Covering 40 acres and designed to resemble a Balinese water palace, the Grand Hyatt Bali features clusters of low-rise buildings and private villas among waterfall-fed pools and landscaped hotel gardens.
Indonesian former WTA # 55 Angelique Widjaja, Nadia Petrova, Anastasia Rodionova, row 2: Marta Domachowska, Flavia Pennetta, Yaroslava Shvedova, Aiko Nakamura, Tamira Paszek, and Olga Savchuk...
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