WTA Nov 3-7: Bali Tournament of Champions Bali, INA PREMIER $600,000 12RR/0q/0d outdoor: hard Live Scores draws: WTA photos: DL | Y!: sports - news | WTA Bali: weather - map - news player's: activities - travel 2006 Bali players fact sheet # # # # # # # # # # # #

Tourney pages: Bali: 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 previous other tourney pages Bali 2009: #12 Marion Bartoli 5'6¾" 128lb RH 2H-FH&BH Bali 2009: #44 Aravane Rezai 5'5" 137lb RH 2H-BH

    The Tournament of Champions draw is not yet available. In 2009 the Tournament of Champions draw was held at 11am on Monday in Bali. Play in Bali does not begin until Wednesday evening. The link is above for your convenience when the draw becomes available.

  Bali Tourney Format:

    In 2009, the Bali tourney became The Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, 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, play in a round-robin format (4 groups of 3 players each). The four group winners play in Saturday's semifinals.
    The tourney pays $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 (unfortunately, no player qualified for the bonus in 2009).

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  Bali, 2009:

    On Sunday in Bali, in the final of the first WTA Tournament of Champions, this year's champion in Strasbourg, 10th-seeded 22-year-old #44 Aravane Rezai from St. Etienne, France, defeated this year's champ at Stanford & Monterrey, top-seeded 25-year-old #12 Marion Bartoli of France (residence: Geneva, Switzerland), 7-5, retired, when Marion could no longer continue due to a bad left quad strain (Marion is shown during the match, and Aravane, with the hardware, in traditional Balinese attire afterward).

    Aravane's prize is $200,000; Marion's is $100,000.

    Aravane said: "It’s a big surprise to finish like that and I’m very sorry for her. She looks like she hurt a lot and I hope it is not a big injury...
    "[The match] was a good quality. It was a big level. We fight and it was pretty nice for the people watching. We are professionals and try to win the title, and that’s why it was a nice match.
    "Winning here means so many things for myself. I proved to myself I can be at a much better ranking and much better player on the tour, and also prove to so many people, my family, my parents, my coach, that I can do better and better." tourney story

    Marion said: "I started to feel my leg was pretty tight in the middle of the set. I started to feel some pain all over my quads and I thought maybe it was the stress and no reason to be serious. But then it hurt me a lot, especially each time I had to push and put some weight onto my left leg it was really getting worse and worse and at the end I couldn’t continue.
    "It was a good match and I’m very sad to finish like this. The last thing you want to do is injury yourself in the last match of the season. But what can you do? I was trying my best and perhaps it was just too much."

    Marion and Aravane had met only twice before. On red clay in the 1st round at Roland Garros in 2007, Marion defeated Aravane 6-2, 6-4. And a few weeks ago, on a hardcourt in the 2nd round in Tokyo, Marion won again, 6-4, 6-2.

    Aravane is now 2-2 in WTA singles finals; she reached the final in Auckland last year, and the Istanbul final in 2007. She has won 7 ITF singles titles. Aravane has a 44-23 record for the season.
    2007 Wimbledon finalist Marion is now 5-6 in WTA singles finals, winning twice this year and three times in 2006. Marion has a 50-22 match record in 2009.

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WTA SCOREBOARD: Bali s=seed, #=rank, *=upset, LL=lucky loser ranks are for the current week How do players get into the "draw"? Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions,  Bali, Indonesia   tourney time:        = GMT +8 hours        = US ET +13 hours        = US PT +16 hours Indonesia News Weather Forecast | Weather Maps | Weather Radar Bali: At Bali, the top 10 players who have won at least one International tourney during the year, and who did not play in singles at the WTA Championships, + 2 wild cards, will play in a round-robin (4 groups of 3 players).   click for broader view   Grand Hyatt Bali, courts at left, beach at right Latitude: -8.804492 Longitude: 115.231546 goto link for World Wind 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. 2009: On Monday, November 2, in Bali, players taking a break from preparing for the premiere Tournament of Champions to enjoy lunch at the Temple Garden in Nusa Dua included the two wild card entries in the tourney, this year's champ in Seoul, 39-year-old former #4 Kimiko Date Krumm, & this year's Charleston champ, 20-year-old Sabine Lisicki, and the Linz champ, 20-year-old Yanina Wickmayer...

Bali, RR Wed 2pm Bali, RR Thu 2pm Bali, RR Fri 2pm loser's prizes: RR no wins: $15,000 US, 70 points;     RR 1 win $32,500 US, 160 points;     RR 2 wins $50,000 US, 250 points

Bali, SFs, Sat 2:30pm losers receive RR prizes

Bali, Final, Sun 2:30pm loser's prize: $50,000 US + RR prize $; points: 170 + RR points winner's prize: $150,000 US + RR prize $; points: 350 + RR points

Bali, Withdrawals

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