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
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tournament organised in
Antwerp
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, Belgium. The tournament took place in the
Sportpaleis
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, at the beginning of February.
In 2009, with the restructuring of the
WTA Tour
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and the retirement of both
Kim Clijsters and
Justine Henin
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, 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
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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
Doubles
See also
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Belgian Open – women's tournament (1987–2002)
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Brussels Open – women's tournament (2011–2013)
References
External links
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Defunct tennis tournaments in Belgium
Hard court tennis tournaments
Indoor tennis tournaments
WTA Tour
Sports competitions in Antwerp
Recurring sporting events established in 2002
2002 establishments in Belgium
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2015
2015 disestablishments in Belgium