2009 Brisbane International – Women's Doubles
Dinara Safina and Ágnes Szávay were the defending champions, but chose not to participate that year.
Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Vania King won in the final, 3–6, 7–5, [10–5], over Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska.
Seeds
- Cara Black / Liezel Huber (quarterfinals)
- Alona Bondarenko / Kateryna Bondarenko (quarterfinals)
- Victoria Azarenka / Francesca Schiavone (quarterfinals, withdrew)
- Sun Tiantian / Yan Zi (quarterfinals)
Draw
Key
- Q = Qualifier
- WC = Wild card
- LL = Lucky loser
- Alt = Alternate
- SE = Special exempt
- PR = Protected ranking
- ITF = ITF entry
- JE = Junior exempt
- w/o = Walkover
- r = Retired
- d = Defaulted
- SR = Special ranking
Draw
First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 | C Black L Huber | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
S Brémond O Govortsova | 3 | 3 | 1 | C Black L Huber | 5 | 6 | [3] | ||||||||||||||||||||
WC | S Ferguson M Wejnert | 2 | 3 | D Hantuchová A Sugiyama | 7 | 3 | [10] | ||||||||||||||||||||
D Hantuchová A Sugiyama | 6 | 6 | D Hantuchová A Sugiyama | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | V Azarenka F Schiavone | 6 | 6 | K Jans A Rosolska | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||
T Poutchek A Rodionova | 3 | 2 | 3 | V Azarenka F Schiavone | |||||||||||||||||||||||
K Jans A Rosolska | 6 | 6 | K Jans A Rosolska | w/o | |||||||||||||||||||||||
L Šafářová G Voskoboeva | 1 | 3 | K Jans A Rosolska | 6 | 5 | [5] | |||||||||||||||||||||
M Jugić-Salkić S Peng | 6 | 6 | A-L Grönefeld V King | 3 | 7 | [10] | |||||||||||||||||||||
A Amanmuradova Y Fedak | 1 | 4 | M Jugić-Salkić S Peng | 6 | 3 | [10] | |||||||||||||||||||||
I Benešová Y Shvedova | 6 | 6 | [6] | 4 | T Sun Z Yan | 4 | 6 | [7] | |||||||||||||||||||
4 | T Sun Z Yan | 3 | 7 | [10] | M Jugić-Salkić S Peng | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A-L Grönefeld V King | 6 | 6 | A-L Grönefeld V King | w/o | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Alt | J Coin M Czink | 3 | 4 | A-L Grönefeld V King | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||
A Kleybanova M Niculescu | 6 | 4 | [7] | 2 | A Bondarenko K Bondarenko | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
2 | A Bondarenko K Bondarenko | 3 | 6 | [10] |
References
- ^ "Azarenka wins women's singles final". Brisbane International. Brisbane. 10 January 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
In the women's doubles final, Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Vania King conjured a come-from-behind win to take the title. The German and American pair lost the first set to Polish duo Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska 6-3 but turned the tables to take the second set 7-5. In the match tiebreaker they steadied and held their nerve where their opposition didn't and claimed it 10-5.