2009 Wimbledon Championships

2009 Wimbledon Championships
Date	22 June – 5 July
Edition	123rd
Category	Grand Slam (ITF)
Draw	128S / 64D / 48XD
Prize money	£12,550,000
Surface	Grass
Location	Church Road SW19, Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom
Venue	All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
Attendance	511,043
Champions
Men's singles
Roger Federer
Women's singles
Serena Williams
Men's doubles
Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić
Women's doubles
Serena Williams / Venus Williams
Mixed doubles
Mark Knowles / Anna-Lena Grönefeld
Wheelchair men's doubles
Stéphane Houdet / Michaël Jérémiasz
Wheelchair women's doubles
Korie Homan / Esther Vergeer
Boys' singles
Andrey Kuznetsov
Girls' singles
Noppawan Lertcheewakarn
Boys' doubles
Pierre-Hugues Herbert / Kevin Krawietz
Girls' doubles
Noppawan Lertcheewakarn / Sally Peers
Gentlemen's invitation doubles
Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis
Ladies' invitation doubles
Martina Navratilova / Helena Suková
Senior gentlemen's invitation doubles
Jeremy Bates / Anders Järryd
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The 2009 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom.^[1][2] It was the 123rd edition of the Wimbledon Championships and was held from 22 June to 5 July 2009. It was the third Grand Slam tennis event of the year.

Rafael Nadal did not defend his title as he withdrew from the tournament due to knee tendonitis. Roger Federer won his 6th Wimbledon title defeating rival Andy Roddick in the final in five sets. Federer's victory marked his fifteenth Grand Slam title, establishing the men's all-time record. Venus Williams was unsuccessful in the title's defence, having been defeated in the final match by her sister Serena, who won her first Wimbledon title since 2003.

Below are the tables with the point distribution for each discipline of the tournament.

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 128	Q	Q3	Q2	Q1
Men's singles	2000	1200	720	360	180	90	45	10	25	16	8	0
Men's doubles							0	—		—	0	0
Women's singles		1400	900	500	280	160	100	5	60	50	40	2
Women's doubles							5	—	48	—	0	0

The total prize money for 2009 championships was £12,550,000. The winner of the men's and women's singles title earned £850,000.^[3][4][5]

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 128	Q3	Q2	Q1
Singles	£850,000	£425,000	£212,500	£106,250	£53,250	£29,250	£17,750	£10,750	£6,700	£3,350	£1,675
Doubles*	£230,000	£115,000	£57,500	£30,000	£16,000	£9,000	£5,250	—	—	—	—
Mixed doubles *	£92,000	£46,000	£23,000	£10,500	£5,200	£2,600	£1,300	—	—	—	—
Wheelchair doubles*	£6,750	£3,750	£2,250	£1,250	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Invitation doubles	£17,000	£14,000	£10,500	£9,500	£9,000	—	—	—	—	—	—

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Roger Federer def. Andy Roddick, 5–7, 7–6^(8–6), 7–6^(7–5), 3–6, 16–14^[6]

• It was Federer's 3rd title of the year, and his 60th overall. Federer's victory gave him his 15th career Grand Slam title, to make him the most successful male player in Grand Slam history. Watching the Swiss break the record was Pete Sampras, who won 14 Grand Slam titles and was making his first return to Wimbledon since 2002; Björn Borg, who won five consecutive Wimbledon titles (the only other man doing this being Roger Federer himself); and Rod Laver, who won Wimbledon four times.^[7]
• The match set a record for most games in a men's final (77); the most games won by the losing player (39); and, most games won by the winning player (38).

Serena Williams def. Venus Williams, 7–6^(7–3), 6–2 ^[8]

• It was Serena's 2nd title of the year, and her 34th overall. It was her 11th career Grand Slam title, and her 3rd Wimbledon title.^[9]

Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić def. Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan, 7–6^(9–7), 6–7^(3–7), 7–6^(7–3), 6–3 ^[10][11]

Serena Williams / Venus Williams def. Samantha Stosur / Rennae Stubbs, 7–6^(7–4), 6–4 ^[12][13]

Mark Knowles / Anna-Lena Grönefeld def. Leander Paes / Cara Black, 7–5, 6–3 ^[14][15]

Andrey Kuznetsov def. Jordan Cox, 4–6, 6–2, 6–2 ^[16]

Noppawan Lertcheewakarn def. Kristina Mladenovic, 3–6, 6–3, 6–1 ^[17]

Pierre-Hugues Herbert / Kevin Krawietz def. Julien Obry / Adrien Puget, 6–7^(3–7), 6–2, 12–10 ^[18]

Noppawan Lertcheewakarn / Sally Peers def. Kristina Mladenovic / Silvia Njirić, 6–1, 6–1 ^[19]

Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis def. Donald Johnson / Jared Palmer, 7–6^(7–2), 6–4

Martina Navratilova / Helena Suková def. Ilana Kloss / Rosalyn Nideffer, 6–3, 6–2

Jeremy Bates / Anders Järryd def. Mansour Bahrami / Henri Leconte, 6–4, 7–6^(7–4)

Stéphane Houdet / Michaël Jérémiasz def. Robin Ammerlaan / Shingo Kunieda, 1–6, 6–4, 7–6^(7–3)

Korie Homan / Esther Vergeer def. Daniela Di Toro / Lucy Shuker, 6–1, 6–3

Swiss Roger Federer established a number of records at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. By defeating Ivo Karlović in the quarter-finals, Federer reached his 21st consecutive Grand Slam semi-final, having started the streak at Wimbledon in 2004.^[20] He then defeated Tommy Haas in the semi-final to reach his seventh consecutive Wimbledon final and his twentieth Grand Slam final, both of these all-time records.^[21] Finally, by defeating Andy Roddick in the final, Federer won his fifteenth Grand Slam title, breaking the record of fourteen titles previously set by Pete Sampras.^[22] Federer also became the fourth man to complete the rare French Open / Wimbledon double in the Open Era, joining Rod Laver, Björn Borg, and Rafael Nadal (who had completed the feat the previous year and would do so again in 2010).

Among other records set, the men's final between Federer and Roddick had the highest number of viewers in the UK of any Wimbledon final since 2001, peaking at 11.1 million viewers during the last stretch of the match.^[23] The 30-game fifth set in the men's final was the longest set in Wimbledon finals history.^[24]

The 2009 Championships took place during an extended period of hot, dry weather in southeast England,^[25] meaning that it was not until day seven of the tournament (29 June) that the newly constructed Centre Court roof was closed for the first time due to rain, delaying a fourth round match between Amélie Mauresmo and Dinara Safina.^[26] The following match between Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka was the first full match to be played under the new roof; owing to the new floodlights, the match continued until 22:38, the latest ever finish in Wimbledon history (this record was broken in 2012 in a third round match between Andy Murray and Marcos Baghdatis, which ended at 23:02). These were the only two matches in which the Centre Court roof was used during the entire 2009 tournament.

The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) planned to observe matches played by up to 12 players (some of whom were inside the ATP top 50) throughout the tournament. The TIU has existed since January 2008.

The ATP claimed to have identified Russian and Italian Mafia-related groups behind suspicious betting at other tournaments, although the organisers of the Wimbledon Championships declared that there are no current proceedings against any players.^[27][28]

Men's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Roger Federer [2]		Andy Roddick [6]
Semifinals out
Tommy Haas [24]		Andy Murray [3]
Quarterfinals out
Lleyton Hewitt	Juan Carlos Ferrero (WC)	Novak Djokovic [4]	Ivo Karlović [22]
4th round out
Radek Štěpánek [23]	Tomáš Berdych [20]	Stan Wawrinka [19]	Gilles Simon [8]
Igor Andreev [29]	Dudi Sela	Fernando Verdasco [7]	Robin Söderling [13]
3rd round out
Philipp Petzschner	David Ferrer [16]	Nikolay Davydenko [12]	Jürgen Melzer [26]
Viktor Troicki [30]	Jesse Levine (Q)	Fernando González [10]	Victor Hănescu [31]
Andreas Seppi	Marin Čilić [11]	Tommy Robredo [15]	Mardy Fish [28]
Albert Montañés [32]	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [9]	Nicolás Almagro	Philipp Kohlschreiber [27]
2nd round out
Juan Martín del Potro [5]	Mischa Zverev	Potito Starace	Fabio Fognini
Victor Crivoi	Paul-Henri Mathieu	Benjamin Becker	Igor Kunitsyn
Ernests Gulbis	Daniel Gimeno Traver	Martín Vassallo Argüello	Pablo Cuevas (LL)
Leonardo Mayer	Fabrice Santoro	Nicolas Devilder	Thiago Alves (LL)
Marc Gicquel	Vince Spadea	Michaël Llodra	Sam Querrey
Stefan Koubek (PR)	Rainer Schüttler [18]	Janko Tipsarević	Simon Greul (Q)
Kristof Vliegen	Guillermo Cañas	Steve Darcis	Simone Bolelli
Marcel Granollers	Karol Beck	Ivo Minář	Guillermo García López
1st round out
Arnaud Clément	Robby Ginepri	Rajeev Ram (Q)	Dmitry Tursunov [25]
Alejandro Falla (Q)	José Acasuso	Denis Istomin	Kevin Kim
Dan Evans (WC)	Björn Phau	Frederico Gil	Alex Bogdanovic (WC)
Wayne Odesnik	Roko Karanušić (Q)	Grigor Dimitrov (WC)	Jérémy Chardy
Robert Kendrick	Riccardo Ghedin (Q)	Taylor Dent (Q)	Brian Dabul
Eduardo Schwank	Pablo Andújar	Christophe Rochus	Marat Safin [14]
Teymuraz Gabashvili	Óscar Hernández	Mikhail Youzhny	Nicolas Kiefer [33]
Iván Navarro	Nicolás Lapentti	Andrei Pavel (PR)	Bobby Reynolds
James Blake [17]	Adrian Mannarino (Q)	Paul Capdeville	Evgeny Korolev
Alexander Peya (Q)	Josh Goodall (WC)	Danai Udomchoke (LL)	Alberto Martín
Luka Gregorc (Q)	Édouard Roger-Vasselin (Q)	Santiago González (Q)	Xavier Malisse (Q)
Sergio Roitman	Jan Hernych	Michael Yani (Q)	Julien Benneteau
James Ward (WC)	Nicolas Mahut (WC)	Diego Junqueira	Grega Žemlja (Q)
Lukáš Lacko (Q)	Frank Dancevic	Daniel Köllerer	Andrey Golubev
Gilles Müller	Andreas Beck (LL)	Juan Mónaco	Feliciano López [21]
Florent Serra	Máximo González	Agustín Calleri	Lu Yen-hsun

Women's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Serena Williams [2]		Venus Williams [3]
Semifinals out
Elena Dementieva [4]		Dinara Safina [1]
Quarterfinals out
Sabine Lisicki	Agnieszka Radwańska [11]	Francesca Schiavone	Victoria Azarenka [8]
4th round out
Amélie Mauresmo [17]	Caroline Wozniacki [9]	Ana Ivanovic [13]	Melanie Oudin (Q)
Virginie Razzano [26]	Elena Vesnina	Nadia Petrova [10]	Daniela Hantuchová
3rd round out
Kirsten Flipkens	Flavia Pennetta [15]	Anabel Medina Garrigues [20]	Svetlana Kuznetsova [5]
Carla Suárez Navarro	Samantha Stosur [18]	Li Na [19]	Jelena Janković [6]
Vera Zvonareva [7]	Marion Bartoli [12]	Dominika Cibulková [14]	Regina Kulikova (Q)
Sorana Cîrstea [28]	Gisela Dulko	Ai Sugiyama	Roberta Vinci
2nd round out
Rossana de los Ríos	Elena Baltacha (WC)	Kristína Kučová (LL)	Vania King
Maria Kirilenko	Tathiana Garbin	Patricia Mayr	Pauline Parmentier
Kateryna Bondarenko	Ekaterina Makarova	Tatjana Malek (Q)	Sara Errani
Peng Shuai	Olga Govortsova	Yaroslava Shvedova	Iveta Benešová
Mathilde Johansson	Jill Craybas	Michelle Larcher de Brito (WC)	Timea Bacsinszky
Urszula Radwańska	Vera Dushevina	Alisa Kleybanova [27]	Aravane Rezaï
Raluca Olaru	Sania Mirza	Maria Sharapova [24]	Shahar Pe'er
Zheng Jie [16]	Arantxa Parra Santonja (Q)	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [31]	Jarmila Groth
1st round out
Lourdes Domínguez Lino	Nicole Vaidišová	Alona Bondarenko	Ágnes Szávay [30]
Melinda Czink	Aiko Nakamura (Q)	Mariya Koryttseva	Nuria Llagostera Vives
Kimiko Date-Krumm (WC)	Petra Kvitová	Alberta Brianti (Q)	Marta Domachowska
Anna Chakvetadze [32]	Anne Keothavong	Akgul Amanmuradova	Akiko Morigami (PR)
Stefanie Vögele	Anastasija Sevastova (Q)	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Kaia Kanepi [25]
Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Jelena Dokic	Stéphanie Dubois	Lucie Hradecká
María José Martínez Sánchez	Alexa Glatch (WC)	Tatiana Perebiynis (PR)	Galina Voskoboeva
Sybille Bammer [29]	Monica Niculescu	Katie O'Brien (WC)	Julia Görges
Georgie Stoop (WC)	Melanie South (WC)	Tsvetana Pironkova	Tamira Paszek
Aleksandra Wozniak [23]	Klára Zakopalová (Q)	Vesna Manasieva (Q)	Chan Yung-jan
Julie Coin	Maša Zec Peškirič	Yanina Wickmayer	Alizé Cornet
Sesil Karatantcheva (Q)	Karolina Šprem	Ayumi Morita	Alla Kudryavtseva
Séverine Brémond Beltrame	Nathalie Dechy	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Edina Gallovits
Viktoriya Kutuzova (Q)	Stéphanie Foretz	Maria Elena Camerin	Anastasiya Yakimova
Kristina Barrois	Laura Robson (WC)	Tamarine Tanasugarn	Patty Schnyder [21]
Petra Cetkovská	Magdaléna Rybáriková	Lucie Šafářová	Neuza Silva (Q)

The following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event. Seedings based on ATP and WTA rankings as of 15 June 2009. Rankings and points before are as of 22 June 2009.

The Men's singles seeds is arranged on a surface-based system to reflect more accurately the individual player's grass court achievement as per the following formula:

• ESP points as at a week of 22 June 2009
• Add 100% points earned for all grass court tournaments in the past 12 months (23 June 2008 – 21 June 2009)
• add 75% points earned for best grass court tournament in the 12 months before that (25 June 2007 – 22 June 2008).

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Rafael Nadal	12,735	2,000	0	10,735	Withdrew due to a knee injury[29]
2	2	Roger Federer	10,620	1,400	2,000	11,220	Champion, defeated Andy Roddick [5]
3	3	Andy Murray	9,230	500	720	9,450	Semifinals lost to Andy Roddick [5]
4	4	Novak Djokovic	7,860	70	360	8,150	Quarterfinals lost to Tommy Haas [24]
5	5	Juan Martín del Potro	5,730	70	45	5,705	Second round lost to Lleyton Hewitt
6	6	Andy Roddick	4,310	70	1,200	5,440	Runner-up, lost to Roger Federer [2]
7	8	Fernando Verdasco	3,620	300	180	3,500	Fourth round lost to Ivo Karlović [22]
8	7	Gilles Simon	3,970	150	180	4,000	Fourth round lost to Juan Carlos Ferrero [WC]
9	9	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	3,510	0	90	3,600	Third round lost to Ivo Karlović [22]
10	10	Fernando González	3,165	70	90	3,185	Third round lost to Juan Carlos Ferrero [WC]
11	13	Marin Čilić	2,710	300	90	2,500	Third round lost to Tommy Haas [24]
12	11	Nikolay Davydenko	2,855	10	90	2,935	Third round lost to Tomáš Berdych [20]
13	12	Robin Söderling	2,825	70	180	2,935	Fourth round lost to Roger Federer [2]
14	24	Marat Safin	1,820	900	10	930	First round lost to Jesse Levine
15	15	Tommy Robredo	2,580	70	90	2,600	Third round lost to Dudi Sela
16	21	David Ferrer	1,900	150	90	1,840	Third round lost to Radek Štěpánek [23]
17	17	James Blake	2,340	70	10	2,280	First round lost to Andreas Seppi
18	29	Rainer Schüttler	1,645	900	45	790	Second round lost to Dudi Sela
19	18	Stan Wawrinka	2,195	300	180	2,075	Fourth round lost to Andy Murray [3]
20	20	Tomáš Berdych	1,910	150	180	1,940	Fourth round lost to Andy Roddick [6]
21	27	Feliciano López	1,665	500	10	1,165	First round lost to Karol Beck [LL]
22	36	Ivo Karlović	1,295	10	360	1,645	Quarterfinals lost to Roger Federer [2]
23	23	Radek Štěpánek	1,890	150	180	3,500	Fourth round lost to Lleyton Hewitt
24	34	Tommy Haas	1,405	150	720	2,020	Semifinals lost to Roger Federer [2]
25	22	Dmitry Tursunov	1,900	150	10	1,760	First round lost to Mischa Zverev
26	30	Jürgen Melzer	1,640	150	90	3,500	Third round lost to Andy Roddick [6]
27	32	Philipp Kohlschreiber	1,540	10	90	1,620	Third round lost to Roger Federer [2]
28	25	Mardy Fish	1,735	10	90	1,815	Third round lost to Novak Djokovic [4]
29	26	Igor Andreev	1,700	70	180	1,810	Fourth round lost to Tommy Haas [24]
30	31	Viktor Troicki	1,547	70	90	1,567	Third round lost to Andy Murray [3]
31	28	Victor Hănescu	1,651	70	90	1,671	Third round lost to Gilles Simon [8]
32	33	Albert Montañés	1,424	70	90	1,444	Third round lost to Fernando Verdasco [7]
33	35	Nicolas Kiefer	1,315	150	10	1,175	First round lost to Fabrice Santoro

The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Withdrawal reason
14	Gaël Monfils	2,610	0	2,610	Wrist injury[30]
16	David Nalbandian	2,385	10	2,375	Hip injury[31]
19	Richard Gasquet	1,925	300	1,625	Provisional suspension[32]

The seeds for ladies' singles are based on the WTA rankings as of 15 June 2009, with an exception for Maria Sharapova (details are given below). Rank and points before are as of 22 June 2009.

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Dinara Safina	9,801	180	900	10,521	Semifinals lost to Venus Williams [3]
2	2	Serena Williams	8,158	1,400	2,000	8,758	Champion, defeated Venus Williams [3]
3	3	Venus Williams	7,217	2,000	1,400	6,617	Runner-up, lost to Serena Williams [2]
4	4	Elena Dementieva	6,591	900	900	6,591	Semifinals lost to Serena Williams [2]
5	5	Svetlana Kuznetsova	6,191	280	160	6,071	Third round lost to Sabine Lisicki
6	6	Jelena Janković	6,100	280	160	5,980	Third round lost to Melanie Oudin [Q]
7	7	Vera Zvonareva	5,360	120	160	5,400	Third round withdrew due to ankle injury
8	8	Victoria Azarenka	4,946	180	500	5,066	Quarterfinals lost to Serena Williams [2]
9	9	Caroline Wozniacki	4,680	180	280	4,780	Fourth round lost to Sabine Lisicki
10	10	Nadia Petrova	3,520	500	280	3,300	Fourth round lost to Victoria Azarenka [8]
11	14	Agnieszka Radwańska	2,981	500	500	2,981	Quarterfinals lost to Venus Williams [3]
12	11	Marion Bartoli	3,235	180	160	3,215	Third round lost to Francesca Schiavone
13	12	Ana Ivanovic	3,172	180	280	3,272	Fourth round retired against Venus Williams [3]
14	13	Dominika Cibulková	3,065	4	160	3,221	Third round lost to Elena Vesnina
15	15	Flavia Pennetta	2,860	120	160	2,900	Third round lost to Amélie Mauresmo [17]
16	16	Zheng Jie	2,661	900	100	1,861	Second round lost to Daniela Hantuchová
17	17	Amélie Mauresmo	2,539	180	280	2,639	Fourth round lost to Dinara Safina [1]
18	19	Samantha Stosur	2,212	120	160	2,252	Third round lost to Ana Ivanovic [13]
19	18	Li Na	2,302	120	160	6,591	Third round lost to Agnieszka Radwańska [11]
20	20	Anabel Medina Garrigues	2,200	180	160	2,180	Third round lost to Caroline Wozniacki [9]
21	22	Patty Schnyder	2,112	4	10	2,118	First round lost to Ai Sugiyama
22	24	Alizé Cornet	1,960	4	10	1,966	First round lost to Vera Dushevina
23	21	Aleksandra Wozniak	2,114	120	10	2,004	First round lost to Francesca Schiavone
24†	60	Maria Sharapova	990	120	100	970	Second round lost to Gisela Dulko
25	25	Kaia Kanepi	1,860	4	10	1,866	First round lost to Carla Suárez Navarro
26	23	Virginie Razzano	2,089	4	280	2,365	Fourth round lost to Francesca Schiavone
27	31	Alisa Kleybanova	1,665	280	100	1,485	Second round lost to Regina Kulikova [Q]
28	27	Sorana Cîrstea	1,756	120	160	1,796	Third round lost to Victoria Azarenka [8]
29	26	Sybille Bammer	1,775	120	10	1,665	First round lost to Melanie Oudin [Q]
30	28	Ágnes Szávay	1,749	280	10	1,479	First round lost to Kirsten Flipkens
31	29	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1,708	242	120	1,566	Second round lost to Roberta Vinci
32	30	Anna Chakvetadze	1,681	280	10	1,411	First round lost to Sabine Lisicki

† Maria Sharapova was ranked 59th on the day seeds were announced, because she had missed the most of 12-month period due to injury. Nevertheless, she was deemed a special case and was seeded 24th by organizers.

The following players received wild cards into the main draw senior events.

Mixed doubles

1. James Auckland / Elena Baltacha
2. Alex Bogdanovic / Melanie South
3. Colin Fleming / Sarah Borwell
4. Josh Goodall / Naomi Cavaday
5. Ken Skupski / Katie O'Brien

Below are the lists of the qualifiers entering in the main draws.^{[33][34][35][36]}

The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking: