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2009 U.S. Open (tennis)

2009 US Open
US Open tennis 2009 poster.jpg
Date August 31 – September 14
Edition 129th
Category Grand Slam (ITF)
Surface Hardcourt
Location New York City, USA
Venue USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center
Champions
Men's Singles
Argentina Juan Martín del Potro
Women's Singles
Belgium Kim Clijsters
Men's Doubles
Czech Republic Lukáš Dlouhý / India Leander Paes
Women's Doubles
United States Serena Williams / United States Venus Williams
Mixed Doubles
United States Carly Gullickson / United States Travis Parrott
Boys' Singles
Australia Bernard Tomic
Girls' Singles
United Kingdom Heather Watson
Boys' Doubles
Hungary Márton Fucsovics / Chinese Taipei Hsieh Cheng-peng
Girls' Doubles
Russia Valeria Solovieva / Ukraine Maryna Zanevska
Wheelchair Men's Singles
Japan Shingo Kunieda
Wheelchair Women's Singles
Netherlands Esther Vergeer
Wheelchair Quad Singles
United Kingdom Peter Norfolk
Wheelchair Men's Doubles
France Stéphane Houdet / Sweden Stefan Olsson
Wheelchair Women's Doubles
Netherlands Korie Homan / Netherlands Esther Vergeer
Wheelchair Quad Doubles
United States Nicholas Taylor / United States David Wagner
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The 2009 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts, held from August 31 to September 14, 2009 in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, New York City, United States. Originally, it was scheduled to end with the men's singles final match on Sunday, September 13, but due to rain the tournament was extended by one day. Like the Australian Open, the tournament featured night matches.

Former World No. 1 and 2005 US Open women's singles champion, Kim Clijsters, competed in the 2009 US Open after being granted a wild card entry, returning to professional tennis after more than two years of retirement. She made it to the women's singles semi-finals, where she knocked out the defending champion Serena Williams in controversial circumstances. In the final, Clijsters defeated Caroline Wozniacki, the first Dane, man or woman, to reach a Grand Slam final in the Open Era, in straight sets: 7–5, 6–3. Clijsters thus became the first mother to win a Grand Slam since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980. In the process, she also became the first unseeded player and wildcard to win the tournament.

In the men's singles final, five-time defending champion Roger Federer lost to Argentina's Juan Martín del Potro in a match lasting over four hours.


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