Proximus Diamond Games
| Diamond Games | |
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| Tournament information | |
| Founded | 2002–2009, 2015 |
| Location |
Antwerp Belgium |
| Venue | Sportpaleis Merksem |
| Category | Tier II (2002–2009) WTA Premier (2015) |
| Surface | Hard (indoors) |
| Draw | 28S/32Q/16D |
| Prize money | $731,000 |
| Website | Sport.be |
The Diamond Games (sponsored in 2015 as BNP Paribas Fortis Diamond Games and formerly known as Proximus Diamond Games, GDF-Suez Diamond Games and Thomas Cook Diamond Games) was a professional women's tennis tournament organised in Antwerp, Belgium. The tournament took place in the Sportpaleis, at the beginning of February.
In 2009, with the restructuring of the WTA tour and the retirement of both Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin, 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 this year, however, 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 offers a trophy to any player who wins the singles three times in five years. In 2007 Amélie Mauresmo 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.
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