2008 WTA Tour Championships
Date:		November 4 – November 9
Edition:		38th (singles) / 33rd (doubles)
Champions
Singles
Venus Williams
Doubles
Cara Black / Liezel Huber
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The 2008 WTA Tour Championships (also known as the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Championships for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 38th edition of the year-end singles championships, the 33rd edition of the year-end doubles championships, and is part of the 2008 WTA Tour. It took place at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex in Doha, Qatar, from November 4 through November 9, 2008.

Contents 1 Champions 1.1 Singles 1.2 Doubles 2 Players 2.1 Qualified singles players 2.2 Singles alternates 2.3 Withdrawn players 2.4 Qualified doubles teams 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Champions

[edit] Singles

Venus Williams def. Vera Zvonareva, 6–7(5), 6–0, 6–2

• It was Venus Williams' 3rd title of the year, and her 39th overall. It was her 1st career year-end championships title.

[edit] Doubles

Cara Black / Liezel Huber def. Květa Peschke / Rennae Stubbs, 6–1, 7–5

[edit] Players

The top eight players and the top four doubles teams in the 2008 WTA Tour will qualify for the Championships. Two more players will also come to Doha as reserves. Should any player withdraw, they will enter the tournament.

[edit] Qualified singles players

• Jelena Janković (4786)^[1]
• Dinara Safina (3823)
• Serena Williams (3681)
• Elena Dementieva (3400)
• Ana Ivanović (3353)^[1]
• Vera Zvonareva (2626)
• Svetlana Kuznetsova (2623)
• Venus Williams (2522)

[edit] Singles alternates

• Agnieszka Radwańska (2256)
• Nadia Petrova (1914)

[edit] Withdrawn players

• Maria Sharapova (2515) (Sharapova announced a hiatus from tennis from the Rogers Cup until 2009,^[2] which prevented her from continuing to collect points and qualify)

[edit] Qualified doubles teams

• Cara Black / Liezel Huber (6158)^[3]
• Anabel Medina Garrigues / Virginia Ruano Pascual (2809)
• Květa Peschke / Rennae Stubbs (2614)
• Ai Sugiyama / Katarina Srebotnik (2542)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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