The 2006 Estoril Open was a
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
tournament played on outdoor
clay courts. This event was the 17th edition of the
Estoril Open for the men (the 10th for the women), included in the
2006 ATP Tour
The 2006 ATP Tour was the global elite men's professional tennis circuit organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the 2006 tennis season. The ATP Tour is the elite tour for professional tennis organized by the Association of ...
International Series and in the
2006 WTA Tour
The 2006 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the 36th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on January 2, 2006, and concluded on November 12, 2006 after 61 events.
Justine Henin-Hardenne came out as the winner in a hist ...
Tier IV Series
The WTA Tier IV tournaments were Women's Tennis Association fourth-level tournaments held from 1990 until the end of the 2008 season. The line-up of events varied over the years, with tournaments being promoted, demoted or cancelled. Some of the ...
. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the
Estoril Court Central
Estoril Court Central is the main tennis court in Oeiras, Portugal. Built in 2005, it currently holds 10,000 spectators. It used to host the Portugal Open
The Portugal Open (formerly named Estoril Open) was an ATP and WTA clay court tennis t ...
, in
Oeiras, Portugal, from 1 May through 7 May 2006.
Finals
Men's singles
David Nalbandian
David Pablo Nalbandian (; born 1 January 1982) is an Argentine retired professional tennis player who played on the ATP Tour from 2000 until his retirement in 2013. He reached the highest ranking in singles of world No. 3 in March 2006. Nalban ...
defeated
Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko ( rus, Никола́й Влади́мирович Давыде́нко ; born 2 June 1981) is a Ukrainian-born Russian former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3 i ...
, 6–3, 6–4
Women's singles
Zheng Jie
Zheng Jie (born 5 July 1983) is a retired tennis player from China. In May 2009, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 15.
Zheng is one of the most successful tennis players from China. She won four WTA singles titles – Ho ...
defeated
Li Na
Li Na (born 26 February 1982) is a Chinese former professional tennis player.
She achieved a career-high WTA ranking of world No. 2 on 17 February 2014. Over the course of her career, Li won nine WTA Tour singles titles including two Grand ...
, 6–7
(5–7), 7–5, retired
Men's doubles
Lukáš Dlouhý /
Pavel Vízner
Pavel Vízner (born 15 July 1970) is a retired professional male tennis player from the Czech Republic. Vízner has reached the French Open final twice, having had turned professional in 1990 and achieved a career high doubles ranking of World ...
defeated
Lucas Arnold
Lucas Arnold Ker (; born 12 October 1974) is an Argentine former professional tennis player.
Arnold Ker started playing tennis in the Olivos Tenis Club of Buenos Aires, under coach Malcolm Campbell. He is the younger brother of Patricio Arnold ...
/
Leoš Friedl
Leoš Friedl (born 1 January 1977) is a retired Czech tennis player.
Friedl's career-high ATP doubles ranking was No. 14, achieved on 8 August 2005. He often partnered in doubles with František Čermák
František Čermák (born 14 Nove ...
, 6–3, 6–1
Women's doubles
Li Ting /
Sun Tiantian defeated
Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko (; born 30 January 1985) is a retired Argentine tennis player. Although she enjoyed modest success in singles, reaching a career-high ranking of world No. 26 and winning four WTA titles, her speciality was doubles, where she achiev ...
/
María Sánchez Lorenzo
María Antonia Sánchez Lorenzo (born 7 November 1977) is a retired tennis player from Spain.
Her highest WTA ranking has been world No. 33, a position she achieved in April 2004.
She played two-handed on both sides, and her favourite sur ...
, 6–2, 6–2
External links
Official websiteMen's Singles drawMen's Doubles drawWomen's Singles, Doubles and Qualifying Singles draws
May 2006 sports events in Europe
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