The 2009 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor

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s. It is the 22nd edition of the

Internazionali Femminili di Palermo The Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, also known as the Palermo Ladies Open, is a women's tennis tournament in Palermo, Italy that is played on outdoor clay courts at the Country Time Club. The first two editions were part of the Satellite Circu ...

, and is part of the WTA International tournaments of the

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. It took place in

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, Italy, from 13 July until 19 July 2009. First-seeded Flavia Pennetta won the singles title.

WTA entrants

Seeds

*Seedings are based on the rankings of July 6, 2009.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw *

Corinna Dentoni Corinna Dentoni (born 30 July 1989) is an inactive Italians, Italian tennis player. On 22 June 2009, she achieved her best WTA singles ranking of 132. Her career-high in doubles is world No. 151, which she reached on 25 May 2009. Dentoni has wo ...

* Nathalie Viérin *

Anna Floris Anna Floris (; born 15 May 1982) is a retired tennis player from Italy. In her career, she won 12 singles and 16 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 16 August 2010, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 129. On 9 March 200 ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Arantxa Parra Santonja *

Olga Savchuk Olga Mykolayivna Savchuk ( uk, Ольга Миколаївна Савчук; born 20 September 1987) is a retired tennis player from Ukraine. Savchuk grew up in the city of Makiyivka in Donetsk province. She resides in Nassau, Bahamas. Her best ...

Anastasia Pivovarova Anastasia Olegovna Pivovarova (russian: Анастасия Олеговна Пивоварова, born 16 June 1990) is a former professional tennis player from Russia. She reached a career-high ranking of 93, in May 2011. During a successful j ...

Arantxa Rus Arantxa Rus (; born 13 December 1990) is a Dutch tennis player. In 2008, she won the girl's singles title at the 2008 Australian Open – Girls' singles, Australian Open, defeating Jessica Moore (tennis), Jessica Moore from Australia in the final ...

Finals

Singles

Flavia Pennetta defeated Sara Errani 6–1, 6–2 * It was Pennetta's first title of the year and 7th of her career.

Doubles

Nuria Llagostera Vives / María José Martínez Sánchez defeated Mariya Koryttseva /

Darya Kustova Darya Kustova ( be, Дар'я Кустава; russian: Дарья Кустова; born 29 May 1986) is a former professional Belarusian tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are 117 in singles, which she reached in January 2010, and 66 i ...

, 6–1, 6–2

External links

Official website
{{2009 WTA Tour

Internazionali Femminili di Palermo 2009 in Italian women's sport Torneo