The 2002 Canberra Women's Classic was a women's

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tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the National Sports Club in Lyneham,

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, Australia and was part of the Tier V category of the

2002 WTA Tour The 2002 Sanex WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2002 tennis season. The WTA Tour calendar comprised the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Fed ...

. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 6 through 12 January 2002. Unseeded

Anna Smashnova Anna Aleksandrovna Smashnova (, ; born July 16, 1976) is a Soviet-born Israeli former tennis player. She retired from professional tour after Wimbledon 2007. Smashnova reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 15 in 2003. She reached ...

won the singles title and earned $16,000 first-prize money.

Finals

Singles

defeated

Tamarine Tanasugarn Tamarine Tanasugarn (, , ; born 24 May 1977) is a Thai former tennis player. Born in Los Angeles, she turned professional in 1994, and has been in the top 20 in both singles and doubles. Tanasugarn's career-high WTA ranking is No. 19, achiev ...

7–5, 7–6^(7–2) * It was Smashnova's 2nd singles title of the year and the 4th of her career.

Doubles

Nannie de Villiers Nannie de Villiers (born Esmé de Villiers, 5 January 1976) is a former professional tennis player who represented South Africa. She was born in neighbouring Namibia but moved at a young age. De Villiers made her début in 1993, at the small I ...

Irina Selyutina Irina Gennadyevna Selyutina (Ирина Геннадьевна Селютина; born 7 November 1979) is a former tennis player from Kazakhstan. She is a former world No. 1 in junior doubles, winning French Open and Wimbledon in 1997, partneri ...

defeated

Samantha Reeves Samantha Reeves (born January 17, 1979) is an American former professional tennis player. Her best results in singles have been reaching the quarterfinals at Hawaii (2002), Bahia and Quebec City Quebec City is the capital city of the Prov ...

Adriana Serra Zanetti Adriana Serra Zanetti (born 5 March 1976; ) is an Italian former tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two pl ...

6–2, 6–3

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ITF tournament edition details

Tournament draws
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Canberra International The Canberra International (sponsored by Richard Luton Properties) was a women's tennis tournament held in Canberra, Australia. The event was affiliated with the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and was classed variously as a Tier III (2001), a ...

Canberra International