2009 US Open (tennis) : Ask Biography

Tennis Event information

Date

August 31 � September 14

Edition

129th

Category

Grand Slam (ITF)

Location

New York City, USA

Champions

Men's Singles

AR Juan Martín del Potro

Women's Singles

BE Kim Clijsters

Men's Doubles

CZ Lukáš Dlouhý / IN Leander Paes

Women's Doubles

US Serena Williams / US Venus Williams

Mixed Doubles

US Carly Gullickson / US Travis Parrott

Boys' Singles

AU Bernard Tomic

Girls' Singles

GB Heather Watson

Boys' Doubles

HU Marton Fucsovics / TW Hsieh Cheng-peng

Girls' Doubles

RU Valeria Solovieva / UA Maryna Zanevska

Wheelchair Men's Singles

JP Shingo Kunieda

Wheelchair Women's Singles

NL Esther Vergeer

Wheelchair Quad Singles

GB Peter Norfolk

Wheelchair Men's Doubles

FR Stephane Houdet / SE Stefan Olsson

Wheelchair Women's Doubles

NL Korie Homan / NL Esther Vergeer

Wheelchair Quad Doubles

US Nicholas Taylor / US David Wagner

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The 2009 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts, held from August 31 to September 14, 2009 in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, New York City, United States. Originally, it was scheduled to end with the mens' singles final match on Sunday, September 13, but due to rain the tournament was extended by one day. Like the Australian Open, the tournament featured night matches.

Former World No. 1 and 2005 US Open women's singles champion, Kim Clijsters, competed in the 2009 US Open after being granted a wild card entry, returning to professional tennis after more than two years of retirement. She made it to the women's singles semi-finals, where she knocked out the defending champion Serena Williams in controversial circumstances. In the final, Clijsters defeated Caroline Wozniacki, the first Dane, man or woman, to reach a Grand Slam final in the Open Era, in straight sets: 7 � 5, 6 � 3. Clijsters thus became the first mother to win a Grand Slam since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980.

In the men's singles final, five time consecutive winner Roger Federer lost to Argentina's Juan Martín del Potro in a match lasting over four hours.