Hong Kong Tennis Classic

The Hong Kong Tennis Classic (formerly known as the JB Group Classic and the Watsons Water Champions Challenge) is a women's exhibition tennis tournament held (with temporary stands) in Victoria Park, Hong Kong, in the first week of January. It is a warm-up tournament for the Australian Open.

Formerly, the tournament was played under a more traditional format, with 8 players invited to participate, who would play against each other in a round robin format (with two groups of 4 players), with the top two players from each group progressing to the final. However, in 2009, the tournament switched to a group format, with four Zonal groups of three players; Team Americas, Team Asia-Pacific, Team Europe and Team Russia. Two teams play against each other in a semifinal, with three singles ties (amongst the three players) and 1 doubles tie. The two winning teams progress to the Gold Group final, playing for 1st and 2nd, whilst the losing teams progress to the Silver Group final, playing off for 3rd and 4th.

Past finals

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2011	Team Russia Vera Zvonareva Maria Kirilenko Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Team Europe Caroline Wozniacki Aravane Rezaï Stefan Edberg	3–1 (4 ties played)
2010	Team Russia Maria Sharapova Vera Zvonareva Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Team Europe Caroline Wozniacki Victoria Azarenka Stefan Edberg	2–1 (3 ties played)
2009	Team Americas Venus Williams Gisela Dulko Coco Vandeweghe	Team Russia Vera Zvonareva Anna Chakvetadze Alexandra Panova	3–1 (4 ties played)
2008	Venus Williams	Maria Sharapova	6–4, 6–3
2007	Kim Clijsters	Maria Sharapova	6–3, 7–6^(10–8)
2006	Kim Clijsters	Lindsay Davenport	6–3, 7–5
2005	Elena Dementieva	Venus Williams	6–3, 6–2
2004	Venus Williams	Maria Sharapova	7–5, 6–3
2003	Monica Seles	Chanda Rubin	5–7, 6–1, 6–2
2002	Jennifer Capriati	Elena Dementieva	1–6, 6–4, 6–4
2001	Jelena Dokić	Anna Kournikova	7–6^(7–3), 6–3
2000	Jennifer Capriati	Martina Hingis	7–6, 4–6, 6–3
1999	Venus Williams	Steffi Graf	2–2 retired

External links

Official website

Hong Kong Tennis Classic tournaments

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Tennis exhibition tournaments

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Hong Kong Tennis Classic

Past finals

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