2006 Watsons Water Champions Challenge
Encyclopedia
The 2006 Watsons Water Champions Challenge is a women's exhibition (no points for the world ranking can be earned) tennis
tournament organized at the beginning of each season.
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
tournament organized at the beginning of each season.
Players
Lindsay DavenportLindsay DavenportLindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. In 2005, TENNIS Magazine ranked her as the 29th-best player of the preceding forty years...
(1)
Kim ClijstersKim ClijstersKim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....
(2)
Elena DementievaElena DementievaElena Viatcheslavovna Dementieva is a retired Russian professional tennis player. Dementieva is most notable for winning the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She won 16 WTA singles titles and reached the finals of the 2004 French Open and 2004 US Open. Dementieva achieved a...
(3)- Venus WilliamsVenus WilliamsVenus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 101 as of 10 October 2011 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles as of 2011. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate...
(4) - Serena WilliamsSerena WilliamsSerena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her world no. 1 in singles on five separate occasions. She became the world no. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002 and regained this ranking for the fifth time on...
Nicole VaidišováNicole VaidišováNicole Vaidišová is a retired Czech tennis player.Vaidišová was an Australian Open and French Open semifinalist and also reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. Vaidišová started playing tennis when she was six years old, enrolling to train at Nick Bollettieri's tennis academy in Bradenton,...
Sania MirzaSania MirzaSania Mirza is a professional Indian tennis player. She began her tennis career in 2003 and is well known for her powerful forehand ground strokes. She is the first ever Indian to break into the top 30 WTA rankings...
Zheng JieZheng JieZheng Jie is a Chinese professional tennis player. Her career high ranking is World No. 15 which she achieved on May 18, 2009. As of August 15, 2011, Zheng is ranked World No. 65 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles....
Results
| Final (Silver Group) |
Semi-final (Silver Group) |
Quarter-final | Semi-final (Golden Group) |
Final (Golden Group) |
| Lindsay Davenport (1) Nicole Vaidišová 6-2, 6-2 |
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| Nicole Vaidišová Sania Mirza 7-6, 6-3 |
Lindsay Davenport (1) Venus Williams (4) 6-3, 6-1 |
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| Sania Mirza Venus Williams (4) 6-3, 6-3 |
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| Nicole Vaidišová Zheng Jie 6-2, 3-1 ret. |
Lindsay Davenport (1) Kim Clijsters (2) 3-6, 5-7 |
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| Elena Dementieva (3) Serena Williams 6-3, 6-1 |
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| Serena Williams Zheng Jie w/o |
Elena Dementieva (3) Kim Clijsters (2) 3-6, 3-6 |
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| Zheng Jie Kim Clijsters (2) 6-3, 2-6, 2-6 |