2007 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup

The 2007 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup were tennis

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...

tournaments played on indoor hard courts. It was the 32nd edition of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships

Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup

The Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup are tennis tournaments held in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The Regions Morgan Keegan Championships is a men's ATP Tour event that has been held since 1976. In previous years it has been known as the U.S. Indoor Championships, the...

, the 21st edition of the Cellular South Cup

Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup

, and was part of the International Series Gold

ATP International Series Gold

International Series Gold was a series of professional tennis tournaments held internationally that were part of the ATP Tour. International Series Gold offered players cash prizes and the ability to earn ATP ranking points...

of the 2007 ATP Tour

2007 ATP Tour

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, and of the Tier III Series of the 2007 WTA Tour

2007 WTA Tour

The 2007 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the 35th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on January 1, 2007, and concluded on November 11, 2007 after 61 events. Two new events were added to the schedule for the 2007 season: the Barcelona KIA and Gastein Ladies. It also...

. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Racquet Club of Memphis

Racquet Club of Memphis

The Racquet Club of Memphis is a private tennis club in Memphis, Tennessee. The club was formed in 1974 as an expansion of the Memphis Athletic Club. An ATP Tour tournament, today called the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships came to the Club in 1976 and was given an elevated "500" status in 2008...

in Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Tennessee

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, United States, from February 17 through February 25, 2007.

The men's draw was led by ATP

Association of Tennis Professionals

The Association of Tennis Professionals or ATP was formed in 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of male professional tennis players. Since 1990, the association has organized the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the...

No. 4, US Open runner-up and Australian Open semifinalist Andy Roddick

Andy Roddick

Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. He is currently the second highest-ranked American player, behind Mardy Fish....

, other Australian Open semifinalist and Memphis defending champion

2006 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup

The 2006 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup were tennis tournaments played on indoor hard courts. It was the 32nd edition of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships, the 21st edition of the Cellular South Cup, and was part of the International Series Gold of the 2006 ATP...

Tommy Haas

Tommy Haas is a German and recently naturalized American professional tennis player. He has competed on the ATP Tour since 1996. After breaking into the world top 100 in 1997, and reaching a career-high ranking of world no...

, and Doha

2007 Qatar ExxonMobil Open

The 2007 Qatar Open, known as the 2007 Qatar ExxonMobil Open, for sponsorship reasons, was an ATP Tour tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar from 1 January until 6 January 2007....

finalist and San Jose

2007 SAP Open

The 2007 SAP Open was an ATP Tour tennis tournament held in San José, California, USA from 12 February until 19 February 2007.-Champions: Andy Murray def Ivo Karlović 6–7, 6–4, 7–6-Doubles:...

winner Andy Murray. Other seeds were Australian Open quarterfinalist and Auckland semifinalist Mardy Fish

Mardy Fish

Mardy Simpson Fish is an American professional tennis player, and Olympic silver medalist. He is a hardcourt specialist...

, Chennai

2007 Chennai Open

The 2007 Chennai Open was an ATP Tour tennis tournament held in Chennai, India from 1 January until 8 January 2007.-Singles: Xavier Malisse def Stefan Koubek 6-1, 6-3-Doubles:...

and Delray Beach

2007 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships

The 2007 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships was a professional tennis event on the 2007 ATP Tour in Delray Beach, Florida, USA, held from January 27 to February 4. Xavier Malisse won the title, an ATP International Series level tournament....

champion Xavier Malisse

Xavier Malisse

Xavier Malisse is a Belgian tennis player. Born in Kortrijk, Belgium, he is the only men's player from his country to have been ranked in the top 20 of the ATP tour. He is sponsored by Prince and Lotto. His nickname is "The X-Man"....

, Jürgen Melzer

Jürgen Melzer

Jürgen Melzer is an Austrian tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking of no. 8 on 18 April 2011, and a doubles ranking of no. 6 on 13 September 2010. He is the only current player on the ATP Tour to be ranked in the top 10 in both singles and doubles. He is a left-handed tennis player, but...

, Julien Benneteau

Julien Benneteau

Julien Benneteau is a professional male tennis player from France. His career-best singles ranking is ATP world no. 32, which he reached in July 2010. He formerly resided in Boulogne Billancourt and now lives in Geneva...

and Robby Ginepri

Robby Ginepri

Robert Louis Ginepri is an American professional tennis player.-Early life:Robby Ginepri is of Luxembourgish ancestry....

.

On the women's side were announced Australian Open quarterfinalist and Gold Coast semifinalist Shahar Pe'er

Shahar Pe'er

Shahar Pe'er is an Israeli professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is World No. 11, which she achieved on January 31, 2011 ....

, Antwerp semifinalist and Paris quarterfinalist Tatiana Golovin

Tatiana Golovin

Tatiana Golovin is an inactive French professional tennis player. She is best known for her explosive forehand, which was said to be one of the best at the time. She notably won the 2004 French Open mixed doubles event with Richard Gasquet, and reached the singles quarterfinal at the 2006 U.S....

, and Tokyo and Quebec City champion Marion Bartoli

Marion Bartoli

Marion Bartoli is a French professional tennis player and the current French no. 1. She has won seven Women's Tennis Association singles titles and three doubles titles. She was also a runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships....

. Also present in the field were Tokyo doubles titlist Samantha Stosur

Samantha Stosur

Samantha "Sam" Jane Stosur is an Australian professional tennis player. She won the 2011 US Open singles title and was a finalist at the 2010 French Open. Stosur is ranked World No. 6 and her career high in singles is World No. 4, achieved on 21 February 2011. She is a former world No...

, Pattaya City

2007 Pattaya Women's Open

The 2007 Pattaya Women's Open was a WTA Tour Tier IV event held on February 3-11. It was Sybille Bammer's first win on the main WTA Tour and the first time a mother had won on tour since Laura Arraya in 1989.-Seeds:...

doubles winner Nicole Pratt

Nicole Pratt

Nicole Pratt is a retired professional female tennis player from Australia.She is the middle sibling of five children of cane farmers and was taught to play by her father, George, who was a top junior player. She attended school in Calen and received a tennis scholarship to the Australian...

, Shenay Perry

Shenay Perry

Shenay Perry is an American professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is 40, which she reached on August 28, 2006...

, Venus Williams

Venus Williams

Venus 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...

and Jill Craybas

Jill Craybas

- Early years :Craybas was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, where she played for coach Andy Brandi's Florida Gators women's tennis team in National Collegiate Athletics Association competition from 1993 to...

Men's Singles

Tommy Haas
Tommy Haas
Tommy Haas is a German and recently naturalized American professional tennis player. He has competed on the ATP Tour since 1996. After breaking into the world top 100 in 1997, and reaching a career-high ranking of world no...

def.

Andy Roddick

Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. He is currently the second highest-ranked American player, behind Mardy Fish....

, 6–3, 6–2

It was Tommy Haas' 1st title of the year, and his 11th overall. It was his 3rd win at the event, and his 2nd consecutive one.

Women's Singles

Venus Williams
Venus Williams
Venus 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...

def.

Shahar Pe'er

Shahar Pe'er is an Israeli professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is World No. 11, which she achieved on January 31, 2011 ....

, 6–1, 6–1

It was Venus Williams' 1st title of the year, and her 34th overall. It was her 3rd win at the event.

Men's Doubles

Eric Butorac
Eric Butorac
Eric "Booty" Butorac is an American tennis player. He is a doubles specialist, and has achieved some success in partnership with Britain's Jamie Murray, a fellow left-hander known as "Stretch". He was nicknamed 'Booty' by partner Murray...

/

Jamie Murray
Jamie Murray
Jamie Robert Murray is a British tennis player from Scotland who specialises in doubles and is Britain's number 1 doubles player. He is the older brother of Andy Murray. He won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 2007 with Jelena Janković. Murray had an early career partnership with Eric Butorac,...

def.

Julian Knowle

----Julian Knowle is an Austrian male professional tennis player. Being a born left-hander Knowle is one of now only few on the ATP Tour who plays his forehand, backhand and even volleys double-handed. He is Austria's most successful doubles player in history by reaching no...

Jürgen Melzer

, 7–5, 6–3

Women's Doubles

Nicole Pratt
Nicole Pratt
Nicole Pratt is a retired professional female tennis player from Australia.She is the middle sibling of five children of cane farmers and was taught to play by her father, George, who was a top junior player. She attended school in Calen and received a tennis scholarship to the Australian...

/

Bryanne Stewart
Bryanne Stewart
Bryanne Stewart is a professional tennis player from Australia. In her career, she has been World Number 18 for doubles, winning a total of three titles including one in 2007...

def.

Jarmila Gajdošová

Jarmila Gajdošová , known as Jarmila Groth from 2009 to 2011, is an Australian tennis player...

Akiko Morigami

Akiko Morigami is a Japanese female tennis player. She turned professional in 1998. On August 15, 2005, Morigami reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 41....

, 7–5, 4–6, 10–5

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