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The Proximus Diamond Games is a professional tennis tournament held in Antwerp, Belgium. Held since 2002, the tournament takes place in the Sportpaleis, and is played at the beginning of February.

The Diamond Games prides itself on offering a particularly distinctive trophy to any player that can win the singles three times in five years. In 2007, upon completing this feat, Amélie Mauresmo won a golden racquet decorated with diamonds. The racquet's value was an estimated 1 million euros. The others to come close to winning the racquet were Venus Williams in 2006; but she pulled out two days before the event, citing a persistent wrist injury, and Justine Henin who retired on in May 2008.

A new trophy was unveiled in 2008, which featured a golden racquet and a ball, and was decorated with 2008 diamonds. The conditions for winning it were the same. Its value is an estimated 1.5 million euros.

Past finals

Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
↓ Tier II tournament ↓
2002	Venus Williams	Justine Henin	6–3, 5–7, 6–3
2003	Venus Williams	Kim Clijsters	6–2, 6–4
2004	Kim Clijsters	Silvia Farina Elia	6–3, 6–0
2005	Amélie Mauresmo	Venus Williams	4–6, 7–5, 6–4
2006	Amélie Mauresmo	Kim Clijsters	3–6, 6–3, 6–3
2007	Amélie Mauresmo	Kim Clijsters	6–4, 7–6(4)
2008	Justine Henin	Karin Knapp	6–3, 6–3
2009-	Not Held

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓ Tier II tournament ↓
2002	Magdalena Maleeva Patty Schnyder	Nathalie Dechy Meilen Tu	6–3, 6–7(3), 6–3
2003	Kim Clijsters Ai Sugiyama	Nathalie Dechy Émilie Loit	6–2, 6–0
2004	Cara Black Els Callens	Myriam Casanova Eleni Daniilidou	6–2, 6–1
2005	Cara Black Els Callens	Anabel Medina Dinara Safina	3–6, 6–4, 6–4
2006	Dinara Safina Katarina Srebotnik	Stéphanie Foretz Michaëlla Krajicek	6–1, 6–1
2007	Cara Black Liezel Huber	Elena Likhovtseva Elena Vesnina	7–5, 4–6, 6–1
2008	Cara Black Liezel Huber	Květa Peschke Ai Sugiyama	6–1, 6–3

External links

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