Diamond Games
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| Proximus Diamond Games |
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The Proximus Diamond Games is a professional women's tennis tournament organized in Antwerp, Belgium. Held since 2002, the tournament takes place in the Sportpaleis, and was played at the beginning of February. In 2009, with the restructuring of the WTA tour and the retirement of both Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin, the tournament lost its status of being a WTA tour tournament and evolved into an annual exhibition tennis event featuring Kim Clijsters, first as the Thomas Cook Diamond Games, in 2009, the GDF-Suez Diamond Games in 2010 and in 2011 as the Diamond games with BNP Paribas Fortis.
The Diamond Games offered a 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 inspiration for the trophy came from a previous men's tennis event that used to be held in Antwerp, the European Community Championships. 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.
From 2015, the event replace in february the spot of Paris tournament, with a classification of WTA Premier.
Past finals
Singles
| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Score |
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| ↓ 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(7–4) |
| 2008 | Justine Henin |
Karin Knapp |
6–3, 6–3 |
| 2009-2014 | Exhibition | ||
| ↓ Premier tournament ↓ | |||
| 2015 |  |
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Doubles
| Year | Champions | Runners-up | Score |
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| ↓ Tier II tournament ↓ | |||
| 2002 |  Magdalena Maleeva  Patty Schnyder |
Nathalie Dechy Meilen Tu |
6–3, 6–7(3–7), 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 |
| 2009-2014 | Exhibition | ||
| ↓ Premier tournament ↓ | |||
| 2015 | |
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