2009 Family Circle Cup

2009 Family Circle Cup
2009 Family Circle Cup
Date	April 13–19
Edition	37th
Category	Premier
Draw	56S / 16D
Surface	Clay / outdoor
Location	Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
Venue	Family Circle Tennis Center
Attendance	87,786
Champions
Singles
	Sabine Lisicki
Doubles
	Bethanie Mattek-Sands ; Nadia Petrova

The 2009 Family Circle Cup was a women's tennis event on the 2009 WTA Tour, which took place from April 13 to April 19. The event was hosted at the Family Circle Tennis Center, in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. It was the second and last event of the clay court season played on green clay. The total prize money offered at this tournament was US$1,000,000.

Entrants

Seeds

Athlete	Nationality	Ranking*	Seeding
Elena Dementieva	Russia	3	1
Venus Williams	United States	5	2
Vera Zvonareva	Russia	6	3
Nadia Petrova	Russia	10	4
Caroline Wozniacki	Denmark	12	5
Marion Bartoli	France	13	6
Dominika Cibulková	Slovakia	19	7
Patty Schnyder	Switzerland	17	8
Aleksandra Wozniak	Canada	29	9
Peng Shuai	China	35	10
Alyona Bondarenko	Ukraine	41	11
Bethanie Mattek-Sands	United States	38	12
Virginie Razzano	France	42	13
Olga Govortsova	Belarus	59	14
Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Czech Republic	68	15
Sabine Lisicki	Germany	63	16