# 2009 Wimbledon Championships

The 2009 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. It was the 123rd edition of the Wimbledon Championships and was held from 22 June to 5 July 2009. It was the third Grand Slam tennis event of the year.
Rafael Nadal did not defend his title as he withdrew from the tournament due to knee tendonitis. Roger Federer won his 6th Wimbledon title defeating rival Andy Roddick in the final in five sets. Federer's victory marked his fifteenth Grand Slam title, establishing the men's all-time record. Venus Williams was unsuccessful in the title's defence, having been defeated in the final match by her sister Serena, who won her first Wimbledon title since 2003.

## Point and prize money distribution
### Point distribution

Below are the tables with the point distribution for each discipline of the tournament.

#### Senior points

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Round of 128 | Q | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Men's singles | 2000 | 1200 | 720 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 45 | 10 | 25 | 16 | 8 | 0 |
| Men's doubles | 2000 | 1200 | 720 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 0 | — | 25 | — | 0 | 0 |
| Women's singles | 2000 | 1400 | 900 | 500 | 280 | 160 | 100 | 5 | 60 | 50 | 40 | 2 |
| Women's doubles | 2000 | 1400 | 900 | 500 | 280 | 160 | 5 | — | 48 | — | 0 | 0 |

### Prize distribution

The total prize money for 2009 championships was £12,550,000. The winner of the men's and women's singles title earned £850,000.
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Round of 128 | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | £850,000 | £425,000 | £212,500 | £106,250 | £53,250 | £29,250 | £17,750 | £10,750 | £6,700 | £3,350 | £1,675 |
| Doubles* | £230,000 | £115,000 | £57,500 | £30,000 | £16,000 | £9,000 | £5,250 | — | — | — | — |
| Mixed doubles * | £92,000 | £46,000 | £23,000 | £10,500 | £5,200 | £2,600 | £1,300 | — | — | — | — |
| Wheelchair doubles* | £6,750 | £3,750 | £2,250 | £1,250 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Invitation doubles | £17,000 | £14,000 | £10,500 | £9,500 | £9,000 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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## Champions
### Seniors
#### Men's singles

Roger Federer def. Andy Roddick, 5–7, 7–6$^{(8–6)}$, 7–6$^{(7–5)}$, 3–6, 16–14
* It was Federer's 3rd title of the year, and his 60th overall. Federer's victory gave him his 15th career Grand Slam title, to make him the most successful male player in Grand Slam history. Watching the Swiss break the record was Pete Sampras, who won 14 Grand Slam titles and was making his first return to Wimbledon since 2002; Björn Borg, who won five consecutive Wimbledon titles (the only other man doing this being Roger Federer himself); and Rod Laver, who won Wimbledon four times.
* The match set a record for most games in a men's final (77); the most games won by the losing player (39); and, most games won by the winning player (38).

#### Women's singles

Serena Williams def. Venus Williams, 7–6$^{(7–3)}$, 6–2
* It was Serena's 2nd title of the year, and her 34th overall. It was her 11th career Grand Slam title, and her 3rd Wimbledon title.

#### Men's doubles

Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić def. Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan, 7–6$^{(9–7)}$, 6–7$^{(3–7)}$, 7–6$^{(7–3)}$, 6–3

#### Women's doubles

Serena Williams / Venus Williams def. Samantha Stosur / Rennae Stubbs, 7–6$^{(7–4)}$, 6–4

#### Mixed doubles

Mark Knowles / Anna-Lena Grönefeld def. Leander Paes / Cara Black, 7–5, 6–3

### Juniors
#### Boys' singles

Andrey Kuznetsov def. Jordan Cox, 4–6, 6–2, 6–2

#### Girls' singles

Noppawan Lertcheewakarn def. Kristina Mladenovic, 3–6, 6–3, 6–1

#### Boys' doubles

Pierre-Hugues Herbert / Kevin Krawietz def. Julien Obry / Adrien Puget, 6–7$^{(3–7)}$, 6–2, 12–10

#### Girls' doubles

Noppawan Lertcheewakarn / Sally Peers def. Kristina Mladenovic / Silvia Njirić, 6–1, 6–1

### Invitation
#### Gentlemen's invitation doubles

Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis def. Donald Johnson / Jared Palmer, 7–6$^{(7–2)}$, 6–4

#### Ladies' invitation doubles

Martina Navratilova / Helena Suková def. Ilana Kloss / Rosalyn Nideffer, 6–3, 6–2

#### Senior gentlemen's invitation doubles

Jeremy Bates / Anders Järryd def. Mansour Bahrami / Henri Leconte, 6–4, 7–6$^{(7–4)}$

### Wheelchair events
#### Wheelchair men's doubles

Stéphane Houdet / Michaël Jérémiasz def. Robin Ammerlaan / Shingo Kunieda, 1–6, 6–4, 7–6$^{(7–3)}$

#### Wheelchair women's doubles

Korie Homan / Esther Vergeer def. Daniela Di Toro / Lucy Shuker, 6–1, 6–3

## Highlights
### Records

Swiss Roger Federer established a number of records at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. By defeating Ivo Karlović in the quarter-finals, Federer reached his 21st consecutive Grand Slam semi-final, having started the streak at Wimbledon in 2004. He then defeated Tommy Haas in the semi-final to reach his seventh consecutive Wimbledon final and his twentieth Grand Slam final, both of these all-time records. Finally, by defeating Andy Roddick in the final, Federer won his fifteenth Grand Slam title, breaking the record of fourteen titles previously set by Pete Sampras. Federer also became the fourth man to complete the rare French Open / Wimbledon double in the Open Era, joining Rod Laver, Björn Borg, and Rafael Nadal (who had completed the feat the previous year and would do so again in 2010).
Among other records set, the men's final between Federer and Roddick had the highest number of viewers in the UK of any Wimbledon final since 2001, peaking at 11.1 million viewers during the last stretch of the match. The 30-game fifth set in the men's final was the longest set in Wimbledon finals history.

### Centre Court roof

The 2009 Championships took place during an extended period of hot, dry weather in southeast England, meaning that it was not until day seven of the tournament (29 June) that the newly constructed Centre Court roof was closed for the first time due to rain, delaying a fourth round match between Amélie Mauresmo and Dinara Safina. The following match between Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka was the first full match to be played under the new roof; owing to the new floodlights, the match continued until 22:38, the latest ever finish in Wimbledon history (this record was broken in 2012 in a third round match between Andy Murray and Marcos Baghdatis, which ended at 23:02). These were the only two matches in which the Centre Court roof was used during the entire 2009 tournament.

### Tennis Integrity Unit

The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) planned to observe matches played by up to 12 players (some of whom were inside the ATP top 50) throughout the tournament. The TIU has existed since January 2008.
The ATP claimed to have identified Russian and Italian Mafia-related groups behind suspicious betting at other tournaments, although the organisers of the Wimbledon Championships declared that there are no current proceedings against any players.

## Singles players
### Men's singles

| Champion | Champion | Runner-up | Runner-up |
| Roger Federer [2] | Roger Federer [2] | Andy Roddick [6] | Andy Roddick [6] |
| Semifinals out ||||
| Tommy Haas [24] | Tommy Haas [24] | Andy Murray [3] | Andy Murray [3] |
| Quarterfinals out ||||
| Lleyton Hewitt | Juan Carlos Ferrero (WC) | Novak Djokovic [4] | Ivo Karlović [22] |
| 4th round out ||||
| Radek Štěpánek [23] | Tomáš Berdych [20] | Stan Wawrinka [19] | Gilles Simon [8] |
| Igor Andreev [29] | Dudi Sela | Fernando Verdasco [7] | Robin Söderling [13] |
| 3rd round out ||||
| Philipp Petzschner | David Ferrer [16] | Nikolay Davydenko [12] | Jürgen Melzer [26] |
| Viktor Troicki [30] | Jesse Levine (Q) | Fernando González [10] | Victor Hănescu [31] |
| Andreas Seppi | Marin Čilić [11] | Tommy Robredo [15] | Mardy Fish [28] |
| Albert Montañés [32] | Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [9] | Nicolás Almagro | Philipp Kohlschreiber [27] |
| 2nd round out ||||
| Juan Martín del Potro [5] | Mischa Zverev | Potito Starace | Fabio Fognini |
| Victor Crivoi | Paul-Henri Mathieu | Benjamin Becker | Igor Kunitsyn |
| Ernests Gulbis | Daniel Gimeno Traver | Martín Vassallo Argüello | Pablo Cuevas (LL) |
| Leonardo Mayer | Fabrice Santoro | Nicolas Devilder | Thiago Alves (LL) |
| Marc Gicquel | Vince Spadea | Michaël Llodra | Sam Querrey |
| Stefan Koubek (PR) | Rainer Schüttler [18] | Janko Tipsarević | Simon Greul (Q) |
| Kristof Vliegen | Guillermo Cañas | Steve Darcis | Simone Bolelli |
| Marcel Granollers | Karol Beck | Ivo Minář | Guillermo García López |
| 1st round out ||||
| Arnaud Clément | Robby Ginepri | Rajeev Ram (Q) | Dmitry Tursunov [25] |
| Alejandro Falla (Q) | José Acasuso | Denis Istomin | Kevin Kim |
| Dan Evans (WC) | Björn Phau | Frederico Gil | Alex Bogdanovic (WC) |
| Wayne Odesnik | Roko Karanušić (Q) | Grigor Dimitrov (WC) | Jérémy Chardy |
| Robert Kendrick | Riccardo Ghedin (Q) | Taylor Dent (Q) | Brian Dabul |
| Eduardo Schwank | Pablo Andújar | Christophe Rochus | Marat Safin [14] |
| Teymuraz Gabashvili | Óscar Hernández | Mikhail Youzhny | Nicolas Kiefer [33] |
| Iván Navarro | Nicolás Lapentti | Andrei Pavel (PR) | Bobby Reynolds |
| James Blake [17] | Adrian Mannarino (Q) | Paul Capdeville | Evgeny Korolev |
| Alexander Peya (Q) | Josh Goodall (WC) | Danai Udomchoke (LL) | Alberto Martín |
| Luka Gregorc (Q) | Édouard Roger-Vasselin (Q) | Santiago González (Q) | Xavier Malisse (Q) |
| Sergio Roitman | Jan Hernych | Michael Yani (Q) | Julien Benneteau |
| James Ward (WC) | Nicolas Mahut (WC) | Diego Junqueira | Grega Žemlja (Q) |
| Lukáš Lacko (Q) | Frank Dancevic | Daniel Köllerer | Andrey Golubev |
| Gilles Müller | Andreas Beck (LL) | Juan Mónaco | Feliciano López [21] |
| Florent Serra | Máximo González | Agustín Calleri | Lu Yen-hsun |

### Women's singles

| Champion | Champion | Runner-up | Runner-up |
| Serena Williams [2] | Serena Williams [2] | Venus Williams [3] | Venus Williams [3] |
| Semifinals out ||||
| Elena Dementieva [4] | Elena Dementieva [4] | Dinara Safina [1] | Dinara Safina [1] |
| Quarterfinals out ||||
| Sabine Lisicki | Agnieszka Radwańska [11] | Francesca Schiavone | Victoria Azarenka [8] |
| 4th round out ||||
| Amélie Mauresmo [17] | Caroline Wozniacki [9] | Ana Ivanovic [13] | Melanie Oudin (Q) |
| Virginie Razzano [26] | Elena Vesnina | Nadia Petrova [10] | Daniela Hantuchová |
| 3rd round out ||||
| Kirsten Flipkens | Flavia Pennetta [15] | Anabel Medina Garrigues [20] | Svetlana Kuznetsova [5] |
| Carla Suárez Navarro | Samantha Stosur [18] | Li Na [19] | Jelena Janković [6] |
| Vera Zvonareva [7] | Marion Bartoli [12] | Dominika Cibulková [14] | Regina Kulikova (Q) |
| Sorana Cîrstea [28] | Gisela Dulko | Ai Sugiyama | Roberta Vinci |
| 2nd round out ||||
| Rossana de los Ríos | Elena Baltacha (WC) | Kristína Kučová (LL) | Vania King |
| Maria Kirilenko | Tathiana Garbin | Patricia Mayr | Pauline Parmentier |
| Kateryna Bondarenko | Ekaterina Makarova | Tatjana Malek (Q) | Sara Errani |
| Peng Shuai | Olga Govortsova | Yaroslava Shvedova | Iveta Benešová |
| Mathilde Johansson | Jill Craybas | Michelle Larcher de Brito (WC) | Timea Bacsinszky |
| Urszula Radwańska | Vera Dushevina | Alisa Kleybanova [27] | Aravane Rezaï |
| Raluca Olaru | Sania Mirza | Maria Sharapova [24] | Shahar Pe'er |
| Zheng Jie [16] | Arantxa Parra Santonja (Q) | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [31] | Jarmila Groth |
| 1st round out ||||
| Lourdes Domínguez Lino | Nicole Vaidišová | Alona Bondarenko | Ágnes Szávay [30] |
| Melinda Czink | Aiko Nakamura (Q) | Mariya Koryttseva | Nuria Llagostera Vives |
| Kimiko Date-Krumm (WC) | Petra Kvitová | Alberta Brianti (Q) | Marta Domachowska |
| Anna Chakvetadze [32] | Anne Keothavong | Akgul Amanmuradova | Akiko Morigami (PR) |
| Stefanie Vögele | Anastasija Sevastova (Q) | Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová | Kaia Kanepi [25] |
| Bethanie Mattek-Sands | Jelena Dokic | Stéphanie Dubois | Lucie Hradecká |
| María José Martínez Sánchez | Alexa Glatch (WC) | Tatiana Perebiynis (PR) | Galina Voskoboeva |
| Sybille Bammer [29] | Monica Niculescu | Katie O'Brien (WC) | Julia Görges |
| Georgie Stoop (WC) | Melanie South (WC) | Tsvetana Pironkova | Tamira Paszek |
| Aleksandra Wozniak [23] | Klára Zakopalová (Q) | Vesna Manasieva (Q) | Chan Yung-jan |
| Julie Coin | Maša Zec Peškirič | Yanina Wickmayer | Alizé Cornet |
| Sesil Karatantcheva (Q) | Karolina Šprem | Ayumi Morita | Alla Kudryavtseva |
| Séverine Brémond Beltrame | Nathalie Dechy | Anna-Lena Grönefeld | Edina Gallovits |
| Viktoriya Kutuzova (Q) | Stéphanie Foretz | Maria Elena Camerin | Anastasiya Yakimova |
| Kristina Barrois | Laura Robson (WC) | Tamarine Tanasugarn | Patty Schnyder [21] |
| Petra Cetkovská | Magdaléna Rybáriková | Lucie Šafářová | Neuza Silva (Q) |

## Singles seeds

The following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event. Seedings based on ATP and WTA rankings as of 15 June 2009. Rankings and points before are as of 22 June 2009.

### Men's singles

The Men's singles seeds is arranged on a surface-based system to reflect more accurately the individual player's grass court achievement as per the following formula:
* ESP points as at a week of 22 June 2009
* Add 100% points earned for all grass court tournaments in the past 12 months (23 June 2008 – 21 June 2009)
* add 75% points earned for best grass court tournament in the 12 months before that (25 June 2007 – 22 June 2008).
| Seed | Rank | Player | Points before | Points defending | Points won | Points after | Status |
| 1 | 1 | Rafael Nadal | 12,735 | 2,000 | 0 | 10,735 | Withdrew due to a knee injury |
| 2 | 2 | Roger Federer | 10,620 | 1,400 | 2,000 | 11,220 | Champion, defeated Andy Roddick [5] |
| 3 | 3 | Andy Murray | 9,230 | 500 | 720 | 9,450 | Semifinals lost to Andy Roddick [5] |
| 4 | 4 | Novak Djokovic | 7,860 | 70 | 360 | 8,150 | Quarterfinals lost to Tommy Haas [24] |
| 5 | 5 | Juan Martín del Potro | 5,730 | 70 | 45 | 5,705 | Second round lost to Lleyton Hewitt |
| 6 | 6 | Andy Roddick | 4,310 | 70 | 1,200 | 5,440 | Runner-up, lost to Roger Federer [2] |
| 7 | 8 | Fernando Verdasco | 3,620 | 300 | 180 | 3,500 | Fourth round lost to Ivo Karlović [22] |
| 8 | 7 | Gilles Simon | 3,970 | 150 | 180 | 4,000 | Fourth round lost to Juan Carlos Ferrero [WC] |
| 9 | 9 | Jo-Wilfried Tsonga | 3,510 | 0 | 90 | 3,600 | Third round lost to Ivo Karlović [22] |
| 10 | 10 | Fernando González | 3,165 | 70 | 90 | 3,185 | Third round lost to Juan Carlos Ferrero [WC] |
| 11 | 13 | Marin Čilić | 2,710 | 300 | 90 | 2,500 | Third round lost to Tommy Haas [24] |
| 12 | 11 | Nikolay Davydenko | 2,855 | 10 | 90 | 2,935 | Third round lost to Tomáš Berdych [20] |
| 13 | 12 | Robin Söderling | 2,825 | 70 | 180 | 2,935 | Fourth round lost to Roger Federer [2] |
| 14 | 24 | Marat Safin | 1,820 | 900 | 10 | 930 | First round lost to Jesse Levine |
| 15 | 15 | Tommy Robredo | 2,580 | 70 | 90 | 2,600 | Third round lost to Dudi Sela |
| 16 | 21 | David Ferrer | 1,900 | 150 | 90 | 1,840 | Third round lost to Radek Štěpánek [23] |
| 17 | 17 | James Blake | 2,340 | 70 | 10 | 2,280 | First round lost to Andreas Seppi |
| 18 | 29 | Rainer Schüttler | 1,645 | 900 | 45 | 790 | Second round lost to Dudi Sela |
| 19 | 18 | Stan Wawrinka | 2,195 | 300 | 180 | 2,075 | Fourth round lost to Andy Murray [3] |
| 20 | 20 | Tomáš Berdych | 1,910 | 150 | 180 | 1,940 | Fourth round lost to Andy Roddick [6] |
| 21 | 27 | Feliciano López | 1,665 | 500 | 10 | 1,165 | First round lost to Karol Beck [LL] |
| 22 | 36 | Ivo Karlović | 1,295 | 10 | 360 | 1,645 | Quarterfinals lost to Roger Federer [2] |
| 23 | 23 | Radek Štěpánek | 1,890 | 150 | 180 | 3,500 | Fourth round lost to Lleyton Hewitt |
| 24 | 34 | Tommy Haas | 1,405 | 150 | 720 | 2,020 | Semifinals lost to Roger Federer [2] |
| 25 | 22 | Dmitry Tursunov | 1,900 | 150 | 10 | 1,760 | First round lost to Mischa Zverev |
| 26 | 30 | Jürgen Melzer | 1,640 | 150 | 90 | 3,500 | Third round lost to Andy Roddick [6] |
| 27 | 32 | Philipp Kohlschreiber | 1,540 | 10 | 90 | 1,620 | Third round lost to Roger Federer [2] |
| 28 | 25 | Mardy Fish | 1,735 | 10 | 90 | 1,815 | Third round lost to Novak Djokovic [4] |
| 29 | 26 | Igor Andreev | 1,700 | 70 | 180 | 1,810 | Fourth round lost to Tommy Haas [24] |
| 30 | 31 | Viktor Troicki | 1,547 | 70 | 90 | 1,567 | Third round lost to Andy Murray [3] |
| 31 | 28 | Victor Hănescu | 1,651 | 70 | 90 | 1,671 | Third round lost to Gilles Simon [8] |
| 32 | 33 | Albert Montañés | 1,424 | 70 | 90 | 1,444 | Third round lost to Fernando Verdasco [7] |
| 33 | 35 | Nicolas Kiefer | 1,315 | 150 | 10 | 1,175 | First round lost to Fabrice Santoro |
The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.
| Rank | Player | Points before | Points defending | Points after | Withdrawal reason |
| 14 | Gaël Monfils | 2,610 | 0 | 2,610 | Wrist injury |
| 16 | David Nalbandian | 2,385 | 10 | 2,375 | Hip injury |
| 19 | Richard Gasquet | 1,925 | 300 | 1,625 | Provisional suspension |

### Women's singles

The seeds for ladies' singles are based on the WTA rankings as of 15 June 2009, with an exception for Maria Sharapova (details are given below). Rank and points before are as of 22 June 2009.
| Seed | Rank | Player | Points before | Points defending | Points won | Points after | Status |
| 1 | 1 | Dinara Safina | 9,801 | 180 | 900 | 10,521 | Semifinals lost to Venus Williams [3] |
| 2 | 2 | Serena Williams | 8,158 | 1,400 | 2,000 | 8,758 | Champion, defeated Venus Williams [3] |
| 3 | 3 | Venus Williams | 7,217 | 2,000 | 1,400 | 6,617 | Runner-up, lost to Serena Williams [2] |
| 4 | 4 | Elena Dementieva | 6,591 | 900 | 900 | 6,591 | Semifinals lost to Serena Williams [2] |
| 5 | 5 | Svetlana Kuznetsova | 6,191 | 280 | 160 | 6,071 | Third round lost to Sabine Lisicki |
| 6 | 6 | Jelena Janković | 6,100 | 280 | 160 | 5,980 | Third round lost to Melanie Oudin [Q] |
| 7 | 7 | Vera Zvonareva | 5,360 | 120 | 160 | 5,400 | Third round withdrew due to ankle injury |
| 8 | 8 | Victoria Azarenka | 4,946 | 180 | 500 | 5,066 | Quarterfinals lost to Serena Williams [2] |
| 9 | 9 | Caroline Wozniacki | 4,680 | 180 | 280 | 4,780 | Fourth round lost to Sabine Lisicki |
| 10 | 10 | Nadia Petrova | 3,520 | 500 | 280 | 3,300 | Fourth round lost to Victoria Azarenka [8] |
| 11 | 14 | Agnieszka Radwańska | 2,981 | 500 | 500 | 2,981 | Quarterfinals lost to Venus Williams [3] |
| 12 | 11 | Marion Bartoli | 3,235 | 180 | 160 | 3,215 | Third round lost to Francesca Schiavone |
| 13 | 12 | Ana Ivanovic | 3,172 | 180 | 280 | 3,272 | Fourth round retired against Venus Williams [3] |
| 14 | 13 | Dominika Cibulková | 3,065 | 4 | 160 | 3,221 | Third round lost to Elena Vesnina |
| 15 | 15 | Flavia Pennetta | 2,860 | 120 | 160 | 2,900 | Third round lost to Amélie Mauresmo [17] |
| 16 | 16 | Zheng Jie | 2,661 | 900 | 100 | 1,861 | Second round lost to Daniela Hantuchová |
| 17 | 17 | Amélie Mauresmo | 2,539 | 180 | 280 | 2,639 | Fourth round lost to Dinara Safina [1] |
| 18 | 19 | Samantha Stosur | 2,212 | 120 | 160 | 2,252 | Third round lost to Ana Ivanovic [13] |
| 19 | 18 | Li Na | 2,302 | 120 | 160 | 6,591 | Third round lost to Agnieszka Radwańska [11] |
| 20 | 20 | Anabel Medina Garrigues | 2,200 | 180 | 160 | 2,180 | Third round lost to Caroline Wozniacki [9] |
| 21 | 22 | Patty Schnyder | 2,112 | 4 | 10 | 2,118 | First round lost to Ai Sugiyama |
| 22 | 24 | Alizé Cornet | 1,960 | 4 | 10 | 1,966 | First round lost to Vera Dushevina |
| 23 | 21 | Aleksandra Wozniak | 2,114 | 120 | 10 | 2,004 | First round lost to Francesca Schiavone |
| 24$^†$ | 60 | Maria Sharapova | 990 | 120 | 100 | 970 | Second round lost to Gisela Dulko |
| 25 | 25 | Kaia Kanepi | 1,860 | 4 | 10 | 1,866 | First round lost to Carla Suárez Navarro |
| 26 | 23 | Virginie Razzano | 2,089 | 4 | 280 | 2,365 | Fourth round lost to Francesca Schiavone |
| 27 | 31 | Alisa Kleybanova | 1,665 | 280 | 100 | 1,485 | Second round lost to Regina Kulikova [Q] |
| 28 | 27 | Sorana Cîrstea | 1,756 | 120 | 160 | 1,796 | Third round lost to Victoria Azarenka [8] |
| 29 | 26 | Sybille Bammer | 1,775 | 120 | 10 | 1,665 | First round lost to Melanie Oudin [Q] |
| 30 | 28 | Ágnes Szávay | 1,749 | 280 | 10 | 1,479 | First round lost to Kirsten Flipkens |
| 31 | 29 | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 1,708 | 242 | 120 | 1,566 | Second round lost to Roberta Vinci |
| 32 | 30 | Anna Chakvetadze | 1,681 | 280 | 10 | 1,411 | First round lost to Sabine Lisicki |
† Maria Sharapova was ranked 59th on the day seeds were announced, because she had missed the most of 12-month period due to injury. Nevertheless, she was deemed a special case and was seeded 24th by organizers.

## Wild card entries
### Main draw wild card entries

The following players received wild cards into the main draw senior events.
Mixed doubles
* James Auckland / Elena Baltacha
* Alex Bogdanovic / Melanie South
* Colin Fleming / Sarah Borwell
* Josh Goodall / Naomi Cavaday
* Ken Skupski / Katie O'Brien

## Main draw qualifier entries

Below are the lists of the qualifiers entering in the main draws.

## Protected ranking

The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking: