Like previous years, the international tennis tournament called the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions 2009 was held at the hotel again Westin Resort, Nusa Dua, 4-9 November 2009.
The presence of this annual event is always eagerly awaited tennis-loving public since it is always followed by a tennis-tennis world as top French tennis player Marion Bartoli and other players as well as Shahar Peer and Magdalena Rybarikova. All three leading players will be in the same group in group A.
Meanwhile, Group B is occupied Samantha Stosur (seeded second), Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (6), and Agnes Szavay (9). If Stosur and Karlovic won only once, Martinez Sanchez was pulled in two trophies this year, namely in Bogota (Colombia) and Bastad (Sweden).
Group C completed the U.S. Open semi-finalist Yanina Wickmayer (third seed), Anabel Medina Garrigues (5), and Kimiko Date-Krumm (12). While Group D consists of Sabine Lisicki (4), Melinda Czink (8), and Arevane Rezai (10).
The tournament is using a round robin format, where each player will play against two rivals in each group. Group champion qualified for the semi-finals and then finals. The first match held on 4 November and the final November 8.
Prize money for winners is 200 thousand U.S. dollars, runner-up U.S. $ 100 thousand, and semi-finalist U.S. $ 50 thousand. In the round robin stage, a victory given 160 points and money of U.S. $ 32,500. No one was guaranteed to win awarded U.S. $ 15 thousand per game.
