Serena Williams defeated sister Venus to win the year-end championships held in Doha, Qatar. With the win Serena retakes the #1 ranking from Dinara Safina and gets a fat check for $1,550,000. Yes, thats 1.55 million for one week of work on the tennis court. Serena who went 3-0 in her round robin grouping advanced to the semifinals where she beat Caroline Wozniacki, and then had to face and beat her sister for a second time this week to take the championship 6-2, 7-6.
Going into the quarterfinals of the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon in Lyon, France Ivan Ljubicic was the only player of the 8 who was not French. He managed to beat them all off and take the tournament victory by beating Michael Llodra 7-5, 6-3 in the final. This was Ljubicic's first tournament win in over 2 years.
Ukrainian qualifyer Sergiy Stakhovsky won the St. Petersburg Open in St. Petersburg, Russia. He had to fight off a couple match points to defeat Horacio Zeballos of Argentina 2-6, 7-6, 7-6.
Home countryman Jurgen Melzer beat #1 seed Marin Cilic 6-4, 6-3 to win the Bank Austria Tennis Trophy in Vienna, Austria.
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