WTAhotties Awards 2009 - Player of the year: Serena Williams
There has been a big controversy this season concerning the rankings system as Dinara Safina was No.1 without having won any Grand Slam title, whereas Serena Williams, who was considered by almost everyone the best player, laid at No.2. But at the end of the season Williams has finally achieved both

WTAhotties Awards 2009 - Doubles team of the year: Serena Williams/Venus Williams
Williams sisters are not the highest ranked team as they hardly play doubles apart from Grand Slams. But when they do, they are almost unbeateable. This season they have played 6 tournaments and their figures say it all: 4 titles, 24 victories and only 2 defeats. With 3 Grand Slam titles (Australian O

WTAhotties Awards 2009 - Most inspiring performance: ex aequo Jelena Dokic & Kim Clijsters
For this award, voters have been divided between the amazing run of Jelena Dokic in the Australian Open and Kim Clijsters' comeback and US Open title. I think both performances were really inspiring and deserved to win, so I decided to have this Award ex aequoAfter 3

WTAhotties Awards 2009 - Breakthrough player of the year: Sabine Lisicki
20 year old German Sabine Lisicki has broken this season into the Top-25 players in the world. And she has done it not in minor events, but with an schedule almost completely focused on the big tournaments. Highlights of her season were her title in $1M Premier event in Charleston and her quarter-finali

WTAhotties Awards 2009 - Most improved player: Caroline Wozniacki
If 2008 was the year of Caroline Wozniacki's breakthrough, in 2009 not only she has confirmed the expectatives, but she has kept her progression and has done the most difficult step, the one between good players and top players. Starting the year ranked #12, Wozniacki has finished at #4 with the