- 2008 Family Circle Cup
TennisEventInfo|2008|Family Circle Cup
date=April 14 –April 20
edition=36th
champs=flagicon|USASerena Williams
champd=flagicon|SLOKatarina Srebotnik / flagicon|JPNAi Sugiyama The 2008
Family Circle Cup was a women's tennis Tier I event on the2008 WTA Tour , which took place from April 14 to April 20, 2008. The event was hosted at theFamily Circle Tennis Center , inCharleston, South Carolina ,United States and was the second event of the clay court season, played on green clay. The total prize money offered at this tournament was US$1,340,000.Defending champion
Jelena Janković led the field as the number one seed.Maria Sharapova ,Anna Chakvetadze ,Elena Dementieva and eventual championSerena Williams joined her as the other four of five top ten players in the field. Other notable names that participated were 2007 Wimbledon finalistMarion Bartoli and Charleston standoutPatty Schnyder , a two-time runner-up at this event.Champions
ingles
flagicon|USA
Serena Williams def. flagicon|RUSVera Zvonareva , 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
*It was Williams' 3rd title of the year and 31st of her career.Doubles
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Katarina Srebotnik / flagicon|JPNAi Sugiyama def. flagicon|ROMEdina Gallovits / flagicon|BLROlga Govortsova , 6–2, 6–2External links
* [http://www.familycirclecup.com/ Official Website]
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