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Fortis Championships Luxembourg

Fortis Championships Luxembourg is a tennis tournament held in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. The 2005 event was held from September 26 until October 2. Held since 1991, the tournament was an exhibition event (winners including Novotná, Navrátilová and Appelmans) until 1995. After that, it became a WTA Tier III tournament, which is remained until 2004. In 2005, it was promoted to Tier II, marking the first such event to be held in Luxembourg. As the Sony WTA Tour is being restrucured, many tournaments will not take place anymore. The Fortis Championships however will take place, but has been relegated to a Tier III event for 2008, before it will become an "International Series" tournament in 2009.

Kim Clijsters of Belgium holds the record of most singles wins: 5 (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005). No other player has won more than once.

Past finals

Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
1996	Anke Huber	Karina Habšudová	6-3, 6-0
1997	Amanda Coetzer	Barbara Paulus	6-4, 3-6, 7-5
1998	Mary Pierce	Silvia Farina Elia	6-0, 2-0 retired
1999	Kim Clijsters	Dominique Van Roost	6-2, 6-2
2000	Jennifer Capriati	Magdalena Maleeva	4-6, 6-1, 6-4
2001	Kim Clijsters	Lisa Raymond	6-2, 6-2
2002	Kim Clijsters	Magdalena Maleeva	6-1, 6-2
2003	Kim Clijsters	Chanda Rubin	6-2, 7-5
2004	Alicia Molik	Dinara Safina	6-3, 6-4
2005	Kim Clijsters	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	6-2, 6-4
2006	Alona Bondarenko	Francesca Schiavone	6-3, 6-2
2007	Ana Ivanović	Daniela Hantuchová	3-6, 6-4, 6-4

Doubles

Year	Champions
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001	Elena Bovina and Daniela Hantuchová
2002	Kim Clijsters and Janette Husárová
2003	Maria Sharapova and Tamarine Tanasugarn
2004	Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez
2005	Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs
2006	Květa Peschke and '''Francesca Schiavone
2007	Iveta Benešová and Janette Husárová