# Gold Coast 2006

Source: https://tennis-db.com/wta/tournaments/manual_wta:gold_coast/gold-coast?season=2006
Tour: WTA

Lucie Safarova won the 2006 Gold Coast, defeating Flavia Pennetta 6-3 6-4 in the final. The WTA 250 event was played January 2–8 on hard courts in Gold Coast, Australia.

Gold Coast hosted the women's Australian Hardcourts tournament on hard courts in Queensland, Australia.

## Tournament info
- Also known as: Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts, Australian Women's Hardcourts
- Category: Tier III -> WTA 250
- Surface: Hard
- Location: Gold Coast, Australia
- Start date: 2006-01-02
- End date: 2006-01-08

Category presentation: Arrows show an edition's recorded category and documented modern equivalent; unresolved editions keep their recorded category.
Details: https://tennis-db.com/glossary#category-equivalence

## Champion
- Winner: Lucie Safarova
- Runner-up: Flavia Pennetta
- Final score: 6-3 6-4

## Knockout results
### F
- Lucie Safarova def. Flavia Pennetta 6-3 6-4

### SF
- Lucie Safarova def. Dinara Safina 6-4 6-2
- Flavia Pennetta def. Martina Hingis 1-6 7-6(2) 6-2

### QF
- Lucie Safarova def. Patty Schnyder 6-4 6-3
- Dinara Safina def. Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-1 6-3
- Flavia Pennetta def. Tatiana Golovin 6-2 5-7 6-3
- Martina Hingis def. Nuria Llagostera Vives 6-2 4-6 6-0

### R16
- Nuria Llagostera Vives def. Francesca Schiavone 6-3 6-1
- Flavia Pennetta def. Na Li 6-2 6-2
- Tatiana Golovin def. Sybille Bammer 6-1 6-3
- Anabel Medina Garrigues def. Aiko Nakamura 6-4 6-4
- Patty Schnyder def. Angela Haynes 6-3 6-0
- Martina Hingis def. Klara Koukalova 6-3 6-2
- Dinara Safina def. Iveta Benesova 6-0 6-1
- Lucie Safarova def. Jarmila Wolfe 4-6 7-5 6-4

### R32
- Francesca Schiavone def. Meng Yuan 6-2 6-3
- Na Li def. Roberta Vinci 6-4 6-0
- Flavia Pennetta def. Ekaterina Bychkova 6-2 6-4
- Tatiana Golovin def. Nicole Pratt 7-5 6-2
- Sybille Bammer def. Katerina Bohmova 6-3 6-1
- Nuria Llagostera Vives def. Tiantian Sun 2-6 6-2 6-4
- Aiko Nakamura def. Antonella Serra Zanetti 2-6 6-4 6-3
- Dinara Safina def. Evgenia Linetskaya 7-6(0) 6-0
- Klara Koukalova def. Meghann Shaughnessy 6-4 6-4
- Anabel Medina Garrigues def. Ahsha Rolle 6-3 6-3
- Iveta Benesova def. Sophie Ferguson 7-5 6-2
- Patty Schnyder def. Virginie Razzano 6-3 7-6(2)
- Jarmila Wolfe def. Tathiana Garbin 5-7 6-4 6-2
- Martina Hingis def. Maria Vento-Kabchi 6-2 6-1
- Angela Haynes def. Karolina Sprem 2-6 6-0 7-5
- Lucie Safarova def. Ai Sugiyama 6-1 6-2

## Stats
- Total matches: 31
- Players: 32

Other editions available: 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000

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