The tournament was won by
Dinara Safina, who started the tournament as the thirteenth seed. She enjoyed the best week of her career to win her first ever Tier I title. In the third round, she beat top seed
Justine Henin in a match that turned out to be the last before she retired, her second victory over a world number one, and followed it up by stopping
Serena Williams's 17-match winning streak. She defeated
Elena Dementieva (who had defeated defending champion Ivanovic in the semi-finals) in the final, in the 14th all-Russian final on the WTA Tour, and the third of five in the 2008 season (Dementieva would go on to beat Safina in the final of the Olympics).
Ana Ivanovic was the only top six seed to reach the semifinals in a tournament littered with upsets. Henin and Williams lost the aforementioned matches to Safina, third seed
Svetlana Kuznetsova lost to
Alyona Bondarenko,
Jelena Janković lost to
Elena Dementieva and
Anna Chakvetadze went down in her first match to
Victoria Azarenka, who eventually made her first ever Tier I semifinal. Ivanovic, for her part, was defeated in the semi-finals by Elena Dementieva; the defeat dropped her to World No. 3 behind Henin and Maria Sharapova at the conclusion of the tournament. World number ones
Cara Black and
Liezel Huber won the doubles title, beating the unseeded Spanish pairing
Nuria Llagostera Vives and
María José Martínez Sánchez, who had upset number two seeds
Květa Peschke and
Rennae Stubbs in a thrilling match tiebreak in the semifinals, which ended at 16–14. ==Finals==