WTA Tour

The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit.

For current season, see 2020 WTA Tour.

WTA Tour tournaments

The WTA Tour comprises:

• Grand Slam tournaments (4)
• Year-ending WTA Tour Championships (1)
• Premier tournaments (21):
  • Premier Mandatory: Four combined tournaments with male professional players, with US$6.5 million in equal prize money for men and women (increased from $4.5 million in 2013). These tournaments are held in Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, and Beijing.
  • Premier Five: Five $2.8 million events in Doha/Dubai, Rome, Montreal/Toronto, Cincinnati, and Wuhan.
  • Premier: 12 events with prize money from US$799,000 to US$2.5 million.
• International tournaments: There are 32 tournaments, with prize money for all except four events at US$250,000. The exceptions are the Shenzhen Open, Moscow River Cup, Hong Kong Tennis Open and the Tianjin Open, each with prize money of US$750,000; and the year-ending WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai which has prize money of US$2.3 million.

WTA rankings

Main article: WTA Rankings

WTA publishes weekly rankings of professional players.

Current rankings

WTA Rankings (Singles), as of 17 August 2020[1] No. Player Points Move^† 1  Ashleigh Barty (AUS) 8,717 2  Simona Halep (ROU) 6,356 3  Karolína Plíšková (CZE) 5,205 4  Sofia Kenin (USA) 4,590 5  Elina Svitolina (UKR) 4,580 6  Bianca Andreescu (CAN) 4,555 7  Kiki Bertens (NED) 4,335 8  Belinda Bencic (SUI) 4,010 9  Serena Williams (USA) 3,975 10  Naomi Osaka (JPN) 3,625 11  Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 3,615 12  Petra Kvitová (CZE) 3,566 13  Madison Keys (USA) 2,962 14  Johanna Konta (GBR) 2,803 15  Petra Martić (CRO) 2,770 16  Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP) 2,711 17  Elena Rybakina (KAZ) 2,471 18  Markéta Vondroušová (CZE) 2,308 19  Alison Riske (USA) 2,256 20  Anett Kontaveit (EST) 2,135 ^†Change since previous rankings

WTA Rankings (Doubles), as of 17 August 2020[2] No. Player Points Move^‡ 1  Hsieh Su-wei (TPE) 8,350 2  Barbora Strýcová (CZE) 8,260 3  Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 8,115 4  Tímea Babos (HUN) 7,955 5  Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 7,075 6  Elise Mertens (BEL) 7,035 7  Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) 5,650 8  Barbora Krejčíková (CZE) 5,390 9  Kateřina Siniaková (CZE) 5,275 10  Xu Yifan (CHN) 5,230 11  Anna-Lena Grönefeld (GER) 4,495 12  Demi Schuurs (NED) 4,155 13  Ashleigh Barty (AUS) 4,060 14  Latisha Chan (TPE) 3,905  Chan Hao-ching (TPE) 16  Duan Yingying (CHN) 3,810 17  Jeļena Ostapenko (LAT) 3,580 18  Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 3,440 19  Nicole Melichar (USA) 3,415 20  Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 3,270 ^‡Change since previous week's rankings

See also

• WTA 125K series
• ITF Women's Circuit

References

1. "WTA Singles Rankings". wtatennis.com. WTA Tour, Inc.
2. "WTA Doubles Rankings". wtatennis.com. WTA Tour, Inc.