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WTA Tour

For current season, see 2024 WTA Tour.

The WTA Tour (currently known as the Hologic 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 125 series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour.

WTA Tour tournaments

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Structure (2024–present)

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In 2024, the WTA made all WTA 1000 events mandatory. The WTA Elite Trophy did not return:

Structure (2021–2023)

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The WTA Tour underwent a slight change in the classification of tournaments in 2021, which were reorganized on with similar nomenclature to that used on ATP Tour:

  • Grand Slam tournaments (4)
  • Year-ending WTA Finals (1)
  • Penultimate event WTA Elite Trophy (1)
  • WTA 1000 tournaments (9):
    • Mandatory: Five combined tournaments with male professional players with prize money ranging from US$6.5 million to US$8.3 million. These tournaments are held in Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, Rome and Beijing. The Beijing tournament was not held in 2021 and 2022 due to the Covid-19 Pandemic and returned in 2023.
    • Non-mandatory: Four events in Doha/Dubai, Montreal/Toronto, Cincinnati, and Wuhan with prize money ranging from US$2.3 million to US$2.7 million. From 2020 to 2023, the tournament in Wuhan was suspended due to Covid–19 Pandemic. In 2022 and 2023, a new WTA 1000 tournament was held in Guadalajara as a replacement for Wuhan. From 2021-2023, Doha and Dubai switched off, with one being a WTA 1000 event and the other being a WTA 500 event.
  • WTA 500 tournaments: 12 events with prize money from US$700,000 to US$900,000.
  • WTA 250 tournaments: 30 events, with prize money at US$250,000.

Structure (2009–2020)

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The WTA Tour comprised from 2009 to the 2021 reorganization:

WTA rankings

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Main article: WTA rankings

WTA publishes weekly rankings of professional players.

Current rankings

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Ranking method

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The WTA rankings are based on a rolling 52-week, cumulative system. A player's ranking is determined by her results at a maximum of 18 tournaments for singles and 12 for doubles. Points are awarded based on how far a player advances in a tournament. The basis for calculating a player's ranking are those tournaments that yield the highest ranking points during the rolling 52-week period. The period must include:[5]

  • the four Grand Slams
  • six WTA 1000 Mandatory combined/virtually combined tournaments
  • one WTA 1000 Mandatory (WTA-only) tournament
  • the best of seven results from all WTA 1000 Mandatory, WTA 500, WTA 250, and WTA 125 Tournaments and ITF W15 events
  • the WTA Finals as a bonus tournament if the player attended

All WTA players also have a Universal Tennis Rating, based on head-to-head results.

The points distribution for tournaments in 2024 is shown below:

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Category W F SF QF R16 R32 R64 R128 Q Q3 Q2 Q1
Grand Slam (128S, 128Q) 2000 1300 780 430 240 130 70 10 40 30 20 2
Grand Slam (64D) 2000 1300 780 430 240 130 10 40
WTA Finals (S) 1500* 1000* 600* ( 200 per round robin win)
WTA Finals (D) 1500* 1000* 600* ( 200 per round robin win)
WTA 1000 (96S, 48Q) 1000 650 390 215 120 65 35 10 30 20 2
WTA 1000 (56S, 32Q) 1000 650 390 215 120 65 10 30 20 2
WTA 1000 (32/28D) 1000 650 390 215 120 10
WTA Elite Trophy (S) 700* 440* 240* ( 40 per round robin match; 80 per round robin win)
WTA 500 (48S, 24Q) 500 325 195 108 60 32 1 25 13 1
WTA 500 (30/28S, 24/16Q) 500 325 195 108 60 1 25 18 13 1
WTA 500 (24D) 500 325 195 108 60 1
WTA 500 (16D) 500 325 195 108 1
WTA 250 (32S, 24/16Q) 250 163 98 54 30 1 18 12 1
WTA 250 (16D) 250 163 98 54 1
WTA 125 (32S, 16Q) 125 81 49 27 15 1 6 4 1
WTA 125 (32S, 8Q) 125 81 49 27 15 1 6 1
WTA 125 (16D) 125 81 49 27 1
WTA 125 (8D) 125 81 49 1
W100 (48S, 32/24Q) 100 65 39 21 12 7 1 5 3
W100 (32S, 32Q) 100 65 39 21 12 1 5 3
W100 (16D) 100 65 39 21 1
W75 (48S, 32/24Q) 75 49 29 16 9 5 1 3 2
W75 (32S, 32Q) 75 49 29 16 9 1 3 2
W75 (16D) 75 49 29 16 1
W50 (48S, 32/24Q) 50 33 20 11 6 3 1 2 1
W50 (32S, 32Q) 50 33 20 11 6 1 2 1
W50 (16D) 50 33 20 11 1
W35 (48S, 32/24Q) 35 23 14 8 4 2 1 1
W35 (32S, 64/48/32/24Q) 35 23 14 8 4 1 1
W35 (16D) 35 23 14 8 1
W15 (32S, 64/48/32/24Q) 15 10 6 3 1
W15 (16D) 15 10 6 3

S = singles players, D = doubles teams, Q = qualification players.
* Assumes undefeated round robin match record.

Note that if a player or team receives one or more byes and then loses their first match of the tournament, they will only receive points for the first round of that tournament. For example, if a player receives a bye in R64 and then loses her match in R32, she will only receive points for R64 despite having advanced (via bye) to R32. Similarly, if a player or team withdraws from their first match after receiving a bye, they will not be awarded any points for that tournament.[6]

In ITF tournaments, the main draw is normally 32 for singles and 16 for doubles. Losers in the first round of doubles will receive points equal to that shown in the R32 column above. For subsequent rounds (quarter-finals onwards) the points are the same as for singles.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Current WTA Singles Ranking". Women's Tennis Association.
  2. ^ "Official WTA Ranking". live-tennis.eu.
  3. ^ "Current WTA Doubles Ranking". Women's Tennis Association.
  4. ^ "Official WTA Doubles". live-tennis.eu.
  5. ^ "2024 WTA Rankings Rules" (PDF).
  6. ^ "2019 WTA Official Rulebook" (PDF). WTA.
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