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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. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour.

WTA Tour tournaments

Structure (2009–2020)

The WTA Tour comprised from 2009 to the 2020 reorganization:

• 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.

Structure (2021–present)

The WTA Tour underwent slight change in the classification of tournaments in 2021, which were organized on par with the nomenclature used on ATP Tour:

• Grand Slam tournaments (4)
• Year-ending WTA Finals (1)
• WTA 1000 tournaments (9):
  • Mandatory: Four 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, and Beijing. However, Beijing tournament could not be held in 2021–22 due to the impact of Covid-19 Pandemic.
  • Non-mandatory: Five events in Doha/Dubai, Rome, Montreal/Toronto, Cincinnati, and Wuhan with prize money ranging from US$2.3 million to US$2.7 million. In 2021–22, the tournament in Wuhan was suspended due to Covid–19 Pandemic. Also, in 2022, a new WTA 1000 tournament was held in Guadalajara as a replacement for Wuhan.
• WTA 500 tournaments: 12 events with prize money from US$700,000 to US$900,000.
• WTA 250 tournaments: There are nearly 30 tournaments, with prize money at US$250,000.

WTA rankings

WTA publishes weekly rankings of professional players.

Current rankings

WTA Singles Year-End Rankings # Player Points #Trn '21 Rk High Low '21→'22 1  Iga Świątek (POL) 11,085 17 9 1 9 8 2  Ons Jabeur (TUN) 5,055 18 10 2 11 8 3  Jessica Pegula (USA) 4,691 18 18 3 22 15 4  Caroline Garcia (FRA) 4,375 23 74 4 79 70 5  Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 3,925 21 2 2 8 3 6  Maria Sakkari (GRE) 3,871 22 6 3 8 7  Coco Gauff (USA) 3,646 19 22 4 23 15 8  Daria Kasatkina (RUS) 3,435 23 26 8 29 18 9  Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) 2,795 20 31 9 32 22 10  Simona Halep (ROU) 2,661 15 20 6 27 10 11  Madison Keys (USA) 2,417 20 56 11 87 45 12  Belinda Bencic (SUI) 2,365 19 23 11 28 11 13  Paula Badosa (ESP) 2,363 21 8 2 13 5 14  Danielle Collins (USA) 2,292 14 29 7 30 15 15  Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) 2,215 27 82 15 88 67 16  Petra Kvitová (CZE) 2,097 19 17 16 34 1 17  Anett Kontaveit (EST) 2,093 16 7 2 17 10 18  Jeļena Ostapenko (LAT) 1,986 19 28 11 28 10 19  Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS) 1,910 20 33 19 54 14 20  Liudmila Samsonova (RUS) 1,910 20 39 19 60 19

WTA Doubles Year-End Rankings # Player Points #Trn '21 Rk High Low '21→'22 1  Kateřina Siniaková (CZE) 6,890 12 1 1 4 2  Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) 6,035 15 14 2 14 12 3  Barbora Krejčíková (CZE) 5,937 10 2 2 8 1 4  Coco Gauff (USA) 5,360 15 21 1 26 17 5  Elise Mertens (BEL) 5,310 16 4 1 9 1 6  Jessica Pegula (USA) 5,160 16 50 3 51 44 7  Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) 4,740 21 7 4 11 8  Giuliana Olmos (MEX) 4,650 23 18 7 22 10 9  Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR) 4,300 22 38 9 40 29 10  Storm Sanders (AUS) 4,265 15 30 8 30 20 11  Anna Danilina (KAZ) 4,220 33 83 11 75 72 12  Yang Zhaoxuan (CHN) 4,180 21 48 11 75 36 13  Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) 4,150 20 481 13 485 468 14  Jeļena Ostapenko (LAT) 4,020 17 23 7 30 9 15  Xu Yifan (CHN) 3,975 21 37 15 58 22 16  Desirae Krawczyk (USA) 3,805 24 17 10 21 1 17  Demi Schuurs (NED) 3,685 19 11 10 21 6 18  Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 3,650 11 24 12 232 6 19  Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) 3,645 19 12 9 37 7 20  Ellen Perez (AUS) 3,460 20 42 15 50 22

See also

• WTA 125K series
• ITF Women's Circuit
• ATP Tour Association of Tennis Professionals Tour

References

• WTA Tour
• Tennis tours and series
• Women's tennis tournaments
• Women's Tennis Association
• Recurring sporting events established in 1973