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 .
6-722: The Hua Hin Championships (also known as the WTA Thailand Open ) is a women's tennis tournament on the WTA Tour played on outdoor hardcourts in Hua Hin , Thailand . On debut in 2019, the event was sponsored by Toyota and was also known as the Toyota Thailand Open. Initially, the event was classified as a WTA International tournament, but has been a WTA 250 tournament as of the 2023 edition;
12-440: A Universal Tennis Rating , based on head-to-head results. The points distribution for tournaments in 2024 is shown below: 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
18-550: 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. 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
24-413: 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: All WTA players also have
30-400: A slight change in the classification of tournaments in 2021, which were reorganized on with similar nomenclature to that used on ATP Tour : The WTA Tour comprised from 2009 to the 2021 reorganization: WTA publishes weekly rankings of professional players. [ vedit · edit source ] [ vedit · edit source ] The WTA rankings are based on
36-531: The first to be played since the rebranding of WTA tournament categories in 2020. The tournament did not take place in 2021 and 2022 due to COVID-19 pandemic . A low-level men's and women's Challenger Tour event was previously held in the same location in 2015 and 2017 in November. WTA Tour In 2024, the WTA made all WTA 1000 events mandatory. The WTA Elite Trophy did not return: The WTA Tour underwent
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