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 .
5-623: The Moscow River Cup was a WTA Tour International-level professional women's tennis tournament. It took place on outdoor clay courts , in July 2018 at the National Tennis Center of Juan Antonio Samaranch, in Moscow . The tournament will be replaced by Baltic Open . The inaugural year's (2018) prize money was $ 750,000, a significantly higher amount than the usual norm at WTA International -level events. WTA Tour In 2024,
10-440: 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
15-550: 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
20-413: 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
25-557: The WTA made all WTA 1000 events mandatory. The WTA Elite Trophy did not return: 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 : 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
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