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 .
6-566: In 2024, 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
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
18-549: 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
24-412: 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
30-618: The R32 column above. For subsequent rounds (quarter-finals onwards) the points are the same as for singles. WTA Elite Trophy The WTA Elite Trophy (also known as the Huafa Technology WTA Elite Trophy for sponsorship reasons) was the second-tier year-end professional women's tennis tournament on the WTA Tour . It was the successor event of the different format WTA Tournament of Champions , which took place from 2009–14. The Elite Trophy took place at
36-402: The end of each season, in two disciplines: singles and doubles. The singles event featured 12 players (11 of them ranked from 9th to 19th on the final table of the WTA ranking, and one wildcard). The players were split into four groups of three, with the group winners advancing to the single elimination semifinals. The doubles event featured six teams in two groups with the group winners contesting
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