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.

WTA Tour tournaments

The WTA Tour comprises:

• Grand Slam tournaments (4)
• Year-ending WTA Tour Championships (1)
• Premier tournaments (20):
  • 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.

WTA rankings

WTA publishes weekly rankings of professional players.

Current rankings

WTA Rankings (Singles), as of 19 August 2019[update][1] No. Player Points Move+ 1  Naomi Osaka (JPN) 6,606 2  Ashleigh Barty (AUS) 6,501 3  Karolína Plí?ková (CZE) 6,315 4  Simona Halep (ROU) 4,743 5  Elina Svitolina (UKR) 4,492 2 6  Petra Kvitová (CZE) 4,485 7  Kiki Bertens (NED) 4,325 2 8  Serena Williams (USA) 3,935 9  Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 3,320 10  Madison Keys (USA) 3,267 8 11  Sloane Stephens (USA) 3,189 1 12 3,167 1 13  Belinda Bencic (SUI) 3,008 1 14  Angelique Kerber (GER) 2,870 1 15  Bianca Andreescu (CAN) 2,837 1 16  Johanna Konta (GBR) 2,695 1 17 2,651 1 18  Wang Qiang (CHN) 2,593 1 19  Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) 2,537 20  Sofia Kenin (USA) 2,460 2 +Change since previous rankings

WTA Rankings (Doubles), as of 19 August 2019[update][2] No. Player Points Move? 1  Barbora Strýcová (CZE) 8,500 2  Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 8,040 3  Tímea Babos (HUN) 7,840 4  Kate?ina Siniaková (CZE) 6,035 1 5  Hsieh Su-wei (TPE) 5,930 1 6  Barbora Krej?íková (CZE) 5,620 1 7  Elise Mertens (BEL) 5,615 8  Demi Schuurs (NED) 5,105 9  Ashleigh Barty (AUS) 5,085 10  Zhang Shuai (CHN) 5,025 11  Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) 5,020  Xu Yifan (CHN) 5,020 13  Samantha Stosur (AUS) 4,687 14  Anna-Lena Grönefeld (GER) 4,095 3 15  Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 3,907 1 16  Chan Hao-ching (TPE) 3,805 1 17  Latisha Chan (TPE) 3,805 1 19  Nicole Melichar (USA) 3,470 1 19  Kv?ta Peschke (CZE) 3,470 2 20 3,350 2 ?Change since previous week's rankings

See also

• WTA 125K series
• ITF Women's Circuit

References