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

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.

WTA rankings

WTA publishes weekly rankings of professional players.

Current rankings

WTA Rankings (Singles), as of 20 September 2021[update][1] No. Player Points Move+ 1  Ashleigh Barty (AUS) 10,075 2  Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 7,720 3  Karolína Plí?ková (CZE) 5,315 4  Elina Svitolina (UKR) 4,860 5  Barbora Krej?íková (CZE) 4,668 2 6  Iga ?wi?tek (POL) 4,571 2 7  Sofia Kenin (USA) 4,413 1 8  Naomi Osaka (JPN) 4,326 3 9  Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP) 4,135 10  Petra Kvitová (CZE) 4,060 11  Belinda Bencic (SUI) 3,820 1 12  Maria Sakkari (GRE) 3,750 1 13  Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 3,285 1 14  Simona Halep (ROU) 3,152 3 15  Angelique Kerber (GER) 3,115 16  Elena Rybakina (KAZ) 3,068 1 17  Ons Jabeur (TUN) 2,975 1 18  Elise Mertens (BEL) 2,890 2 19  Cori Gauff (USA) 2,815 20  Bianca Andreescu (CAN) 2,777 +Change since previous week's rankings

WTA Rankings (Doubles individual), as of 20 September 2021[update][2] No. Player Points Move? 1  Elise Mertens (BEL) 7,885 1 2  Barbora Krej?íková (CZE) 7,635 1 3  Kate?ina Siniaková (CZE) 7,610 1 4  Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) 7,200 3 5  Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 7,115 6  Tímea Babos (HUN) 6,990 7  Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) 5,820 8  Shuko Aoyama (JPN) 5,730 8  Ena Shibahara (JPN) 5,730 10  Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 5,605 11  Alexa Guarachi (CHL) 4,950 1 12  Luisa Stefani (BRA) 4,895 1 13  Shuai Zhang (CHN) 4,805 1 14  Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 4,695 1 15  Demi Schuurs (NED) 4,690 1 16  Barbora Strýcová (CZE) 4,662 5 17  Darija Jurak (CRO) 4,505 18  Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) 4,460 19  Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) 4,455 20  Desirae Krawczyk (USA) 4,335 ?Change since previous week's rankings

See also

• WTA 125K series
• ITF Women's Circuit
• ATP Tour

References