WTA Premier Tournaments was a category of tennis tournaments in the Women's Tennis Association tour, implemented from the reorganization of the schedule in 2009 until 2020.
In 2020, Premier events included:
The ranking points awarded to the winners of these tournaments are:
This compares to 2,000 points for winning a Grand Slam Tournament ("major"), up to 1,500 points for winning the WTA Finals, and 280 for winning an International tournament. This system differs from that used for the men's ATP rankings, but only slightly. The men have nine Masters events with 1,000 points for the winner (akin to WTA Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 tournaments), and the next two tiers of ATP tournaments offer 500 and 250 points for winning respectively.
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Premier |
Tournament | Officially known as | City(ies) | Country | Surface | Prize (US$) | Current singles champion |
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Brisbane | Brisbane International | Brisbane | ![]() |
Hard | 1,000,000 | ![]() |
Adelaide | Adelaide International | Adelaide | ![]() |
Hard | 848,000 | ![]() |
St. Petersburg | St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy | St. Petersburg | ![]() |
Hard (i) | 823,000 | ![]() |
Dubai | Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships | Dubai | ![]() |
Hard | 2,828,000 | ![]() |
Doha | Qatar Total Open | Doha | ![]() |
Hard | 916,131 | ![]() |
Indian Wells | BNP Paribas Open | Indian Wells | ![]() |
Hard | 9,035,428 | ![]() |
Miami | Miami Open | Miami Gardens | ![]() |
Hard | 9,035,428 | ![]() |
Charleston | Volvo Car Open | Charleston | ![]() |
Clay | 823,000 | ![]() |
Stuttgart | Porsche Tennis Grand Prix | Stuttgart | ![]() |
Clay (i) | 886,077 | ![]() |
Madrid | Mutua Madrid Open | Madrid | ![]() |
Clay | 7,021,128 | ![]() |
Rome | Internazionali BNL d'Italia | Rome | ![]() |
Clay | 3,452,538 | ![]() |
Eastbourne | Nature Valley International | Eastbourne | ![]() |
Grass | 998,712 | ![]() |
San Jose | Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic | San Jose | ![]() |
Hard | 799,000 | ![]() |
Canada | Rogers Cup | Toronto / Montreal | ![]() |
Hard | 2,820,000 | ![]() |
Cincinnati | Western & Southern Open[1] | Mason | ![]() |
Hard | 2,874,299 | ![]() |
Zhengzhou | Zhengzhou Open | Zhengzhou | ![]() |
Hard | 799,000 | ![]() |
Ostrava | J&T Banka Ostrava Open | Ostrava | ![]() |
Hard | 528,500 | ![]() |
Tokyo | Toray Pan Pacific Open | Tokyo | ![]() |
Hard | 799,000 | ![]() |
Wuhan | Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open | Wuhan | ![]() |
Hard | 2,746,000 | ![]() |
Beijing | China Open | Beijing | ![]() |
Hard | 8,285,274 | ![]() |
Moscow | Kremlin Cup | Moscow | ![]() |
Hard (i) | 932,866 | ![]() |
Brisbane | Sydney | Adelaide | Paris | Antwerp | St. Petersburg | Doha | Dubai | Charleston | Stuttgart | Warsaw | Brussels | Birmingham | Berlin | Eastbourne | Stanford/San Jose | Los Angeles | San Diego /Carlsbad | New Haven | Zhengzhou | Tokyo | Ostrava | Chicago | Moscow | |
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2009 | WTA International | ![]() |
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Exhibition events | Not an event | Not an event | Premier 5 | ![]() |
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Not an event | Premier 5 | Not an event | Not an event | ![]() |
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2011 | ![]() |
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2014 | ![]() |
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2015 | ![]() |
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2016 | ![]() |
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2017 | ![]() |
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2018 | ![]() |
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2019 | ![]() |
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2020 | ![]() |
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Cancelled | Cancelled | WTA International | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | ![]() |
Cancelled |
These tables present the number of singles WTA Premier titles won by each player and each nation since 2009.
Total | Country | PM | P5 | P |
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