This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article's factual accuracy is disputed. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help to ensure that disputed statements are reliably sourced. (March 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: Counterfactual -- article needs cleanup (overhaul). Please help improve this article if you can. (March 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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:

• Four "Premier Mandatory" events in Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, and Beijing with prize money of $4.5 million.
• Five "Premier 5" events in Doha, Rome, Cincinnati, Toronto/Montreal, and Wuhan with prize money of $2 million.
• Twelve "Premier" events with prize money of $600,000 to $1,000,000.

The ranking points awarded to the winners of these tournaments are:

• "Premier Mandatory" 1000
• "Premier 5" 900 and
• "Premier" 470.

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.

Events

Tournament	Officially known as	City(ies)	Country	Surface	Prize (US$)	Current singles champion
Brisbane	Brisbane International	Brisbane	Australia	Hard	1,000,000	Karolína Plí?ková (2021)
Adelaide	Adelaide International	Adelaide	Australia	Hard	703,580	Ashleigh Barty (2022)
St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy	Saint Petersburg	Russia	Hard (i)	768,680	Anett Kontaveit (2022)
Dubai	Dubai Tennis Championships	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	Hard	768,680	Je?ena Ostapenko (2022)
Doha	Qatar Total Open	Doha	Qatar	Hard	2,632,448	Iga ?wi?tek (2022)
Indian Wells	BNP Paribas Open	Indian Wells	United States	Hard	8,584,055	Iga ?wi?tek (2022)
Miami	Miami Open	Miami Gardens	United States	Hard	8,584,055	Iga ?wi?tek (2022)
Charleston	Volvo Car Open	Charleston	United States	Clay	565,530	Belinda Bencic (2022)
Stuttgart	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix	Stuttgart	Germany	Clay (i)	886,077	Iga ?wi?tek (2022)
Madrid	Mutua Madrid Open	Madrid	Spain	Clay	7,021,128	Ons Jabeur (2022)
Rome	Internazionali BNL d'Italia	Rome	Italy	Clay	3,452,538	Iga ?wi?tek (2022)
Berlin	Grass Court Championships Berlin	Berlin	Germany	Grass	565,530	Liudmila Samsonova (2021)
Eastbourne	Viking Classic	Eastbourne	United Kingdom	Grass	998,712	Je?ena Ostapenko (2021)
San Jose	Silicon Valley Classic	San Jose	United States	Hard	799,000	Danielle Collins (2021)
Canada	National Bank Open	Toronto / Montreal	Canada	Hard	2,820,000	Camila Giorgi (2021)
Cincinnati	Western & Southern Open [1]	Mason	United States	Hard	2,874,299	Ashleigh Barty (2021)
Zhengzhou	Zhengzhou Open	Zhengzhou	China	Hard	799,000	Karolína Plí?ková (2019)
Ostrava	J&T Banka Ostrava Open	Ostrava	Czech Republic	Hard	528,500	Anett Kontaveit (2021)
Tokyo	Toray Pan Pacific Open	Tokyo	Japan	Hard	799,000	Naomi Osaka (2019)
Wuhan	Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open	Wuhan	China	Hard	2,746,000	Aryna Sabalenka (2019)
Beijing	China Open	Beijing	China	Hard	8,285,274	Naomi Osaka (2019)
Moscow	Kremlin Cup	Moscow	Russia	Hard (i)	932,866	Anett Kontaveit (2021)

Singles results

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

Singles winners

Year-End Championships

This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

	Championships
2009	Serena Williams (1/5)
2010	Kim Clijsters (1/1)
2011	Petra Kvitová (1/1)
2012	Serena Williams (2/4)
2013	Serena Williams (3/4)
2014	Serena Williams (4/4)
2015	Agnieszka Radwa?ska (1/1)
2016	Dominika Cibulková (1/1)
2017	Caroline Wozniacki (1/1)
2018	Elina Svitolina (1/1)
2019	Ashleigh Barty (1/1)
2020	Cancelled
2021	Garbiñe Muguruza (1/1)
2022

Premier Mandatory

Premier 5

Premier

	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
2009	WTA International	Elena Dementieva (1/3)	Not an event	Amélie Mauresmo (1/1)	Exhibition events	Not an event	Not an event	Premier 5	Sabine Lisicki (1/1)	Svetlana Kuznetsova (1/5)	Alexandra Dulgheru (1/2)	Not an event	WTA International	Not an event	Caroline Wozniacki (1/10)	Marion Bartoli (1/2)	Flavia Pennetta (1/1)	Not an event	Caroline Wozniacki (2/10)	Not an event	Premier 5	Not an event	Not an event	Francesca Schiavone (1/1)
2010		Elena Dementieva (2/3)		Elena Dementieva (3/3)					Samantha Stosur (1/2)	Justine Henin (1/1)	Alexandra Dulgheru (2/2)				Ekaterina Makarova (1/1)	Victoria Azarenka (1/4)	Not an event	Svetlana Kuznetsova (2/5)	Caroline Wozniacki (3/10)					Victoria Azarenka (2/4)
2011		Li Na (1/1)		Petra Kvitová (1/12)			Vera Zvonareva (1/1)		Caroline Wozniacki (4/10)	Julia Görges (1/2)	Not an event	Caroline Wozniacki (5/10)			Marion Bartoli (2/2)	Serena Williams (1/7)		Agnieszka Radwa?ska (1/6)	Caroline Wozniacki (6/10)					Dominika Cibulková (1/4)
2012	Kaia Kanepi (1/2)	Victoria Azarenka (3/4)		Angelique Kerber (1/7)			Premier 5	Agnieszka Radwa?ska (2/6)	Serena Williams (2/7)	Maria Sharapova (1/4)		Agnieszka Radwa?ska (3/6)			Tamira Paszek (1/1)	Serena Williams (3/7)		Dominika Cibulková (2/4)	Petra Kvitová (2/12)					Caroline Wozniacki (7/10)
2013	Serena Williams (4/7)	Agnieszka Radwa?ska (4/6)		Mona Barthel (1/1)				Petra Kvitová (3/12)	Serena Williams (5/7)	Maria Sharapova (2/4)		Kaia Kanepi (2/2)			Elena Vesnina (1/1)	Dominika Cibulková (3/4)		Samantha Stosur (2/2)	Simona Halep (1/3)					Simona Halep (2/3)
2014	Serena Williams (6/7)	Tsvetana Pironkova (1/1)		Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (1/2)				Venus Williams (1/1)	Andrea Petkovic (1/2)	Maria Sharapova (3/4)		Not an event	Ana Ivanovic (1/2)		Madison Keys (1/4)	Serena Williams (7/7)		Not an event	Petra Kvitová (4/12)	ITF Event	Ana Ivanovic (2/2)			Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (2/2)
2015	Maria Sharapova (4/4)	Petra Kvitová (5/12)		Not an event	Andrea Petkovic (2/2)	ITF Event	Lucie ?afá?ová (1/1)	Premier 5	Angelique Kerber (2/7)	Angelique Kerber (3/7)			Angelique Kerber (4/7)		Belinda Bencic (1/3)	Angelique Kerber (5/7)		WTA 125k	Petra Kvitová (6/12)		Agnieszka Radwa?ska (5/6)			Svetlana Kuznetsova (3/5)
2016	Victoria Azarenka (4/4)	Svetlana Kuznetsova (4/5)			Not an event	Roberta Vinci (1/1)	Premier 5	Sara Errani (1/1)	Sloane Stephens (1/1)	Angelique Kerber (6/7)			Madison Keys (2/4)		Dominika Cibulková (4/4)	Johanna Konta (1/2)		Not an event	Agnieszka Radwa?ska (6/6)		Caroline Wozniacki (8/10)			Svetlana Kuznetsova (5/5)
2017	Karolína Plí?ková (1/9)	Johanna Konta (2/2)				Kristina Mladenovic (1/1)	Karolína Plí?ková (2/9)	Premier 5	Daria Kasatkina (1/3)	Laura Siegemund (1/1)			Petra Kvitová (7/12)		Karolína Plí?ková (3/9)	Madison Keys (3/4)			Daria Gavrilova (1/1)	WTA 125k	Caroline Wozniacki (9/10)			Julia Görges (2/2)
2018	Elina Svitolina (1/2)	Angelique Kerber (7/7)				Petra Kvitová (8/12)	Premier 5	Elina Svitolina (2/2)	Kiki Bertens (1/3)	Karolína Plí?ková (4/9)			Petra Kvitová (9/12)		Caroline Wozniacki (10/10)	Mihaela Buz?rnescu (1/1)			Aryna Sabalenka (1/1)		Karolína Plí?ková (5/9)			Daria Kasatkina (2/3)
2019	Karolína Plí?ková (6/9)	Petra Kvitová (10/12)				Kiki Bertens (2/3)	Elise Mertens (1/1)	Premier 5	Madison Keys (4/4)	Petra Kvitová (11/12)			Ashleigh Barty (1/4)		Karolína Plí?ková (7/9)	Zheng Saisai (1/1)			Not an event	Karolína Plí?ková (8/9)	Naomi Osaka (1/1)			Belinda Bencic (2/3)
2020	Karolína Plí?ková (9/9)	Not an event	Ashleigh Barty (2/4)			Kiki Bertens (3/3)	Premier 5	Simona Halep (3/3)	Cancelled	Cancelled			WTA International	Cancelled	Cancelled	Cancelled				Cancelled	Cancelled	Aryna Sabalenka (2/2)		Cancelled
2021	Cancelled		Iga ?wi?tek (1/2)			Daria Kasatkina (3/3)	Petra Kvitová (12/12)	Premier 5	Veronika Kudermetova (1/1)	Ashleigh Barty (3/4)				Liudmila Samsonova (1/1)	Je?ena Ostapenko (1/2)	Danielle Collins (1/1)						Anett Kontaveit (1/3)	Garbiñe Muguruza (1/1)	Anett Kontaveit (2/3)
2022		Paula Badosa (1/1)	Ashleigh Barty (4/4)			Anett Kontaveit (3/3)	Premier 5	Je?ena Ostapenko (2/2)	Belinda Bencic (3/3)	Iga ?wi?tek (2/2)

Singles titles

These tables present the number of singles WTA Premier titles won by each player and each nation since 2009.

Titles won by player

Total	Player	YEC	PM	P5	P
24	Serena Williams (USA)	? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ?
21	Petra Kvitová (CZE)	?	? ? ?	? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
17	Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)	?	? ? ?	? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
14	Victoria Azarenka (BLR)		? ? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ?	? ? ? ?
12	Agnieszka Radwa?ska (POL)	?	? ? ?	? ?	? ? ? ? ? ?
	Maria Sharapova (RUS)		? ? ?	? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ?
11	Simona Halep (ROU)		? ? ?	? ? ? ? ?	? ? ?
	Karolína Plí?ková (CZE)			? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
9	Ashleigh Barty (AUS)	?	? ?	?	? ? ? ? ?
7	Elina Svitolina (UKR)	?		? ? ? ?	? ?
	Iga ?wi?tek (POL)		? ?	? ? ?	? ?
	Aryna Sabalenka (BLR)		?	? ? ?	? ? ?
	Angelique Kerber (GER)				? ? ? ? ? ? ?
6	Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)		?		? ? ? ? ?
5	Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP)	?	?	? ?	?
	Dominika Cibulková (SVK)	?			? ? ? ?
	Kiki Bertens (NED)		?	?	? ? ?
	Belinda Bencic (SUI)			? ?	? ? ?
	Madison Keys (USA)			?	? ? ? ?
4	Venus Williams (USA)			? ? ?	?
	Elena Dementieva (RUS)			?	? ? ?
3	Kim Clijsters (BEL)	?	?	?
	Naomi Osaka (JPN)		? ?		?
	Johanna Konta (GBR)		?		? ?
	Daria Kasatkina (RUS)				? ? ?
	Anett Kontaveit (EST)				? ? ?
2	Bianca Andreescu (CAN)		?	?
	Caroline Garcia (FRA)		?	?
	Jelena Jankovi? (SRB)		?	?
	Dinara Safina (RUS)		?	?
	Paula Badosa (ESP)		?		?
	Flavia Pennetta (ITA)		?		?
	Sloane Stephens (USA)		?		?
	Elena Vesnina (RUS)		?		?
	Vera Zvonareva (RUS)		?		?
	Li Na (CHN)			?	?
	Marion Bartoli (FRA)				? ?
	Alexandra Dulgheru (ROU)				? ?
	Julia Görges (GER)				? ?
	Ana Ivanovic (SRB)				? ?
	Kaia Kanepi (EST)				? ?
	Elise Mertens (BEL)				? ?
	Je?ena Ostapenko (LAT)				? ?
	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)				? ?
	Andrea Petkovic (GER)				? ?
	Samantha Stosur (AUS)				? ?
1	Aravane Rezaï (FRA)		?
	Ons Jabeur (TUN)		?
	Camila Giorgi (ITA)			?
	María José Martínez Sánchez (ESP)			?
	Nadia Petrova (RUS)			?
	Carla Suárez Navarro (ESP)			?
	Mona Barthel (GER)				?
	Mihaela Buz?rnescu (ROU)				?
	Danielle Collins (USA)				?
	Sara Errani (ITA)				?
	Daria Gavrilova (AUS)				?
	Justine Henin (BEL)				?
	Veronika Kudermetova (RUS)				?
	Sabine Lisicki (GER)				?
	Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)				?
	Amélie Mauresmo (FRA)				?
	Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)				?
	Tamira Paszek (AUT)				?
	Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL)				?
	Lucie ?afá?ová (CZE)				?
	Liudmila Samsonova (RUS)				?
	Francesca Schiavone (ITA)				?
	Laura Siegemund (GER)				?
	Roberta Vinci (ITA)				?
	Zheng Saisai (CHN)				?

Titles won by nation

Total	Country	YEC	PM	P5	P
37	Russia (RUS)		? ? ? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
36	United States (USA)	? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
33	Czech Republic (CZE)	?	? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
21	Belarus (BLR)		? ? ? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ?
19	Poland (POL)	?	? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
17	Denmark (DEN)	?	? ? ?	? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
14	Romania (ROU)		? ? ?	? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ?
	Germany (GER)				? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
11	Australia (AUS)	?	? ?	?	? ? ? ? ? ? ?
8	Spain (ESP)	?	? ?	? ? ? ?	?
7	Ukraine (UKR)	?		? ? ? ?	? ?
	France (FRA)		? ?	?	? ? ? ?
6	Belgium (BEL)	?	?	?	? ? ?
	Italy (ITA)		?	?	? ? ? ?
5	Slovakia (SVK)	?			? ? ? ?
	Netherlands (NED)		?	?	? ? ?
	Switzerland (SUI)			? ?	? ? ?
4	Serbia (SRB)		?	?	? ?
	Estonia (EST)				? ? ? ?
3	Japan (JPN)		? ?		?
	Great Britain (GBR)		?		? ?
	China (CHN)			?	? ?
2	Canada (CAN)		?	?
	Latvia (LAT)				? ?
1	Tunisia (TUN)		?
	Austria (AUT)				?
	Bulgaria (BUL)				?

See also

• WTA 1000 tournaments
• WTA 500 tournaments
• WTA International tournaments
• ATP World Tour Masters 1000

References

External links

• 2009 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Calendar
• Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Announces Landmark 2009 Roadmap Calendar