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 (2020)
Adelaide	Adelaide International	Adelaide	Australia	Hard	848,000	Ashleigh Barty (2020)
St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy	St. Petersburg	Russia	Hard (i)	823,000	Kiki Bertens (2020)
Dubai	Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	Hard	2,828,000	Simona Halep (2020)
Doha	Qatar Total Open	Doha	Qatar	Hard	916,131	Aryna Sabalenka (2020)
Indian Wells	BNP Paribas Open	Indian Wells	United States	Hard	9,035,428	Bianca Andreescu (2019)
Miami	Miami Open	Miami Gardens	United States	Hard	9,035,428	Ashleigh Barty (2019)
Charleston	Volvo Car Open	Charleston	United States	Clay	823,000	Madison Keys (2019)
Stuttgart	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix	Stuttgart	Germany	Clay (i)	886,077	Petra Kvitová (2019)
Madrid	Mutua Madrid Open	Madrid	Spain	Clay	7,021,128	Kiki Bertens (2019)
Rome	Internazionali BNL d'Italia	Rome	Italy	Clay	3,452,538	Simona Halep (2020)
Eastbourne	Nature Valley International	Eastbourne	United Kingdom	Grass	998,712	Karolína Plí?ková (2019)
San Jose	Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic	San Jose	United States	Hard	799,000	Zheng Saisai (2019)
Canada	Rogers Cup	Toronto / Montreal	Canada	Hard	2,820,000	Bianca Andreescu (2019)
Cincinnati	Western & Southern Open[1]	Mason	United States	Hard	2,874,299	Victoria Azarenka (2020)
Zhengzhou	Zhengzhou Open	Zhengzhou	China	Hard	799,000	Karolína Plí?ková (2019)
Ostrava	J&T Banka Ostrava Open	Ostrava	Czech Republic	Hard	528,500	Aryna Sabalenka (2020)
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	Belinda Bencic (2019)

Singles results

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

Singles champions

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 (1/11)			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 (2/11)					Caroline Wozniacki (7/10)
2013	Serena Williams (4/7)	Agnieszka Radwa?ska (4/6)		Mona Barthel (1/1)				Petra Kvitová (3/11)	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 (4/11)	ITF Event	Ana Ivanovic (2/2)			Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (2/2)
2015	Maria Sharapova (4/4)	Petra Kvitová (5/11)		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 (1/2)	Angelique Kerber (5/7)		WTA 125k	Petra Kvitová (6/11)		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 (1/4)	Laura Siegemund (1/1)			Petra Kvitová (7/11)		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 (8/11)	Premier 5	Elina Svitolina (2/2)	Kiki Bertens (1/3)	Karolína Plí?ková (4/9)			Petra Kvitová (9/11)		Caroline Wozniacki (10/10)	Mihaela Buz?rnescu (1/1)			Aryna Sabalenka (1/1)		Karolína Plí?ková (5/9)			Daria Kasatkina (2/4)
2019	Karolína Plí?ková (6/9)	Petra Kvitová (10/11)				Kiki Bertens (2/3)	Elise Mertens (1/1)	Premier 5	Madison Keys (4/4)	Petra Kvitová (11/11)		Ashleigh Barty (1/2)	Karolína Plí?ková (7/9)		Zheng Saisai (1/1)	Not an event			Not an event	Karolína Plí?ková (8/9)	Naomi Osaka (1/1)			Belinda Bencic (2/2)
2020	Karolína Plí?ková (9/9)	Not an event	Ashleigh Barty (2/2)			Kiki Bertens (3/3)	Premier 5	Simona Halep (3/3)	Cancelled	Cancelled		WTA International	Cancelled	Cancelled	Cancelled					Cancelled	Cancelled	Aryna Sabalenka (2/2)		Cancelled

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	PM	P5	P
20	Serena Williams (USA)	? ? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ?
19	Petra Kvitová (CZE)	? ? ?	? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
16	Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)	? ? ?	? ? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
14	Victoria Azarenka (BLR)	? ? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ?	? ? ? ?
12	Maria Sharapova (RUS)	? ? ?	? ? ? ? ?	? ? ? ?
11	Agnieszka Radwa?ska (POL)	? ? ?	? ?	? ? ? ? ? ?
	Simona Halep (ROU)	? ? ?	? ? ? ? ?	? ? ?
	Karolína Plí?ková (CZE)		? ?	? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
7	Angelique Kerber (GER)			? ? ? ? ? ? ?
6	Elina Svitolina (UKR)		? ? ? ?	? ?
	Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)	?		? ? ? ? ?
5	Kiki Bertens (NED)	?	?	? ? ?
	Aryna Sabalenka (BLR)		? ? ?	? ?
	Madison Keys (USA)		?	? ? ? ?
4	Dominika Cibulková (SVK)			? ? ? ?
	Venus Williams (USA)		? ? ?	?
	Belinda Bencic (SUI)		? ?	? ?
	Elena Dementieva (RUS)		?	? ? ?
3	Ashleigh Barty (AUS)	?		? ?
	Naomi Osaka (JPN)	? ?		?
	Johanna Konta (GBR)	?		? ?
2	Kim Clijsters (BEL)	?	?
	Bianca Andreescu (CAN)	?	?
	Caroline Garcia (FRA)	?	?
	Jelena Jankovi? (SRB)	?	?
	Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP)	?	?
	Dinara Safina (RUS)	?	?
	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)			? ?
	Daria Kasatkina (RUS)			? ?
	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)			? ?
	Andrea Petkovic (GER)			? ?
	Samantha Stosur (AUS)			? ?
1	Aravane Rezaï (FRA)	?
	María José Martínez Sánchez (ESP)		?
	Nadia Petrova (RUS)		?
	Carla Suárez Navarro (ESP)		?
	Mona Barthel (GER)			?
	Mihaela Buz?rnescu (ROU)			?
	Sara Errani (ITA)			?
	Daria Gavrilova (AUS)			?
	Justine Henin (BEL)			?
	Sabine Lisicki (GER)			?
	Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)			?
	Amélie Mauresmo (FRA)			?
	Elise Mertens (BEL)			?
	Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)			?
	Tamira Paszek (AUT)			?
	Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL)			?
	Lucie ?afá?ová (CZE)			?
	Francesca Schiavone (ITA)			?
	Laura Siegemund (GER)			?
	Roberta Vinci (ITA)			?
	Zheng Saisai (CHN)			?

Titles won by nation

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

See also

• WTA 1000 tournaments
• WTA 500 tournaments
• WTA 250 tournaments
• ATP World Tour Masters 1000

References

External links

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