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High category tournaments equivalent to Tier 1/Premier/WTA 1000 existed before 1990, and the Grand Slam tournaments, Olympic Games and WTA Finals have been held since 1884, 1900 and 1972, respectively. See the all-time records article for records spanning the sport's history. Totals including titles won before 1990 are in brackets.
Serena Williams has won a record 23 WTA 1000 singles titles. WTA 1000 is a category of tennis tournaments on the WTA Tour organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The Series was initially called WTA Tier I which began in 1988 and lasted until 2008. Records before 1990 are excluded from this list. [1]
The WTA 1000 tournaments are a category of tennis tournaments on the WTA Tour, governed by the Women's Tennis Association.The old WTA Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 tournaments merged into a single highest tier implemented in the 2021 schedule reorganization.
WTA 250 is a category of tennis tournaments in the Women's Tennis Association tour, implemented since the reorganization of the schedule in 2021. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Earlier these events were classified as WTA International Tournaments.
The WTA Finals (formerly known as the WTA Tour Championships [3] or WTA Championships) is the season-ending championship of the WTA Tour.It is the most significant tennis event in the women's annual calendar after the four majors, as it features the top eight singles players and top eight doubles teams based on their results throughout the season.
The format for the event has also changed multiple times over the past 51 editions of the tournament. Between 1984-98, for example, the singles final was a best-of-five set match.
In 2024, the WTA made all WTA 1000 events mandatory. The WTA Elite Trophy did not return: Grand Slam tournaments (4) Year-ending WTA Finals (1) WTA 1000 tournaments: Ten events with prize money ranging from US$2 million to US$10 million. WTA 500 tournaments: 17 events with prize money from US$700,000 to US$900,000. WTA 250 tournaments: 23 ...
Sources: Except for the information concerning active players, the source for the all-time table is the '2014 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Official Guide'. Court and Wade began their careers and were winning tournaments long before the Open Era started in 1968; therefore, the statistics shown above do not reflect their entire careers.