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The 2023 WTA Tour (branded as the 2023 Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) was the global elite women's professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2023 tennis season. The 2023 WTA Tour calendar comprised the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the WTA ...
The WTA 1000 Mandatory and non-Mandatory tournaments, which are part of the WTA 1000 tournaments, make up the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the WTA called the WTA Tour. There are four 1000 Mandatory tournaments: Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Beijing and five non-Mandatory tournaments: Dubai, Rome, Canada, Cincinnati ...
Furthermore, she also did not drop a set throughout the entire tournament, the first to do so since Serena Williams in 2012. Świątek dropped just 20 games throughout the entire tournament, the fewest since the reintroduction of the round-robin format in 2003. [2] By winning the title, Świątek regained the WTA No. 1 ranking from Aryna Sabalenka.
Up until 2016, the WTA also distributed ranking points, for singles players only, who competed at the Summer Olympics. However, this has since been discontinued. [4] In order to appear on the WTA rankings, players must earn ranking points in at least three tournaments, or a minimum of 10 singles ranking points or 10 doubles ranking points in ...
In the singles, point totals are calculated by combining point totals from sixteen tournaments (excluding ITF and WTA 125 tournaments). [4] Of these sixteen tournaments, a player's results from the four Grand Slam events, the four WTA 1000 tournaments with 1,000 points for the winner, and (for the players who played the main draw of least two such tournaments) the best results from two WTA ...
The ranking points awarded to the winners of these tournaments are 1,000. [4] This compares to 2,000 points for winning a Grand Slam tournament ("major"), up to 1,500 points for winning the WTA Finals, 500 points for winning a WTA 500 tournament, and 250 for winning a WTA 250 tournament. [4]
The ATP and WTA rankings are updated weekly on Mondays (UTC) or at the conclusion of a two-week tournament.. As of 1 March 2022, the ATP and WTA announced that Russian and Belarusian players continue to be allowed to compete in international tennis events on Tour and at the Grand Slams.
In 2022 and 2023, a new WTA 1000 tournament was held in Guadalajara as a replacement for Wuhan. From 2021-2023, Doha and Dubai switched off, with one being a WTA 1000 event and the other being a WTA 500 event. WTA 500 tournaments: 12 events with prize money from US$700,000 to US$900,000. WTA 250 tournaments: 30 events, with prize money at US ...