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The WTA 125 tournaments are the secondary professional tennis circuit tournaments organised by the Women's Tennis Association. The 2025 calendar tentatively consists of twenty tournaments announced or confirmed so far through various sources. [1] [2] [3]
WTA Tour Borniquen Classic: 1977 1977 San Juan, Puerto Rico: Hard WTA Tour Brasil Tennis Cup: 1977: 2016: Various locations (Brazil) Hard: WTA Tour Brighton International: 1978: 1995: Brighton: Carpet: WTA Tour Cachantún Cup: 2008: Viña del Mar: Clay: WTA Tour Central Fidelity Banks International: 1979: 1984: Richmond, Virginia: Carpet: WTA ...
The 2025 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the WTA 1000 tournaments, the WTA 500 tournaments, the WTA 250 tournaments, the Billie Jean King Cup (organized by the ITF), the year-end championships (the WTA Finals) and the team event United Cup (combined event with ATP).
The WTA 1000 tournaments, make up the elite tour for professional women's tennis organized by the WTA called the WTA Tour. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This is the first year when all ten WTA 1000 tournaments are mandatory.
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 ...
The old WTA Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 tournaments merged into a single highest tier implemented in the 2021 schedule reorganization. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Until 2024, only four of the nine WTA 1000 tournaments were mandatory, when the category expanded to ten mandatory tournaments.
The following is a list of notable players (winners of a main tour title, and/or part of the WTA rankings top 100 in singles, or top 100 in doubles, for at least one week) who announced their retirement from professional tennis, became inactive (after not playing for more than 52 weeks), or were permanently banned from playing, during the 2024 ...
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. At their introduction in 2021, WTA 250 tournaments' prize money was approximately $250,000.