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The Women's Tennis Association was founded in June 1973 by Billie Jean King, and traces its origins to the inaugural Virginia Slims tournament, arranged by Gladys Heldman, sponsored by Joe Cullman, CEO of Philip Morris, and held on 23 September 1970 at the Houston Racquet Club in Houston, Texas. Rosie Casals won this first event.
The WTA Tour (currently known as the Hologic WTA Tour) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125 series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour.
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 2025 ...
This is a list of the women's singles tennis champions at the Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA championships, the Olympic Games, and the WTA Tier I/Premier (Premier Mandatory and Premier Five)/1000 tournaments since 1990.
The 2024 WTA Finals was the professional women's year-end championship tennis tournament run by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). It was the 53rd edition of the singles event and the 48th edition of the doubles competition and took place between 2 and 9 November.
It took more than three decades after the founding of the Women’s Tennis Association for all four Grand Slam tournaments to agree to give the same prize money to female and male players. The St ...
The 2025 WTA Finals is a planned professional women's year-end championship tennis tournament that is scheduled to run from 1 to 8 November 2025 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). It is set to be held in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia for the second straight year and is due to be the 54th edition of the singles event and the 49th edition of the ...
The head of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) warned of a “strong reaction” to the latest ban on Russian and Belarusian tennis players from the prestigious Wimbledon tournament due to ...