WTA Tour

The WTA Tour (also known as the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz for sponsorship reasons) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women and 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.

Season format

2024–present

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: 22 events, with prize money around US$250,000.

2021–2023

The WTA Tour underwent a slight change in the classification of tournaments in 2021, which were reorganized on with similar nomenclature to that used on ATP Tour:

Grand Slam tournaments (4)
Year-ending WTA Finals (1)
Penultimate event WTA Elite Trophy (1)
WTA 1000 tournaments (9):
- Mandatory: Five combined tournaments with male professional players with prize money ranging from US$6.5 million to US$8.3 million. These tournaments are held in Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, Rome and Beijing. The Beijing tournament was not held in 2021 and 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and returned in 2023.
- Non-mandatory: Four events in Doha/Dubai, Montreal/Toronto, Cincinnati, and Wuhan with prize money ranging from US$2.3 million to US$2.7 million. From 2020 to 2023, the tournament in Wuhan was suspended due to COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022 and 2023, a new WTA 1000 tournament was held in Guadalajara as a replacement for Wuhan. From 2021 to 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$250,000.

2009–2020

The WTA Tour comprised from 2009 to the 2021 reorganization:

Grand Slam tournaments (4)
Year-ending WTA Tour Championships (1)
Penultimate event WTA Elite Trophy (From 2015 onwards) (1)
Premier tournaments (21):
- Premier Mandatory: Four combined tournaments with male professional players, with US$6.5 million in equal prize money for men and women (increased from $4.5 million in 2013). These tournaments are held in Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, and Beijing.
- Premier Five: Five $2.8 million events in Doha/Dubai, Rome, Montreal/Toronto, Cincinnati, and Wuhan.
- Premier: 12 events with prize money from US$799,000 to US$2.5 million.
International tournaments: There were 32 tournaments, with prize money for all except four events at US$250,000. The exceptions are the Shenzhen Open, Moscow River Cup, Hong Kong Tennis Open, the Tianjin Open, and the year-ending WTA Tournament of Champions, each with prize money of US$750,000.

WTA rankings

WTA publishes weekly rankings of professional players.

Current rankings

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WTA rankings (singles) as of 20 April 2026
No.	Player	Points	Move
1	Aryna Sabalenka	10,895
2	Elena Rybakina (KAZ)	8,500
3	Coco Gauff (USA)	7,279
4	Iga Świątek (POL)	7,273
5	Jessica Pegula (USA)	6,136
6	Amanda Anisimova (USA)	5,995
7	Elina Svitolina (UKR)	3,910
8	Mirra Andreeva	3,746	1
9	Jasmine Paolini (ITA)	3,722	1
10	Victoria Mboko (CAN)	3,531
11	Karolína Muchová (CZE)	3,318	1
12	Belinda Bencic (SUI)	3,090	1
13	Linda Nosková (CZE)	2,849	1
14	Ekaterina Alexandrova	2,789	1
15	Naomi Osaka (JPN)	2,324
16	Iva Jovic (USA)	2,270
17	Madison Keys (USA)	2,161
18	Clara Tauson (DEN)	2,040
19	Diana Shnaider	2,001
20	Liudmila Samsonova	1,895	1

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WTA rankings (doubles) as of 20 April 2026
No.	Player	Points	Move
1	Elise Mertens (BEL)	8,658
2	Kateřina Siniaková (CZE)	7,950
3	Jasmine Paolini (ITA)	7,385
=	Sara Errani (ITA)	7,385
5	Taylor Townsend (USA)	7,385
6	Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)	6,923
7	Anna Danilina (KAZ)	6,895
8	Aleksandra Krunić (SRB)	6,710
9	Veronika Kudermetova	6,268
10	Luisa Stefani (BRA)	6,035
11	Zhang Shuai (CHN)	5,773
12	Jeļena Ostapenko (LAT)	5,265	2
13	Hsieh Su-wei (TPE)	5,258
14	Erin Routliffe (NZL)	5,113	2
15	Tímea Babos (HUN)	4,125
16	Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA)	4,028
17	Storm Hunter (AUS)	3,209
18	Guo Hanyu (CHN)	3,200
19	Cristina Bucșa (ESP)	3,190
20	Ellen Perez (AUS)	3,025

Ranking method

The WTA rankings are based on a rolling 52-week, cumulative system. A player's ranking is determined by her results at a maximum of 18 tournaments for singles and 12 for doubles. Points are awarded based on how far a player advances in a tournament. The basis for calculating a player's ranking are those tournaments that yield the highest ranking points during the rolling 52-week period. The period must include:

the four Grand Slams
six WTA 1000 Mandatory combined/virtually combined tournaments
one WTA 1000 Mandatory (WTA-only) tournament
the best of seven results from all WTA 1000 Mandatory, WTA 500, WTA 250, and WTA 125 Tournaments and ITF W15+ events
the WTA Finals as a bonus tournament if the player attended

All WTA players also have a Universal Tennis Rating, based on head-to-head results.

The points distribution for tournaments in 2024 is shown below:

Category	W	F	SF	QF	R16	R32	R64	R128	Q	Q3	Q2	Q1
Grand Slam (128S, 128Q)	2000	1300	780	430	240	130	70	10	40	30	20	2
Grand Slam (64D)	2000	1300	780	430	240	130	10		40
WTA Finals (S)	1500*	1000*	600*	(+200 per round robin win)
WTA Finals (D)	1500*	1000*	600*	(+200 per round robin win)
WTA 1000 (96S, 48Q)	1000	650	390	215	120	65	35	10	30		20	2
WTA 1000 (56S, 32Q)	1000	650	390	215	120	65	10		30		20	2
WTA 1000 (32/28D)	1000	650	390	215	120	10
WTA 500 (48S, 24Q)	500	325	195	108	60	32	1		25		13	1
WTA 500 (30/28S, 24/16Q)	500	325	195	108	60	1			25	18	13	1
WTA 500 (24D)	500	325	195	108	60	1
WTA 500 (16D)	500	325	195	108	1
WTA 250 (32S, 24/16Q)	250	163	98	54	30	1			18		12	1
WTA 250 (16D)	250	163	98	54	1
WTA 125 (32S, 16Q)	125	81	49	27	15	1			6		4	1
WTA 125 (32S, 8Q)	125	81	49	27	15	1			6			1
WTA 125 (16D)	125	81	49	27	1
WTA 125 (8D)	125	81	49	1
W100 (48S, 32/24Q)	100	65	39	21	12	7	1		5		3
W100 (32S, 32Q)	100	65	39	21	12	1			5		3
W100 (16D)	100	65	39	21	1
W75 (48S, 32/24Q)	75	49	29	16	9	5	1		3		2
W75 (32S, 32Q)	75	49	29	16	9	1			3		2
W75 (16D)	75	49	29	16	1
W50 (48S, 32/24Q)	50	33	20	11	6	3	1		2		1
W50 (32S, 32Q)	50	33	20	11	6	1			2		1
W50 (16D)	50	33	20	11	1
W35 (48S, 32/24Q)	35	23	14	8	4	2	1		1
W35 (32S, 64/48/32/24Q)	35	23	14	8	4	1			1
W35 (16D)	35	23	14	8	1
W15 (32S, 64/48/32/24Q)	15	10	6	3	1
W15 (16D)	15	10	6	3

S = singles players, D = doubles teams, Q = qualification players.
* Assumes undefeated round robin match record.

Note that if a player or team receives one or more byes and then loses their first match of the tournament, they will only receive points for the first round of that tournament. For example, if a player receives a bye in R64 and then loses her match in R32, she will only receive points for R64 despite having advanced (via bye) to R32. Similarly, if a player or team withdraws from their first match after receiving a bye, they will not be awarded any points for that tournament.

In ITF tournaments, the main draw is normally 32 for singles and 16 for doubles. Losers in the first round of doubles will receive points equal to that shown in the R32 column above. For subsequent rounds (quarter-finals onwards) the points are the same as for singles.