2010 WTA Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 tournaments

The WTA Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 tournaments, which are part of the WTA Premier tournaments, make up the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the WTA called the WTA Tour. There are four Premier Mandatory tournaments: Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Beijing and five Premier 5 tournaments: Dubai, Rome, Cincinnati, Canada and Tokyo.[1]

2010 Premier Mandatory / Premier 5
Details
DurationFebruary 15 – October 10
Edition21st
Tournaments9
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titlesDenmark Caroline Wozniacki (3)
Most tournament finalsDenmark Caroline Wozniacki (4)
2009
2011

Tournaments edit

Tournament Country Location Surface Date Prize money[2]
Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships[3] United Arab Emirates Dubai Hard Feb 15 – 21 $2,000,000
BNP Paribas Open United States Indian Wells Hard Mar 8 – 21 $4,500,000
Sony Ericsson Open[4] United States Key Biscayne Hard May 22 – Apr 4 $4,500,000
Internazionali BNL d'Italia[5] Italy Rome Clay (red) May 3 – 9 $2,000,000
Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open Spain Madrid Clay (red) May 10 – 16 $4,500,000
W&S Financial Group Women's Open[6] United States Mason Hard Aug 9 – 15 $2,000,000
Rogers Cup Canada Montreal Hard Aug 16 – 22 $2,000,000
Toray Pan Pacific Open Japan Tokyo Hard Sep 27 – Oct 3 $2,000,000
China Open[7] China Beijing Hard Oct 4 – 10 $4,500,000

Results edit

* First-time champion
Tournament Singles champions Runners-up Score Doubles champions Runners-up Score
Dubai

SinglesDoubles

  Venus Williams   Victoria Azarenka 6–3, 7–5   Nuria Llagostera Vives
  María José Martínez Sánchez
  Květa Peschke
  Katarina Srebotnik
7–6(7–5), 6–4
Indian Wells

SinglesDoubles

  Jelena Janković   Caroline Wozniacki 6–2, 6–4   Květa Peschke
  Katarina Srebotnik
  Nadia Petrova
  Samantha Stosur
6–4, 2–6, [10–5]
Miami

SinglesDoubles

  Kim Clijsters   Venus Williams 6–2, 6–1   Gisela Dulko
  Flavia Pennetta
  Nadia Petrova
  Samantha Stosur
6–3, 4–6, [10–7]
Rome

SinglesDoubles

  María José Martínez Sánchez   Jelena Janković 7–67–5, 7–5   Gisela Dulko
  Flavia Pennetta
  María José Martínez Sánchez
  Nuria Llagostera Vives
6–4, 6–2
Madrid

SinglesDoubles

  Aravane Rezaï   Venus Williams 6–2, 7–5   Serena Williams
  Venus Williams
  Gisela Dulko
  Flavia Pennetta
6–2, 7–5
Cincinnati

SinglesDoubles

  Kim Clijsters   Maria Sharapova 2–6, 7–6(7–4), 6–2   Victoria Azarenka   Lisa Raymond
  Rennae Stubbs
7–6(7–4), 7–6(10–8)
  Maria Kirilenko*
Montréal

SinglesDoubles

  Caroline Wozniacki   Vera Zvonareva 6–3, 6–2   Gisela Dulko
  Flavia Pennetta
  Květa Peschke
  Katarina Srebotnik
7–5, 3–6, [12–10]
Tokyo

SinglesDoubles

  Caroline Wozniacki   Elena Dementieva 1–6, 6–2, 6–3   Iveta Benešová
  Barbora Strýcová
  Shahar Pe'er
  Peng Shuai
6–4, 4–6, [10-8]
Beijing

SinglesDoubles

  Caroline Wozniacki   Vera Zvonareva 6–3, 3–6, 6–3   Chuang Chia-jung   Gisela Dulko
  Flavia Pennetta
7–6(7–2), 1–6, [10–7]
  Olga Govortsova*

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "2010 Tournaments | WTA Official". Women's Tennis Association. Archived from the original on 2022-09-20.
  2. ^ "2010 Sony Ericsson WTA Tournament Calendar Prize Money". Archived from the original on 9 October 2010.
  3. ^ "2010 Dubai Tennis Championship Draw" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 October 2022.
  4. ^ "2010 Miami Masters Draw" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2011.
  5. ^ Bud Collins (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). New York City: New Chapter Press. pp. 740–741. ISBN 978-0942257700.
  6. ^ From Club Court to Center Court by Phillip S. Smith, page 3 (2008 Edition; ISBN 978-0-9712445-7-3).
  7. ^ "2010 China Open Draw" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2012.

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