2010 WTA Premier tournaments

The 2010 WTA Premier tournaments are 19 of the tennis tournaments on the 2010 WTA Tour. The WTA Tour is the elite tour for women's professional tennis. The WTA Premier tournaments rank below the Grand Slam events and above the WTA International tournaments. They are divided into three levels: Premier Mandatory (Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Beijing), Premier 5 (Dubai, Rome, Cincinnati, Canada and Tokyo), and Premier (10 tournaments in Europe, United States and Australia).

Schedule edit

Premier edit

Week of Tournament Champions Runners-up Semifinalists Quarterfinalists
10 January Medibank International Sydney
Sydney, Australia
  Elena Dementieva
6–3, 6–2
  Serena Williams   Aravane Rezaï
  Victoria Azarenka
  Vera Dushevina
  Flavia Pennetta
  Dominika Cibulková
  Dinara Safina
  Cara Black
  Liezel Huber

6–1, 3–6, [10–3]
  Tathiana Garbin
  Nadia Petrova
8 February Open GDF Suez
Paris, France
  Elena Dementieva
6–7(5–7), 6–1, 6–4
  Lucie Šafářová   Melanie Oudin
  Flavia Pennetta
  Andrea Petkovic
  Ágnes Szávay
  Shahar Pe'er
  Tathiana Garbin
  Iveta Benešová
  Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová

w/o
  Cara Black
  Liezel Huber
12 April Family Circle Cup
Charleston, USA
  Samantha Stosur
6–0, 6–3
  Vera Zvonareva   Caroline Wozniacki
  Daniela Hantuchová
  Nadia Petrova
  Melanie Oudin
  Peng Shuai
  Jelena Janković
  Liezel Huber
  Nadia Petrova

6–3, 6–4
  Vania King
  Michaëlla Krajicek
26 April Porsche Tennis Grand Prix
Stuttgart, Germany
  Justine Henin
6–4, 2–6, 6–1
  Samantha Stosur   Anna Lapushchenkova
  Shahar Pe'er
  Lucie Šafářová
  Li Na
  Jelena Janković
  Dinara Safina
  Gisela Dulko
  Flavia Pennetta

3–6, 7–63, [10–5]
  Květa Peschke
  Katarina Srebotnik
17 May Warsaw Open
Warsaw, Poland
  Alexandra Dulgheru
6–3, 6–4
  Zheng Jie   Gréta Arn
  Li Na
  Caroline Wozniacki
  Alona Bondarenko
  Sara Errani
  Tsvetana Pironkova
  Virginia Ruano Pascual
  Meghann Shaughnessy

6–3, 6–4
  Cara Black
  Yan Zi
14 June Aegon International
Eastbourne, UK
  Ekaterina Makarova
7–6(7–5), 6–4
  Victoria Azarenka   Marion Bartoli
  Samantha Stosur
  María José Martínez Sánchez
  Kim Clijsters
  Elena Baltacha
  Svetlana Kuznetsova
  Lisa Raymond
  Rennae Stubbs

6–2, 2–6, [13–11]
  Květa Peschke
  Katarina Srebotnik
26 July Bank of the West Classic
Stanford, USA
  Victoria Azarenka
6–4, 6–1
  Maria Sharapova   Samantha Stosur
  Agnieszka Radwańska
  Yanina Wickmayer
  Marion Bartoli
  Maria Kirilenko
  Elena Dementieva
  Lindsay Davenport
  Liezel Huber

7–5, 6–7(8–10), [10–8]
  Chan Yung-jan
  Zheng Jie
2 August Southern California Open
San Diego, USA
  Svetlana Kuznetsova
6–4, 6–7(7–9), 6–3
  Agnieszka Radwańska   Daniela Hantuchová
  Flavia Pennetta
  Alisa Kleybanova
  Shahar Pe'er
  Coco Vandeweghe
  Samantha Stosur
  Maria Kirilenko
  Zheng Jie

6–4, 6–4
  Lisa Raymond
  Rennae Stubbs
22 August Pilot Pen Tennis at Yale
New Haven, USA
  Caroline Wozniacki
6–3, 3–6, 6–3
  Nadia Petrova   Elena Dementieva
  Maria Kirilenko
  Flavia Pennetta
  Marion Bartoli
  Dinara Safina
  Samantha Stosur
  Květa Peschke
  Katarina Srebotnik

7–5, 6–0
  Bethanie Mattek-Sands
  Meghann Shaughnessy
18 October Kremlin Cup
Moscow, Russia
  Victoria Azarenka
6–3, 6–4
  Maria Kirilenko   Vera Dushevina
  María José Martínez Sánchez
  Zarina Diyas
  Anna Chakvetadze
  Dominika Cibulková
  Alisa Kleybanova
  Gisela Dulko
  Flavia Pennetta

6–3, 2–6, [10–6]
  Sara Errani
  María José Martínez Sánchez

References edit

  • "2010 WTA calendar" (PDF). sonyericssonwtatour.com. 8 October 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-10-07. Retrieved 2009-09-05.
  • "2010 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Tournament Calendar". sonyericssonwtatour.com. Archived from the original on 9 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-10.