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WTA Premier tournaments was a category of tennis tournaments in the WTA Tour, implemented from the reorganization of the schedule in 2009 until 2020. In 2020, Premier events included: Four "Premier Mandatory" events in Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, and Beijing with prize money of $4.5 million.
The WTA 1000 tournaments are a category of tennis tournaments on the WTA Tour, governed by the Women's Tennis Association. The old WTA Premier Mandatory and 5 tournaments merged into a single highest tier implemented in the 2021 schedule reorganization.
A total of 43 different players won titles in 2017, including nine different players winning the nine biggest events of 2017 across the Grand Slams, Premier Mandatory events and WTA Finals.
The tournament level was originally introduced to the Tour in 2009 as Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 tournaments and later changed to WTA 1000 in 2021. Doha and Dubai share the rights to host the WTA 1000 level tournament in February.
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: Doha, Rome, Canada, Cincinnati ...
Dec 3, 2020 · So goodbye to confusing designations like Premier Mandatory, Premier 5, Premier and International. Tournaments that fell into those first two tiers are being merged into the new WTA 1,000...
Dec 2, 2020 · The four “Premier Mandatory” events — Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Beijing and the “Premier 5” events — Doha, Rome, Canada, Cincinnati and Wuhan – will become WTA 1000s. The Premier events will be WTA 500s. The WTA Internationals will now be WTA 250s.
