Weemen's Tennis Association

Women's Tennis Association WTA
Sport	Professional tennis
Foondit	1973
Chairman	Stacey Allaster
Chief Exec	Stacey Allaster
Official website
www.wtatennis.com

The Weemen's Tennis Association (WTA), foondit in 1973 bi Billie Jean King, is the principal organizin body o weemen's professional tennis. It govrens the WTA Tour which is the warldwide professional tennis tour for weemen. Its coonterpairt organisation in the men's professional gemme is the Association o Tennis Professionals (ATP).

The Weemen's Tennis Association wis foondit in the month o Juin 1973, but can trace its origins back tae Houston, Texas wi the inaugural Virginia Slims toornament, arranged bi Gladys Heldman, an held on 23 September 1970. Rosie Casals wan this first event. The WTA's corporate heidquarters is in St. Petersburg, Florida. The European heidquarters is in Lunnon, an the Asie-Paceefic heidquarters is in Beijing.

WTA Rankins

Main airticle: WTA Rankings

Thir leets are based on the WTA Rankins.

WTA Rankins (Singles), as o 28 Mey 2018
No.	Player	Pynts	Muive†
1	Simona Halep (ROU)	7,270
2	Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)	6,935
3	Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP)	6,010
4	Elina Svitolina (UKR)	5,505
5	Jeļena Ostapenko (LAT)	5,382
6	Karolína Plíšková (CZE)	5,335
7	Caroline Garcia (FRA)	5,160
8	Petra Kvitová (CZE)	4,550
9	Venus Williams (USA)	4,201
10	Sloane Stephens (USA)	4,164
11	Julia Görges (GER)	3,090
12	Angelique Kerber (GER)	3,040
13	Madison Keys (USA)	2,826
14	Daria Kasatkina (RUS)	2,825
15	CoCo Vandeweghe (USA)	2,533
16	Elise Mertens (BEL)	2,525
17	Ashleigh Barty (AUS)	2,360
18	Magdaléna Rybáriková (SVK)	2,225	1
19	Anastasija Sevastova (LAT)	2,225	1
20	Naomi Osaka (JPN)	2,150	1

^†Change since previous rankings

WTA Rankins (Doobles), as o 27 Februar 2017
#	Player	Pynts	Prev	Muive‡
1	Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)	9,955	1
2	Lucie Šafářová (CZE)	8,600	2
3	Caroline Garcia (FRA)	8,230	3
	Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)
5	Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)	7,735	6	1
6	Elena Vesnina (RUS)	7,640	5	1
7	Sania Mirza (IND)	6,405	7
8	Martina Hingis (SUI)	5,205	8
9	Andrea Hlaváčková (CZE)	4,870	9
10	Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ)	4,585	11	1
11	Tímea Babos (HUN)	4,500	10	1
12	Barbora Strýcová (CZE)	4,390	12
13	Peng Shuai (CHN)	3,920	16	3
14	Karolína Plíšková (CZE)	3,635	15	1
15	Chan Hao-ching (TPE)	3,510	14	1
16	Chan Yung-jan (TPE)	3,350	13	3
17	Lucie Hradecká (CZE)	3,210	18	1
18	Abigail Spears (USA)	3,195	19	1
19	Julia Görges (GER)	3,080	17	2
20	Monica Niculescu (ROU)	3,025	20

^‡Chynge syne previous week's rankins

References

Freemit airtins

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