2010 WTA Tour
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Caroline Wozniacki became the 10th year-end No. 1 player. | |
| Details | |
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| Duration | January 4 – November 7 |
| Edition | 40th |
| Tournaments | 57 |
| Categories |
Grand Slam (4) WTA Championships (2) WTA Premier Mandatory (4) WTA Premier 5 (5) WTA Premier (10) WTA International tournaments (32) |
| Achievements (singles) | |
| Most tournament titles |
 Caroline Wozniacki (6) |
| Most tournament finals |
Caroline Wozniacki (8) |
| Prize money leader |
.svg.png){kind=small} Kim Clijsters ($5,035,060) |
| Points leader |
Caroline Wozniacki (7,270) |
| Awards | |
| Player of the year |
Kim Clijsters |
| Doubles Team of the year |
 Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta |
| Most improved player of the year |
Francesca Schiavone |
| Newcomer of the year |
 Petra Kvitová |
| Comeback player of the year |
Justine Henin |
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The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the WTA. The 2010 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the WTA Premier tournaments (Premier Mandatory, Premier 5 and regular Premier), the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup (organized by the ITF), and the year-end championships (the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions and the WTA Tour Championships). Also included in the 2010 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which does not distribute ranking points and is organized by the ITF.
Notable stories
Serena Williams' season
Serena Williams began the season ranked World No. 1, having enjoyed an impressive 2009 season in which she won the Australian Open and Wimbledon (she would successfully defend both titles this year) and reclaimed the World No. 1 ranking on two occasions. Williams began her season by successfully defending her Australian Open title, defeating Justine Henin in a three-set final.[1] She also successfully defended her Wimbledon title, defeating surprise finalist Vera Zvonareva in the final, 6–3, 6–2.[2]
However, shortly after winning Wimbledon, Serena Williams would injure her foot at a German restaurant where she was celebrating her victory, but it didn't deter her from playing in an exhibition match against Kim Clijsters in front of a world-record tennis crowd that same week.[3] The foot injury ended up being very serious enough to necessitate surgery,[4] and as a result she missed the rest of the season and would not return to top-level tennis until June 2011. She was forced to miss her first US Open since 2003,[5] and also had to withdraw from the year-end championships having qualified by virtue of winning Wimbledon. The injury worsened late in the year; despite accepting a wildcard into Linz, she had to withdraw from that tournament, with her wildcard entry later allocated to former World No. 1 Ana Ivanovic.[6] Despite progress in her recovery from foot surgery, she lost the World No. 1 ranking to Danish youngster Caroline Wozniacki. Williams then announced her withdrawal from the 2011 Australian Open in November.[7] Williams later revealed in 2011 that the foot injury "almost killed her".[8]
Justine Henin's comeback
Former World No. 1 Justine Henin announced her comeback to the WTA Tour in September last year, in the aftermath of Kim Clijsters' victory at the 2009 US Open.[9] She had previously not played at the highest level since suffering a third round defeat to Dinara Safina (who went on to make the final of the French Open that year) at the 2008 Qatar Telecom German Open. Henin's comeback began impressively, reaching the final of the 2010 Brisbane International in which she lost to her compatriot and rival Kim Clijsters in a final set tiebreak.[10] She had defeated Nadia Petrova and Ana Ivanovic en route. She then reached the final of the Australian Open, in which she was defeated by Serena Williams in three sets,[1] having defeated fifth seed Elena Dementieva in the second round, 27th seed Alisa Kleybanova in the third, qualifier Yanina Wickmayer in the fourth, 19th seed Nadia Petrova in the quarter-finals and Zheng Jie in the semi-finals en route.
She then participated at her first French Open since 2007, where she was defeated in the fourth round by eventual finalist Samantha Stosur, ending a 24-match winning streak at the tournament dating back to 2005.[11] Prior to the defeat against Stosur, Henin had played her first three-set match at the tournament, also since 2005, when she defeated Maria Sharapova in the third round.[12] Later, at Wimbledon, Henin again reached the fourth round, but suffered a three-set loss to rival Clijsters.[13] During the match, she suffered an elbow injury which would later rule her out of the US Open, that same injury would lead to her second (and final) retirement in January 2011.
Ana Ivanovic's season
The first half of Ana Ivanovic's 2010 season appeared to follow on from her poor 2009 season, as her confidence and game continued to disintegrate since she won the 2008 French Open. She started the season ranked World No. 22 and spent almost the entire season ranked outside the Top 20. She was able to reach the semi-finals at the Brisbane International and the Rome Masters,[14] but those would be her best results in the first half of the season, as she dropped out of the WTA's Top 50 for the first time since 2005 with a second round loss to Anastasija Sevastova at Indian Wells.[15] On court results did not improve throughout the year, and Ivanovic dropped to a low of World No. 65 by July.[16] Adding to a growing season of disappointment, Ivanovic also suffered the ignominy of winning the wooden spoon at Wimbledon, having finished at the end of the tournament's longest losing chain after losing in the first round.[17]
However, Ivanovic would begin to turn her season around at the 2010 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open, entering the tournament having lost 17 of her last 29 matches dating back to August 2009 and having dropped to World No. 62. A first round upset win over recent Stanford champion Victoria Azarenka[18] sparked a run to the semi-finals, where she was forced to retire against Kim Clijsters due to a foot injury; nevertheless, she re-entered the World's Top 40 following her run at Cincinnati.[19] With no rankings points to defend for the remainder of the year, Ivanovic reached the fourth round of the US Open, the first time she had gotten that far at a Grand Slam tournament since Wimbledon in 2009. She defeated Ekaterina Makarova,[20] Zheng Jie[21] and Virginie Razzano[22] before being crushed by defending and eventual champion Kim Clijsters in the fourth round.
Ivanovic continued to maintain her recent good form after the US Open; she was able to reach the quarter-finals in Beijing where she was defeated by Caroline Wozniacki, who eventually replaced Serena Williams as the new World No. 1 by winning the tournament.[23] She then accepted a late wildcard entry into Linz after Williams withdrew due to her ongoing foot surgery,[6] where she won her first title in two years after defeating Patty Schnyder, 6–2, 6–1, in the year's shortest final; the title returned Ivanovic to the world's Top 30,[24] and qualified her for the 2010 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions in Bali. In her final tournament of the year, she defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Kimiko Date-Krumm en route to reaching her second final in three weeks, where she defeated Alisa Kleybanova to win her second title of the year and return to the world's Top 20 for the first time in more than one year.[25][26] Ivanovic ended her season by winning 21 of her last 27 matches, having lost 17 of her last 29 beforehand.
Schedule
This is the complete schedule of events on the 2010 calendar, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage.[27]
- Key
| Grand Slam events |
| Year-end championships |
| WTA Premier Mandatory tournaments |
| WTA Premier 5 tournaments |
| WTA Premier tournaments |
| WTA International tournaments |
| Team events |
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
| Week of | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
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| November 1 | Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions Bali, Indonesia Year-end championships $600,000 – Hard – 8S Singles Draw |  Ana Ivanovic6–2, 7–6(5) |  Alisa Kleybanova |  Kimiko Date-Krumm7–5, 7–5 |  Li Na Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Yanina Wickmayer Aravane Rezaï |
 Daniela Hantuchová | |||||
| Fed Cup Final San Diego, United States – Hard (i) | Italy 3–1 |  United States |
Statistical information
These tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 2010 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour: the Grand Slam tournaments, the Year-end championships, the WTA Premier tournaments and the WTA International tournaments. The players/nations are sorted by:
1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation);
2) highest amount of highest category tournaments (for example, having a single Grand Slam gives preference over any kind of combination without a Grand Slam title);
3) a singles > doubles > mixed doubles hierarchy;
4) alphabetical order (by family names for players).
To avoid confusion and double counting, these tables should be updated only after an event is completed.
Titles won by player
Titles won by nation
| Total titles | Country | Grand Slam tournaments |
Year-end championships |
Premier tournaments |
International tournaments |
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| Singles | Doubles | Mixed | Singles | Doubles | Singles | Doubles | Singles | Doubles | Singles | Doubles | Mixed | ||
| 21 | United States | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 1 | ||
| 19 | Russia | 4 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 13 | 6 | ||||||
| 17 | Italy | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 13 | |||||
| 13 | Czech Republic | 4 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 12 | |||||||
| 8 | Belgium | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |||||||
| Argentina | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | |||||||||
| 6 | Denmark | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||
 Spain | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
| 5 |  Zimbabwe | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | |||||||
 Slovenia | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||
 Belarus | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| 4 |  Australia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
 Romania | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| China | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
 Chinese Taipei | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||
 Germany | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| 3 | Serbia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| France | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
 Switzerland | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 2 |  Kazakhstan | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
 Hungary | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
 Thailand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1 |  Austria | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
 Colombia | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
 Estonia | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
 Latvia | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
 Ukraine | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
 Greece | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
 India | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
 Netherlands | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
 New Zealand | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
 Sweden | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Titles information
The following players won their first title in singles (S), doubles (D) or mixed doubles (X):
- Sofia Arvidsson - Quebec City (D)
- Timea Bacsinszky - Budapest (D)
- Alberta Brianti - Palermo (D)
- Chang Kai-chen - Osaka (D)
- Mariana Duque Mariño - Bogotá (S)
- Edina Gallovits - Bogotá (D)
- Julia Görges - Bad Gastein (S)
- Jarmila Groth - Guangzhou (S)
- Polona Hercog - Acapulco (D)
- Kaia Kanepi - Palermo (S)
- Alisa Kleybanova - Kuala Lumpur (S)
- Maria Kondratieva - Portorož (D)
- Alla Kudryavtseva - Tashkent (S)
- Johanna Larsson - Quebec City (D)
- Ekaterina Makarova - Eastbourne (S)
- Alexandra Panova - Tashkent (D)
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova - Monterrey (S)
- Anastasija Sevastova - Estoril (S)
The following players completed a successful title defence in singles (S), doubles (D) or mixed doubles (X):
- Cara Black - Birmingham (D)
- Kim Clijsters - US Open (S)
- Elena Dementieva - Sydney (S)
- Alexandra Dulgheru - Warsaw (S)
- Gisela Dulko - Båstad (D)
- Lucie Hradecká - Bad Gastein (D)
- Flavia Pennetta - Båstad (D)
- Nadia Petrova - Charleston (D)
- Tatiana Poutchek - Tashkent (D)
- Ágnes Szávay - Budapest (S)
- Tamarine Tanasugarn - Pattaya (D)
- Vladimíra Uhlířová - Potorož (D)
- Serena Williams - Australian Open (S/D), Wimbledon (S)
- Venus Williams - Australian Open (D), Dubai (S), Acapulco (S)
- Caroline Wozniacki - Ponte Vedra Beach (S), New Haven (S)
- Vera Zvonareva - Pattaya (S)
Rankings
Singles
The following is the 2010 top 20 in the Race To The Championships and the top 20 rank players in the world.[28] Premier Mandatory Events are counted for players in the top 10, even if they did not compete, unless there is an injury excuse.
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Number 1 Ranking
| Holder | Date Gained | Date Forfeited |
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| Serena Williams (USA) |
Year-End 2009 | 10 October 2010 |
| Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) |
11 October 2010 | Year-End 2010 |
Doubles
The following is the 2010 top 20 in the Race To The Championships – Doubles and the top 20 individual ranked doubles players.
Number 1 Ranking
| Holder | Date Gained | Date Forfeited |
|---|---|---|
| Cara Black (ZIM) Liezel Huber (USA) |
Year-End 2009 | 19 April 2010 |
| Liezel Huber (USA) |
7 June 2010 | |
| Serena Williams (USA) Venus Williams (USA) |
7 June 2010 | 2 August 2010 |
| Liezel Huber (USA) |
2 August 2010 | 1 November 2010 |
| Gisela Dulko (ARG) |
1 November 2010 | Year-End 2010 |
Prize money leaders
- As of 8 November 2010
| # | Country | Player | Singles | Doubles | Mixed | Bonus Pool 1 | Year-to-date |
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| 1. | BEL | Kim Clijsters | $5,019,440 | $7,025 | $8,595 | $0 | $5,035,060 |
| 2. | DEN | Caroline Wozniacki | $3,886,512 | $34,976 | $0 | $525,000 | $4,446,488 |
| 3. | USA | Serena Williams | $3,707,007 | $559,004 | $0 | $0 | $4,266,011 |
| 4. | RUS | Vera Zvonareva | $3,000,667 | $141,846 | $2,128 | $300,000 | $3,444,641 |
| 5. | USA | Venus Williams | $2,055,778 | $559,004 | $0 | $0 | $2,614,782 |
| 6. | ITA | Francesca Schiavone | $2,360,751 | $95,883 | $0 | $0 | $2,456,634 |
| 7. | SRB | Jelena Janković | $1,803,164 | $33,827 | $0 | $300,000 | $2,136,991 |
| 8. | AUS | Samantha Stosur | $1,917,832 | $168,251 | $4,257 | $0 | $2,090,340 |
| 9. | RUS | Elena Dementieva | $1,346,690 | $0 | $0 | $550,000 | $1,896,690 |
| 10. | BLR | Victoria Azarenka | $1,278,601 | $98,427 | $0 | $275,000 | $1,652,028 |
1Only for 2008 year-end top 10, Certain players receive fines for skipping events
Statistics leaders
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Point Distribution
| Description | W | F | SF | QF | R16 | R32 | R64 | R128 | QLFR | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
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| Grand Slam (S) | 2000 | 1400 | 900 | 500 | 280 | 160 | 100 | 5 | 60 | 50 | 40 | 2 |
| Grand Slam (D) | 2000 | 1400 | 900 | 500 | 280 | 160 | 5 | - | 48 | - | - | - |
| WTA Tour Championships (S) | +450 | +360 | (230 for each round robin match won 70 for each round robin match lost) | - | - | - | ||||||
| WTA Tour Championships (D) | 1500 | 1050 | 690 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Premier Mandatory (96S) | 1000 | 700 | 450 | 250 | 140 | 80 | 50 | 5 | 30 | - | 20 | 1 |
| Premier Mandatory (64S) | 1000 | 700 | 450 | 250 | 140 | 80 | 5 | - | 30 | - | 20 | 1 |
| Premier Mandatory (28/32D) | 1000 | 700 | 450 | 250 | 140 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Premier 5 (56S) | 900 | 620 | 395 | 225 | 125 | 70 | 1 | - | 30 | - | 20 | 1 |
| Premier 5 (28D) | 900 | 620 | 395 | 225 | 125 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Premier (56S) | 470 | 320 | 200 | 120 | 60 | 40 | 1 | - | 12 | - | 8 | 1 |
| Premier (32S) | 470 | 320 | 200 | 120 | 60 | 1 | - | - | 20 | 12 | 8 | 1 |
| Premier (16D) | 470 | 320 | 200 | 120 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions | 375 | 255 | 180(3rd) 165(4th) | 75 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| International (56S) | 280 | 200 | 130 | 70 | 30 | 15 | 1 | - | 10 | - | 6 | 1 |
| International (32S) | 280 | 200 | 130 | 70 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 16 | 10 | 6 | 1 |
| International (16D) | 280 | 200 | 130 | 70 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Retirements
Following are notable players who announced their retirement from the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour during the 2010 season:
- Elena Dementieva[30]
- Lindsay Davenport
- Janette Husárová[31]
- Katarina Srebotnik[32](still to compete in doubles)
- Alina Jidkova[33]
Jelena Kostanić Tošić[34]- Marta Marrero[35]
- Camille Pin[36]
- Virginia Ruano Pascual[37]
- Mara Santangelo[38] (still to compete in doubles)
Valérie Tétreault[39]- Nicole Vaidišová[40]
Rossana de los Ríos
Iroda Tulyaganova- Tatiana Perebiynis
- Laura Granville
- Anikó Kapros
- Sun Tiantian
- Meilen Tu
- Shenay Perry
- Nicole Thijssen
- Erica Krauth
- Goulnara Fattakhetdinova
See also
- 2010 ATP World Tour
- 2010 ATP Challenger Tour
- 2010 ITF Women's Circuit
- Women's Tennis Association
- International Tennis Federation
References
- 1 2 AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2010: Brilliant Serena Williams ends dreams of battling Justine Henin to win her 12th Grand Slam title | Mail Online
- ↑ Serena Williams sails to Wimbledon glory | The Sun |Sport|Tennis
- ↑ Serena Williams cuts foot on broken glass, will need surgery
- ↑ Serena Williams reveals details of her serious foot injury | Sport | guardian.co.uk
- ↑ Serena Williams withdraws from U.S. Open while recovering from cut foot - ESPN
- 1 2 BBC Sport - Tennis - Injured Serena Williams set to miss rest of the year
- ↑ Serena Williams pulls out of Australian Open to recover from foot surgery | Mail Online
- ↑ Serena Williams admits party night could have cost her life after recovery from blood clot | Mail Online
- ↑ BBC SPORT | Tennis | Henin plans 2010 tennis comeback
- ↑ Justine Henin's comeback stalled by injury sustained in epic final | Sport | guardian.co.uk
- ↑ French Open 2010: Justine Henin crashes out as Sam Stosur reaches last eight in Paris - Telegraph
- ↑ French Open 2010: Justine Henin defeats Maria Sharapova - Telegraph
- ↑ Wimbledon 2010: Kim Clijsters fights back to overpower Justine Henin | Sport | The Guardian
- ↑ Ivanovic serves up big improvement - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- ↑ Kuznetsova upset, Ivanovic out of Indian Wells and Top 50 | Ana Ivanovic
- ↑ High Strung - Tom Perrotta - The Atlantic
- ↑ Passing Shots: Ana picks up wooden spoon - Tennis - Other Sport - Sport - People.co.uk
- ↑ "Ivanovic turns back clock in Cincinnati". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 10 August 2010.
- ↑ Ivanovic's Cincinnati fairytale hampered by injury, Clijsters into finals | Ana Ivanovic
- ↑ Ivanovic says she is finding fun, building confidence after long fall - USATODAY.com
- ↑ US Open 2010: Ana Ivanovic storms past Zheng Jie to reach third round - Telegraph
- ↑ US OPEN 2010: Kim Clijsters to face Ana Ivanovic after both ease to third round wins | Mail Online
- ↑ Caroline Wozniacki - new world No1
- ↑ Generali Ladies Linz 2010: Ana Ivanovic beats Patty Schnyder to end her title drought
- ↑ Weekly net post: Welcome back Ana Ivanovic. We missed you - USATODAY.com
- ↑ Resurgent Ivanovic wins Bali crown | The Jakarta Post
- ↑ "2010 WTA calendar" (PDF). wtatour.com. WTA Tour, Inc. Retrieved 2010-11-07.
- ↑ "Race to the Sony Ericsson Championships". Rankings: Singles Standings. Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-11.
- ↑ http://www.wtatour.com/SEWTATour-Archive/Rankings_Stats/Singles_Numeric_2010.pdf
- ↑ "Dementieva Calls It A Career". WTA Tour. 2010-10-29. Archived from the original on 30 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-29.
- ↑ "Husárová ukončila kariéru, vrcholom triumf v PF" (in Slovak). Webnoviny. 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2010-10-29.
- ↑ "Double Threat To Doubles Threat". WTA Tour. 2010-11-08. Archived from the original on 14 November 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-08.
- ↑ "Alina Jidkova: Moving On". WTA Tour. 2010-12-06. Archived from the original on 6 December 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ↑ "Kostanić Tošić: Nikada se nisam isticala, možda je u tome problem" (in Croatian). Jutarnji List. 2010-09-07. Archived from the original on 8 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
- ↑ "´Abandono el tenis por una lesión de tobillo´" (in Spanish). La Provincia. 2010-01-23. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
- ↑ "Camille Calls Time On Career". Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. 2010-05-28. Archived from the original on 29 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
- ↑ "Virginia Ruano anuncia su retirada" (in Spanish). El Mundo. 2010-05-07. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
- ↑ "Mara: "Lascio il singolare"" (in Italian). Italian Tennis Federation. 2010-05-26. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
- ↑ "Canadian retires from WTA circuit". Toronto Sun. 2010-12-09. Retrieved 2010-12-09.
- ↑ "Vaidisova hangs up racket at 20". ABC Sport. 2010-03-18. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
External links
- Women's Tennis Association (WTA) official website
- International Tennis Federation (ITF) official website