2010 WTA Premier tournaments explained

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

Premier

Week of	Tournament	Champions	Runners-up	Semifinalists	Quarterfinalists
10 January	Medibank International Sydney Sydney, Australia	Elena Dementieva 6–3, 6–2			Vera Dushevina Flavia Pennetta Dominika Cibulková Dinara Safina
10 January	Medibank International Sydney Sydney, Australia	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			Andrea Petkovic Ágnes Szávay Shahar Pe'er Tathiana Garbin
8 February	Open GDF Suez Paris, France	Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová w/o	Cara Black Liezel Huber		Andrea Petkovic Ágnes Szávay Shahar Pe'er Tathiana Garbin
12 April	Family Circle Cup Charleston, USA	Samantha Stosur 6–0, 6–3	Vera Zvonareva		Nadia Petrova Melanie Oudin Peng Shuai Jelena Janković
12 April	Family Circle Cup Charleston, USA	Liezel Huber Nadia Petrova 6–3, 6–4	Vania King Michaëlla Krajicek		Nadia Petrova Melanie Oudin Peng Shuai Jelena Janković
26 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Justine Henin 6–4, 2–6, 6–1	Samantha Stosur		Lucie Šafářová Li Na Jelena Janković Dinara Safina
26 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta 3–6, 7–6³, [10–5]			Lucie Šafářová Li Na Jelena Janković Dinara Safina
17 May	Warsaw Open Warsaw, Poland	Alexandra Dulgheru 6–3, 6–4		Gréta Arn Li Na	Caroline Wozniacki Alona Bondarenko Sara Errani Tsvetana Pironkova
17 May	Warsaw Open Warsaw, Poland	Virginia Ruano Pascual Meghann Shaughnessy 6–3, 6–4	Cara Black Yan Zi	Gréta Arn Li Na
14 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	Ekaterina Makarova 7–6^(7–5), 6–4
14 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	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			Yanina Wickmayer Marion Bartoli Maria Kirilenko Elena Dementieva
26 July	Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA	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			Alisa Kleybanova Shahar Pe'er Coco Vandeweghe Samantha Stosur
2 August	Southern California Open San Diego, USA	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			Flavia Pennetta Marion Bartoli Dinara Safina Samantha Stosur
22 August	Pilot Pen Tennis at Yale New Haven, USA	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			Zarina Diyas Anna Chakvetadze Dominika Cibulková Alisa Kleybanova
18 October	Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta 6–3, 2–6, [10–6]	Sara Errani María José Martínez Sánchez

References

Web site: sonyericssonwtatour.com. 2010 WTA calendar. 8 October 2009. 2009-09-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20091007025539/http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/Archive/AboutTheTour/TourCalendar_2010.pdf. 2009-10-07. dead.
Web site: sonyericssonwtatour.com . 2010 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Tournament Calendar . 2010-10-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101009172913/http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/page/Calendar/0%2C%2C12781%2C00.html . 9 October 2010 . live .