2011 WTA Premier tournaments explained

The 2011 WTA Premier tournaments are 20 of the tennis tournaments on the 2011 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, Canada, Cincinnati and Tokyo), and Premier (11 tournaments in Europe, United States and Australia).^[1]

Schedule

Premier

Week of	Tournament	Champions	Runners-up	Quarterfinalists
10 January	Medibank International Sydney Sydney, Australia	Li Na 7–6^(7–3), 6–3		Dominika Cibulková Victoria Azarenka Svetlana Kuznetsova Flavia Pennetta
10 January	Medibank International Sydney Sydney, Australia	Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová 4–6, 6–4, [10–7]	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik
7 February	Open GDF Suez Paris, France	Petra Kvitová 6–4, 6–3		Jelena Dokić Dominika Cibulková Yanina Wickmayer Andrea Petkovic
7 February	Open GDF Suez Paris, France	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Meghann Shaughnessy 6–4, 6–2	Vera Dushevina Ekaterina Makarova
21 February	Qatar Ladies Open Doha, Qatar	Vera Zvonareva 6–4, 6–4		Flavia Pennetta Peng Shuai Klára Zakopalová Daniela Hantuchová
21 February	Qatar Ladies Open Doha, Qatar	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik 7–5, 6–7^(2–7), [10–8]	Liezel Huber Nadia Petrova
4 April	Family Circle Cup Charleston, USA	Caroline Wozniacki 6–2, 6–3		Yanina Wickmayer Christina McHale Sania Mirza Julia Görges
4 April	Family Circle Cup Charleston, USA	Sania Mirza Elena Vesnina 6–4, 6–4,	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Meghann Shaughnessy	Yanina Wickmayer Christina McHale Sania Mirza Julia Görges
18 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Julia Görges 7–6^(7–3), 6–3		Andrea Petkovic Kristina Barrois Sabine Lisicki Vera Zvonareva
18 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Sabine Lisicki Samantha Stosur 6–1, 7–6^(7–5)	Kristina Barrois Jasmin Wöhr
16 May	Brussels Ladies Open Brussels, Belgium	Caroline Wozniacki 2–6, 6–3, 6–3		Yanina Wickmayer Ayumi Morita Sofia Arvidsson Alexandra Dulgheru
16 May	Brussels Ladies Open Brussels, Belgium	Andrea Hlaváčková Galina Voskoboeva 3–6, 6–0, [10–5]	Klaudia Jans Alicja Rosolska
13 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	Marion Bartoli 6–1, 4–6, 7–5		Vera Zvonareva Victoria Azarenka Agnieszka Radwańska Venus Williams
13 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik 6–3, 6–0	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond
25 July	Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA	Serena Williams 7–5, 6–1		Marina Erakovic Ayumi Morita Agnieszka Radwańska Maria Sharapova
25 July	Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA	Victoria Azarenka Maria Kirilenko 6–1, 6–3	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond
1 August	Mercury Insurance Open San Diego, USA	Agnieszka Radwańska 6–3, 6–4		Sabine Lisicki Peng Shuai Daniela Hantuchová Sloane Stephens
1 August	Mercury Insurance Open San Diego, USA	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik 6–0, 6–2	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears
22 August	Pilot Pen Tennis at Yale New Haven, USA	Caroline Wozniacki 6–4, 6–1		Christina McHale Anabel Medina Garrigues Marion Bartoli Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
22 August	Pilot Pen Tennis at Yale New Haven, USA	Chuang Chia-jung Olga Govortsova 7–5, 6–2	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci
17 October	Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia	Dominika Cibulková 3–6, 7–6^(7–1), 7–5		Vera Zvonareva Marion Bartoli Svetlana Kuznetsova Vera Dushevina
17 October	Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia	Vania King Yaroslava Shvedova 7–6^(7–3), 6–3	Anastasia Rodionova Galina Voskoboeva

Notes and References

Web site: 2011 WTA calendar . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101121141918/http://www.wtatour.com/SEWTATour-Archive/Archive/AboutTheTour/TourCalendar_2011.pdf . 21 November 2010 . 5 November 2010 . WTA Tour.