2013 WTA Premier tournaments explained

The 2013 WTA Premier tournaments are 21 of the tennis tournaments on the 2013 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 (Doha, Rome, Canada, Cincinnati and Tokyo), and Premier (12 tournaments in Europe, United States and Australia).^[1] ^[2]

Schedule

Premier

Week of	Tournament	Champions	Runners-up	Semifinalists	Quarterfinalists
31 December	Brisbane International Brisbane, Australia	Serena Williams 6–2, 6–1			Ksenia Pervak Sloane Stephens Angelique Kerber Daniela Hantuchová
31 December	Brisbane International Brisbane, Australia	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sania Mirza 4–6, 6–4, [10–7]	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Květa Peschke
7 January	Apia International Sydney Sydney, Australia	Agnieszka Radwańska 6–0, 6–0		Li Na Angelique Kerber	Roberta Vinci Madison Keys Sara Errani Svetlana Kuznetsova
7 January	Apia International Sydney Sydney, Australia	Nadia Petrova Katarina Srebotnik 6-3, 6-4	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	Li Na Angelique Kerber	Roberta Vinci Madison Keys Sara Errani Svetlana Kuznetsova
28 January	Open GDF Suez Paris, France	Mona Barthel 7–5, 7–6^(7–4)			Carla Suárez Navarro Lucie Šafářová Marion Bartoli Petra Kvitová
28 January	Open GDF Suez Paris, France	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci 6–1, 6–1	Andrea Hlaváčková Liezel Huber
18 February	Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships Dubai, UAE	Petra Kvitová 6–2, 1–6, 6–1			Nadia Petrova Samantha Stosur Agnieszka Radwańska Marion Bartoli
18 February	Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships Dubai, UAE	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sania Mirza 6–4, 2–6, [10–7]	Nadia Petrova Katarina Srebotnik
1 April	Family Circle Cup Charleston, USA	Serena Williams 3–6, 6–0, 6–2			Lucie Šafářová Madison Keys Eugenie Bouchard Caroline Wozniacki
1 April	Family Circle Cup Charleston, USA	Kristina Mladenovic Lucie Šafářová 6–3, 7–6^(8–6)	Andrea Hlaváčková Liezel Huber
22 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Maria Sharapova 6–4, 6–3			Ana Ivanovic Yaroslava Shvedova Sabine Lisicki Petra Kvitová
22 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Mona Barthel Sabine Lisicki 6–4, 7–5	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sania Mirza
20 May	Brussels Open Brussels, Belgium	Kaia Kanepi 6–2, 7–5			Zheng Jie Sloane Stephens Varvara Lepchenko Roberta Vinci
20 May	Brussels Open Brussels, Belgium	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Květa Peschke 6–0, 6–3	Gabriela Dabrowski Shahar Pe'er		Zheng Jie Sloane Stephens Varvara Lepchenko Roberta Vinci
17 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	Elena Vesnina 6–2, 6–1			Lucie Šafářová Ekaterina Makarova Maria Kirilenko Li Na
17 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	Nadia Petrova Katarina Srebotnik 6–3, 6–3	Monica Niculescu Klára Zakopalová		Lucie Šafářová Ekaterina Makarova Maria Kirilenko Li Na
22 July	Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA	Dominika Cibulková 3–6, 6–4, 6–4			Varvara Lepchenko Vera Dushevina Urszula Radwańska Olga Govortsova
22 July	Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears 6–2, 7–6^(7–4)	Julia Görges Darija Jurak
29 July	Southern California Open Carlsbad, USA	Samantha Stosur 6–2, 6–3			Urszula Radwańska Roberta Vinci Petra Kvitová Agnieszka Radwańska
29 July	Southern California Open Carlsbad, USA	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears 6–4, 6–1	Chan Hao-ching Janette Husárová
19 August	New Haven Open at Yale New Haven, USA	Simona Halep 6–2, 6–2			Ekaterina Makarova Sloane Stephens Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Elena Vesnina
19 August	New Haven Open at Yale New Haven, USA	Sania Mirza Zheng Jie 6–3, 6–4	Anabel Medina Garrigues Katarina Srebotnik
14 October	Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia	Simona Halep 7–6^(7–1), 6–2			Daniela Hantuchová Alisa Kleybanova Ana Ivanovic Roberta Vinci
14 October	Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia	Samantha Stosur Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–1, 1–6, [10–8]	Alla Kudryavtseva Anastasia Rodionova

Notes and References

Web site: 2013 WTA calendar . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121020181910/http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/Archive/AboutTheTour/TourCalendar_2013.pdf . 2012-10-20 . 2013-03-01 . wtatennis.com . WTA Tour, Inc. . PDF.
Web site: 2013 WTA Calendar . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130117072439/http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/Archive/AboutTheTour/TourCalendar_2013_01092.pdf . 17 January 2013.