2017 WTA Premier tournaments explained

The 2017 WTA Premier tournaments are 21 of the tennis tournaments on the 2017 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 Wuhan), and Premier (12 tournaments in Europe, United States and Australia).^[1]

Schedule

Premier

Week of	Tournament	Champions	Runners-up	Semifinalists	Quarterfinalists
2 January	Brisbane International Brisbane, Australia	Karolína Plíšková 6–0, 6–3		Elina Svitolina Garbiñe Muguruza	Angelique Kerber Roberta Vinci Svetlana Kuznetsova Dominika Cibulková
2 January	Brisbane International Brisbane, Australia	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sania Mirza 6–2, 6–3	Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina	Elina Svitolina Garbiñe Muguruza
9 January	Apia International Sydney Sydney, Australia	Johanna Konta 6–4, 6–2	Agnieszka Radwańska	Eugenie Bouchard Barbora Strýcová	Daria Kasatkina Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Caroline Wozniacki Duan Yingying
9 January	Apia International Sydney Sydney, Australia	Tímea Babos Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6–4, 6–4	Sania Mirza Barbora Strýcová	Eugenie Bouchard Barbora Strýcová
30 January	St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy St. Petersburg, Russia	Kristina Mladenovic 6–2, 6–7^(3–7), 6–4		Natalia Vikhlyantseva Dominika Cibulková	Simona Halep Roberta Vinci Svetlana Kuznetsova Elena Vesnina
30 January	St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy St. Petersburg, Russia	Jeļena Ostapenko Alicja Rosolska 3–6, 6–2, [10–5]	Darija Jurak Xenia Knoll	Natalia Vikhlyantseva Dominika Cibulková
13 February	Qatar Total Open Doha, Qatar	Karolína Plíšková 6–3, 6–4		Monica Puig Dominika Cibulková
13 February	Qatar Total Open Doha, Qatar	Abigail Spears Katarina Srebotnik 6–3, 7–6^(9–7)	Olga Savchuk Yaroslava Shvedova	Monica Puig Dominika Cibulková
3 April	Volvo Car Open Charleston, USA	Daria Kasatkina 6–3, 6–1		Mirjana Lučić-Baroni Laura Siegemund	Shelby Rogers Caroline Wozniacki Anastasija Sevastova Irina-Camelia Begu
3 April	Volvo Car Open Charleston, USA	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová 6–1, 4–6, [10–7]	Lucie Hradecká Kateřina Siniaková	Mirjana Lučić-Baroni Laura Siegemund
24 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Laura Siegemund 6–1, 2–6, 7–6^(7–5)	Kristina Mladenovic	Maria Sharapova Simona Halep	Carla Suárez Navarro Anett Kontaveit Anastasija Sevastova Karolína Plíšková
24 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Raquel Atawo Jeļena Ostapenko 6–4, 6–4	Abigail Spears Katarina Srebotnik	Maria Sharapova Simona Halep
19 June	Aegon Classic Birmingham, UK	Petra Kvitová 4–6, 6–3, 6–2		Lucie Šafářová Garbiñe Muguruza	Daria Gavrilova Kristina Mladenovic Coco Vandeweghe Camila Giorgi
19 June	Aegon Classic Birmingham, UK	Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua 6–1, 2–6, [10–8]	Chan Hao-ching Zhang Shuai	Lucie Šafářová Garbiñe Muguruza
26 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	Karolína Plíšková 6–4, 6–4		Johanna Konta Heather Watson
26 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	Chan Yung-jan Martina Hingis 6–3, 7–5	Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua	Johanna Konta Heather Watson
31 July	Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA	Madison Keys 7–6^(7–4), 6–4			Ana Konjuh Lesia Tsurenko Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Petra Kvitová
31 July	Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA	Abigail Spears Coco Vandeweghe 6–2, 6–3	Alizé Cornet Alicja Rosolska
21 August	Connecticut Open New Haven, USA	Daria Gavrilova 4–6, 6–3, 6–4	Dominika Cibulková	Agnieszka Radwańska Elise Mertens	Peng Shuai Kirsten Flipkens Zhang Shuai Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
21 August	Connecticut Open New Haven, USA	Gabriela Dabrowski Xu Yifan 3–6, 6–3, [10–8]	Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua	Agnieszka Radwańska Elise Mertens
18 September	Toray Pan Pacific Open Tokyo, Japan	Caroline Wozniacki 6–0, 7–5			Caroline Garcia Dominika Cibulková Barbora Strýcová Karolína Plíšková
18 September	Toray Pan Pacific Open Tokyo, Japan	Andreja Klepač María José Martínez Sánchez 6–3, 6–2	Daria Gavrilova Daria Kasatkina
16 October	Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia	Julia Görges 6–1, 6–2	Daria Kasatkina	Irina-Camelia Begu Natalia Vikhlyantseva	Aliaksandra Sasnovich Vera Lapko Alizé Cornet Lesia Tsurenko
16 October	Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia	Tímea Babos Andrea Hlaváčková 6–2, 3–6, [10–3]	Nicole Melichar Anna Smith	Irina-Camelia Begu Natalia Vikhlyantseva

Notes and References

Web site: 2017 WTA Tournament Prize Money . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170126233023/http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/Archive/AboutTheTour/TourCalendar2017.pdf . 26 January 2017.