2011 WTA Premier tournaments

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]

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Week of Tournament Champions Runners-up Semifinalists Quarterfinalists
10 January Medibank International Sydney
Sydney, Australia
  Li Na
7–6(7–3), 6–3
  Kim Clijsters   Alisa Kleybanova
  Bojana Jovanovski
  Dominika Cibulková
  Victoria Azarenka
  Svetlana Kuznetsova
  Flavia Pennetta
  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
  Kim Clijsters   Kaia Kanepi
  Bethanie Mattek-Sands
  Jelena Dokić
  Dominika Cibulková
  Yanina Wickmayer
  Andrea Petkovic
  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
  Caroline Wozniacki   Marion Bartoli
  Jelena Janković
  Flavia Pennetta
  Peng Shuai
  Klára Zakopalová
  Daniela Hantuchová
  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
  Elena Vesnina   Jelena Janković
  Peng Shuai
  Yanina Wickmayer
  Christina McHale
  Sania Mirza
  Julia Görges
  Sania Mirza
  Elena Vesnina

6–4, 6–4,
  Bethanie Mattek-Sands
  Meghann Shaughnessy
18 April Porsche Tennis Grand Prix
Stuttgart, Germany
  Julia Görges
7–6(7–3), 6–3
  Caroline Wozniacki   Agnieszka Radwańska
  Samantha Stosur
  Andrea Petkovic
  Kristina Barrois
  Sabine Lisicki
  Vera Zvonareva
  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
  Peng Shuai   Francesca Schiavone
  Vera Zvonareva
  Yanina Wickmayer
  Ayumi Morita
  Sofia Arvidsson
  Alexandra Dulgheru
  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
  Petra Kvitová   Samantha Stosur
  Daniela Hantuchová
  Vera Zvonareva
  Victoria Azarenka
  Agnieszka Radwańska
  Venus Williams
  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
  Marion Bartoli   Dominika Cibulková
  Sabine Lisicki
  Marina Erakovic
  Ayumi Morita
  Agnieszka Radwańska
  Maria Sharapova
  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
  Vera Zvonareva   Ana Ivanovic
  Andrea Petkovic
  Sabine Lisicki
  Peng Shuai
  Daniela Hantuchová
  Sloane Stephens
  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
  Petra Cetkovská   Francesca Schiavone
  Li Na
  Christina McHale
  Anabel Medina Garrigues
  Marion Bartoli
  Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
  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
  Kaia Kanepi   Elena Vesnina
  Lucie Šafářová
  Vera Zvonareva
  Marion Bartoli
  Svetlana Kuznetsova
  Vera Dushevina
  Vania King
  Yaroslava Shvedova

7–6(7–3), 6–3
  Anastasia Rodionova
  Galina Voskoboeva

References edit

  1. ^ "2011 WTA calendar" (PDF). WTA Tour. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 November 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2010.