2013 WTA Premier tournaments

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

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Premier

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Week of Tournament Champions Runners-up Semifinalists Quarterfinalists
31 December Brisbane International
Brisbane, Australia
  Serena Williams
6–2, 6–1
  Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova   Victoria Azarenka
  Lesia Tsurenko
  Ksenia Pervak
  Sloane Stephens
  Angelique Kerber
  Daniela Hantuchová
  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
  Dominika Cibulková   Li Na
  Angelique Kerber
  Roberta Vinci
  Madison Keys
  Sara Errani
  Svetlana Kuznetsova
  Nadia Petrova
  Katarina Srebotnik

6-3, 6-4
  Sara Errani
  Roberta Vinci
28 January Open GDF Suez
Paris, France
  Mona Barthel
7–5, 7–6(7–4)
  Sara Errani   Kiki Bertens
  Kristina Mladenovic
  Carla Suárez Navarro
  Lucie Šafářová
  Marion Bartoli
  Petra Kvitová
  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
  Sara Errani   Roberta Vinci
  Caroline Wozniacki
  Nadia Petrova
  Samantha Stosur
  Agnieszka Radwańska
  Marion Bartoli
  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
  Jelena Janković   Venus Williams
  Stefanie Vögele
  Lucie Šafářová
  Madison Keys
  Eugenie Bouchard
  Caroline Wozniacki
  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
  Li Na   Angelique Kerber
  Bethanie Mattek-Sands
  Ana Ivanovic
  Yaroslava Shvedova
  Sabine Lisicki
  Petra Kvitová
  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
  Peng Shuai   Romina Oprandi
  Jamie Hampton
  Zheng Jie
  Sloane Stephens
  Varvara Lepchenko
  Roberta Vinci
  Anna-Lena Grönefeld
  Květa Peschke

6–0, 6–3
  Gabriela Dabrowski
  Shahar Pe'er
17 June Aegon International
Eastbourne, UK
  Elena Vesnina
6–2, 6–1
  Jamie Hampton   Caroline Wozniacki
  Yanina Wickmayer
  Lucie Šafářová
  Ekaterina Makarova
  Maria Kirilenko
  Li Na
  Nadia Petrova
  Katarina Srebotnik

6–3, 6–3
  Monica Niculescu
  Klára Zakopalová
22 July Bank of the West Classic
Stanford, USA
  Dominika Cibulková
3–6, 6–4, 6–4
  Agnieszka Radwańska   Jamie Hampton
  Sorana Cîrstea
  Varvara Lepchenko
  Vera Dushevina
  Urszula Radwańska
  Olga Govortsova
  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
  Victoria Azarenka   Ana Ivanovic
  Virginie Razzano
  Urszula Radwańska
  Roberta Vinci
  Petra Kvitová
  Agnieszka Radwańska
  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
  Petra Kvitová   Caroline Wozniacki
  Klára Zakopalová
  Ekaterina Makarova
  Sloane Stephens
  Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
  Elena Vesnina
  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
  Samantha Stosur   Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
  Svetlana Kuznetsova
  Daniela Hantuchová
  Alisa Kleybanova
  Ana Ivanovic
  Roberta Vinci
  Samantha Stosur
  Svetlana Kuznetsova

6–1, 1–6, [10–8]
  Alla Kudryavtseva
  Anastasia Rodionova

References

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  1. ^ "2013 WTA calendar" (PDF). wtatennis.com. WTA Tour, Inc. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  2. ^ "2013 WTA Calendar" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 January 2013.