WTA Elite Trophy

The WTA Elite Trophy is the second-tier year-end professional women's tennis tournament on the WTA Tour. It is the successor event of the WTA Tournament of Champions which took place from 2009–14.

WTA Elite Trophy
Tournament information
Founded2015 (2015)
Editions5th (2019)
LocationZhuhai
China (2015–2020)
VenueHengqin Tennis Center
CategoryTour Championships[1]
SurfaceHard - outdoors
Draw12S / 6D
Prize moneyUS$2,419,844 (2019)
Websitewtaelitetrophy.com
Current champions (2019)
Women's singles Aryna Sabalenka
Women's doubles Lyudmyla Kichenok
Andreja Klepač

The Elite Trophy takes place at the end of each season in two disciplines: singles and doubles. The singles event features 12 players (11 of them ranked from 9th to 19th on the final table of the WTA ranking, and one wildcard). The players are split into four groups of three, with the group winners advancing to the single elimination semifinals. The doubles championships features six teams in two groups with the group winners contesting the final.[2]

The inaugural edition was held in 2015, offering $2.15 million in prize money. Zhuhai, China, hosts the WTA Elite Trophy for the first six years until 2020.

Venues
Venue Years Stadium Surface Capacity
Zhuhai, China 2015–2019 Hengqin International Tennis Center [3] Hard 5,000

Past results

Singles
Venue Year Champion Runner-up Score in final
Zhuhai 2015 Venus Williams Karolína Plíšková 7–5, 7–6(8–6)
2016 Petra Kvitová Elina Svitolina 6–4, 6–2
2017 Julia Görges CoCo Vandeweghe 7–5, 6–1
2018 Ashleigh Barty Wang Qiang 6–3, 6–4
2019 Aryna Sabalenka Kiki Bertens 6–4, 6–2

Doubles
Venue Year Champion Runner-up Score in final
Zhuhai 2015 Liang Chen
Wang Yafan		 Anabel Medina Garrigues
Arantxa Parra Santonja		 6–4, 6–3
2016 İpek Soylu
Xu Yifan		 Yang Zhaoxuan
You Xiaodi		 6–4, 3–6, [10–7]
2017 Duan Yingying
Han Xinyun		 Lu Jingjing
Zhang Shuai		 6–2, 6–1
2018 Lyudmyla Kichenok
Nadiia Kichenok		 Shuko Aoyama
Lidziya Marozava		 6–4, 3–6, [10–7]
2019 Lyudmyla Kichenok (2)
Andreja Klepač		 Duan Yingying
Yang Zhaoxuan		 6–3, 6–3

See also

WTA Finals

References
  1. "WTA Elite Trophy Info". WTA Tour. Retrieved 2017-10-29.
  2. "WTA Elite Trophy To Debut In Zhuhai". WTA Tour. 2014-10-08. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
  3. "Venue Info". Populous.com. Retrieved 2015-03-29.
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