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WTA 250 vs WTA 500 vs WTA 1000: What Is the Difference?
WTA 250, 500 and 1000 events are the three regular tiers of the women's tour. They sit below the four Grand Slams and the season-ending WTA Finals, and the simplest way to…
Tours & Rankings
How the WTA and ATP tours are built: tournament tiers, ranking points, prize money and the rules that bring players back after injury.
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How WTA Ranking Points Work and When They Drop Off
A WTA singles ranking is not an average of every event a player enters. It is the total of her best results from a limited number of tournaments inside a rolling 52-week…
Tours & Rankings
How Much Prize Money Does a Tennis Player Get for Losing in the First Round?
First-round losers in professional tennis can earn anything from a six-figure cheque at a Grand Slam to a few hundred dollars at an ITF event. The headline number only makes…
Tours & Rankings
What Is a Protected Ranking in Tennis and Who Can Use It?
A protected ranking lets a player who has been away from the tour through injury, illness or pregnancy enter tournaments using the ranking she had before she stopped. It is…
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Roll of honour
Champions of the Luxembourg tournament from the invitation years to 2006, and the organisers.
