2011 WTA Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 tournaments

The WTA Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 tournaments, which are part of the WTA Premier tournaments, make up the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the WTA called the WTA Tour. There are four Premier Mandatory tournaments: Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Beijing and five Premier 5 tournaments: Dubai, Rome, Canada, Cincinnati and Tokyo.[1]

2011 Premier Mandatory / Premier 5
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DurationFebruary 14 – October 9
Edition22nd
Tournaments9
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titlesPoland Agnieszka Radwańska
Russia Maria Sharapova
Denmark Caroline Wozniacki (2)
Most tournament finalsDenmark Caroline Wozniacki (3)
2010
2012

Tournaments

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Tournament Country Location Surface Date Prize money[2]
Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships[3] United Arab Emirates Dubai Hard Feb 14 – 21 $2,050,000
BNP Paribas Open[4] United States Indian Wells Hard Mar 7 – 20 $4,500,000
Sony Ericsson Open[5] United States Key Biscayne Hard Mar 21 – Apr 3 $4,500,000
Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open Spain Madrid Clay (red) May 2 – 8 $4,500,000
Internazionali BNL d'Italia[6] Italy Rome Clay (red) May 9 – 15 $2,050,000
Rogers Cup Canada Toronto Hard Aug 8 – 14 $2,050,000
Western & Southern Open[7] United States Mason Hard Aug 15 – 21 $2,050,000
Toray Pan Pacific Open Japan Tokyo Hard Sep 26 – Oct 2 $2,050,000
China Open China Beijing Hard Oct 3 – 9 $4,500,000

Results

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* First-time champion
Tournament Singles champions Runners-up Score Doubles champions Runners-up Score
Dubai

SinglesDoubles

  Caroline Wozniacki   Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–1, 6–3   Liezel Huber
  María José Martínez Sánchez
  Květa Peschke
  Katarina Srebotnik
7–6(7–5), 6–3
Indian Wells

SinglesDoubles

  Caroline Wozniacki   Marion Bartoli 6–1, 2–6, 6–3   Sania Mirza*   Bethanie Mattek-Sands
  Meghann Shaughnessy
6–0, 7–5
  Elena Vesnina
Miami

SinglesDoubles

  Victoria Azarenka   Maria Sharapova 6–1, 6–4   Daniela Hantuchová   Liezel Huber
  Nadia Petrova
7–6(7–5), 2–6, [10–8]
  Agnieszka Radwańska*
Madrid

SinglesDoubles

  Petra Kvitová   Victoria Azarenka 7–6(7–3), 6–4   Victoria Azarenka
  Maria Kirilenko
  Květa Peschke
  Katarina Srebotnik
6–4, 6–3
Rome

SinglesDoubles

  Maria Sharapova   Samantha Stosur 6–2, 6–4   Peng Shuai
  Zheng Jie
  Vania King
  Yaroslava Shvedova
6–2, 6–3
Toronto

SinglesDoubles

  Serena Williams   Samantha Stosur 6–4, 6–2   Liezel Huber
  Lisa Raymond
  Victoria Azarenka
  Maria Kirilenko
Walkover
Cincinnati

SinglesDoubles

  Maria Sharapova   Jelena Janković 4–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–3   Vania King   Natalie Grandin
  Vladimíra Uhlířová
6–4, 3–6, [11–9]
  Yaroslava Shvedova*
Tokyo

SinglesDoubles

  Agnieszka Radwańska   Vera Zvonareva 6–3, 6–2   Liezel Huber
  Lisa Raymond
  Gisela Dulko
  Flavia Pennetta
7–6(7–4), 0–6, [10–6]
Beijing

SinglesDoubles

  Agnieszka Radwańska   Andrea Petkovic 7–5, 0–6, 6–4   Květa Peschke
  Katarina Srebotnik
  Gisela Dulko
  Flavia Pennetta
6–3, 6–4

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "2011 Tournaments | WTA Official". Women's Tennis Association. Archived from the original on 2022-09-20.
  2. ^ "2011 WTA calendar" (PDF). WTA Tour. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 November 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  3. ^ "2011 Dubai Tennis Championships Draw" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 October 2022.
  4. ^ "2011 Indian Wells Draw" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2011.
  5. ^ "2011 Miami Masters Draw". Archived from the original on 15 October 2022.
  6. ^ Bud Collins (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). New York City: New Chapter Press. pp. 740–741. ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0.
  7. ^ From Club Court to Center Court by Phillip S. Smith, page 3 (2008 Edition; ISBN 978-0-9712445-7-3).
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