ITF Women's World Tennis Tour

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The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players.

History[edit]

It serves as a developmental circuit for the WTA Tour, which is run by the independent Women's Tennis Association (WTA). There are several hundred ITF Women's Circuit tournaments each year, spread across all six inhabited continents, with prize money ranging from US$15,000 to US$100,000.^[1] Players who succeed on the ITF Women's Circuit earn sufficient points to be eligible for qualifying draw or main draw entry to WTA tournaments.

Until 2011 the ITF Women's Circuit was the level immediately below the main WTA Tour, but in 2012 the WTA introduced an intermediate level, the WTA 125 tournaments.

There is also an ITF Men's Circuit, but it only incorporates the lower-level Futures tournaments. Mid-level men's tournaments, equivalent to the WTA 125 tournaments and the bigger money events on the ITF Women's Circuit, come under the aegis of the ATP as part of the ATP Challenger Tour.

In 2019, reforms was made to the circuit, renaming it the ITF World Tennis Tour as a new umbrella name for former Pro Circuit and Junior Circuit tournaments and will serve as the player pathway between the junior game and the elite levels of professional tennis.

The launch of the tour is the culmination of a series of ITF reforms designed to support talented junior players in their progression to the senior game, and target the prize money effectively at professional tournaments to enable more players to make a living as professionals.^[2]

Most Championship Winners in the ITF Tour[edit]

Singles[edit]

No.	Titles	Player
1.	32	Arantxa Rus
2.	30	Fernanda Brito
3.	27	Hsieh Su-wei
4.	26	/ Romina Oprandi
5.	25	Cristina Dinu
5.	25	Réka Luca Jani
6.	24	Isabella Shinikova
7.	23	Maria Fernanda Alves
		Mihaela Buzărnescu
		Petra Cetkovská
		Chanel Simmonds
8.	22	Casey Dellacqua
		Nuria Párrizas Díaz
		Teliana Pereira

* 9. 21 Vitalia Diatchenko

Kaia Kanepi

Deniz Khazaniuk

Anne Schäfer

*10. 20 Sofia Arvidsson

Doubles[edit]

No.	Titles	Player
1.	60	María Irigoyen
2.	58	Maria Fernanda Alves
2.	58	Renata Voráčová
3.	56	Lisa McShea
4.	55	Gabriela Chmelinová
5.	53	Laura Ioana Paar
6.	49	Diana Enache
6.	49	Chan Chin-wei
7.	48	Olga Brózda
8.	47	Lina Gjorcheska
8.	47	Valeriya Strakhova
9.	44	Emma Laine
		\ Arina Rodionova
		Yana Sizikova
10.	43	Mervana Jugić-Salkić
10.	43	Laura Pigossi

References[edit]

^ "ATP/WTA Points" (PDF). www.itftennis.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 February 2020.
^ "ITF World Tennis Tour". www.itftennis.com. Archived from the original on 2019-01-03. Retrieved 2019-01-30.

External links[edit]

Official site

[1] "ATP/WTA Points" (PDF). www.itftennis.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 February 2020.

[2] "ITF World Tennis Tour". www.itftennis.com. Archived from the original on 2019-01-03. Retrieved 2019-01-30.

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v t e ITF Women's World Tennis Tour seasons
1990s	1994 1995 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 1 2 3 4 2009
2010s	2010 1 2 3 4 2011 1 2 3 4 2012 1 2 3 4 2013 1 2 3 4 2014 1 2 3 4 2015 1 2 3 4 2016 1 2 3 4 2017 1 2 3 4 2018 1 2 3 4 2019 1 2 3 4
2020s	2020 1 2 3 4 2021 1 2 3 4 2022 1 2 3 4 2023 1 2 3 4 2024 1 2 3 4
Some years are split into quarters. 1: January–March, 2: April–June, 3: July–September, 4: October–December.
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