WTA 500 tournaments

WTA 500 tournaments is a category of tennis tournaments in the Women's Tennis Association tour, implemented since the reorganization of the schedule in 2021.^[1]^[2]

At their introduction in 2021, WTA 500 tournaments' prize money was approximately $500,000. Since then, prize money awarded by WTA 500 events has grown less uniform, with one tournament's prize money rising to as much as $1.5 million.

The ranking points awarded to the winners of these tournaments are 500. This compares to 2,000 points for winning a Grand Slam tournament ("major"), up to 1,500 points for winning the WTA Finals, 1000 points for winning a WTA 1000 tournament, and 250 for winning a WTA 250 tournament.^[3]

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Event		W	F	SF	QF	R16	R32	R64	Q	Q2	Q1
Singles	48	500	325	195	108	60	32	1^[a]	25	13	1
Singles	30/28						1	N/A	25	13	1
Doubles	24						1	N/A
Doubles	16					1	N/A

Tournament	Location	Venue	Surface	Draw	Prize money	Date^[5]
Brisbane International	Brisbane, Australia	Queensland Tennis Centre	Hard	48	$1,691,602 (2026)	5–11 January
Adelaide International	Adelaide, Australia	Memorial Drive Tennis Centre	Hard	30	$1,206,446 (2026)	12–17 January
Abu Dhabi Open	Abu Dhabi, UAE	Abu Dhabi International Tennis Centre	Hard	28	$1,206,446 (2026)	1–8 February
Mérida Open	Mérida, Mexico	Yucatan Country Club	Hard	28	$1,064,510 (2025)	24 February–2 March
Charleston Open	Charleston, US	LTP-Daniel Island	Clay	48	$1,064,510 (2025)	31 March–6 April
Linz Open	Linz, Austria	TipsArena Linz	Clay (i)	28	$1,064,510 (2025)	7–13 April
Stuttgart Open	Stuttgart, Germany	Porsche Arena	Clay (i)		€925,661 (2025)	14–21 April
Internationaux de Strasbourg	Strasbourg, France	Tennis Club de Strasbourg	Clay		€925,661 (2025)	18–24 May
Queen's Club Championships	London, UK	Queen's Club	Grass		$1,415,000 (2025)	9–15 June
Berlin Tennis Open	Berlin, Germany	Rot-Weiss Tennis Club			€925,661 (2025)	16–22 June
Bad Homburg Open	Bad Homburg, Germany	TC Bad Homburg		32	$1,064,510 (2025)	23–29 June
Washington Open	Washington, D.C., US	William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center	Hard	32	$1,282,951 (2025)	21–27 July
Monterrey Open	Monterrey, Mexico	Club Sonoma		28	$1,064,510 (2025)	18–23 August
Guadalajara Open	Zapopan, Mexico	Centro Panamericano de Tenis			$1,064,510 (2025)	8–14 September
Ningbo Open	Ningbo, China	Ningbo Tennis Center			$922,573 (2024)	13–19 October
Tokyo Open	Tokyo, Japan	Ariake Coliseum			$922,573 (2024)	20–26 October

Tournament	Location	Venue	Surface	Status
Korea Open (2024–2025) ^{[N 1]}	Seoul, South Korea	Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center	Hard	WTA 250
San Diego Open (1971–2024)	San Diego, US	Barnes Tennis Center	Hard	ATP Challenger
Eastbourne International (1974–2024)	Eastbourne, UK	Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club	Grass	WTA 250
Zhengzhou Open (2014–2023)	Zhengzhou, China	Zhongyuan Tennis Training Center	Hard	Defunct
Qatar Open (2001–2023)^{[N 2]}	Doha, Qatar	Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex		WTA 1000
Sydney International (1885–2022)	Sydney, Australia	Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre		Defunct
Silicon Valley Classic (1971–2022)	San Jose, US	San Jose State University		Defunct
Ostrava Open (1999–2022)^{[N 3]}	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Ostravar Aréna	Hard (i)	WTA 250
Dubai Championships (2001–2023)^{[N 2]}	Dubai, UAE	Aviation Club Tennis Centre	Hard	WTA 1000
St. Petersburg Trophy (2003–2022)	Saint Petersburg, Russia	Sibur Arena	Hard (i)	Defunct
Kremlin Cup (1996–2021)	Moscow, Russia	Luzhniki Palace of Sports	Hard (i)
Chicago Classic (2021)	Chicago, United States	XS Tennis Village	Hard

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Sydney	WTA Tier III			Capriati	Date	Sabatini	Seles	Hingis	Sánchez Vicario	Davenport
Tokyo (Pan Pacific)	Graf	Sabatini	Sabatini	WTA Tier I
Paris	Not an event			Navratilova	Navratilova	Graf	Halard-Decugis	Hingis	Pierce	S. Williams
Essen/Hanover	Not an event		Seles	Medvedeva	Novotná	Not an event	Majoli	Majoli	Schnyder	Novotná
Washington D.C.	Navratilova	Sánchez Vicario	Not an event
Indian Wells^{[N 4]}	Navratilova	Navratilova	Seles	Fernández	Graf	Fernández	Graf	WTA Tier I
Boca Raton^{[N 5]}	Sabatini	WTA Tier I		Graf	Graf	Graf	Not an event
Amelia Island	Graf	Sabatini	Sabatini	Sánchez Vicario	Sánchez Vicario	Martínez	Spîrlea	Davenport	Pierce	Seles
Houston	WTA Tier III	Seles	Seles	Martínez	Hack	Graf	Not an event
Barcelona	WTA Tier IV	WTA Tier III		Sánchez Vicario	Sánchez Vicario	Sánchez Vicario	Not an event
Madrid	Not an event							Novotná	WTA Tier III
Hamburg	Graf	Graf	Graf	Sánchez Vicario	Sánchez Vicario	Martínez	Sánchez Vicario	Majoli	Hingis	V. Williams
Eastbourne	Navratilova	Navratilova	McNeil	Navratilova	McGrath	Tauziat	Seles	Abandoned^{[N 6]}	Novotná	Zvereva
Oakland/Stanford^{[N 7]}	Seles	Navratilova	Seles	Navratilova	Sánchez Vicario	Mag. Maleeva	Hingis	Hingis	Davenport	Davenport
San Diego	WTA Tier III			Graf	Graf	Martínez	Date	Hingis	Davenport	Hingis
Los Angeles	Seles	Seles	Navratilova	Navratilova	Frazier	Martínez	Davenport	Seles	Davenport	S. Williams
New Haven^{[N 8]}	WTA Tier III			Martínez	Martínez	Not an event		Davenport	Graf	V. Williams
Tokyo (Nichirei)	Fernández	Seles	Seles	Coetzer	Sánchez Vicario	Pierce	Seles	Not an event
Tokyo (Princess)	Not an event							Seles	Seles	Davenport
Filderstadt	Fernández	Huber	Navratilova	Pierce	Huber	Majoli	Hingis	Hingis	Testud	Hingis
Zurich	Graf	Graf	Graf	WTA Tier I
Linz	ITF Women's Circuit	WTA Tier V		WTA Tier III					Novotná	Pierce
Leipzig	WTA Tier III			Graf	Novotná	Huber	Huber	Novotná	Graf	Tauziat
Brighton	Graf	Graf	Graf	Novotná	Novotná	Fernández	Not an event
Chicago	WTA Tier I	Navratilova	Navratilova	Seles	Zvereva	Mag. Maleeva	Novotná	Davenport	Not an event
Worcester	Graf	Not an event
Philadelphia	Not an event	Seles	Graf	WTA Tier I			Novotná	Hingis	Graf	Davenport

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Sydney	Mauresmo	Hingis	Hingis	Clijsters	Henin	Molik	Henin	Clijsters	Henin
Paris	Tauziat	Mauresmo	V. Williams	S. Williams	Clijsters	Safina	Mauresmo	Petrova	Chakvetadze
Hanover	S. Williams	Not an event
Nice	Not an event	Mauresmo	Not an event
Antwerp	Not an event		V. Williams	V. Williams	Clijsters	Mauresmo	Mauresmo	Mauresmo	Henin
Dubai	Not an event	Hingis	Mauresmo	Henin	Henin	Davenport	Henin	Henin	Dementieva
Doha	Not an event	WTA Tier III			Myskina	Sharapova	Petrova	Henin	WTA Tier I
Bangalore	Not an event			WTA Tier IV			WTA Tier III		S. Williams
Scottsdale	Abandoned^{[N 9]}	Davenport	S. Williams	Sugiyama	Not an event
Amelia Island	Seles	Mauresmo	V. Williams	Dementieva	Davenport	Davenport	Petrova	Golovin	Sharapova
Hamburg	Hingis	V. Williams	Clijsters	Not an event
Warsaw	WTA Tier IV	Not an event	WTA Tier III	Mauresmo	V. Williams	Henin	Clijsters	Henin	Not an event
Eastbourne	Halard-Decugis	Davenport	Rubin	Rubin	Kuznetsova	Clijsters	Henin	Henin	Radwańska
Stanford	V. Williams	Clijsters	V. Williams	Clijsters	Davenport	Clijsters	Clijsters	Chakvetadze	Wozniak
San Diego	V. Williams	V. Williams	V. Williams	Henin	WTA Tier I				Not an event
Los Angeles	S. Williams	Davenport	Rubin	Clijsters	Davenport	Clijsters	Dementieva	Ivanovic	Safina
New Haven	V. Williams	V. Williams	V. Williams	Capriati	Bovina	Davenport	Henin	Kuznetsova	Wozniacki
Bahia	WTA Tier IV	Seles	Myskina	Not an event
Tokyo (Princess)	S. Williams	Dokić	S. Williams	Not an event
Beijing^{[N 10]}	WTA Tier IV			Dementieva	S. Williams	Kirilenko	Kuznetsova	Szávay	Janković
Luxembourg	WTA Tier III					Clijsters	Bondarenko	Ivanovic	WTA Tier III
Filderstadt/Stuttgart^{[N 11]}	Hingis	Davenport	Clijsters	Clijsters	Davenport	Davenport	Petrova	Henin	Janković
Zurich	WTA Tier I								V. Williams
Linz	Davenport	Davenport	Henin	Sugiyama	Mauresmo	Petrova	Sharapova	Hantuchová	Ivanovic
Leipzig	Clijsters	Clijsters	S. Williams	Myskina	Not an event
Philadelphia	Davenport	Not an event		Mauresmo	Mauresmo	Mauresmo	Not an event

WTA 500 tournaments

Historic names

WTA Points

Events

Current

Former

Singles champions

WTA Tier II

WTA Premier

WTA 500

Doubles champions

WTA Premier

WTA 500

Statistics

Most titles

Notes

See also

References

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Tournament	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Brisbane	WTA International			Kanepi	S. Williams	S. Williams	Sharapova	Azarenka	Plíšková	Svitolina	Plíšková	Plíšková
Sydney	Dementieva	Dementieva	Li	Azarenka	Radwańska	Pironkova	Kvitová	Kuznetsova	Konta	Kerber	Kvitová	Not an event
Adelaide	Not an event											Barty
Paris	Mauresmo	Dementieva	Kvitová	Kerber	Barthel	Pavlyuchenkova	Not an event
Antwerp	Exhibition event						Petkovic	Not an event
St. Petersburg	Not an event						ITF Women's Circuit	Vinci	Mladenovic	Kvitová	Bertens	Bertens
Doha	Not an event		Zvonareva	WTA Premier 5			Šafářová	WTA Premier 5	Plíšková	WTA Premier 5	Mertens	WTA Premier 5
Dubai	WTA Premier 5			Radwańska	Kvitová	V. Williams	WTA Premier 5	Errani	WTA Premier 5	Svitolina	WTA Premier 5	Halep
Charleston	Lisicki	Stosur	Wozniacki	S. Williams	S. Williams	Petkovic	Kerber	Stephens	Kasatkina	Bertens	Keys	Cancelled due to COVID-19
Stuttgart	Kuznetsova	Henin	Görges	Sharapova	Sharapova	Sharapova	Kerber	Kerber	Siegemund	Plíšková	Kvitová	Cancelled due to COVID-19
Warsaw	Dulgheru	Dulgheru	Not an event
Brussels	Not an event		Wozniacki	Radwańska	Kanepi	Not an event
Birmingham	WTA International					Ivanovic	Kerber	Keys	Kvitová	Kvitová	Barty	WTA International
Berlin	Not an event											Cancelled
Eastbourne	Wozniacki	Makarova	Bartoli	Paszek	Vesnina	Keys	Bencic	Cibulková	Plíšková	Wozniacki	Plíšková
Stanford/San Jose^{[N 12]}	Bartoli	Azarenka	S. Williams	S. Williams	Cibulková	S. Williams	Kerber	Konta	Keys	Buzărnescu	S. Zheng
Los Angeles	Pennetta	Not an event
San Diego/Carlsbad^{[N 13]}	Not an event	Kuznetsova	Radwańska	Cibulková	Stosur	Not an event	WTA 125K	Not an event
New Haven	Wozniacki	Wozniacki	Wozniacki	Kvitová	Halep	Kvitová	Kvitová	Radwańska	Gavrilova	Sabalenka	Not an event
Zhengzhou	Not an event					ITF Women's Circuit			WTA 125K		Plíšková	Cancelled
Tokyo	WTA Premier 5					Ivanovic	Radwańska	Wozniacki	Wozniacki	Plíšková	Osaka	Cancelled
Ostrava	Not an event											Sabalenka
Moscow	Schiavone	Azarenka	Cibulková	Wozniacki	Halep	Pavlyuchenkova	Kuznetsova	Kuznetsova	Görges	Kasatkina	Bencic	Cancelled

Tournament	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Brisbane	WTA International			Llagostera Vives Parra Santonja	Mattek-Sands Mirza	Kudryavtseva Rodionova	Hingis Lisicki	Hingis Mirza	Mattek-Sands Mirza	Bertens Schuurs	Melichar Peschke	Hsieh Strýcová
Sydney	Hsieh Peng	Black L. Huber	Benešová Záhlavová-Strýcová	Peschke Srebotnik	Petrova Srebotnik	Babos Šafářová	Mattek-Sands Mirza	Hingis Mirza	Babos Pavlyuchenkova	Dabrowski Xu	Krunić Siniaková	Not an event
Adelaide	Not an event											Melichar Xu
Paris	Black L. Huber	Benešová Záhlavová-Strýcová	Mattek-Sands Shaughnessy	L. Huber Raymond	Errani Vinci	Grönefeld Peschke	Not an event
Antwerp	Exhibition event						Medina Garrigues Parra Santonja	Not an event
St. Petersburg	Not an event						ITF Women's Circuit	Hingis Mirza	Ostapenko Rosolska	Bacsinszky Zvonareva	Gasparyan Makarova	Aoyama Shibahara
Doha	Not an event		Peschke Srebotnik	WTA Premier 5			Kops-Jones Spears	WTA Premier 5	Spears Srebotnik	WTA Premier 5	H. Chan L. Chan	WTA Premier 5
Dubai	WTA Premier 5			L. Huber Raymond	Mattek-Sands Mirza	Kudryavtseva Rodionova	WTA Premier 5	Chuang Jurak	WTA Premier 5	H. Chan Yang	WTA Premier 5	Hsieh Strýcová
Charleston	Mattek-Sands Petrova	L. Huber Petrova	Mirza Vesnina	Pavlyuchenkova Šafářová	Mladenovic Šafářová	Medina Garrigues Shvedova	Hingis Mirza	Garcia Mladenovic	Mattek-Sands Šafářová	Kudryavtseva Srebotnik	Grönefeld Rosolska	Cancelled due to COVID-19
Stuttgart	Mattek-Sands Petrova	Dulko Pennetta	Lisicki Stosur	Benešová Záhlavová-Strýcová	Barthel Lisicki	Errani Vinci	Mattek-Sands Šafářová	Garcia Mladenovic	Atawo Ostapenko	Atawo Grönefeld	Barthel Friedsam	Cancelled due to COVID-19
Warsaw	Kops-Jones Mattek-Sands	Ruano Pascual Shaughnessy	Not an event
Brussels	Not an event		Hlaváčková Voskoboeva	Mattek-Sands Mirza	Grönefeld Peschke	Not an event
Birmingham	WTA International					Kops-Jones Spears	Muguruza Suárez Navarro	Plíšková Strýcová	Barty Dellacqua	Babos Mladenovic	Hsieh Strýcová	WTA International
Berlin	Not an event											Cancelled
Eastbourne	Amanmuradova Sugiyama	Raymond Stubbs	Peschke Srebotnik	Llagostera Vives Martínez Sánchez	Petrova Srebotnik	H. Chan Y. Chan	Garcia Srebotnik	Jurak Rodionova	Y. Chan Hingis	Dabrowski Xu	H. Chan L. Chan
Stanford/San Jose^{[N 12]}	S. Williams V. Williams	Davenport L. Huber	Azarenka Kirilenko	Erakovic Watson	Kops-Jones Spears	Muguruza Suárez Navarro	Xu S. Zheng	Atawo Spears	Spears Vandeweghe	L. Chan Peschke	Melichar Peschke
Los Angeles	Chuang Yan	Not an event
San Diego/Carlsbad^{[N 13]}	Not an event	Kirilenko J. Zheng	Peschke Srebotnik	Kops-Jones Spears	Kops-Jones Spears	Not an event	WTA 125K	Not an event
New Haven	Llagostera Vives Martínez Sánchez	Peschke Srebotnik	Chuang Govortsova	L. Huber Raymond	Mirza J. Zheng	Klepač Soler Espinosa	Görges Hradecká	Mirza Niculescu	Dabrowski Xu	Sestini Hlaváčková Strýcová	Not an event
Zhengzhou	Not an event					ITF Women's Circuit			WTA 125K		Melichar Peschke	Cancelled
Tokyo	WTA Premier 5					Black Mirza	Muguruza Suárez Navarro	Mirza Strýcová	Klepač Martínez Sánchez	Kato Makoto	H. Chan L. Chan	Cancelled
Ostrava	Not an event											Mertens Sabalenka
Moscow	Kirilenko Petrova	Dulko Pennetta	V. King Shvedova	Makarova Vesnina	Kuznetsova Samantha Stosur	Hingis Pennetta	Kasatkina Vesnina	Hlaváčková Hradecká	Babos Hlaváčková	Panova Siegemund	Aoyama Shibahara	Cancelled

Titles	Player
26	Lindsay Davenport
26	Steffi Graf
22	/ Monica Seles
18	Kim Clijsters
	Justine Henin
	Serena Williams
	Venus Williams
16	Martina Hingis
15	Amélie Mauresmo
15	Martina Navratilova
14	Petra Kvitová