The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women and was founded to create a better future for women's tennis. The WTA's corporate headquarters is in St. Petersburg, Florida, with its European headquarters in London and its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Beijing.
Magdalena Georgieva Maleeva is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to October 2005 and has won ten career singles titles. Her best WTA singles ranking was world No. 4.
The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour.
The Qatar Ladies Open, currently sponsored by TotalEnergies and called the Qatar TotalEnergies Open, is a women's tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Held since 2001, this WTA Tour event was a Tier I-tournament in 2008, and was played on outdoor hardcourts. After a two-year break the tournament returned in 2011 and is held at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex.
Sloane Stephens is an American professional tennis player. She achieved a career-best ranking of world No. 3 after Wimbledon in 2018. Stephens was the 2017 US Open champion, and has won seven WTA Tour singles titles in total.
Ashleigh Jacinta Barty is an Australian former professional tennis player and cricketer. She was the second Australian tennis player to be ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), holding the ranking for 121 weeks overall. She was also a top-10 player in doubles, having achieved a career-high ranking of No. 5 in the world. Barty is a three-time Grand Slam singles champion, claiming titles at the 2019 French Open, the 2021 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2022 Australian Open. She is also a major doubles champion, having won the 2018 US Open with CoCo Vandeweghe. Barty won 15 singles titles and 12 doubles titles on the WTA Tour.
WTA 125 tournaments are an international series of professional women's tennis tournaments organized by the Women's Tennis Association since 2012.
Yang Zhaoxuan is a Chinese professional tennis player. She reached her best WTA doubles ranking of world No. 9 on 30 January 2023.
Marie Bouzková is a Czech professional tennis player. She attained her career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 24 on 12 December 2022. On 9 May 2022, she peaked at No. 24 in the WTA doubles rankings. So far, she has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. At the tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit, Bouzková has won 12 singles titles and three doubles titles.
Julia Grabher is an Austrian professional tennis player. On 29 May 2023, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 61. On 29 August 2016, she peaked at No. 387 in the doubles rankings. She is the current No. 1 Austrian female player.
Aryna Siarhiejeŭna Sabalenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. She is ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles and has been world No. 1 in doubles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Sabalenka has won one major singles title, at the 2023 Australian Open, and two major doubles titles, at the 2019 US Open and the 2021 Australian Open, both partnering Elise Mertens. She has won 19 career titles in total, 13 in singles and six in doubles.
Caroline Schneider is a German professional tennis player. During her career, she won several titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bari in the Apulia region of Italy.
Nuria Brancaccio is an Italian tennis player.
Peyton Mckenzie Stearns is an American tennis player. A former player at the University of Texas at Austin, Stearns turned professional in 2022. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) as high as world No. 44 in singles and has also reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 151, achieved on 11 September 2023 and 21 August 2023, respectively.
The 2023 WTA Tour is the global elite women's professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2023 tennis season. The 2023 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA 1000 tournaments, the WTA 500 tournaments, the WTA 250 tournaments, the Billie Jean King Cup, the year-end championships, and the team events United Cup and Hopman Cup. 2023 appears to mark the return of the WTA tournaments in China, after strict COVID-19 protocols in the country and the disappearance of former tennis player Peng Shuai.
The Open Città di Bari is a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Bari, Italy since 2021.
The 2022 Open delle Puglie was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament and part of the 2022 WTA 125 tournaments, offering a total of $115,000 in prize money. It took place at the Circolo del Tennis at the Via Martinez in Bari, Italy between 5 and 11 September 2022.
This was the first edition of the tournament.
The 2023 Open delle Puglie was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament and part of the 2023 WTA 125 tournaments, offering a total of $115,000 in prize money. It took place at the Circolo del Tennis at the Via Martinez in Bari, Italy between 4 and 10 September 2023.
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