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Welcome to the Article Guidelines section of the Tennis WikiProject. Please read this page before creating or editing tennis articles.
When in doubt, ask your questions on the WikiProject Tennis Talk page.

While there are many articles within the scope of this WikiProject, they fall into a relatively small number of classes:

Notability and article creation (by article type)

Before creating a new article please check its notability, as described in the sections below.

Tournaments, annual editions, draws, and matches

A men's tournament is notable if it is part of the ATP World Tour (including qualifications) or the ATP Challenger Tour (excluding qualifications). Men's ITF tournaments are not considered notable by, unless they meet general wp:GNG guidelines. The Futures and all lower ranked tournaments are usually not notable. Qualification tournaments on the ATP Challenger Tour are usually not notable. Qualification draws on the ATP World Tour should be placed near the bottom of the main draw page. Lesser tournaments may be listed in List of ATP Challenger Tour events or List of ITF Men's Circuit events and brief information provided there (with sources), and redirects from tournament names to that list may be created.

A women's tournament is notable if it is one of the WTA Premier tournaments (including qualifications), WTA International tournaments (including qualifications), or WTA 125K series. From 2008 onwards the ITF Women's $50,000–$100,000+ tournaments are notable. From 1978–2007 the threshold for notability in the women's ITF circuit is a $25,000 event. Qualification tournaments in ITF women's events are not notable. Qualification draws for WTA main tour should be placed near the bottom of the main draw page. Lesser tournaments may be listed in List of ITF Women's Circuit events and brief information provided there, and redirects from tournament names to that list may be created.

An exhibition tournaments is notable if one can establish its notability on other grounds (e.g. several top 10 players present, notability in history, significant media coverage,... etc.).

Article Type	Examples	Criteria for Creation	Naming Considerations	See also
Tournament	Australian Open Brisbane International	See detailed notability requirements above.	Try to avoid the indication of sponsorship in the title and focus on the commonly accepted/known name of the tournament.	List of tennis tournaments and Category:Tennis tournaments
Single edition (year)	2008 Wimbledon Championships 1974 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships	Do not create these articles months in advance, they may get deleted per WP:CRYSTAL. Wait until there are announcements worth including in the article, for example the start of qualification play.		Grand Slam Project
Draw	2008 US Open – Men's Singles 2007 Brasil Open – Singles	Do not create standalone articles for the qualifying rounds of smaller tournaments. Add them below the main draw in the Draw article.
Match		Matches that deserve their own articles on Wikipedia include: men's and women's finals of the four Major tournaments (singles, doubles and mixed doubles), Olympic finals, and matches of record-setting events. Other matches will be handled case-by-case but please consult WP:TENNIS before creating such articles.		Category:Tennis matches

Players, player statistics, player yearly

A tennis player is notable if he/she:

1. Is a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, either in the contributor or player category
2. Has competed in one of the international team competitions: Fed Cup, Davis Cup, Hopman Cup or World Team Cup
3. Has competed in the main draw in one of these higher level professional tournaments:
   • Grand Slam tournaments (the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, or the US Open)
   • Men: ATP World Tour tournaments (the ATP World Tour Finals, ATP World Tour Masters 1000, ATP World Tour 500, or ATP World Tour 250)
   • Women: WTA Tour tournaments (the WTA Premier, the WTA International, or the WTA Tour Championships)
4. Has won at least one title in any of the ATP Men's Challenger or WTA 125K series tournaments.
5. Has won at least one title in any of ITF Women's $50,000+ tournaments from 2008 onward ($25,000+ between 1978 and 2007). The threshold is based on the lowest payout for men's Challenger tournaments in the same year to preserve relatively equal notability.
6. Holds a tennis record recognized by the International Tennis Federation, ATP or WTA

This guideline applies equally to singles and doubles players. Junior players are presumed to be notable if they have won at least a junior Grand slam title, have been in the top 3 of the junior ITF world rankings or can be shown to meet the wider requirements of WP:GNG.

Article Type	Examples	Criteria for Creation	Naming Considerations	See also
Player	Bill Tilden Steffi Graf Roger Federer Martina Navratilova	See detailed notability requirements above.	Use common English spelling as found on the ITF website, the governing body for all tennis. Check (especially for pre-open era players) the name most commonly found in reliable English sources: press releases, grand slam websites, other tournament sites, books, etc.	These are collected in Category:Tennis players.
Player career statistics	Chris Evert career statistics Pete Sampras career statistics	When a player's article gets too large, per wikipedia standards.	Append " career statistics" to the player's article name.
Player single season	2011 Novak Djokovic tennis season 2013 Serena Williams tennis season	Can only be created for players who have won at least one Grand Slam tournament singles title, onward from the year of their first title and provided they played at least 25 matches and reached a top 5 ranking during any year(s) without a Grand Slam tournament title.

Wheelchair tennis (tournaments and players)

Wheelchair tennis tournaments: the four Grand Slam tournaments, the Wheelchair Tennis Masters and the Summer Paralympics are notable.

Players are notable if they have won a Grand Slam tournament or end of year championship (in singles or doubles). Players are additionally notable if they were part of the winning team at the World Team Cup or won a medal at the Paralympics. See also WP:NOLYMPICS

Please do not create standalone draw articles for wheelchair tennis tournaments, include them in the main article, unless at a Grand Slam tournament.

Fed Cup, Davis Cup, and Hopman Cup

Article Type	Examples	Criteria for Creation	Naming Considerations	See also
National teams	Yugoslavia Davis Cup team	Every nation's Fed Cup, Davis Cup, and Hopman Cup teams are notable.
Single year	2008 Fed Cup

Associations, organizations, clubs

Article Type	Examples	Criteria for Creation	Naming Considerations	See also
National assoc'ns	South African Tennis Association Deutscher Tennis Bund
Club or organization		Notability for clubs and organizations is established by the criteria set out in WP:ORG. Generally there needs to be in-depth coverage in several reliable independent sources before a club or organization can be considered notable.

Coaches

Since these are rare articles; the most common case is when a player chooses coaching after retirement. In all other cases determine the coach's background to see if he/she is notable. It is important as it could easily happen that a child player is coached by a non-professional or non-tennis-affiliated relative and cotton to him during his career (see Toni Nadal). The minimum requirement that can qualify without doubt for coaches are:

1. The player has reached the final of or won one of the professional Grand Slam tournaments.
2. The player has entered the ATP or WTA rankings top-10 for at least one week.
3. The player was member of a champion team competing in a Davis Cup, Fed Cup, Hopman Cup (reserve players and team captains do not count).
4. The player has won an ATP Masters 1000 or WTA Premier event and has reached at least one other final in Masters 1000 or WTA Premier.

These also ensure that the notability of one-hit wonders' coaches isn't automatically granted with his/her coachee's success. (See Roberto Carretero for example) This guideline applies equally to singles and doubles players. Junior players' coaches are to be omitted otherwise it has to be shown to meet the wider requirements of WP:GNG.

Article Type	Examples	Criteria for Creation	Naming Considerations	See also
Coach	Richard Williams	See detailed notability requirements above.		Category:Tennis coaches Category:Australian tennis coaches

Other article types

Article Type	Examples	Criteria for Creation	Naming Considerations	See also
Rivalry	Agassi–Sampras rivalry Federer–Nadal rivalry	According to WP:NRIVALRY, rivalries are not inherently notable. We can only have articles about tennis rivalries if there is significant media coverage about the rivalry. For example, great rivalries (like those on the left) warrant an article, but articles about rivalries like Agassi–Rafter and Federer–Hewitt have been deleted by the community. If in doubt, consult WP:TENNIS before creating a new rivalry article.
Single year	1931 in tennis 2008 in tennis
Item or equipment		The item or equipment must be notable for its significance, usage, development and evolution, historical background. Avoid advertisements and commercial purposes.
Venues		Consider WP:NPLACE and WP:LOCAL.
Rules, court types, tennis terms, etc.		Most of these already exist.		see {{tennis box}}

Common style guidelines

Infobox

• Players and coaches – {{Infobox tennis biography}}
• Tournaments
  • Grand Slam tournaments – {{Infobox GrandSlamTournaments}}
  • All other tournaments – {{Infobox tennis tournament}}
  • Tournament edition – {{Infobox tennis tournament year}}
  • Tournament event – {{Infobox tennis tournament event}}
• Scores and matches – {{DavisCupbox}}, {{infobox tennis match}}, {{Infobox GrandSlamTournamentsFinals}}, etc.

A full list can be found at Category:Tennis infobox templates.

Scores

Tennis scores should be given in the following format, observing the use of the ndash separating the set scores, followed by a comma. Both winning and losing tie break scores should be added enclosed in ^{( )} tags, again using an ndash;.

• format: 7–5, 6–7^(6–8), 7–6^(7–5), 3–6, 16–14
• ndash should always be used instead of a hyphen, preferably with the ndash symbol "–" rather than the ndash script "&ndash,".
• scores should not be added to prose unless strictly necessary (i.e. sets a record). In such cases the tiebreak score is omitted. Just report the round and whether the player won or lost the match, and whom they played.
• In wikitables and infoboxes, the above format is to be used.
• In tournament draw/bracket-type articles (e.g. 2009 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles), both winning and losing tiebreak scores are required in superscript.

Images

Per discussions, keep pictures to a reasonable amount based on article size. Two or three is usually enough for most articles, with a maximum of ten for the largest articles. Picture placement should usually convey the information being described in the prose.

When adding photos to the articles the easiest way to have a clear copyright status is to use photos that you made yourself. Otherwise you can upload free photos but in most of the cases photos found on internet are not free or in the public domain and can not be used. When using Flickr be careful to follow the steps written here and don't forget to make it reviewed. Also try to browse Tennis on Commons for possibly free images. The basic concepts of uploading and further reading can be found here:

• Wikipedia:Media copyright questions
• Wikipedia:Image use policy
• Wikipedia:Uploading images

Flags

In line with tennis talk summaries and Rfc's, and trying to stay in synch with WP:MOSFLAG, flagicons should only be used to show the internationally recognized nationality of players or the nationality of teams in team events (see Davis Cup). Flagicons should not be used to identify tournament location, place of birth and death, residence, city, or venue.

Wikilinks within Prose

• The word tennis should only be linked the FIRST time it is used and only when reference to the Tennis article would enhance the reader's understanding.

• Dates
  • Do not link dates unless linked in a tennis context, as in: [[yyyy in tennis]].
  • Only link dates as above once in an article.
• Players - should not be referenced every single time they are mentioned, but it is usually appropriate to link them the FIRST time they are referenced with a specific context.

Wikilinks outside prose

When links to lists are appropriate, which lists are appropriate.

• Current Top Players - Navbox, Category
• Player records
• Current Top tournaments

What categories should be linked and where.

• Add the most specific category possible.

Categories that are in templates and should NOT be added directly:

• Born in 'year'
• Died in 'year'
• Retired Tennis players

Style guidelines and best practices per article type

• Single-year tournament articles

• When updating entry list and seeds, do not rely on gossip, Facebook accounts, fan pages of players, or news editor speculations. Generally wait for the official announcements.

• Draw articles
  • Only update these pages when the match is finished. When doing so use bolding on the won set gamescore and the winner's name. For tie-break rules see below.

• Davis/Fed Cup articles

These are similar to single-year tournament articles.

• Tennis by year articles

• These articles should give a concise overview of the year in tennis, without going in too much intricate details. The details can be kept in the articles about players and tournaments.

This list may not be exhaustive, so feel free to add to it. It's well within the scope of this WikiProject to produce guidelines and best practices for each of these article classes.

Please read WP:NOT and more specifically WP:NOTNEWSPAPER and WP:NOTSTATSBOOK.
We are not supposed to add everything found in routine news coverage about the players, that would lead to articles becoming overdetailed and also avoid excessive listings of statistics.

Player articles

• Use WP:MOSBIO
• Update world rankings beginning from Mondays, and only when the new weekly ATP and WTA rankings are published (do not pre-calculate them)
• Use bolding on the player's name only once: on its first appearance in the introduction.
• Do not apply bolding to any world rankings (even if it's world number one), opponent's name, scores, etc.

#2:Lead

The Lead should be a brief summary of WHO the person is, WHY they are here (accomplishments), potentially WHAT they are doing now.

“ Laura Robson (born 21 January 1994) is an English tennis player. She debuted on the International Tennis Federation (ITF) junior tour in 2007, and a year later won the Wimbledon Junior Girls' Championship at the age of 14. As a junior, she also twice reached the final of the Australian Open, in 2009 and 2010. She won her first professional tournament in November 2008. As of 8 November 2010, Robson has a rank on the WTA singles tour of 206 and doubles tour of 127. ”

#3:History

• History - Childhood, where grew up, college.

“ Juan Martín del Potro was born in Tandil, Argentina. His father, Daniel del Potro, played semi-professional rugby union in Argentina and is a veterinarian. His mother, Patricia, is a teacher and he has a younger sister named Julieta. Del Potro speaks Spanish and knows some Italian and English. [...] Del Potro began playing tennis at the age of seven with coach Marcelo Gómez (who also coached Tandil-born players Juan Mónaco, Mariano Zabaleta and Máximo González). Del Potro's talent was discovered by Italian ex-tennis professional Ugo Colombini, who accompanied him through the initial phases of his young career, and is still today his agent and close friend. ”

• Early years - amateur playing career.

“ (Leander) Paes enrolled with the Britannia Amritraj Tennis Academy in Madras in 1985 where he was coached by Dave O'Meara. The academy played a key role in his early development. Leander shot into international fame when he won the 1990 Wimbledon Junior title and rose to No. 1 in the junior world-rankings. ”

#4:Career

• When they turned pro
• Grand Slam tournament and other important wins
• High point
• Later years - sometimes players are known more for what they did AFTER tennis.

“ (Michael) Boulding was both a skilled footballer and tennis player as a schoolboy, but he was persuaded to pursue a career in the latter sport when he was talent spotted by coach Tony Pickard at the age of 13. Boulding was part of the national squad and played in events across the world, including India, South America, the Far East, and also the junior Wimbledon Championships and the qualifying rounds of the main Grand Slam event. During his career he roomed with Tim Henman and was ranked the top 20 players in Britain. He held an ATP singles world ranking between 8 July 1996 and 1 November 1999, apart from between 25 August 1997 and 24 August 1998, which peaked at 1,119 with four world ranking points on 3 May 1999.[...]Boulding maintained his links with football and trained with Doncaster Rovers, and in 1998 he joined non-league Hallam near his home in Sheffield. His form at Hallam attracted the interest of a number of league clubs, and Boulding was offered a trial by Mansfield Town. He was given a contract by the Division Three side and turned professional in 1999, which brought an end to his tennis career. ”

Tournament results

• Results - If the scoreboard is more than {twenty?}; split out into a separate article named "{personName} career statistics". Such as Novak Djokovic career statistics.

Davis Cup

For Davis Cup matches of a player please use the following tables. Note that for Davis Cup, we use flags for the country but not the players.

American Group I
Round	Date	Opponents	Final match score	Location	Surface	Match	Opponent	Rubber score
QF	9–11 February 1996	Chile	3-2	Santiago	Clay	Doubles (with Jaime Oncins)	Rebolledo/Ríos	7–5, 6–3, 4–6, 6–2 (W)
SF	5–7 April 1996	Venezuela	4-1	Santos	Clay	Singles 2	Nicolas Pereira	6–2, 6–7(7–2), 6–1, 6–2 (W)
						Singles 5 (dead)	Jimy Szymanski	6–2, 6–7((8–6), 6–0 (W)
World Group
Round	Date	Opponents	Final match score	Location	Surface	Match	Opponent	Rubber score
QR	20–22 September 1996	Austria	4-1	São Paulo	Carpet	Singles 2	Markus Hipfl	4–6, 3–6, 7–6(7–0) , 7–6(7–5), 6–1 (W)
						Doubles (with Jaime Oncins)	Muster/Plamberger	7–6(7–2), 4–6, 6–3, 3–6, 2–0 (def.)*

Remember to link all of the opponents even if the link turns red since every player chosen to play in the Davis Cup is notable and add {{Performance key}} to the bottom of the table.

• Awards or Records - Just a summary with links to the awarding organization or a list of records. (The reference should be on the "LINKED TO" article; not the "Person" article).

Such as List of career achievements by Rafael Nadal.

• Retirement - Notable achievements outside of playing; often not related to tennis.

“ (Martina) Hingis played an exhibition match at the Liverpool International tournament on 13 June 2008. Although this event was a warm-up for Wimbledon, it was not part of the WTA Tour. This allowed Hingis to participate without breaching the rules of her ban. In a rematch of their 1997 Wimbledon final, Hingis defeated Jana Novotná.

In 2009 Hingis partook in the BBC's dancing event, Strictly Come Dancing, where she was the bookies favourite for the television show. But she went out in the first week after performing a Waltz and a Rumba, despite vowing to win the competition. 'She promised to apply the same gritty approach to the dance show that had taken her to five grand slams on the tennis court. "Everything I do I do to win. I am very competitive."

”

#5:See also

The "See also" section should/could include:

1. {{Portal|Tennis}}
2. Lists (Top Men, or Top Women)
3. [Country] Davis Cup team (if a member of it)
4. Rivalries (if noteworthy)
5. Olympics-related links (if participated)

#6:References

• No standard: either {{reflist}} or {{reflist|2}} (2 for two columns).

#7:External links

Please include the applicable following parameters (usage description is at the template page)

• {{ATP}}
• {{WTA}}
• {{ITF profile}}
• {{DavisCup player}}
• {{FedCup player}}

and consider using {{Commons category}} (if any)

Footers

Also called "navboxes". These are located after "External References", but before any category section.

#8:Grand Slam "succession" box

Say you are on an "Australian Open" article...This sequence:

• {{start box}}
• {{succession box|title=[[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam Tournament]]|before=[[US Open (tennis)|]]|after=[[French Open]]|years='''January'''|}}
• {{end box}}

Produces:

• • previous = US Open (Notice the Help:Pipe trick)
    • Main article is year IN-specific
  • next = French Open (in May/June)
  • Use the "Years" field for the Month the tournament is played: "January"

Year article

• Year article shows THIS tournament from one year to another: {{succession box | before=[[2008 US Open (tennis)|]]| title=[[US Open (tennis)|]] | years= | after=[[2010 US Open (tennis)|]] }}
• Year article showing one Grand Slam to the next: {{succession box | before=[[2009 Wimbledon Championships|2009 Wimbledon]]| title=[[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam Tournaments]] | years= | after=[[2010 Australian Open]] }} * Year article showing ''tennis'' sequence: <nowiki>{{succession box | before=[[2009 Pilot Pen Tennis|New Haven]]| title=[[2009 US Open Series]] | years= | after=None}}

#9:Bottom Navboxes

If we stay with the Australian Open...

• Pre-"Open-Era" version of the tournament
  • {{Australian Championships (tennis)}}
• "Open-Era" version of the tournament
  • {{Australian Open tournaments}}
• If newer tournament
  • {{Indian Wells Masters tournaments}}
• Tournament Grouping
  • {{Grand Slam Tournaments}}
  • {{ATP World Tour Masters 1000}} and the previous name {{ATP Masters Series tournaments}}
  • {{WTA Premier tournaments}}
  • {{WTA Tier I tournaments}}
• Other local sporting events; Town, State, or Country
  • {{Melbourne events}}

#10:Categories

• Watch for templates (especially within the footers) that may have already included a category.
• If people constantly add things they should not; place a comment at that spot

<!-- Category:Tennis is within {{TennisPortal}} -->

Davis Cup / Fed Cup

Teams

#1: Introduction

Small presentation of the team: when they first played in the cup, how many titles they've won, the group/zone they compete in, their national governing body and the current coach.

#2: Current team

List of current squad (it should not be limited to the squad of their last match but the biggest extent of players who are frequently invited to play and available for the coach to draft)

#3: History

It could be a longer chronological description of major breakthroughs, titles, finals, big achievements, highest world ranking (of nations).

#4: Players

All the players who played for the team during the years.

#5: Results

Tables could be implemented:

Year	Competition	Date	Location	Opponent	Score	Result
2010	World Group, 1st Round	5–7 March	Bree (BEL)	Czech Republic	1–4	Lost
	World Group Play-offs	17–20 September	Cairns (AUS)	Australia	3–2	Won

#6: See also

Use {{davisfedseealso}} (see template documentation for usage information)

#7: External links

Make sure the following are listed and categories present:

• {{DavisCup team}}
• {{Davis Cup}}
• (country) national teams template if exists
• Category:Davis Cup teams
• National sports teams of (country) category
• Tennis in (country) category

Draws

See 2010 Davis Cup for sections, links, arrangement; ordering of draws, matches, teams.

Table Formats

Otherwise the following wikitable is institutionalized (this one is for singles the doubles is the same format completed with an extra Partnering row before the Opponent in final row). Subsections containing this table should be named Titles / Career Finals / ATP Tour and Grand Slam finals or any other that refers to the content. The full tournament title should always be used along with its host country (e.g. Australian Open, Australia) rather than simply just the city and country in which the event is held (e.g. Melbourne, Australia). Any other categorization is possible (Tour type, court type) only if this general table is also present.

Legend (pre/post 2009) Grand Slam tournaments (1/0) Tennis Masters Cup / ATP World Tour Finals (0/1) Olympic Games (0–1) ATP Masters Series / ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0/1) ATP International Series Gold / ATP World Tour 500 Series (3/1) ATP International Series / ATP World Tour 250 Series (3/0) Team Events (0/0)

Titles by surface Hard (5/3) Clay (2/0) Grass (0/0) Carpet (0/0)

Result	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	August 10, 2008	250 Series	Los Angeles Open, United States	Hard	Andy Roddick	6–1, 7–6(7–2)
Runner-up	October 5, 2008	500 Series	Japan Open, Japan	Hard	Tomáš Berdych	1–6, 4–6
Winner	January 17, 2009	250 Series	Auckland Open, New Zealand	Hard	Sam Querrey	6–4, 6–4
Winner	August 9, 2009	500 Series	Washington Open, United States (2)	Hard	Andy Roddick	3–6, 7–5, 7–6(8–6)
Runner-up	August 16, 2009	Masters 1000	Canadian Open, Canada	Hard	Andy Murray	7–6(7–4), 6–7(3–7), 1–6
Winner	September 14, 2009	Grand Slam	US Open, United States	Hard	Roger Federer	3–6, 7–6(7–5), 4–6, 7–6(7–4), 6–2
Runner-up	November 29, 2009	Tour Finals	ATP World Tour Finals, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Nikolay Davydenko	3–6, 4–6

Tournament color scheme

The following standardized color scheme should be used for all articles containing a tournament overview. The color scheme is AAA-level compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Historic tournaments that pre-date the current tournament classification should follow the scheme either directly, in case of predecessors, or else as closely as possible.

Men	Women	Color code
Grand Slam tournaments	Grand Slam tournaments	F3E6D7
Summer Olympics	Summer Olympics	FFEA5C
ATP World Tour Finals	WTA Tour Championships	FFFFCC
ATP World Tour Masters 1000	Premier Mandatory & Premier 5	E9E9E9
ATP World Tour 500	Premier	D4F1C5
ATP World Tour 250	International
Team Events	Team Events	ECF2FF

Player performance timelines

For singles performance timelines, the following tables are acceptable for both ATP and WTA players. There are complex and simplified versions depending on the player. Note that no (flag)icons are used in these tables.

ATP players' performance timeline

Tournament	2004!	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	1R	1R	4R	W	QF	QF	W	W	W	QF	4 / 10	43–6	88%
French Open	A	2R	QF	SF	SF	3R	QF	SF	F	SF	F	0 / 10	42–10	81%
Wimbledon	A	3R	4R	SF	2R	QF	SF	W	SF	F	W	2 / 10	45–8	85%
US Open	A	3R	3R	F	SF	SF	F	W	F	F	SF	1 / 10	50–9	85%
Win–Loss	0–0	5–4	9–4	19–4	18–3	15–4	19–4	25–1	24–3	24–3	22–3	7 / 40	180–33	85%
Year-end championship
ATP World Tour Finals	Did Not Qualify			RR	W	RR	SF	RR	W	W	W	4 / 8	23–9	72%
National representation
Summer Olympics	A	Not Held			SF-B	Not Held			4th	NH		0 / 2	9–3	75%
Davis Cup	Z2	Z1	PO	PO	1R	1R	W	SF	A	F	A	1 / 9	26–7	79%
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	1R	F	W	QF	4R	W	SF	SF	W	3 / 9	36–6	86%
Miami Open	A	A	2R	W	2R	F	2R	W	W	4R	W	4 / 9	30–5	86%
Monte-Carlo Masters	A	A	1R	3R	SF	F	SF	A	F	W	SF	1 / 8	23–7	77%
Madrid Open1	A	A	2R	QF	SF	SF	A	W	QF	2R	A	1 / 7	16–6	73%
Italian Open	A	A	Q2	QF	W	F	QF	W	F	QF	W	3 / 8	29–5	85%
Canadian Open	A	Q2	A	W	QF	QF	SF	W	W	SF	3R	3 / 8	26–5	84%
Cincinnati Masters	A	1R	2R	2R	F	F	QF	F	F	QF	3R	0 / 10	22–10	69%
Shanghai Masters2	A	Q1	QF	SF	3R	SF	SF	A	W	W	SF	2 / 8	25–6	81%
Paris Masters	A	3R	2R	2R	3R	W	3R	QF	2R	W	W	3 / 10	21–6	78%
Win–Loss	0–0	2–2	5–7	24–7	25–7	33–8	16–8	33–1	34–6	28–6	28–4	20 / 77	228–56	80%
Career statistics
	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	SR	W–L	Win %
Tournaments played	3	9	19	22	19	22	19	15	17	16	15	Career total: 176
Titles	0	0	2	5	4	5	2	10	6	7	7	Career total: 48
Finals reached	0	0	3	7	7	10	4	11	11	9	8	Career total: 70
Hard Win–Loss	0–1	2–3	17–9	43–12	43–12	53–11	43–12	46–5	50–5	53–5	40–6	37 / 111	390–81	83%
Clay Win–Loss	1–2	4–5	14–5	18–5	16–3	17–6	12–4	17–1	16–4	15–3	14–2	9 / 45	144–40	78%
Grass Win–Loss	0–0	2–1	4–2	6–2	5–2	8–2	6–2	7–0	9–3	6–1	7–0	2 / 16	60–15	80%
Carpet Win–Loss	1–0	3–2	5–2	1-0	0–0	Discontinued						0 / 4	10–4	71%
Overall Win–Loss	2–3	11–11	40–18	68–19	64–17	78–19	61–18	70–6	75–12	74–9	61–8	48 / 176	604–140	81%
Win (%)	40%	50%	69%	78%	79%	80%	77%	92%	86%	89%	88%	Career total: 81%
Year-end ranking	186	78	16	3	3	3	3	1	1	2	1	$72,403,908

¹Held as Hamburg Masters until 2008 and Madrid Masters (clay) 2009–present.
²Held as Madrid Masters (hard) until 2008 and Shanghai Masters 2009–present.

Tournament	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	SF	A	QF	NH	A	A	QF	4R	A	QF	0 / 5	18–5	78.26
French Open	2R	A	A	3R	QF	A	QF	F	SF	A	1R	4R	A	A	1R	1R	0 / 10	25–10	71.43
Wimbledon	SF	1R	4R	F	W	F	W	W	QF	A	A	2R	SF	1R	4R	SF	3 / 14	59–11	84.29
US Open	4R	SF	W	W	W	SF	4R	W	F	1R	QF	2R	2R	SF	3R	4R	4 / 16	66–12	84.62
Win–Loss	9–3	5–2	9–1	15–2	18–1	11–2	18–3	20–1	18–4	0–1	4–2	5–3	10–3	8–3	5–3	12–4	7 / 45	168–38	81.55
Year-end championships
The Masters	A	A	W	SF	RR	SF	F	W	W	RR	A	A	SF	A	A	A	3 / 9	19–11	63.33
WCT Finals	A	A	W	F	W	F	W	W	QF	A	F	A	W	A	A	A	5 / 9	21–4	84.00
Win–Loss			8–0	4–3	3–3	4–3	5–1	6–0	3–1	0–1	2–1		5–2				8 / 18	40–15	72.73
Year-end ranking	21	4	3	2	1	1	1	1	2	14	10	11	4	13	28	20	$12,547,797

• Results from the Grand Slams, ATP World Tour Masters 1000, ATP World Tour Finals, Summer Olympics and Davis Cup are acceptable for inclusion in an ATP player's performance timeline for singles and doubles. Results from the ATP World Tour 500 series, ATP World Tour 250 series, ATP Challenger Tour, ITF Futures tournaments, or junior championships should not be included and/or separated into timelines and instead should be documented within the body of the player's article.
• The default font size (100%) should be used. There is no need to change the font size of tables and performance timelines by adding "style=font-size:97%".
• An "A" should always be used to represent a player's absence regardless of their reasons for not competing.
• Using background colors to highlight tournament headings (e.g. Grand Slam Tournaments, Davis Cup Singles etc.) is inappropriate and unnecessary.

WTA players' performance timeline

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	1R	3R	SF	SF	F	W	A	1R	4R	F	1 / 9	34–8	81%
French Open	A	A	1R	QF	QF	4R	SF	4R	QF	3R	SF	W	1 / 10	37–9	80%
Wimbledon	A	A	4R	W	SF	SF	4R	2R	2R	4R	F	4R	1 / 10	37–9	80%
US Open	A	A	2R	3R	SF	W	3R	A	3R	4R	3R	SF	1 / 9	29–8	78%
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	4–4	15–3	19–4	20–3	16–4	11–2	7–3	8–4	16–4	21–3	4 / 38	137–34	80%
National representation
Fed Cup World Group	Absent							W	Absent		F	SF	1 / 3	3–1	75%
Summer Olympics	Not Held			A	Not Held			A	Not Held			F	0 / 1	5–1	83%
Year-end championship
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A	W	SF	SF	F	A	A	A	RR	F	1 / 6	17–8	68%
WTA Premier Mandatory tournaments
Indian Wells Masters	A	2R	1R	4R	SF	W	4R	SF	A	3R	SF	F	1 / 10	29–9	76%
Miami Open	A	A	1R	4R	F	F	4R	A	A	A	F	F	0 / 7	24–7	77%
Madrid Open	Not Held								A	1R	3R	QF	0 / 3	4–3	57%
China Open	Not Held			Not Tier I					3R	2R	A	F	0 / 3	7–3	70%
WTA Premier 5 tournaments
Dubai Championships	Not Tier I								A	A	A	NP5	0 / 0	0–0	0%
Qatar Open	Not Tier 1							W	Not Held		NP5	A	1 / 1	5–0	100%
Italian Open	A	A	A	3R	SF	A	A	SF	A	A	W	W	2 / 5	18–2	90%
Canadian Open	A	A	1R	3R	A	A	A	3R	F	A	3R	A	0 / 5	8–4	67%
Cincinnati Masters	Not Held			Not Tier I					A	F	W	A	1 / 2	10–1	91%
Pan Pacific Open	A	A	A	2R	W	SF	SF	A	W	1R	QF	QF	2 / 8	19–6	83%
Career statistics
Tournaments played	1	8	16	20	15	15	13	9	10	13	14	14	144
Titles	0	0	2	5	3	5	1	3	1	2	2	3	27
Finals	0	0	2	6	4	7	4	3	2	5	4	9	46
Hardcourt Win–Loss	0–0	23–5	20–9	34–11	29–7	45–5	24–5	19–1	20–5	19–7	25–11	34–8	17 / 91	292–74	80%
Clay Win–Loss	0–1	5–0	9–2	8–3	9–3	3–1	7–2	12–2	6–2	7–2	12–2	18–1	6 / 28	96–21	82.1%
Grass Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	9–2	12–0	10–1	8–2	7–2	1–1	5–2	7–2	6–1	8–2	3 / 17	73–15	83.0%
Carpet Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	5–1	3–1	2–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1 / 7	11–5	68.8%
Overall Win–Loss	0–1	28–5	38–13	55–15	53–12	59–9	40–11	32–4	31–9	33–11	43–14	60–11	27 / 148	472–115	80.41%
Win %	0%	85%	75%	79%	82%	87%	78%	89%	78%	75%	74%	85%	80.41%
Year-end ranking	–	186	32	4	4	2	5	9	14	18	4	2	$23,151,623

Tournament	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995– 2003	2004	WR	W–L
Australian Open	A	A	F	A	A / A	A	A	SF	W	F	W	SF	W	NH	F	SF	QF	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	3 / 10	46–7
French Open	QF	QF	F	A	A	A	A	A	QF	W	4R	W	F	F	F	4R	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	1R	2 / 13	51–11
Wimbledon	3R	1R	QF	SF	QF	W	W	SF	SF	W	W	W	W	W	W	F	F	W	QF	SF	SF	F	A	2R	9 / 23	120–14
US Open	1R	3R	SF	1R	SF	SF	SF	4R	F	QF	W	W	F	W	W	QF	F	4R	F	2R	4R	A	A	A	4 / 21	89–17
Win–Loss	5–3	5–3	17–4	5–2	9–2	11–1	11–1	11–3	19–3	20–2	23–1	25–1	25–2	20–1	25–2	18–4	16–3	10–1	10–2	6–2	8–2	6–2	0–0	1–2	N/A	306–49

• Results from the Grand Slams, WTA Premier Mandatory Events, WTA Premier 5 Events, WTA Tour Championships, Tournament of Champions, Summer Olympics and Fed Cup are acceptable for inclusion in a WTA player's performance timeline for singles and doubles. Results from the WTA Premier Events, WTA International Events, ITF Women's Circuit, or junior championships should not be included and/or separated into timelines and instead should be documented within the body of the player's article.
• The default font size (100%) should be used. There is no need to change the font size of tables and performance timelines by adding "style=font-size:97%".
• An "A" should always be used to represent a player's absence regardless of their reasons for not competing.
• Using background colors to highlight tournament headings (e.g. Grand Slam Tournaments, Fed Cup Singles etc.) is inappropriate and unnecessary.