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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

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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

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Singles

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Titles Player
32 Netherlands Arantxa Rus
30 Chile Fernanda Brito
27 Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei
26 Italy/Switzerland Romina Oprandi
25 Romania Cristina Dinu
Hungary Réka Luca Jani
24 Bulgaria Isabella Shinikova
23 Brazil Maria Fernanda Alves
Romania Mihaela Buzărnescu
Czech Republic Petra Cetkovská
South Africa Chanel Simmonds
22 Australia Casey Dellacqua
Spain Nuria Párrizas Díaz
Brazil Teliana Pereira

* 9. 21 Russia Vitalia Diatchenko

Estonia Kaia Kanepi

Israel Deniz Khazaniuk

Germany Anne Schäfer

*10. 20 Sweden Sofia Arvidsson

Hungary Melinda Czink

Czech Republic Lucie Hradecká

United Kingdom Anne Keothavong

Romania Andreea Mitu

Czech Republic Zuzana Ondrášková

Spain Laura Pous Tió

Doubles

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Titles Player
60 Argentina María Irigoyen
58 Brazil Maria Fernanda Alves
Czech Republic Renata Voráčová
56 Australia Lisa McShea
55 Czech Republic Gabriela Chmelinová
53 Romania Laura Ioana Paar
49 Romania Diana Enache
Chinese Taipei Chan Chin-wei
48 Poland Olga Brózda
47 North Macedonia Lina Gjorcheska
Ukraine Valeriya Strakhova
44 Finland Emma Laine
Russia\Australia Arina Rodionova
Russia Yana Sizikova
43 Bosnia and Herzegovina Mervana Jugić-Salkić
Brazil Laura Pigossi

References

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  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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