The Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by World Tennis (formerly the International Tennis Federation) for female professional tennis players.
History 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 World Tennis Tour tournaments each year, spread across all six inhabited continents, with prize money ranging from US$15,000 to US$100,000. Players who succeed on the Women's Tour 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 Men's World Tennis Tour, 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 Women's World Tennis Tour, fall under the jurisdiction of the ATP as part of the ATP Challenger Tour.
In 2019, reforms were 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.
Most Championships in the World Tennis Tour Singles TitlesPlayer33 Arantxa Rus30 Fernanda Brito27 Hsieh Su-wei Isabella Shinikova26/ Romina Oprandi25 Cristina Dinu Réka Luca Jani24 Nuria Párrizas Díaz Victoria Kan Zhang Shuai23 Maria Fernanda Alves Mihaela Buzărnescu Petra Cetkovská Chanel Simmonds22 Casey Dellacqua Vitalia Diatchenko Teliana Pereira Anne Schäfer21 Madison Brengle Kaia Kanepi Deniz Khazaniuk Patricia Maria Țig20 Sofia Arvidsson Melinda Czink Anastasia Grymalska Lucie Hradecká Anne Keothavong Tatjana Maria Andreea Mitu Zuzana Ondrášková Laura Pous Tió Sandra Samir
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Doubles TitlesPlayer60 María Irigoyen59 Renata Voráčová58 Maria Fernanda Alves56 Lisa McShea55 Gabriela Chmelinová53 Laura Ioana Paar Sapfo Sakellaridi49 Valeriya Strakhova Diana Enache Chan Chin-wei48 Olga Brózda47 Lina Gjorcheska45 Erika Sema44 Emma Laine Laura Pigossi Yana Sizikova43 Mervana Jugić-Salkić42\ Arina Rodionova
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