The 2017 WTA Premier tournaments are 21 of the tennis tournaments on the 2017 WTA Tour. The WTA Tour is the elite tour for women's professional tennis. The WTA Premier tournaments rank below the Grand Slam events and above the WTA International tournaments. They are divided into three levels: Premier Mandatory (Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Beijing), Premier 5 (Doha, Rome, Canada, Cincinnati and Wuhan), and Premier (12 tournaments in Europe, United States and Australia).
Schedule Premier Week ofTournamentChampionsRunners-upSemifinalistsQuarterfinalists2 January Brisbane International Brisbane, Australia Karolína Plíšková 6–0, 6–3 Alizé Cornet Elina Svitolina Garbiñe Muguruza Angelique Kerber Roberta Vinci Svetlana Kuznetsova Dominika Cibulková Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sania Mirza 6–2, 6–3 Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina9 January Apia International Sydney Sydney, Australia Johanna Konta 6–4, 6–2 Agnieszka Radwańska Eugenie Bouchard Barbora Strýcová Daria Kasatkina Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Caroline Wozniacki Duan Yingying Tímea Babos Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6–4, 6–4 Sania Mirza Barbora Strýcová30 January St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy St. Petersburg, Russia Kristina Mladenovic 6–2, 6–7(3–7), 6–4 Yulia Putintseva Natalia Vikhlyantseva Dominika Cibulková Simona Halep Roberta Vinci Svetlana Kuznetsova Elena Vesnina Jeļena Ostapenko Alicja Rosolska3–6, 6–2, [10–5] Darija Jurak Xenia Knoll13 February Qatar Total Open Doha, Qatar Karolína Plíšková6–3, 6–4 Caroline Wozniacki Monica Puig Dominika Cibulková Daria Kasatkina Lauren Davis Samantha Stosur Zhang Shuai Abigail Spears Katarina Srebotnik6–3, 7–6(9–7) Olga Savchuk Yaroslava Shvedova3 April Volvo Car Open Charleston, USA Daria Kasatkina6–3, 6–1 Jeļena Ostapenko Mirjana Lučić-Baroni Laura Siegemund Shelby Rogers Caroline Wozniacki Anastasija Sevastova Irina-Camelia Begu Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová 6–1, 4–6, [10–7] Lucie Hradecká Kateřina Siniaková24 April Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany Laura Siegemund 6–1, 2–6, 7–6(7–5) Kristina Mladenovic Maria Sharapova Simona Halep Carla Suárez Navarro Anett Kontaveit Anastasija Sevastova Karolína Plíšková Raquel Atawo Jeļena Ostapenko 6–4, 6–4 Abigail Spears Katarina Srebotnik19 June Aegon ClassicBirmingham, UK Petra Kvitová 4–6, 6–3, 6–2 Ashleigh Barty Lucie Šafářová Garbiñe Muguruza Daria Gavrilova Kristina Mladenovic Coco Vandeweghe Camila Giorgi Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua 6–1, 2–6, [10–8] Chan Hao-ching Zhang Shuai26 June Aegon International Eastbourne, UK Karolína Plíšková 6–4, 6–4 Caroline Wozniacki Johanna Konta Heather Watson Angelique Kerber Svetlana Kuznetsova Barbora Strýcová Simona Halep Chan Yung-jan Martina Hingis 6–3, 7–5 Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua31 July Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA Madison Keys 7–6(7–4), 6–4 Coco Vandeweghe Garbiñe Muguruza Catherine Bellis Ana Konjuh Lesia Tsurenko Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Petra Kvitová Abigail Spears Coco Vandeweghe 6–2, 6–3 Alizé Cornet Alicja Rosolska21 August Connecticut Open New Haven, USA Daria Gavrilova 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 Dominika Cibulková Agnieszka Radwańska Elise Mertens Peng Shuai Kirsten Flipkens Zhang Shuai Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Gabriela Dabrowski Xu Yifan 3–6, 6–3, [10–8] Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua18 September Toray Pan Pacific Open Tokyo, Japan Caroline Wozniacki 6–0, 7–5 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Garbiñe Muguruza Angelique Kerber Caroline Garcia Dominika Cibulková Barbora Strýcová Karolína Plíšková Andreja Klepač María José Martínez Sánchez 6–3, 6–2 Daria Gavrilova Daria Kasatkina16 October Kremlin CupMoscow, Russia Julia Görges 6–1, 6–2 Daria Kasatkina Irina-Camelia Begu Natalia Vikhlyantseva Aliaksandra Sasnovich Vera Lapko Alizé Cornet Lesia Tsurenko Tímea Babos Andrea Hlaváčková 6–2, 3–6, [10–3] Nicole Melichar Anna Smith
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