WTA Tour

The WTA Tour is the international professional tennis circuit for women, organized by the Women's Tennis Association. It comprises tournaments where players compete for titles, ranking points, and prize money.

WTA rankings: A points-based ranking system that orders women's tennis players according to recent tournament results. Tour results determine the points used to rank players and seed them in events.
Women's Tennis Association: The organization that governs the WTA Tour and represents professional women's tennis players. It founded and administers the circuit.
Chris Evert: An American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam singles titles and dominated women's tennis in the 1970s and 1980s. Her sustained success helped establish the tour's competitive stature.
Grand Slam (tennis): The four most prestigious annual tennis tournaments: the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open. Grand Slams sit outside the WTA's tournament tiers, though they are central to players' seasons.
Battle of the Sexes (1973): A 1973 exhibition tennis match in which Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets. The match gave the emerging women's circuit an unusually large public audience.
WTA 1000: A tier of major WTA tournaments below the Grand Slams, offering substantial ranking points and prize money. These high-tier events are central stops on the regular tour calendar.
Original 9: The nine women tennis players who broke from the established tennis structure in 1970 to form a new professional tour. Their breakaway tournaments laid the groundwork for the WTA Tour.
Martina Navratilova: A Czech-American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam singles titles and 31 major women's doubles titles. Her achievements across singles and doubles became defining benchmarks on the tour.
Billie Jean King Cup: The international team competition in which national women's tennis teams compete for a world title. It offers national-team tennis alongside the tour's individual and doubles circuit.
Equal pay in tennis: The movement and policies seeking equal prize money for women and men in tennis competitions. The tour's founding campaign and later negotiations helped advance prize-money equality.

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