The 2010 WTA Premier tournaments are 19 of the tennis tournaments on the 2010 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 (Dubai, Rome, Cincinnati, Canada and Tokyo), and Premier (10 tournaments in Europe, United States and Australia).
Week of
Tournament
Champions
Runners-up
Semifinalists
Quarterfinalists
10 January
Medibank International Sydney Sydney , Australia
Elena Dementieva 6–3, 6–2
Serena Williams
Aravane Rezaï Victoria Azarenka
Vera Dushevina Flavia Pennetta Dominika Cibulková Dinara Safina
Cara Black Liezel Huber 6–1, 3–6, [10–3]
Tathiana Garbin Nadia Petrova
8 February
Open GDF Suez Paris, France
Elena Dementieva 6–7(5–7) , 6–1, 6–4
Lucie Šafářová
Melanie Oudin Flavia Pennetta
Andrea Petkovic Ágnes Szávay Shahar Pe'er Tathiana Garbin
Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová w/o
Cara Black Liezel Huber
12 April
Family Circle Cup Charleston , USA
Samantha Stosur 6–0, 6–3
Vera Zvonareva
Caroline Wozniacki Daniela Hantuchová
Nadia Petrova Melanie Oudin Peng Shuai Jelena Janković
Liezel Huber Nadia Petrova 6–3, 6–4
Vania King Michaëlla Krajicek
26 April
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart , Germany
Justine Henin 6–4, 2–6, 6–1
Samantha Stosur
Anna Lapushchenkova Shahar Pe'er
Lucie Šafářová Li Na Jelena Janković Dinara Safina
Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta 3–6, 7–63 , [10–5]
Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik
17 May
Warsaw Open Warsaw , Poland
Alexandra Dulgheru 6–3, 6–4
Zheng Jie
Gréta Arn Li Na
Caroline Wozniacki Alona Bondarenko Sara Errani Tsvetana Pironkova
Virginia Ruano Pascual Meghann Shaughnessy 6–3, 6–4
Cara Black Yan Zi
14 June
Aegon International Eastbourne , UK
Ekaterina Makarova 7–6(7–5) , 6–4
Victoria Azarenka
Marion Bartoli Samantha Stosur
María José Martínez Sánchez Kim Clijsters Elena Baltacha Svetlana Kuznetsova
Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs 6–2, 2–6, [13–11]
Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik
26 July
Bank of the West Classic Stanford , USA
Victoria Azarenka 6–4, 6–1
Maria Sharapova
Samantha Stosur Agnieszka Radwańska
Yanina Wickmayer Marion Bartoli Maria Kirilenko Elena Dementieva
Lindsay Davenport Liezel Huber 7–5, 6–7(8–10) , [10–8]
Chan Yung-jan Zheng Jie
2 August
Southern California Open San Diego , USA
Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–4, 6–7(7–9) , 6–3
Agnieszka Radwańska
Daniela Hantuchová Flavia Pennetta
Alisa Kleybanova Shahar Pe'er Coco Vandeweghe Samantha Stosur
Maria Kirilenko Zheng Jie 6–4, 6–4
Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs
22 August
Pilot Pen Tennis at Yale New Haven , USA
Caroline Wozniacki 6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Nadia Petrova
Elena Dementieva Maria Kirilenko
Flavia Pennetta Marion Bartoli Dinara Safina Samantha Stosur
Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik 7–5, 6–0
Bethanie Mattek-Sands Meghann Shaughnessy
18 October
Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia
Victoria Azarenka 6–3, 6–4
Maria Kirilenko
Vera Dushevina María José Martínez Sánchez
Zarina Diyas Anna Chakvetadze Dominika Cibulková Alisa Kleybanova
Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta 6–3, 2–6, [10–6]
Sara Errani María José Martínez Sánchez
Tournaments by year Premier Mandatory Premier 5 tournaments Premier tournaments
Grand Slam events WTA Premier tournaments
Sydney (S , D )
Paris (S , D )
Dubai (S , D )
Indian Wells (S , D )
Miami (S , D )
Charleston (S , D )
Stuttgart (S , D )
Rome (S , D )
Madrid (S , D )
Warsaw (S , D )
Eastbourne (S , D )
Stanford (S , D )
San Diego (S , D )
Cincinnati (S , D )
Montreal (S , D )
New Haven (S , D )
Tokyo (S , D )
Beijing (S , D )
Moscow (S , D )
WTA International tournaments
Brisbane (S , D )
Auckland (S , D )
Hobart (S , D )
Pattaya City (S , D )
Memphis (S , D )
Bogotá (S , D )
Acapulco (S , D )
Kuala Lumpur (S , D )
Monterrey (S , D )
Marbella (S , D )
Ponte Vedra Beach (S , D )
Barcelona (S , D )
Fes (S , D )
Estoril (S , D )
Strasbourg (S , D )
Birmingham (S , D )
's-Hertogenbosch (S , D )
Budapest (S , D )
Båstad (S , D )
Palermo (S , D )
Prague (S , D )
Portorož (S , D )
Bad Gastein (S , D )
İstanbul (S , D )
Copenhagen (S , D )
Guangzhou (S , D )
Quebec City (S , D )
Seoul (S , D )
Tashkent (S , D )
Linz (S , D )
Osaka (S , D )
Luxembourg City (S , D )
Team events
Underline denotes the mandatory events, and the year-end championships