2014 WTA Tour

2014 WTA Tour
Serena Williams finished the year as world No. 1 for the fourth time in her career. She won seven singles tournaments during the season, including a major at the US Open, as well as the WTA Finals. She also won three Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 events.
Details
DurationDecember 28, 2013
– November 9, 2014
Edition44th
Tournaments58
CategoriesGrand Slam (4)
WTA Tour Championships
WTA Premier Mandatory (4)
WTA Premier 5 (5)
WTA Premier (12)
WTA International (31)
WTA Tournament of Champions
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titlesUnited States Serena Williams (7)
Most tournament finalsUnited States Serena Williams (7)
Prize money leaderUnited States Serena Williams
(US$9,317,298)
Points leaderUnited States Serena Williams (8,487)
Awards
Player of the yearUnited States Serena Williams
Doubles team of the yearItaly Sara Errani
Italy Roberta Vinci
Most improved
player of the year
Canada Eugenie Bouchard
Newcomer of the yearSwitzerland Belinda Bencic
Comeback
player of the year
Croatia Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
2013
2015
Li Na won her first Australian Open title and second major singles title after twice being runner-up. Maria Sharapova won her second French Open title and fifth major singles title overall in May. Petra Kvitová won her second major singles title at Wimbledon in July. Serena Williams won her record-tying sixth US Open and eighteenth major singles title at the 2014 US Open.

The 2014 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2014 tennis season. The 2014 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the WTA Premier tournaments (Premier Mandatory, Premier 5, and regular Premier), the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup (organized by the ITF), and the year-end championships (the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tournament of Champions).[1] Also included in the 2014 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which was organized by the ITF and did not distribute ranking points.

  1. ^ "2014 WTA calendar" (PDF). wtatennis.com. WTA Tour, Inc. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-13. Retrieved 2014-09-01.