2002 WTA Tour

2002 WTA Tour
Serena Williams finished the year as world No. 1 for the first time in her career. She won eight tournaments during the season, including three majors at the French Open, the Wimbledon Championships, and the US Open. She also won two Tier I events.
Details
DurationDecember 29, 2001
– November 11, 2002
Edition32nd
Tournaments64
CategoriesGrand Slam (4)
WTA Championships
WTA Tier I (9)
WTA Tier II (17)
WTA Tier III (17)
WTA Tier IV (9)
WTA Tier V (7)
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titlesUnited States Serena Williams (8)
Most tournament finalsUnited States Venus Williams (11)
Prize money leaderUnited States Serena Williams
($3,935,668)
Points leaderUnited States Serena Williams (6,080)
Awards
Player of the yearUnited States Serena Williams
Doubles team of the yearSpain Virginia Ruano Pascual
Argentina Paola Suárez
Most improved
player of the year
Slovakia Daniela Hantuchová
Newcomer of the yearRussia Svetlana Kuznetsova
Comeback
player of the year
United States Corina Morariu
2001
2003

The 2002 Sanex WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2002 tennis season. The WTA Tour calendar comprised the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the WTA Tier I-V Events, the Fed Cup (organized by the ITF) and the year-end championships.

New tournaments created for the 2002 season included the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium; a new green clay event, the Sarasota Clay Court Classic, in Sarasota, U.S.; and the Nordea Nordic Light Open held in Espoo, Finland. Another new tournament was created to be held in Aarhus, Denmark, but was later cancelled. Also, the French Community Championships moved cities from Knokke-Heist to Brussels, and the Kroger St. Jude Championship was moved from Oklahoma City, U.S. to a new location in Memphis.