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
Duration	December 28, 2013 – November 9, 2014
Edition	44th
Tournaments	58
Categories	Grand 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 titles	Serena Williams (7)
Most finals	Serena Williams (7)
Prize money leader	Serena Williams (US$9,317,298)
Points leader	Serena Williams (8,487)
Awards
Player of the year	Serena Williams
Doubles team of the year	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci
Most improved player of the year	Eugenie Bouchard
Newcomer of the year	Belinda Bencic
Comeback player of the year	Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
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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.