_(14403024996).jpg) Simona Halep finished the year as WTA world No. 1 for the first time in her career, though Garbiñe Muguruza was named the Player of the Year. Halep won one tournament during the season, a Premier Mandatory event, and finished runner-up at a major, the French Open. Muguruza won two tournaments during the season, including a major at the Wimbledon Championships, and a Premier 5 event. | |
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Duration | 1 January – 5 November 2017 |
| Edition | 47th |
| Tournaments | 59 |
| Categories | Grand Slam (4) WTA Finals WTA Premier Mandatory (4) WTA Premier 5 (5) WTA Premier (12) WTA International (32) WTA Elite Trophy |
| Achievements (singles) | |
| Most tournament titles |  Elina Svitolina (5) |
| Most tournament finals |  Caroline Wozniacki (8) |
| Prize money leader |  Venus Williams (US$5,468,741) |
| Points leader |  Simona Halep (6,175) |
| Awards | |
| Player of the year |  Garbiñe Muguruza |
| Doubles team of the year |  Chan Yung-jan  Martina Hingis |
| Most improved player of the year |  Jeļena Ostapenko |
| Newcomer of the year | Catherine Bellis |
| Comeback player of the year | Sloane Stephens |
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Serena Williams won her 23rd major at the Australian Open, a new record in the Open Era, defeating her sister Venus Williams. Jeļena Ostapenko won her first major and her first title overall, defeating Simona Halep in the final of the French Open to become the first player from Latvia to win a major, and the first unseeded player to win the French Open since 1933. Garbiñe Muguruza won her second major at Wimbledon, defeating Venus Williams in the final. Sloane Stephens won her first major title at the US Open, defeating Madison Keys in the final, becoming the second unseeded woman in the Open era to win the US Open after Kim Clijsters in 2009.
The 2017 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2017 tennis season. The 2017 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), the year-end championships (the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Elite Trophy). Also included in the 2017 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which is organized by the ITF and does not distribute ranking points.[1]
- ^ "2017 WTA calendar" (PDF). wtatennis.com. WTA Tour, Inc. Retrieved 2016-12-21.