.jpg) Ashleigh Barty finished the year as WTA world No. 1 for the second time in her career, though Sofia Kenin was named the Player of the Year. Barty won one tournament during the season. Kenin won three tournaments during the season, including a major at the Australian Open, and finished runner-up at another major, the French Open. | |
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Duration | 5 January – 15 November 2020 |
| Edition | 50th |
| Tournaments | 24 |
| Categories | Grand Slam (3) WTA Premier 5 (3) WTA Premier (5) WTA International (13) |
| Achievements (singles) | |
| Most tournament titles |  Simona Halep  Aryna Sabalenka (3) |
| Most tournament finals |  Elena Rybakina (5) |
| Prize money leader |  Sofia Kenin ($4,302,970)[1] |
| Points leader | Sofia Kenin (3,934) |
| Awards | |
| Player of the year | Sofia Kenin |
| Doubles team of the year |  Tímea Babos  Kristina Mladenovic |
| Most improved player of the year |  Iga Świątek |
| Newcomer of the year |  Nadia Podoroska |
| Comeback player of the year | Victoria Azarenka |
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Sofia Kenin won her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open by defeating Garbiñe Muguruza in the final. Season suspended for five months due to the COVID-19 pandemic including the cancellation of Wimbledon. The season resumed in Palermo in August due to calendar changes in the season where Naomi Osaka won her third Grand Slam title, her second at the US Open, defeating Victoria Azarenka in the final. Iga Świątek won her first Grand Slam title at the French Open defeating Kenin in the final. Świątek was the first Polish player and first player born in the 21st century, male or female, to win a Grand Slam singles title.
The 2020 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2020 tennis season. The 2020 WTA Tour calendar originally comprised 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 Elite Trophy).[2]
Many tournaments were cancelled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the Tokyo Summer Olympics and the Wimbledon Championships.[3][4][5][6][7]
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- ^ "Tokyo 2020: Olympic Games postponed because of coronavirus". BBC Sport. 24 March 2020.
- ^ "WTA announces further suspension of four tournaments". WTA. 15 May 2020.
- ^ "WTA tournaments in China cancelled for 2020". WTA. 24 July 2020.