2021 WTA Tour

2021 WTA Tour
Ashleigh Barty finished the year as world No. 1 for the third time in her career. She won five tournaments during the season, including a major at the Wimbledon Championships. She also won two WTA 1000 events.
Details
Duration6 January – 17 November 2021
Edition51st
Categories
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titlesAustralia Ashleigh Barty (5)
Most tournament finalsEstonia Anett Kontaveit (7)
Prize money leaderAustralia Ashleigh Barty ($3,945,182)
Points leaderAustralia Ashleigh Barty (6,411)
Awards
Player of the yearAustralia Ashleigh Barty
Doubles team of the yearCzech Republic Barbora Krejčíková
Czech Republic Kateřina Siniaková
Most improved
player of the year
Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková
Newcomer of the yearUnited Kingdom Emma Raducanu
Comeback
player of the year
Spain Carla Suárez Navarro
2020
2022
Naomi Osaka won her fourth major title and second Australian Open title, defeating Jennifer Brady in the final. Barbora Krejčíková won her first major singles title at the French Open, defeating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the final. Ashleigh Barty won her second major singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Karolína Plíšková in the final. Emma Raducanu won her first major title at the US Open, defeating Leylah Fernandez in the final and becoming the first qualifier, man or woman, to win a major title.

The 2021 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2021 tennis season. The 2021 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the WTA 1000 tournaments, the WTA 500 tournaments, the WTA 250 tournaments, the Billie Jean King Cup (organized by the ITF), and the year-end championships (the WTA Finals and the WTA Elite Trophy). Also included in the 2021 calendar are the Summer Olympic Games, which were rescheduled from 2020.