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The 2013 WTA Premier tournaments are 21 of the
tennis tournaments on the
2013 WTA Tour . The
WTA Tour is the elite tour for women's professional tennis. The
WTA Premier tournaments rank below the
Grand Slam events and above the
WTA International tournaments . They are divided into three levels: Premier Mandatory (Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Beijing), Premier 5 (Doha, Rome, Canada, Cincinnati and Tokyo), and Premier (12 tournaments in Europe, United States and Australia).
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Schedule
Premier
Week of
Tournament
Champions
Runners-up
Semifinalists
Quarterfinalists
31 December
Brisbane International
Brisbane , Australia
Serena Williams 6–2, 6–1
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Victoria Azarenka
Lesia Tsurenko
Ksenia Pervak
Sloane Stephens
Angelique Kerber
Daniela Hantuchová
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Sania Mirza 4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Anna-Lena Grönefeld
Květa Peschke
7 January
Apia International Sydney
Sydney , Australia
Agnieszka Radwańska 6–0, 6–0
Dominika Cibulková
Li Na
Angelique Kerber
Roberta Vinci
Madison Keys
Sara Errani
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Nadia Petrova
Katarina Srebotnik 6-3, 6-4
Sara Errani
Roberta Vinci
28 January
Open GDF Suez Paris, France
Mona Barthel 7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Sara Errani
Kiki Bertens
Kristina Mladenovic
Carla Suárez Navarro
Lucie Šafářová
Marion Bartoli
Petra Kvitová
Sara Errani
Roberta Vinci 6–1, 6–1
Andrea Hlaváčková
Liezel Huber
18 February
Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships
Dubai ,
UAE
Petra Kvitová 6–2, 1–6, 6–1
Sara Errani
Roberta Vinci
Caroline Wozniacki
Nadia Petrova
Samantha Stosur
Agnieszka Radwańska
Marion Bartoli
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Sania Mirza 6–4, 2–6, [10–7]
Nadia Petrova
Katarina Srebotnik
1 April
Family Circle Cup
Charleston , USA
Serena Williams 3–6, 6–0, 6–2
Jelena Janković
Venus Williams
Stefanie Vögele
Lucie Šafářová
Madison Keys
Eugenie Bouchard
Caroline Wozniacki
Kristina Mladenovic
Lucie Šafářová 6–3, 7–6(8–6)
Andrea Hlaváčková
Liezel Huber
22 April
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix
Stuttgart , Germany
Maria Sharapova 6–4, 6–3
Li Na
Angelique Kerber
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Ana Ivanovic
Yaroslava Shvedova
Sabine Lisicki
Petra Kvitová
Mona Barthel
Sabine Lisicki 6–4, 7–5
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Sania Mirza
20 May
Brussels Open
Brussels , Belgium
Kaia Kanepi 6–2, 7–5
Peng Shuai
Romina Oprandi
Jamie Hampton
Zheng Jie
Sloane Stephens
Varvara Lepchenko
Roberta Vinci
Anna-Lena Grönefeld
Květa Peschke 6–0, 6–3
Gabriela Dabrowski
Shahar Pe'er
17 June
Aegon International
Eastbourne , UK
Elena Vesnina 6–2, 6–1
Jamie Hampton
Caroline Wozniacki
Yanina Wickmayer
Lucie Šafářová
Ekaterina Makarova
Maria Kirilenko
Li Na
Nadia Petrova
Katarina Srebotnik 6–3, 6–3
Monica Niculescu
Klára Zakopalová
22 July
Bank of the West Classic
Stanford , USA
Dominika Cibulková 3–6, 6–4, 6–4
Agnieszka Radwańska
Jamie Hampton
Sorana Cîrstea
Varvara Lepchenko
Vera Dushevina
Urszula Radwańska
Olga Govortsova
Raquel Kops-Jones
Abigail Spears 6–2, 7–6(7–4)
Julia Görges
Darija Jurak
29 July
Southern California Open
Carlsbad , USA
Samantha Stosur 6–2, 6–3
Victoria Azarenka
Ana Ivanovic
Virginie Razzano
Urszula Radwańska
Roberta Vinci
Petra Kvitová
Agnieszka Radwańska
Raquel Kops-Jones
Abigail Spears 6–4, 6–1
Chan Hao-ching
Janette Husárová
19 August
New Haven Open at Yale
New Haven , USA
Simona Halep 6–2, 6–2
Petra Kvitová
Caroline Wozniacki
Klára Zakopalová
Ekaterina Makarova
Sloane Stephens
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Elena Vesnina
Sania Mirza
Zheng Jie 6–3, 6–4
Anabel Medina Garrigues
Katarina Srebotnik
14 October
Kremlin Cup
Moscow , Russia
Simona Halep 7–6(7–1) , 6–2
Samantha Stosur
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Daniela Hantuchová
Alisa Kleybanova
Ana Ivanovic
Roberta Vinci
Samantha Stosur
Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–1, 1–6, [10–8]
Alla Kudryavtseva
Anastasia Rodionova
References
Tournaments by year Premier Mandatory Premier 5 tournaments Premier tournaments
Grand Slam events
WTA Premier Mandatory tournaments
WTA Premier 5 tournaments
WTA Premier tournaments
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