It marked the first time that a player ranked in the top 3 had ever been " shut out " on the WTA tour and was the first time Sharapova had failed to win a game during a match.

Davenport was a semifinalist at the WTA tour year-end championships ( losing to Pierce in two tie-breaks ), which ensured that she finished the year ranked no.

She was the only player in the WTA top 100 that had fewer than 10 tournaments counting towards her world ranking.

On March 24, 2009, Scott announced that he was resigning as WTA chief in order to take up a new position as the Commissioner of the Pacific-10 Conference, now the Pacific-12 Conference, on July 1, 2009.

Graf was ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ) for a record 377 total weeks — the longest period for which any player, male or female, has held the number-one ranking since the WTA and the Association of Tennis Professionals began issuing rankings.

Graf stated after the match she was extremely nervous heading into match primarily because of how strongly Seles had started in their prior match at the 1998 Corel WTA Championships.

Also in November of that year the official WTA computer ranking system was instituted, with Evert being the first No. 1.

Henin was a perfect 24 – 0 on clay this year and joined Monica Seles as the only two currently active ( in 2005 ) players on the WTA Tour to have won the French Open at least twice.

In November, at the 2005 WTA Tour Championships, she was named the inaugural winner of the Whirlpool 6TH SENSE Player of the Year, which honors the player who has demonstrated the most sixth sense intuition, that is to say " heightened intelligence, unbeatable performance and pinpoint precision ".

It was her 28th WTA tour title.

Henin was the first player since Hingis in 2000 to win the WTA Tour Championships and end the year as the top-ranked player.

The tournament championship was Henin's 35th on the WTA tour, moving her past Clijsters who retired with 34 tournament championships.

Novotná was named the 1998 WTA Tour Doubles Team of the Year with Martina Hingis, the 1997 International Tennis Federation Doubles Team of the Year with Lindsay Davenport, the 1996 WTA Tour Doubles Team of the Year with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, with Gigi Fernández in 1991 and in 1989 and 1990 with Helena Suková.

She was also the fourth-youngest player to win a WTA title.

She then participated on the 2009 Warsaw Open, which was the last WTA Premier event before the French Open but lost in the first round to qualifier Ioana Raluca Olaru.

This was Dokic's first WTA title under Australian flag and first since June 2002 where she won the DFS Classic, in Birmingham.

In February 2003, Mirza was given a wildcard to play in her first ever WTA tournament, at the AP Tourism Hyderabad Open, in her hometown.

Thanks to a successful 2005 season, Mirza was named the WTA Newcomer of the Year.

However, when she teamed up with Pe ' er for the 2007 WTA Tour of Stanford, California, there was no reaction.

Her last match was at the 2nd round of 1996 WTA Tour Championships ; she lost to Martina Hingis 1 – 6, 2 – 6.

In the final, which was held one day before her 39th birthday, Date-Krumm defeated Anabel Medina Garrigues 6 – 3, 6 – 3 to win her first WTA Tour title since her comeback.

She ended the year # 14, what was to be her best year end finish and played in the WTA Tour Championships of 2001 and 2002.

The Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ), founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis.

This electronic review, called Hawk-Eye, is available at a limited number of high-level ATP and WTA tournaments.

After the loss at the US Open, Davenport captured the title in Bali without dropping a set, and subsequently qualified for the WTA Tour Championships.

In 2006, the WTA and players such as Venus Williams pushed for equal prize money to men at both the French Open and Wimbledon.

While at the WTA, Scott put together the largest sponsorship in the history of women's athletics, a six-year, $ 88-million sponsorship deal with Sony Ericsson.

Venus Williams at the 2008 WTA Tour Championships

Israeli Tennis champion Shahar Pe ' er peaked at 11th on the WTA rank list, a national record.

Mauresmo claimed her first singles title at the WTA Tour Championships.

She began her professional career on the Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ) tour in May 1999 as a wild card entry in the Belgian Open clay tournament at Antwerp and became only the fifth player to win her debut WTA Tour event.

The following year, Mandlíková teamed with Turnbull to win the women's doubles title at the WTA Tour Championships.

As a result of this triumph, Capriati re-entered the top 10 in the rankings at No. 7, the longest absence ( nearly eight years ) from the top 10 in WTA history.

She lost her opening match at the WTA Tour Championships to Maleeva.

Mirza reached her second WTA final at the 2005 Forest Hills Tennis Classic, falling to Lucie Šafářová.

Mirza then played at the PTT Pattaya Open where she won her first WTA main draw match since Roland Garros 2011-coming from a set down to upset Ayumi Morita ( ranked 47 spots higher ), 3 – 6, 6 – 1, 6 – 2.

Since the comeback, she has won several ITF titles, and then won her eighth WTA Tour title at the 2009 Hansol Korea Open in Seoul, thus becoming the second-oldest player in the Open era, after Billie Jean King, to win a singles title on the WTA Tour.

She started playing at WTA level in 1989.

Date made her WTA Tour comeback at the Tier I event in Tokyo, Japan, where she has been awarded a wildcard into the qualifying tournament.

Their final meeting of 2011 was an acclaimed match at the WTA Championships.

In 1975, the WTA increased its financial stature by signing a television broadcast contract with CBS, the first in the WTA's history.

She defeated Novotná and Graf to reach the final in Key Biscayne, where she defeated Serena in three sets in the first final on the WTA Tour to be contested by two sisters.

Jelena then continued to withdraw from WTA events in Marbella and Barcelona, Spain, and Fes, Morocco, still troubled by injuries.

She backed up her strong performance by defeating fifth seed, and former doubles partner, Nadia Petrova in straight sets, 6 – 4, 7 – 6 in the second round to advance to her first WTA quarterfinals appearance since the 2009 Australian Open.

She is the first Indian female player to surpass US $ 1m in career earnings ; first Indian to win a WTA Tour title of any kind ; and, by winning the 2009 Australian Open – Mixed Doubles Event, became the third Indian, male or female, to win a Grand Slam title ( the first two being Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes ).

In February, Mirza became the first ever Indian woman to win a WTA title, by winning her hometown event, the 2005 AP Tourism Hyderabad Open, defeating ninth seeded Alona Bondarenko in the final, 6 – 4, 5 – 7, 6 – 3.

Then, Date-Krumm earned her first WTA main draw victory of the season in Pattaya by reaching the second-round where she lost to Hsieh Su-wei.

Virtually every ATP and WTA player started by playing on the ITF circuits.

Studio presentation for the Australian Open, French Open, U. S. Open and WTA Tour Championships on British Eurosport is hosted by Annabel Croft with the segment Hawk-Eye presented by former British Number 2 Jason Goodall.

She finished on the top of her group at the WTA Tour Championships, and scored her second win over a world number 1 by again beating Davenport, but lost in the semifinals to the eventual champion Sharapova.

Her career high is World No. 2 by the WTA, and she is currently ranked as the World No. 19.

She gained prominence in 2004 by reaching the finals of nine straight WTA doubles tournaments, and by reaching the singles semifinals of the French Open tournament, held in Paris.

That year, she was ranked number nine in the world among women tennis players by the WTA, which has been her highest ranking as a singles player thus far.

Other examples of the endowment effect include work by Carmon and Ariely ( 2000 ) who found that participants ' hypothetical selling price ( WTA ) for NCAA final four tournament tickets were 14 times higher than their hypothetical buying price ( WTP ).

An individual asked how much he / she would be willing to pay to move from A where he / she has X < sub > 0 </ sub > of good X to point B, where he / she has the same wealth and X < sub > 1 </ sub > of good X, has his / her WTP represented by the vertical distance between C and B since the individual is indifferent about being at A or C. On the other hand, an individual asked to indicate how much he / she would be willing to accept to move from B to A has his / her WTA represented by the vertical distance between A and D as he / she is indifferent about either being at point B or D. Shogren et al.

On April 20, Safina became the 19th player, and second Russian after Maria Sharapova, to be ranked World No. 1 by the WTA Tour.

This year, she also gained entry into several WTA tournaments, most notably coming through qualifying at Doha by defeating Yuliana Fedak, Ľubomíra Kurhajcová and Maria Sánchez Lorenzo, only to lose in the deciding set of her opening round match against Nicole Pratt ; and at the US Open after a narrow victory over Selima Sfar, only to lose to Saori Obata at the first hurdle in the main draw.

But her career-best win to date was yet to come the following month at Beijing, where she defeated former World No. 1 player Serena Williams in the second round after an easy first-round victory over Tatiana Panova of Russia, only to be outperformed in her second WTA quarter-final by rising star Maria Kirilenko.