In June 2011, she was named one of the " 30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future " by Time.

The International Tennis Federation ( ITF ) conducts a junior tour that allows juniors to establish a world ranking and an Association of Tennis Professionals ( ATP ) or Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ) ranking.

The Women's Tennis Association can trace its origins back to Houston, Texas with the inaugural Virginia Slims tournament, arranged by Gladys Heldman, and held on 23 September 1970.

Ranking points are also available at tournaments on the ITF Women's Circuit organised by the International Tennis Federation, which comprises several hundred tournaments each year with prize funds ranging from U. S. $ 10, 000 to U. S. $ 100, 000, and at the Olympic Games.

The 17 athletic teams currently at UNCG include: Baseball, Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball, Men's Cross Country, Women's Cross Country, Men's Golf, Women's Golf, Men's Soccer, Women's Soccer, Softball, Men's Indoor Track, Women's Indoor Track, Men's Tennis, Women's Tennis, Men's Track, Women's Track, Women's Volleyball.

Club Sports: Lacrosse ( Men's ), Equestrian, Fencing, Ice Hockey, Rugby ( Men's and Women's ), Soccer ( Men's and Women's ), Swimming, Ultimate Frisbee ( Men's and Women's ), Quidditch, Volleyball, Tennis.

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

Women's Recreation Association.

Under the auspices of the Women's Recreation Association, interclass competition is organized in badminton, basketball, field hockey, golf, tennis, and swimming.

With the co-operation of the Department of Physical Education for Men, the Women's Recreation Association arranges mixed tournaments in tennis and golf in the fall and spring.

The Association of German Women's Organizations ( BDF ) was established in 1894 to encompass the proliferating women's organizations that had sprung up since the 1860s.

Numerous other new agencies also targeted the medical and morale needs of soldiers, including the United States Christian Commission as well as smaller private agencies such as the Women's Central Association of Relief for Sick and Wounded in the Army ( WCAR ) founded in 1861 by Henry Whitney Bellows, and Dorothea Dix.

The Indiana Fever is a professional women's basketball team that plays in the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ).

In 1956, Reno enrolled at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she majored in chemistry, became president of the Women's Self-Government Association, and earned her room and board.

The Tokyo Women's & Children's Wear Manufacturers ' Association ( 東京婦人子供服組合 ) promoted Western clothes.

* Phoenix Mercury, a Women's National Basketball Association team from Arizona, United States

In 1996, the NBA created a women's league, the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ).

In 1921 in the United States physical therapists formed the first professional association called the American Women's Physical Therapeutic Association.

She then formed the World Women's Wrestling Association in the early 1950s and recognized herself as the first champion, although the championship would be vacated upon her retirement in 1956.

In the United States, it is important to note that Women's Rowing is an NCAA sport, while Men's Rowing chooses to remain governed by its own regulatory body, the Intercollegiate Rowing Association ( IRA ).

The preponderance of power also remained with the Sandinistas through their mass organizations, including the Sandinista Workers ' Federation (), the Luisa Amanda Espinoza Nicaraguan Women's Association (), the National Union of Farmers and Ranchers (), and most importantly the Sandinista Defense Committees ( CDS ).

Plath typed up Hughes ' manuscript for his collection Hawk In The Rain which went on to win a poetry competition run by the Poetry centre of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of New York.

In 1892, she founded the Uppsala Women's Student Association, who set up spex performances and other things enjoyed by male students but from which the women were excluded at the time.

Some characterized her as opportunistic and unpredictable ; in one notable incident, she had a run-in with Anthony during a meeting of the National Women's Suffrage Association ( NWSA ).

( The radical NWSA later merged with the conservative American Women's Suffrage Association ( AWSA ) to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association ).

* July 21 – In Washington, D. C. in response to a " call to confer " issued by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin to all women of color, the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs is organized.

The University of Nebraska and the Commission co-hosted the 2008 National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division One Women's Volleyball Championship in December of that year.

All of Greenland's major political parties have their headquarters in Nuuk, including the Inuit Ataqatigiit, Siumut, Democrats, Atassut, Association of Candidates and the Women's Party.

The Original Nine women from the Houston event, along with Heldman, then created their own tour, the Virginia Slims Circuit, which would later absorb the ILTF's Women's Grand Prix circuit, and eventually become the WTA Tour.

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.

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.

* WTA International tournaments, tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association

In the 2009 Guangzhou International Women's Open, Date, partnering Sun Tiantian, reached her first WTA tour final since she has come back to the WTA tour, but lost after a tight match 6 – 3, 2 – 6, 8 – 10.

Until March 2008, the International Tennis Federation ( ITF ), Association of Tennis Professionals ( ATP ), Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ), Grand Slam Committee, and several individual tournaments had conflicting rules on how Hawk-Eye was to be utilized.

The counterpart organization in the women's professional game is the Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ).

* Eastbourne International, a tennis tournament on the WTA Tour and on the ATP World Tour, formerly known as the " International Women's Open ".

Mary Pierce ( born 15 January 1975, in Montreal, Canada ) is a French-American tennis professional playing on the Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ) tour.

The WTA Tour Championships is a tennis tournament played annually at the end of the season for the top-ranked players on the Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ) tour.

The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ).

Zuluaga won a record seven singles titles in Bogota, of which four are on the WTA Tour and three on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Two weeks later, she reached her first WTA tour quarter-final at 2005 Volvo Women's Open, Thailand, where she lost to eventual runner-up, Anna-Lena Grönefeld of Germany, in straight sets 6 – 4, 6 – 1.

This is a list with all the WTA Awards given by the Women's Tennis Association to players who have done or achieved something remarkable during the season or their career.

It is the most prestigious red clay tennis tournament in the world after the French Open, with the men's competition being an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals ( ATP ) tour, and the women's competition being a Premier 5 event on the Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ) tour.

After its successful second year there then-Dade County Manager and Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ) President Merrett Stierheim helped pave the way for a move to its permanent home in Key Biscayne in 1987.

The women's competition is a Premier 5 tournament on the Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ) tour.

The 2006 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the 34th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association.