WTA Elite Trophy

WTA Elite Trophy
Tournament information
Founded	2015; 9 years ago (2015)
Editions	6 (2023)
Location	Zhuhai China (2015–2019, 2023-)
Venue	Hengqin Tennis Center
Category	WTA Elite Trophy
Surface	Hard - outdoors
Draw	12S / 6D
Prize money	US$ 2,409,000 (2023)
Website	wtaelitetrophy.com
Current champions (2023)
Singles	Beatriz Haddad Maia
Doubles	Beatriz Haddad Maia Veronika Kudermetova

The WTA Elite Trophy (also known as the Huafa Technology WTA Elite Trophy for sponsorship reasons) is the second-tier year-end professional women's tennis tournament on the WTA Tour. It is the successor event of the different format WTA Tournament of Champions, which took place from 2009–14.

The Elite Trophy takes place at the end of each season, in two disciplines: singles and doubles. The singles event features 12 players (11 of them ranked from 9th to 19th on the final table of the WTA ranking, and one wildcard). The players are split into four groups of three, with the group winners advancing to the single elimination semifinals. The doubles championships features six teams in two groups with the group winners contesting the final.^[1]

The inaugural edition was held in 2015, offering $2.15 million in prize money. Zhuhai, China hosted the WTA Elite Trophy for the first five years until 2019. The tournament was not staged between 2020 and 2022 due to the impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and Peng Shuai controversy. However, in 2023, the event returned to Zhuhai, China.

Venues[edit]

Venue	Years	Stadium	Surface	Capacity
Zhuhai	2015–2019, 2023-	Hengqin International Tennis Center[2]	Hard	5,000

Past results[edit]

Singles[edit]

Venue	Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
Zhuhai	2015	Venus Williams	Karolína Plíšková	7–5, 7–6(8–6)
	2016	Petra Kvitová	Elina Svitolina	6–4, 6–2
	2017	Julia Görges	CoCo Vandeweghe	7–5, 6–1
	2018	Ashleigh Barty	Wang Qiang	6–3, 6–4
	2019	Aryna Sabalenka	Kiki Bertens	6–4, 6–2
	2020	no competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic
	2021	cancelled
	2022	not held
	2023	Beatriz Haddad Maia	Zheng Qinwen	7–6(13–11), 7–6(7–4)

Doubles[edit]

Venue	Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
Zhuhai	2015	Liang Chen Wang Yafan	Anabel Medina Garrigues Arantxa Parra Santonja	6–4, 6–3
	2016	İpek Soylu Xu Yifan	Yang Zhaoxuan You Xiaodi	6–4, 3–6, [10–7]
	2017	Duan Yingying Han Xinyun	Lu Jingjing Zhang Shuai	6–2, 6–1
	2018	Lyudmyla Kichenok Nadiia Kichenok	Shuko Aoyama Lidziya Marozava	6–4, 3–6, [10–7]
	2019	Lyudmyla Kichenok (2) Andreja Klepač	Duan Yingying Yang Zhaoxuan	6–3, 6–3
	2020	no competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic
	2021	cancelled
	2022	not held
	2023	Beatriz Haddad Maia Veronika Kudermetova	Miyu Kato Aldila Sutjiadi	6–3, 6–3

See also[edit]

• WTA Finals
• WTA Tournament of Champions

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official Website (in English and Chinese)