2000 WTA Tour
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Duration | January 1 – November 27, 2000 |
Edition | 30th |
Tournaments | 58 |
Categories | Grand Slam (4) WTA Championships Summer Olympics WTA Tier I (9) WTA Tier II (16) WTA Tier III (13) WTA Tier IV (14) |
Achievements (singles) | |
Most tournament titles | Martina Hingis (9) |
Most tournament finals | Martina Hingis (13) |
Prize money leader | Martina Hingis (US$3,457,049) |
Points leader | Martina Hingis (6,044) |
Awards | |
Player of the year | Venus Williams |
Doubles team of the year | Serena Williams Venus Williams |
Most improved player of the year | Elena Dementieva |
Newcomer of the year | Dája Bedáňová |
Comeback player of the year | Iva Majoli |
← 1999 2001 → |
The 2000 Sanex WTA Tour was the 30th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on January 3, 2000, and concluded on November 13, 2000, after 58 events. For this season, a new event was added: the State Farm Classic in Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S. It also saw the return of the China Open which was moved to Shanghai, after last being held in Beijing in 1996.
Martina Hingis finished the season as the number one ranked player for the third time in four years, and second year in a row. However, this was the first year she finished number one without winning a Grand Slam women's singles title. Hingis led the titles list with nine throughout the season, including the prestigious WTA Tour Championships. Venus Williams won the most Grand Slam titles with two, and finished the year as the No. 3 player in the world. Williams also won the Olympic gold medal in Sydney that year, and was awarded the Player of the Year award by the WTA. Mary Pierce won her second Grand Slam title five years after her last, becoming the first Frenchwoman to win at home since Françoise Dürr in 1967. Lindsay Davenport also picked up her third and last Grand Slam title at the Australian Open.
In doubles competition, the Grand Slam titles were split between four teams: Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs, Martina Hingis and Mary Pierce, Serena Williams and Venus Williams, and Julie Halard-Decugis and Ai Sugiyama. The Williams sisters also won the Olympic gold medal, and were thus awarded Doubles Team of the Year at the WTA Awards.
Schedule
[edit]The table below shows the 2000 WTA Tour schedule.
- Key
Grand Slam events |
Summer Olympic Games |
Year-end championships |
Tier I events |
Tier II events |
Tier III events |
Tier IV events |
Team events |
January
[edit]February
[edit]March
[edit]Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
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6 Mar | Tennis Masters Series Indian Wells, United States Tier I event Hard – $2,000,000 – 80S/32Q/32D Singles – Doubles | Lindsay Davenport 4–6, 6–4, 6–0 | Martina Hingis | Mary Pierce Elena Dementieva | Monica Seles Serena Williams Chanda Rubin Conchita Martínez |
Lindsay Davenport Corina Morariu 6–2, 6–3 | Anna Kournikova Natasha Zvereva | ||||
20 Mar | Ericsson Open Key Biscayne, United States Tier I event Hard – $2,525,000 – 96S/64Q/32D Singles – Doubles | Martina Hingis 6–3, 6–2 | Lindsay Davenport | Monica Seles Sandrine Testud | Amanda Coetzer Amy Frazier Jennifer Capriati Nadejda Petrova |
Julie Halard-Decugis Ai Sugiyama 4–6, 7–5, 6–4 | Nicole Arendt Manon Bollegraf |
April
[edit]May
[edit]June
[edit]July
[edit]August
[edit]September
[edit]Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists | |
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18 Sep | Sydney Olympics Sydney, Australia $0 – hard – 64S/31D Singles – Doubles | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Fourth place | Amanda Coetzer Barbara Schett Dominique van Roost Arantxa Sánchez Vicario |
Venus Williams 6–2, 6–4 | Elena Dementieva | Monica Seles 6–1, 6–4 | Jelena Dokić | |||
Serena Williams Venus Williams 6–1, 6–1 | Kristie Boogert Miriam Oremans | Els Callens Dominique van Roost 4–6, 6–4, 6–1 | Olga Barabanschikova Natalia Zvereva | |||
25 Sep | SEAT Open Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg Tier III event Hard (i) – $170,000 – 30S/32Q/16D Singles – Doubles | Jennifer Capriati 4–6, 6–1, 6–4 | Magdalena Maleeva | Barbara Rittner Anna Kournikova | Daniela Hantuchová Anne-Gaëlle Sidot Patty Schnyder Kim Clijsters | |
Alexandra Fusai Nathalie Tauziat 6–3, 7–6(0) | Lubomira Bacheva Cristina Torrens Valero |
October
[edit]November
[edit]Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
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6 Nov | Advanta Championships Philadelphia, United States Tier II event Hard – $535,000 – 28S/32Q/16D Singles – Doubles | Lindsay Davenport 7–6(9–7), 6–4 | Martina Hingis | Nathalie Tauziat Conchita Martínez | Anna Kournikova Julie Halard-Decugis Holly Parkinson Amanda Coetzer |
Martina Hingis Anna Kournikova 6–2, 7–5 | Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs | ||||
Wismilak International Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tier III event Hard – $170,000 – 30S/31Q/16D Singles – Doubles | Henrieta Nagyová 6–4, 6–2 | Iva Majoli | Tamarine Tanasugarn Tatiana Panova | Corina Morariu Joannette Kruger Martina Suchá |