Jump to content

2001 WTA Tier I Series

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2001 WTA Tier I Series
Details
DurationJanuary 29 – October 21
Edition12th
Tournaments9
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titlesUnited States Lindsay Davenport
Serbia and Montenegro Jelena Dokić
United States Serena Williams (2)
Most tournament finalsUnited States Jennifer Capriati (4)
2000
2002

The WTA Tier I events are part of the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the WTA called the WTA Tour.[1]

Tournaments

[edit]
Tournament Country Location Surface Date Prize money[2]
Toray Pan Pacific Open Japan Tokyo Carpet (i) Jan 29 – Feb 4 $1,188,000
Pacific Life Open United States Indian Wells Hard Mar 5 – 18 $2,000,000
Ericsson Open United States Key Biscayne Hard Mar 19 – Apr 1 $2,720,000
Family Circle Cup United States Charleston Clay (green) Apr 16 – 22 $1,200,000
Eurocard German Open[3] Germany Berlin Clay May 7 – 13 $1,185,000
Italian Open[4] Italy Rome Clay May 14 – 20 $1,200,000
Rogers AT&T Cup Canada Toronto Hard Aug 13 – 19 $1,200,000
Kremlin Cup Russia Moscow Carpet (i) Oct 1 – 7 $1,185,000
Swisscom Challenge[5] Switzerland Zürich Carpet (i) Oct 15 – 21 $1,185,000

Results

[edit]
* First-time champion
Tournament Singles champions Runners-up Score Doubles champions Runners-up Score
Tokyo

SinglesDoubles

United States Lindsay Davenport Switzerland Martina Hingis 6–7(4–7), 6–4, 6–2 United States Lisa Raymond
Australia Rennae Stubbs
Russia Anna Kournikova
Uzbekistan Iroda Tulyaganova
7–6(7–5), 2–6, 7–6(8–6)
Indian Wells

SinglesDoubles

United States Serena Williams Belgium Kim Clijsters 4–6, 6–4, 6–2 United States Nicole Arendt
Japan Ai Sugiyama
Spain Virginia Ruano Pascual
Argentina Paola Suárez
6–4, 6–4
Miami

SinglesDoubles

United States Venus Williams United States Jennifer Capriati 4–6, 6–1, 7–6(7–4) Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
France Nathalie Tauziat
United States Lisa Raymond
Australia Rennae Stubbs
6–0, 6–4
Charleston

SinglesDoubles

United States Jennifer Capriati Switzerland Martina Hingis 6–0, 4–6, 6–4 United States Lisa Raymond
Australia Rennae Stubbs
Spain Virginia Ruano Pascual
Argentina Paola Suárez
5–7, 7–6(7–5), 6–3
Berlin

SinglesDoubles

France Amélie Mauresmo United States Jennifer Capriati 6–4, 2–6, 6–3 Belgium Els Callens
United States Meghann Shaughnessy
Zimbabwe Cara Black
Russia Elena Likhovtseva
6–4, 6–3
Rome

SinglesDoubles

Serbia and Montenegro Jelena Dokić France Amélie Mauresmo 7–6(7–3), 6–1 Zimbabwe Cara Black* Argentina Paola Suárez
Argentina Patricia Tarabini
6–1, 6–1
Russia Elena Likhovtseva
Toronto

SinglesDoubles

United States Serena Williams United States Jennifer Capriati 6–1, 6–7(7–9), 6–3 United States Kimberly Po-Messerli
Australia Nicole Pratt
Slovenia Tina Križan
Slovenia Katarina Srebotnik
6–3, 6–1
Moscow

SinglesDoubles

Serbia and Montenegro Jelena Dokić Russia Elena Dementieva 6–3, 6–3 Switzerland Martina Hingis
Russia Anna Kournikova
Russia Elena Dementieva
Russia Lina Krasnoroutskaya
7–6(7–1), 6–3
Zürich

SinglesDoubles

United States Lindsay Davenport Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Jelena Dokić 6–3, 6–1 United States Lindsay Davenport
United States Lisa Raymond
France Sandrine Testud
Italy Roberta Vinci
6–3, 2–6, 6–2

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "2001 Tournaments | WTA Official". Women's Tennis Association. Archived from the original on 2022-09-20.
  2. ^ "2001 WTA Calendar Prize Money". Archived from the original on 30 August 2009.
  3. ^ "Berlin 2001 Tennis Tournament | ITF". www.itftennis.com. Archived from the original on 2022-09-22.
  4. ^ Bud Collins (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). New York City: New Chapter Press. pp. 740–741. ISBN 978-0942257700.
  5. ^ "Zurich 2001 Tennis Tournament | ITF". www.itftennis.com. Archived from the original on 2022-09-22.
[edit]