WTA Schedule: Calendar Breakdown for Women’s Tennis Tour

There’s little doubt that women’s sports are exploding in popularity. The growing presence of the WNBA, college softball, and other women’s sports leagues is creeping onto televisions and into online sports betting markets.

Women’s tennis has its own special place in this conversation. Like its men’s counterpart, the WTA Tour is essentially a year-round proposition that all but guarantees there’s always a match being played somewhere in the world.

But that doesn’t mean the sports are the same. Just as women’s tennis has an increased emphasis on volleying, the women’s tennis schedule emphasizes different tournaments in different countries than the men’s tour. 

This WTA schedule walkthrough is a complement to my long ATP men’s tour schedule explainer. Many of the key tentpole events, like Grand Slam tournaments, are the same for both tours. However, there are still differences, particularly on the WTA 1000 circuit. 

For maximum information, you should consider reading both this article and my ATP walkthrough. 

WTA Schedule: 2025 Key Seasons & Events

The Early Hardcourt Season

Like the men’s tour, the WTA begins with the Aussie summer. There are small tournaments in Hobart and Adelaide before the first Slam of the year in Melbourne: the Australian Open.

But February is where the women’s tour makes its first major departure from the ATP. The WTA plays back-to-back 1,000-point events in West Asia with the Qatar Open in Doha and the Dubai Open in UAE. 

It doesn’t slow down from there, though, as the WTA flips straight into Indian Wells in the opening days of March after a quick stop at the ATX Open in Austin. Like the ATP, the women’s tour plays both halves of the Sunshine Double, flying from California to Florida for the Miami Open. 

In a 10-week span, the WTA plays one hardcourt slam and four separate WTA 1000 events. It’s a rapid-fire pace through the end of March. 

Clay Season

Clay season plays much the same for the WTA as it does for the ATP. Women’s tour players are jetting around Europe, playing volley-heavy games on dirt in offensively scenic locales. 

The WTA hits the Charleston Open on their way out of the United States, but it’s pretty much all European clay from there through the French Open. Some highlights include:

• The Madrid Open, in Spain
• The Stuttgart Open, in Germany
• The Italian Open, in Italy

Grass Season

Like the men’s tour, the WTA grass season draws heavily on tournaments in England and Germany. 

Young players will chase the London double, attempting to win both Queen’s Club and Wimbledon. The Eastbourne Open is in play between the two capital draws.

For those who prefer the German countryside in June, there’s also the Berlin Ladies’ Open and Bad Homburg.

Return to the Americas

With only the U.S. Open left on the Grand Slam calendar, most tour players make their way back to the Americas after a post-Wimbledon break. 

How long that break is often varies from player to player. Some tour pros who are grinding out paychecks may be back as soon as the DC Open in mid-July. But the biggest draws here are the Canadian Open (late July) and the Cincinnati Open (mid-August).

There are other draws in this late-summer period, especially in Mexico. The U.S. Open is bookended by the Monterrey Open and the Guadalajara Open. But by mid-September, most tour players who aren’t done for the year are heading east over the Pacific Ocean. 

Asian Swing

In the final months of the season before the WTA Finals, the tournament is spread throughout eastern Asia. Most prominently featured here are the final two 1,000-point events of the season: the China Open (late September) and the Wuhan Open (early October).

There are other fun events in this period, including the Ningbo Open and the Korea Open. 

Like the summer American swing, most Asian courts are played on a hardcourt surface, with some tournaments played indoors as the calendar goes deeper into the fall. 

This is also a part of the calendar where regular tour players will take time off and randomly dip in and out of tournaments. That often creates greater parity in individual match outcomes, making this a great time to target underdogs in the tennis betting odds market.

WTA Finals

After the women’s tour winds down with smaller draws in Tokyo, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and other fun locales, the women’s tour eventually works its way to its season finale: the WTA Finals.

For fans who are new to tennis, this isn’t quite what it sounds like, as the WTA Finals are considered something closer to a high-quality encore than a Grand Slam championship.

Nonetheless, many of the top women’s tour players will meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for eight days of top tennis. It’s a fun send-off before bettors lock in for the stretch run of other sports, like the NFL and college football.

But tennis is never too far away. It’s only about 10 weeks from the WTA Finals to the next Australian Open.