WTA Elite Trophy


The WTA Elite Trophy is the second-tier year-end professional women's tennis tournament on the WTA Tour. It is the successor event of the 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. 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.
The inaugural edition was held in 2015, offering $2.15 million in prize money. Zhuhai, China, hosts the WTA Elite Trophy for the first six years until 2020.

Venues

VenueYearsStadiumSurfaceCapacity
Zhuhai, China2015–2019Hengqin International Tennis CenterHard5,000

Past results

Singles

VenueYearChampionRunner-upScore in final
Zhuhai2015 Venus Williams Karolína Plíšková7–5, 7–6
Zhuhai2016 Petra Kvitová Elina Svitolina6–4, 6–2
Zhuhai2017 Julia Görges CoCo Vandeweghe7–5, 6–1
Zhuhai2018 Ashleigh Barty Wang Qiang6–3, 6–4
Zhuhai2019 Aryna Sabalenka Kiki Bertens6–4, 6–2

Doubles

VenueYearChampionRunner-upScore in final
Zhuhai2015 Liang Chen
Wang Yafan
Anabel Medina Garrigues
Arantxa Parra Santonja
6–4, 6–3
Zhuhai2016 İpek Soylu
Xu Yifan
Yang Zhaoxuan
You Xiaodi
6–4, 3–6,
Zhuhai2017 Duan Yingying
Han Xinyun
Lu Jingjing
Zhang Shuai
6–2, 6–1
Zhuhai2018 Lyudmyla Kichenok
Nadiia Kichenok
Shuko Aoyama
Lidziya Marozava
6–4, 3–6,
Zhuhai2019 Lyudmyla Kichenok
Andreja Klepač
Duan Yingying
Yang Zhaoxuan
6–3, 6–3