The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). The WTA Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV events. ITF tournaments are not part of the WTA Tour, although they award points for the WTA World Ranking.
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Duration | 2 January – 13 November 1995 |
Edition | 25th |
Tournaments | 51 |
Categories | Grand Slam (4) WTA Championships WTA Tier I (8) WTA Tier II (17) WTA Tier III (11) WTA Tier IV (10) |
Achievements (singles) | |
Most tournament titles | Steffi Graf (9) |
Most tournament finals | Steffi Graf (9) |
Prize money leader | Steffi Graf ($2,538,620) |
Points leader | Steffi Graf (393.25) |
Awards | |
Player of the year | Steffi Graf |
Doubles team of the year | |
Most improved player of the year | Chanda Rubin |
Newcomer of the year | Martina Hingis |
Comeback player of the year | Monica Seles |
← 1994 1996 → |
Schedule
editThe table below shows the 1995 WTA Tour schedule.
- Key
Grand Slam events |
Year-end championships |
Tier Is |
Tier IIs |
Tier IIIs |
Tier IVs |
Team events |
January
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editMarch
editApril
editMay
editJune
editJuly
editAugust
editSeptember
editOctober
editNovember
editStatistical Information
editList of players and titles won, last name alphabetically:
- Steffi Graf – Paris, Delray Beach, Miami, Houston, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open, Philadelphia, WTA Tour Championships (9)
- Conchita Martínez – Hilton Head, Amelia Island, Hamburg, Rome, San Diego, Manhattan Beach (6)
- Magdalena Maleeva – Chicago, Moscow, Oakland (3)
- Mary Joe Fernández – Indian Wells, Brighton (2)
- Iva Majoli – Zurich, Filderstadt (2)
- Barbara Paulus – Warsaw, Pattaya City (2)
- Mary Pierce – Australian Open, Tokyo (Tier II) (2)
- Arantxa Sánchez Vicario – Barcelona, Berlin (2)
- Brenda Schultz-McCarthy – Oklahoma City, Quebec City (2)
- Linda Wild – Nagoya, Beijing (2)
- Sabine Appelmans – Zagreb (1)
- Nicole Bradtke – Auckland (1)
- Kimiko Date – Tokyo (Tier I) (1)
- Lindsay Davenport – Strasbourg (1)
- Amy Frazier – Tokyo (Tier III) (1)
- Zina Garrison-Jackson – Birmingham (1)
- Sabine Hack – Jakarta (1)
- Julie Halard – Prague (1)
- Anke Huber – Leipzig (1)
- Joannette Kruger – San Juan (1)
- Leila Meskhi – Hobart (1)
- Jana Novotná – Linz (1)
- Ludmila Richterová – Bournemouth (1)
- Gabriela Sabatini – Sydney (1)
- Monica Seles – Toronto (1)
- Irina Spîrlea – Palermo (1)
- Nathalie Tauziat – Eastbourne (1)
- Wang Shi-ting – Surabaya (1)
- Judith Wiesner – Styria (1)
The following players won their first title:
- Joannette Kruger – San Juan
- Ludmila Richterová – Bournemouth
- Iva Majoli – Zurich
Rankings
editBelow are the 1995 WTA year-end rankings in both singles and doubles competition:
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Hill, James (2011-11-11). "Corel WTA Tour Rankings Rank Date: 23 November 1995" (PDF). WTA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-11. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
- ^ Hill, James (2011-11-11). "Corel WTA Tour Rankings Rank Date: 23 November 1995" (PDF). WTA. Retrieved 2011-05-24.