2000_WTA_Tour
2000 WTA Tour
Women's tennis circuit
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.
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 Martina Hingis finished the year as WTA world No. 1 for the third time in her career, though Venus Williams was named the Player of the Year. Hingis won nine tournaments during the season, including the WTA Tour Championships, and finished runner-up at a major at the Australian Open. Williams won six singles tournaments during the season, including two majors at the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open, the gold medal at the Sydney Olympics, and a Tier I event. | |
| Details | |
|---|---|
| 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 → | |
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.
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
February
March
| Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Sugiyama4–6, 7–5, 6–4 | Nicole Arendt  Manon Bollegraf |
April
May
June
July
August
September
| Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
November
Below are the 2000 WTA year-end rankings:
| No | Player Name | Nation | Points | 1999 | Change |
| 1 | Martina Hingis | SUI |
6,044 | 1 | = |
| 2 | Lindsay Davenport | USA |
5,021 | 2 | = |
| 3 | Venus Williams | USA |
3,694 | 3 | = |
| 4 | Monica Seles | USA |
3,255 | 6 | +2 |
| 5 | Conchita Martínez | ESP |
2,752 | 15 | +10 |
| 6 | Serena Williams | USA |
2,306 | 4 | -2 |
| 7 | Mary Pierce | FRA |
2,162 | 5 | -2 |
| 8 | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario | ESP |
2,131 | 17 | +9 |
| 9 | Anna Kournikova | RUS |
2,098 | 12 | +3 |
| 10 | Nathalie Tauziat | FRA |
1,918 | 7 | -3 |
| 11 | Elena Dementieva | RUS |
1,773 | 62 | +51 |
| 12 | Amanda Coetzer | RSA |
1,752 | 11 | -1 |
| 13 | Chanda Rubin | USA |
1,722 | 22 | +9 |
| 14 | Jennifer Capriati | USA |
1,663 | 23 | +9 |
| 15 | Julie Halard-Decugis | FRA |
1,435 | 9 | -6 |
| 16 | Amélie Mauresmo | FRA |
1,426 | 10 | -6 |
| 17 | Sandrine Testud | FRA |
1,413 | 13 | -4 |
| 18 | Kim Clijsters | BEL |
1,398 | 47 | +29 |
| 19 | Anke Huber | GER |
1,369 | 16 | -3 |
| 20 | Amy Frazier | USA |
1,254 | 19 | -1 |
Number 1 ranking
| Holder | Date gained | Date forfeited |
|---|---|---|
| Martina Hingis (SUI) |
Year-end 1999 | 2 April 2000 |
| Lindsay Davenport (USA) |
3 April 2000 | 7 May 2000 |
| Martina Hingis (SUI) |
8 May 2000 | 14 May 2000 |
| Lindsay Davenport (USA) |
15 May 2000 | 21 May 2000 |
| Martina Hingis (SUI) |
22 May 2000 | Year-end 2000 |
List of players and titles won, last name alphabetically:
Martina Hingis – Tokyo, Miami, Hamburg, 's-Hertogenbosch, Montreal, Filderstadt, Zurich, Moscow and WTA Tour Championships (9)
Venus Williams – Wimbledon, Stanford, San Diego, New Haven, U.S. Open and Sydney Olympics (6)- Lindsay Davenport – Australian Open, Indian Wells, Linz and Philadelphia (4)
Henrieta Nagyová – Warsaw, Palermo and Kuala Lumpur (3)- Monica Seles – Oklahoma City, Amelia Island and Rome (3)
- Serena Williams – Hanover, Los Angeles and Tokyo Cup (3)
Kim Clijsters – Hobart and Leipzig (2)
Julie Halard-Decugis – Eastbourne and Tokyo Open (2)
Anke Huber – Estoril and Sopot (2)
Anne Kremer – Auckland and Pattaya City (2)- Mary Pierce – Hilton Head and French Open (2)
Silvija Talaja – Gold Coast and Strasbourg (2)
Dája Bedáňová – Bratislava (1)- Jennifer Capriati – Luxembourg (1)
Amanda Coetzer – Antwerp (1)
Tathiana Garbin – Budapest (1)
Rita Kuti-Kis – São Paulo (1)
Gala León García – Madrid (1)- Conchita Martínez – Berlin (1)
- Amélie Mauresmo – Sydney (1)
Tina Pisnik – Bol (1)- Lisa Raymond – Birmingham (1)
- Chanda Rubin – Quebec City (1)
Barbara Schett – Klagenfurt (1)- Meghann Shaughnessy – Shanghai (1)
Anna Smashnova – Knokke-Heist (1)- Nathalie Tauziat – Paris (1)
Iroda Tulyaganova – Tashkent (1)- Patricia Wartusch – Bogotá (1)
The following players won their first title:
- Silvija Talaja – Gold Coast
- Anne Kremer – Auckland
- Patricia Wartusch – Bogotá
- Rita Kuti-Kis – São Paulo
- Tathiana Garbin – Budapest
- Tina Pisnik – Bol
- Gala León García – Madrid
- Iroda Tulyaganova – Tashkent
- Meghann Shaughnessy – Shanghai
- Dája Bedáňová – Bratislava
Titles won by nation:
- United States – 20 (Australian Open, Hanover, Oklahoma City, Indian Wells, Amelia Island, Rome, Birmingham, Wimbledon, Stanford, San Diego, Los Angeles, New Haven, U.S. Open, Sydney Olympics, Luxembourg, Tokyo Cup, Linz, Shanghai, Quebec City and Philadelphia)
- Switzerland – 9 (Tokyo, Miami, Hamburg, 's-Hertogenbosch, Montreal, Filderstadt, Zurich, Moscow and WTA Tour Championships)
- France – 6 (Sydney, Paris, Hilton Head, French Open, Eastbourne and Tokyo Open)
- Slovakia – 3 (Warsaw, Palermo and Kuala Lumpur)
- Austria – 2 (Bogotá and Klagenfurt)
- Belgium – 2 (Hobart and Leipzig)
- Croatia – 2 (Gold Coast and Strasbourg)
- Germany – 2 (Estoril and Sopot)
- Luxembourg – 2 (Auckland and Pattaya City)
- Spain – 2 (Berlin and Madrid)
- Czech Republic – 1 (Bratislava)
- Hungary – 1 (São Paulo)
- Israel – 1 (Knokke-Heist)
- Italy – 1 (Budapest)
- South Africa – 1 (Antwerp)
- Slovenia – 1 (Bol)
- Uzbekistan – 1 (Tashkent)