The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). The 2003 WTA Tour included the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III, Tier IV and Tier V events. ITF tournaments are not part of the WTA Tour, although they award points for the WTA World Ranking.
The table below shows the 2003 WTA Tour schedule.
Below are the 2003 WTA year-end rankings:
List of players and titles won, last name alphabetically:
Kim Clijsters - Sydney, Indian Wells, Rome, 's-Hertogenbosch, Stanford, Los Angeles, Filderstadt, Luxembourg and WTA Tour Championships (9) Justine Henin-Hardenne - Dubai, Charleston, Berlin, French Open, San Diego, Toronto, U.S. Open and Zurich (8) Anastasia Myskina - Doha, Sarasota, Leipzig and Moscow (4) Serena Williams - Australian Open, Paris, Miami and Wimbledon (4) Elena Dementieva - Amelia Island, Bali and Shanghai (3) Amélie Mauresmo - Warsaw and Philadelphia (2) Chanda Rubin - Madrid and Eastbourne (2) Magüi Serna - Estoril and Budapest (2) Maria Sharapova - Tokyo Japan Open and Quebec City (2) Anna Pistolesi - Sopot and Helsinki (2) Ai Sugiyama - Scottsdale and Linz (2) Jennifer Capriati - New Haven (1) Amanda Coetzer - Acapulco (1) Eleni Daniilidou - Auckland (1) Lindsay Davenport - Tokyo Pan Pacific (1) Nathalie Dechy - Gold Coast (1) Silvia Farina Elia - Strasbourg (1) Rita Grande - Casablanca (1) Magdalena Maleeva - Birmingham (1) Alicia Molik - Hobart (1) Henrieta Nagyová - Pattaya City (1) Lisa Raymond - Memphis (1) Virginia Ruano Pascual - Tashkent (1) Dinara Safina - Palermo (1) Meghann Shaughnessy - Canberra (1) Paola Suárez - Vienna (1) Tamarine Tanasugarn - Hyderabad (1) Venus Williams - Antwerp (1) Fabiola Zuluaga - Bogotá (1) Vera Zvonareva - Bol (1)The following players won their first title:
Nathalie Dechy - Gold Coast Alicia Molik - Hobart Tamarine Tanasugarn - Hyderabad Elena Dementieva - Amelia Island Vera Zvonareva - Bol Maria Sharapova - Tokyo Japan OpenTitles won by nation:
Belgium - 17 (Sydney, Dubai, Indian Wells, Charleston, Berlin, Rome, French Open, 's-Hertogenbosch, Stanford, San Diego, Los Angeles, Toronto, U.S. Open, Filderstadt, Zurich, Luxembourg and WTA Tour Championships) Russia - 11 (Doha, Sarasota, Amelia Island, Bol, Palermo, Bali, Shanghai, Leipzig, Moscow, Tokyo Japan Open and Quebec City) United States - 11 (Canberra, Australian Open, Tokyo Pan Pacific, Paris, Antwerp, Memphis, Miami, Madrid, Eastbourne, Wimbledon and New Haven) France - 3 (Gold Coast, Warsaw and Philadelphia) Spain - 3 (Estoril, Budapest and Tashkent) Israel - 2 (Sopot and Helsinki) Italy - 2 (Casablanca and Strasbourg) Japan - 2 (Scottsdale and Linz) Argentina - 1 (Vienna) Australia - 1 (Hobart) Bulgaria - 1 (Birmingham) Colombia - 1 (Bogotá) Greece - 1 (Auckland) South Africa - 1 (Acapulco) Slovakia - 1 (Pattaya City) Thailand - 1 (Hyderabad)
