The 2011 WTA Premier tournaments are 20 of the tennis tournaments on the 2011 WTA Tour. The WTA Tour is the elite tour for women's professional tennis. The WTA Premier tournaments rank below the Grand Slam events and above the WTA International tournaments. They are divided into three levels: Premier Mandatory (Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Beijing), Premier 5 (Dubai, Rome, Canada, Cincinnati and Tokyo), and Premier (11 tournaments in Europe, United States and Australia).^[1]

Schedule

Premier

Week of	Tournament	Champions	Runners-up	Semifinalists	Quarterfinalists
10 January	Medibank International Sydney Sydney, Australia	Li Na 7–6(7–3), 6–3	Kim Clijsters	Alisa Kleybanova Bojana Jovanovski	Dominika Cibulková Victoria Azarenka Svetlana Kuznetsova Flavia Pennetta
		Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová 4–6, 6–4, [10–7]	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik
7 February	Open GDF Suez Paris, France	Petra Kvitová 6–4, 6–3	Kim Clijsters	Kaia Kanepi Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Jelena Dokić Dominika Cibulková Yanina Wickmayer Andrea Petkovic
		Bethanie Mattek-Sands Meghann Shaughnessy 6–4, 6–2	Vera Dushevina Ekaterina Makarova
21 February	Qatar Ladies Open Doha, Qatar	Vera Zvonareva 6–4, 6–4	Caroline Wozniacki	Marion Bartoli Jelena Janković	Flavia Pennetta Peng Shuai Klára Zakopalová Daniela Hantuchová
		Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik 7–5, 6–7(2–7), [10–8]	Liezel Huber Nadia Petrova
4 April	Family Circle Cup Charleston, USA	Caroline Wozniacki 6–2, 6–3	Elena Vesnina	Jelena Janković Peng Shuai	Yanina Wickmayer Christina McHale Sania Mirza Julia Görges
		Sania Mirza Elena Vesnina 6–4, 6–4,	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Meghann Shaughnessy
18 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Julia Görges 7–6(7–3), 6–3	Caroline Wozniacki	Agnieszka Radwańska Samantha Stosur	Andrea Petkovic Kristina Barrois Sabine Lisicki Vera Zvonareva
		Sabine Lisicki Samantha Stosur 6–1, 7–6(7–5)	Kristina Barrois Jasmin Wöhr
16 May	Brussels Ladies Open Brussels, Belgium	Caroline Wozniacki 2–6, 6–3, 6–3	Peng Shuai	Francesca Schiavone Vera Zvonareva	Yanina Wickmayer Ayumi Morita Sofia Arvidsson Alexandra Dulgheru
		Andrea Hlaváčková Galina Voskoboeva 3–6, 6–0, [10–5]	Klaudia Jans Alicja Rosolska
13 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	Marion Bartoli 6–1, 4–6, 7–5	Petra Kvitová	Samantha Stosur Daniela Hantuchová	Vera Zvonareva Victoria Azarenka Agnieszka Radwańska Venus Williams
		Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik 6–3, 6–0	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond
25 July	Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA	Serena Williams 7–5, 6–1	Marion Bartoli	Dominika Cibulková Sabine Lisicki	Marina Erakovic Ayumi Morita Agnieszka Radwańska Maria Sharapova
		Victoria Azarenka Maria Kirilenko 6–1, 6–3	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond
1 August	Mercury Insurance Open San Diego, USA	Agnieszka Radwańska 6–3, 6–4	Vera Zvonareva	Ana Ivanovic Andrea Petkovic	Sabine Lisicki Peng Shuai Daniela Hantuchová Sloane Stephens
		Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik 6–0, 6–2	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears
22 August	Pilot Pen Tennis at Yale New Haven, USA	Caroline Wozniacki 6–4, 6–1	Petra Cetkovská	Francesca Schiavone Li Na	Christina McHale Anabel Medina Garrigues Marion Bartoli Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
		Chuang Chia-jung Olga Govortsova 7–5, 6–2	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci
17 October	Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia	Dominika Cibulková 3–6, 7–6(7–1), 7–5	Kaia Kanepi	Elena Vesnina Lucie Šafářová	Vera Zvonareva Marion Bartoli Svetlana Kuznetsova Vera Dushevina
		Vania King Yaroslava Shvedova 7–6(7–3), 6–3	Anastasia Rodionova Galina Voskoboeva

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