The 2013 WTA Premier tournaments are 21 of the tennis tournaments on the 2013 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 (Doha, Rome, Canada, Cincinnati and Tokyo), and Premier (12 tournaments in Europe, United States and Australia).^[1][2]

Schedule

Premier

Week of	Tournament	Champions	Runners-up	Semifinalists	Quarterfinalists
31 December	Brisbane International Brisbane, Australia	Serena Williams 6–2, 6–1	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Victoria Azarenka Lesia Tsurenko	Ksenia Pervak Sloane Stephens Angelique Kerber Daniela Hantuchová
		Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sania Mirza 4–6, 6–4, [10–7]	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Květa Peschke
7 January	Apia International Sydney Sydney, Australia	Agnieszka Radwańska 6–0, 6–0	Dominika Cibulková	Li Na Angelique Kerber	Roberta Vinci Madison Keys Sara Errani Svetlana Kuznetsova
		Nadia Petrova Katarina Srebotnik 6-3, 6-4	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci
28 January	Open GDF Suez Paris, France	Mona Barthel 7–5, 7–6(7–4)	Sara Errani	Kiki Bertens Kristina Mladenovic	Carla Suárez Navarro Lucie Šafářová Marion Bartoli Petra Kvitová
		Sara Errani Roberta Vinci 6–1, 6–1	Andrea Hlaváčková Liezel Huber
18 February	Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships Dubai, UAE	Petra Kvitová 6–2, 1–6, 6–1	Sara Errani	Roberta Vinci Caroline Wozniacki	Nadia Petrova Samantha Stosur Agnieszka Radwańska Marion Bartoli
		Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sania Mirza 6–4, 2–6, [10–7]	Nadia Petrova Katarina Srebotnik
1 April	Family Circle Cup Charleston, USA	Serena Williams 3–6, 6–0, 6–2	Jelena Janković	Venus Williams Stefanie Vögele	Lucie Šafářová Madison Keys Eugenie Bouchard Caroline Wozniacki
		Kristina Mladenovic Lucie Šafářová 6–3, 7–6(8–6)	Andrea Hlaváčková Liezel Huber
22 April	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, Germany	Maria Sharapova 6–4, 6–3	Li Na	Angelique Kerber Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Ana Ivanovic Yaroslava Shvedova Sabine Lisicki Petra Kvitová
		Mona Barthel Sabine Lisicki 6–4, 7–5	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sania Mirza
20 May	Brussels Open Brussels, Belgium	Kaia Kanepi 6–2, 7–5	Peng Shuai	Romina Oprandi Jamie Hampton	Zheng Jie Sloane Stephens Varvara Lepchenko Roberta Vinci
		Anna-Lena Grönefeld Květa Peschke 6–0, 6–3	Gabriela Dabrowski Shahar Pe'er
17 June	Aegon International Eastbourne, UK	Elena Vesnina 6–2, 6–1	Jamie Hampton	Caroline Wozniacki Yanina Wickmayer	Lucie Šafářová Ekaterina Makarova Maria Kirilenko Li Na
		Nadia Petrova Katarina Srebotnik 6–3, 6–3	Monica Niculescu Klára Zakopalová
22 July	Bank of the West Classic Stanford, USA	Dominika Cibulková 3–6, 6–4, 6–4	Agnieszka Radwańska	Jamie Hampton Sorana Cîrstea	Varvara Lepchenko Vera Dushevina Urszula Radwańska Olga Govortsova
		Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears 6–2, 7–6(7–4)	Julia Görges Darija Jurak
29 July	Southern California Open Carlsbad, USA	Samantha Stosur 6–2, 6–3	Victoria Azarenka	Ana Ivanovic Virginie Razzano	Urszula Radwańska Roberta Vinci Petra Kvitová Agnieszka Radwańska
		Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears 6–4, 6–1	Chan Hao-ching Janette Husárová
19 August	New Haven Open at Yale New Haven, USA	Simona Halep 6–2, 6–2	Petra Kvitová	Caroline Wozniacki Klára Zakopalová	Ekaterina Makarova Sloane Stephens Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Elena Vesnina
		Sania Mirza Zheng Jie 6–3, 6–4	Anabel Medina Garrigues Katarina Srebotnik
14 October	Kremlin Cup Moscow, Russia	Simona Halep 7–6(7–1), 6–2	Samantha Stosur	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Svetlana Kuznetsova	Daniela Hantuchová Alisa Kleybanova Ana Ivanovic Roberta Vinci
		Samantha Stosur Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–1, 1–6, [10–8]	Alla Kudryavtseva Anastasia Rodionova

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