2001 WTA Tour
Lindsay Davenport won seven titles and end the year at No. 1 in the singles ranking.
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| Details | |
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| Duration | January 1, 2002 - November 11, 2002 |
| Edition | 31st |
| Tournaments | 63 |
| Categories |
Grand Slam (4) WTA Championships WTA Tier I (9) WTA Tier II (17) WTA Tier III (17) WTA Tier IV (7) WTA Tier V (8) |
| Achievements (singles) | |
| Most tournament titles |
 Lindsay Davenport (7) |
| Most tournament finals |
Lindsay Davenport (11) |
| Prize money leader |
Venus Williams(2,662,610) |
| Points leader |
Lindsay Davenport (4,902) |
| Awards | |
| Player of the year |
Jennifer Capriati
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| Doubles Team of the year |
Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs
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| Most improved player of the year |
 Justine Henin
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| Newcomer of the year |
 Daniela Hantuchová
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| Comeback player of the year |
 Barbara Schwartz
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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, 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 year-end number one in 2000 and thus the No. 1 player as 2001 begun, Martina Hingis started the new season off well by winning the title at the Adidas International over nemesis Lindsay Davenport. The two looked like they might meet again in the Australian Open final: Hingis beat Venus Williams in her semifinal, but Davenport was then surprised by a resurgent Jennifer Capriati, who was enjoying a dream run to her first Grand Slam final. Going against the odds, Capriati also scalped Hingis to win her first ever Slam title and re-entered the top 10 in the rankings after a near-eight year absence, a record gap.
Despite neither claiming the Australian Open, Hingis and Davenport continued to dominate proceedings for the rest of January and February. The two met again at the Toray Pan Pacific Open, with Davenport triumphing this time to win the title. Hingis won the inaugural events in the Middle East, the Qatar Total FinaElf Open and the Dubai Duty Free Women's Open, while Davenport was also victorious at the State Farm Classic. Meanwhile, Amélie Mauresmo claimed both titles in her home country of France, winning at the Open Gaz de France and the Internationaux de Tennis Feminin Nice; and Monica Seles provided a notable victory over in-form Capriati in the IGA US Indoors final.
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