2014 WTA First Tournaments

WTA 2014 Tennis Year Begins soon

The sport we all love, tennis, is great in many ways. One of those ways is that the off season is incredibly short. Most players finish their tour in late October or early November. The first tournaments for the new year actually start in the same year the previous tour ended! Here are the tournaments, dates and entry list for the start of 2014.

Brisbane International

Dec 29 - Jan 04, 2014
Brisbane, Australia

List:

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS

Serena Williams USA

Magdalena Rybarikova SVK

Stefanie Voegele SUI

Victoria Azarenka BLR

Varvara Lepchenko USA

Sabine Lisicki GER

Daniela Hantuchova SVK

Maria Sharapova RUS

Francesca Schiavone ITA

Jelena Jankovic SRB

Andrea Petkovic GER

Caroline Wozniacki DEN

Elina Svitolina UKR

Dominika Cibulkova SVK

Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA

Kaia Kanepi EST

Madison Keys USA

Angelique Kerber GER

Kristina Mladenovic FRA

Carla Suarez Navarro ESP

 Kimiko Date-Krumm JPN

See more at:

http://www.brisbaneinternational.com.au/players/womens-singles#sthash.vTQnapKZ.dpuf

Shenzhen Open

Dec 29 - Jan 04, 2014
Shenzhen, China

List:

Babos, Timea (HUN)

Beck, Annika (GER)

Cepelova, Jana (SVK)

Chan, Yung-Jan (TPE)

Errani, Sara (ITA)

Govortsova, Olga (BLR)

Jovanovski, Bojana (SRB)

King, Vania (USA)

Li, Na (CHN)

Mayr-Achleitner, Patricia (AUT)

Niculescu, Monica (ROU)

Peer, Shahar (ISR)

Peng, Shuai (CHN)

Pfizenmaier, Dinah (GER)

Schmiedlova, Anna K (SVK)

Soler-Espinosa, Silvia (ESP)

Tomljanovic, Ajla (CRO)

Torro-Flor, Maria-Teresa (ESP)

Tsurenko, Lesia (UKR)

Wozniak, Aleksandra (CAN)

Zahlavova Strycova, Barbora (CZE)

Zakopalova, Klara (CZE)

Zhang, Shuai (CHN)

Zheng, Jie (CHN)

Zvonareva, Vera (RUS) (WC)

ASB Classic

Dec 30 - Jan 04, 2014
Auckand, New Zealand

List:

Ana Ivanovic

Venus Williams

Marina Erakovic

Roberta Vinci

Kirsten Flipkens

Sorana Cirstea

Jamie Hampton

Elena Vesnina

Alexandra Cadantu

Alison Riske

Ayumi Morita

Christina McHale

Garbine Muguruza

Iveta Benesova

Karin Knapp

Karolina Pliskova

Laura Robson

Lucie Safarova

Mona Barthel

Monica Puig

Paula Ormaechea

Yanina Wickmayer

Yvonne Meusburger

Lourdes Dominguez Lino

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