首届WTA总决赛在1972年美国佛罗里达州的博卡拉顿举行。在1972年到1986年期间，该项赛事都在每年三月举行。此后由于WTA决定将每年赛季改为1月至11月，因此总决赛也被改在每年的年末举行。因此，1986年的3月和11月举办了两次WTA总决赛。1979年至2000年期间，这项赛事一直都在美国纽约的麦迪逊广场花园举行。

The championships were held for the first time in October 1972 in Boca Raton, Florida (USA) as a climax event at the end of a series of tournaments sponsored by Virginia Slims. From 1972 to 1974, the event was held in October, before switching to March from 1975 until 1986. The WTA then decided to adopt a January–November playing season, and so the event was switched to being held at the end of each year. As a consequence, there were two championships held in 1986.
The event was held in Los Angeles, California from 1974 to 1976 before moving to Madison Square Garden (MSG) in New York City in 1977. With the exception of a one-year move to Oakland, California in 1978, the Championships remained at MSG until 2000. The event then briefly moved to Munich, Germany in 2001. More recently, it moved back to Los Angeles from 2002 to 2005. The 2006 and 2007 editions were held in Madrid, Spain. Doha, Qatar hosted the 2008–2010 editions before passing the flag to Istanbul, Turkey, which is scheduled to host the 2011–2013 editions.


1984年至1998年期间，该项赛事的决赛一直采用5盘3胜制，这也是女子网球比赛中唯一采用的赛制。但在1999年，主办者将其改为普遍的3盘2胜制。
From 1984–1998, the final of the championships was a best-of-five-set match, making it the only tournament on the women's tour to have a best-of-five-set match at any round of the competition. In 1999, the final reverted to being a best-of-three-set match, as had been the case from 1972–1983.


Past results Singles

丨Elena Dementieva丨 2000-06,2008-10(10) 丨 27 丨7-20丨 25% 丨SF(2000,2008)丨



Dementieva's final event of 2010 was the WTA Tour Championships, where she qualified for the third consecutive year, as the No. 7 seed. Dementieva was still struggling with her ankle injury. As a member of the Maroon Group, Dementieva fell to Caroline Wozniacki 6–1, 6–1, defeated Samantha Stosur4–6, 6–4, 7–6(4). Dementieva then faced Francesca Schiavone, and lost 6–4, 6–2.
Following her loss to Schiavone, Dementieva announced her retirement in an on-court ceremony on 29 October 2010. Dementieva ended her career ranked World No. 9, with 16 WTA singles titles and 2 Grand Slam final appearances.





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