The WTA Elite Trophy (also known as the Huafa Technology WTA Elite Trophy for sponsorship reasons) was the second-tier year-end professional women's tennis tournament on the WTA Tour. It was the successor event of the different format WTA Tournament of Champions, which took place from 2009–14.

The Elite Trophy took place at the end of each season, in two disciplines: singles and doubles. The singles event featured 12 players (11 of them ranked from 9th to 19th on the final table of the WTA ranking, and one wildcard). The players were split into four groups of three, with the group winners advancing to the single elimination semifinals. The doubles event featured six teams in two groups with the group winners contesting the final.

The inaugural edition was held in 2015, offering $2.15 million in prize money. Zhuhai, China hosted the WTA Elite Trophy for the first five years through 2019. The tournament then took a hiatus between 2020 and 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Peng Shuai controversy. In 2023, the event returned and was once again staged in Zhuhai. That year, Beatriz Haddad Maia made history as the first—and so far, only— player to have won both singles and doubles titles at the WTA Elite Trophy and also to do so in the same edition of the tournament.

Venues

VenueYearsStadiumSurfaceCapacity
China Zhuhai2015–2019, 2023Hengqin International Tennis CenterHard5,000

Past results

Singles

VenueYearChampionRunner-upScore
China Zhuhai2015United States Venus WilliamsCzech Republic Karolína Plíšková7–5, 7–6(8–6)
2016Czech Republic Petra KvitováUkraine Elina Svitolina6–4, 6–2
2017Germany Julia GörgesUnited States CoCo Vandeweghe7–5, 6–1
2018Australia Ashleigh BartyChina Wang Qiang6–3, 6–4
2019Belarus Aryna SabalenkaNetherlands Kiki Bertens6–4, 6–2
2020no competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021cancelled
2022not held
2023Brazil Beatriz Haddad MaiaChina Zheng Qinwen7–6(13–11), 7–6(7–4)

Doubles

VenueYearChampionsRunners-upScore
China Zhuhai2015China Liang Chen China Wang YafanSpain Anabel Medina Garrigues Spain Arantxa Parra Santonja6–4, 6–3
2016Turkey İpek Soylu China Xu YifanChina Yang Zhaoxuan China You Xiaodi6–4, 3–6, [10–7]
2017China Duan Yingying China Han XinyunChina Lu Jingjing China Zhang Shuai6–2, 6–1
2018Ukraine Lyudmyla Kichenok Ukraine Nadiia KichenokJapan Shuko Aoyama Belarus Lidziya Marozava6–4, 3–6, [10–7]
2019Ukraine Lyudmyla Kichenok (2) Slovenia Andreja KlepačChina Duan Yingying China Yang Zhaoxuan6–3, 6–3
2020no competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021cancelled
2022not held
2023Brazil Beatriz Haddad Maia Veronika KudermetovaJapan Miyu Kato Indonesia Aldila Sutjiadi6–3, 6–3

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