The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is the chief getting sorted out body of ladies' expert tennis. It oversees the WTA Tour which is the overall expert tennis visit for ladies and was established to make a superior future for ladies' tennis. The WTA's corporate base camp is in St. Petersburg, Florida, with its European base camp in London and its Asia-Pacific central command in Beijing. The Women's Tennis Association was established in June 1973 by Billie Jean King, and follows its beginnings to the debut Virginia Slims competition, organized by Gladys Heldman, supported by Joe Cullman, CEO of Philip Morris, and hung on 23 September 1970 at the Houston Racquet Club in Houston, Texas. Rosie Casals won this first occasion. At the point when the Women's Tennis Association was established, Billie Jean King was one of nine players that contained the WTA, likewise alluded to as the Original 9, that included Julie Heldman, Valerie Ziegenfuss, Judy Dalton, Kristy Pigeon, Peaches Bartkowicz, Kerry Melville Reid, Nancy Richey, and Rosie Casals. Today, the WTA has in excess of 2,500 players from almost 100 nations vieing for $146 million in prize cash. In December 2021, following Peng Shuai's danger by the Chinese government, the WTA suspended its activities in China and Hong Kong.
