JULY
- Sony Ericsson WTA Tour president Stacey Allaster steps up to replace Larry Scott as Tour chairman and CEO. Read
- Serena Williams defeats her sister Venus in the Wimbledon final, but her semifinal match against Elena Dementieva - in which she saved match point - is the match of the tournament (if not the year). Read
- Serena and Venus win the Wimbledon doubles. Read
- Monica Seles is inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Read
- Nathalie Dechy, a two-time US Open doubles champion, retires. Read
AUGUST
- Others had come close but Flavia Pennetta becomes the first Italian woman to rank inside the world's Top 10. Read
- In Cincinnati, Kim Clijsters plays her first match in 27 months... and promptly defeats the classy Marion Bartoli. Read
- In a ceremony at the White House, Tour founder Billie Jean King receives the Presidential Medal of Honor from US President Barack Obama. Read
- Israeli Fed Cup stalwart Tzipi Obziler ends late-blooming career. Read
- David Shoemaker succeeds Stacey Allaster as president of the Tour. Read
- After a fine summer culminating in the Rogers Cup title at Toronto, Dementieva finishes top of the Olympus US Open Series standings. Read
SEPTEMBER
- American teen Melanie Oudin gets the home fires burning with her blazing quarterfinal run at Flushing Meadows. Read
- Clijsters becomes the first mother to win a Grand Slam singles title since Evonne Goolagong at Wimbledon in 1980. Read
- Putting her messy US Open singles exit behind her, Serena combines with Venus to win their third Grand Slam doubles title of the year. Read
- Justine Henin announces her comeback. It is subsequently announced the Belgian star has been awarded a wildcard for the 2010 Australian Open. Read
- On the eve of her 39th birthday Kimiko Date Krumm wins her eighth career title at Seoul. It is her first Tour trophy since 1996. Read
OCTOBER
- Japanese icon Ai Sugiyama bids an emotional farewell to the Tour with a runner-up finish partnering good friend Daniela Hantuchova in the doubles at the Toray Pan Pacific Open. Read
- Maria Sharapova wins the singles in Tokyo - the first title of the comeback the Russian superstar launched in May. Read
- Despite her early loss at the China Open Serena takes back the No.1 ranking from Safina. Read
- After three years without a title, Israel's Shahar Peer wins back-to-back titles in Guangzhou and Tashkent, not dropping a single set along the way. Read
- Tour launches Mandarin-language website ahead of the fourth and final Premier Mandatory event of the year, the China Open in Beijing. Svetlana Kuznetsova triumphs. Read
NOVEMBER
- Serena beats Venus in the final of the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha; it is the younger Williams sister's second season-ending title, after 2001. Read
- Nuria Llagostera Vives and María José Martínez Sánchez become the first Spanish duo to win the season-ending doubles title, but Cara Black and Liezel Huber secure the joint year-end No.1 ranking for the third year. Read
- After a fortnight back at No.2 behind Safina, Serena captures the year-end No.1 ranking for the second time in her career, and is also the first female player to crack the $6 million mark in prize money in the course of a season. Read
- Having won her first Tour title at Strasbourg in May, France's Aravane Rezai overcomes an injured Bartoli to win the inaugural Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions in Bali. Read
- Italy wins the Fed Cup for the second time in four years with a 4-0 defeat of the United States. Read
