Talk:WTA Tier I tournaments

From 2009 season
From 2009 season, Tier I tournaments are part of history, they don't exist anymore! So there is no need to put players in bold who are active, because they can't win any more Tier I tournaments, and defending champions must be mentioned in the new article WTA Premiere tournaments. --Göran S (talk) 10:40, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

1988-89 Tournaments Removal
Previously this page stated that the WTA Tier tournament system was in place from 1988 to 2008. According to the official ITF annual 'World of Tennis' the "Tier" naming system was introduced in 1990. Neither the 1988 nor 1989 seasons used "Tier" but instead used the term "Category". The four tournaments removed from the article are 1988 Miami, 1988 Berlin, 1989 Miami, 1989 Berlin. Miami was in fact the one and only Category 6 event for the 1989 season. Berlin was a Category 5 event along with 9 other tournaments. I can find no reliable evidence to support Berlin being a higher level event than all the other 9 tournaments in it's category with a $300,000 prize pool. Nor can I find evidence that the four removed tournaments should be connected to the Tier I tournaments from 1990 onwards. I shall endeavor to edit all Wikipedia articles affected by this change in due course. --Zenjo28 (talk)
 * That does not mean a super category did not exist prior to 1990 it pisses me off constantly with people believing the world of tennis only began in 1990 in order to justify and inflate players achievements after this period: (case in point Steffi Graf's notable 8 Major, 2 Tour Finals, 3 Category 6/5 Tier One equivalents and 1 Olympic titles won 1988-1990 just because the internet was not around for immediate sourcing does not mean notable players achievements should be simply ignored and completely whitewashed by this ridiculous mind set how convenient). Whether they were called Category 6 or 5 is irrelevant they were equivalent to Tier 1/Premier. Had the articles been properly thought out and planned correctly from the beginning by someone with knowledge of the game before 1990 and ac cess to sources we wouldn't have issues like me getting upset by this 1990 fixated mind set women's tennis had already been around 106 years before 1990 there have always been high category tour tournaments whether for points when they came into force or prize money or just generally accepted prestige known by both players and tennis journalists. The internet launched really in only the last 20 years of course makes it sometimes easier to find sources certainly from 2000 onwards and the reason you cant find extensive sources is no one perceived the internet was going to happen during the 1970's and 1980's when I was university it was not around so any historical research information you needed meant sitting in libraries for hours on end scrolling through micfrofilm scanners and reading books to obtain sources if I had the time to restore the respect for players records and achievements through research I would do so if not just to stop the constant The world of tennis only began in 1990 Syndrome--Navops47 (talk) 04:01, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

I agree that the world of tennis did not begin in 1990. The WTA Tier I category did however begin in 1990, hence the changes to the article. The only reason you are upset is because you are a Steffi Graf fan who would prefer the incorrect data still be displayed, as it just so happens to affect her position on this particular title list. This article covers selected WTA tournaments from 1990-2008, so doesn't take into account 1971-1989 or 2009-2015. Of course that means it's not a comparative guide throughout the history of the WTA tour. There were indeed different Categories of WTA events in 1988-89, which I have added to the season pages for those years. I wish there was a way to accurately group the levels of tournaments from 1971-1989 to compare them with future years. There used such frequent changes to the structure of the tour from year to year however. Combined with the lack of available information in some instances makes this an impossible task. --Zenjo28 (talk) 19 May 2015 — Preceding undated comment added 00:57, 19 May 2015 (UTC)