Editing Women's Tennis Association (section)

===Growth milestones===
[[File:Competitors at the 2014 WTA Finals.jpg|thumb|The eight competitors in the 2014 WTA Finals.]]
The WTA circuit continued to expand during these years. In 1971, King became the first female athlete to surpass $100,000 in earnings for a single year.<ref name=WTATour /><ref name="WTAHistory" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/Content/Articles/About%20WSF/B/Billie%20Jean%20King%20Founder%20Leader%20Legend.aspx|title=Billie Jean King: Founder, Leader, Legend|publisher=Women's Sports Foundation|access-date=12 September 2008|archive-date=17 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917072322/http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/Content/Articles/About%20WSF/B/Billie%20Jean%20King%20Founder%20Leader%20Legend.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Chris Evert]] became the first female athlete to win over $1,000,000 in career earnings in 1976. By 1980, over 250 women were playing professionally, and the circuit consisted of 47 global events, offering a total of $7.2&nbsp;million in prize money. These increased financial opportunities allowed for groundbreaking developments not only in tennis, but across women's sports.

In 1982, [[Martina Navratilova]] became the first to win over $1,000,000 in a single year. Navratilova's single year earnings exceeded $2&nbsp;million in 1984.  In 1997, [[Martina Hingis]] became the first to earn over $3&nbsp;million during a single year.  In 2003, [[Kim Clijsters]] surpassed $4&nbsp;million in earnings for a single year. In 2006, [[Venus Williams]] and the WTA pushed for equal prize money at both the French Open and [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]].  Both of these [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] events relented in 2007 and awarded equal money for the first time.  This enabled [[Justine Henin]], who won the French Open in 2007, to earn over $5&nbsp;million that year, becoming the first woman in sports to do this.<ref name=Prize>{{cite web|url=http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/3/newsroom/stories/?ContentID=1971|title=Davenport Tops All-Time Prize Money List|publisher=Women's Tennis Association (WTA)|date=14 January 2007|access-date=12 September 2008|archive-date=3 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003035445/http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/3/newsroom/stories/?ContentID=1971|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2009, [[Serena Williams]] went over the six million mark by earning over $6.5&nbsp;million in a single year. Then in 2012 both Serena Williams and [[Victoria Azarenka]] became the first players to exceed $7&nbsp;million in prize money in a single season. In 2013 Serena Williams went over the twelve million dollar mark, winning $12,385,572 in a single year.