The final standings of each group were determined by the first of the following methods that applied: The doubles competition had four teams playing in a straight knockout format from the semifinal stage.

She won the Brisbane International against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova with the loss of just 17 games and was the favorite to win the Australian Open.

[12] She became the fourth woman in the Open era after Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert and Steffi Graf to win each Grand Slam title twice or more.

Her streak ended at the fourth round of Wimbledon losing to Sabine Lisicki[13] but rebounded three weeks later by claiming her first international-level title in Swedish Open defeating Johanna Larsson in two sets.

[14] Williams started her US Open Series at the Rogers Cup where she won her eight title of the year against Sorana Cîrstea.

She successfully defended her Australian Open crown after defeating Li Na in the final, claiming her second Major.

[26] Maria Sharapova began her year at the Australian Open as the second seed, dropping a record-low nine games en route to the semifinals, where she lost to Li Na in straight sets.

[8] She began her clay-court season campaign with a successful title-defense in Porsche Tennis Grand Prix over Li.

[10] Coming as the defending champion of the French Open, Sharapova reached the final but lost for the fourth time in the season to Williams in straight-sets.

[20] After a seven-week absence due to an ankle injury, she returned to the competition at the Sony Open Tennis where she lost to Serena Williams in the quarterfinals.

She started her clay court season at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix where she lost to Maria Sharapova in the final.

[50] At Wimbledon, she was able to reach the quarterfinals for the 4th year in a row but received an upset in the hands of Belgian Kirsten Flipkens.

[51] As the defending champion at the New Haven Open at Yale she reached the final, but ended in the losing side against Simona Halep.

[53] She then won her 11th career title at the Toray Pan Pacific Open beating German Angelique Kerber in three sets.

[48] The following week, She defended her title at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel defeating Spaniard Carla Suárez Navarro.

[59] As the defending champion at the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, she reached the final against compatriot and doubles partner Roberta Vinci, but lost in three sets.

[63] She then reached her second final of the year at the Family Circle Cup facing world number 1 Serena Williams, but lost in three sets.

[9] Janković then reached her first slam quarterfinals since 2010 at the French Open, but lost to defending champion Maria Sharapova in three sets.

[68] She did not reach another final until the back end of the year at the Toray Pan Pacific Open falling to Petra Kvitová.

Kerber won her lone title of the year at the Generali Ladies Linz defeating Serbian Ana Ivanovic in straight sets, on her fourth match point.

[28] She won her lone title of the year at the BGL Luxembourg Open defeating youngster Annika Beck.

[73] At the Majors Wozniacki didn't fare well, with her best showing coming at the Australian Open losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the round of 16 in three sets.

[74] She then fell in the second rounds of Wimbledon and French Open losing to Bojana Jovanovski and Petra Cetkovská in straight sets.

[26] Sara Errani & Roberta Vinci reached their first final of the year at the Apia International Sydney losing to Petrova & Srebotnik.

[84][85] They then reached consecutive finals at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia and French Open as defending champions but lost in both to Hsieh & Peng and Makarova & Vesnina.

[86][87] On 4 October, the three remaining spots were filled by the teams of Peng Shuai and Hsieh Su-wei, Nadia Petrova and Katarina Srebotnik, and Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova.

They reached their first final of the year at the Apia International Sydney defeating top seeds Errani & Vinci.

[82] They then reached back-to-back finals at the Qatar Total Open and Dubai Tennis Championships but fell in both in a match tie-break losing to Errani & Vinci and to Mattek-Sands & Mirza.

[96] Srebotnik then reached the final of New Haven Open at Yale with Anabel Medina Garrigues losing to Mirza & Zheng.

[93] They then claimed their first women's doubles slam title at the French Open defeating defending champions Errani & Vinci.