This year, the tournament was using a different format from the 2009 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions and the 2010 WTA Tour Championships.
2009 | UEFA Champions League | Commonwealth of Nations | Commonwealth | World Bank | Commonwealth Games | Bank of America | West Bank | Round-robin tournament | 2006 Commonwealth Games | Deutsche Bank | Commonwealth of Independent States | Champions League | Bank of England | International Bank for Reconstruction and Development | 2002 Commonwealth Games | Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation | African Development Bank | 2010 Commonwealth Games | 2009 in music | Asian Development Bank | tournament | Inter-American Development Bank | bank | Virginia Commonwealth University | South Bank | Single-elimination tournament | Lloyds Bank |
For the 2009 edition, the 10 highest-ranked players who had captured at least one international tournament during the year and who were not participating in singles at the year-end Sony Ericsson Championships – Doha 2009 qualified for the event, along with two wildcards.