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2024 WTA Finals
Date2 – 9 November
Edition53rd (singles) / 48th (doubles)
Draw8S / 8D
Prize money$15.25M
LocationRiyadh, Saudi Arabia[1]
VenueKing Saud University Indoor Arena
2023 Champions
Singles
Poland Iga Świątek
Doubles
Germany Laura Siegemund / Vera Zvonareva
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The 2024 WTA Finals will be the professional women's championship tennis tournament run by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). It will be the 53rd edition of the singles event and the 48th edition of the doubles competition and will take place between 2 and 9 November. The tournament will be contested by the eight highest-ranked singles players and doubles teams of the 2024 WTA Tour.

Tournament

Qualifying

Eight players/teams to compete in singles/doubles.[2] Players/teams are qualified in the following sequence:

  1. Ranked top seven in the leaderboard;
  2. The highest-ranked current-year Grand Slam winning player/team ranked from eighth to twentieth;
  3. The second-highest-ranked current-year Grand Slam winning player/team ranked from eighth to twentieth, if one player/team ranked in the top seven withdraws;
  4. The next player who is ranked eighth or below.

In the singles, point totals are calculated by combining point totals from eighteen tournaments (excluding ITF and WTA 125 tournaments). Of these eighteen tournaments, a player's results from the following events are included:

In the doubles, point totals are calculated by any combination of twelve tournaments throughout the year. Unlike in the singles, this combination does not need to include results from the Grand Slams or WTA 1000 tournaments.

Format

Both the singles and doubles event features eight players/teams in a round-robin event, split into two groups of four.

Over the first six days of competition, each player/team meets the other three players/teams in her group, with the top two in each group advancing to the semifinals. The first-placed player/team in one group meets the second-placed player/team in the other group, and vice versa. The winners of each semifinal meet in the championship match.

Round robin tie-breaking methods

The final standings are made using these methods:

  1. Greatest number of match wins
  2. Greatest number of matches played
  3. Head-to-head results if only two players are tied, or if three players are tied then:
a. If three players each have the same number of wins, a player having played less than all three matches is automatically eliminated and the player advancing to the single-elimination competition is the winner of the match-up of the two remaining tied players.
b. Highest percentage of sets won
c. Highest percentage of games won

Qualified players

Singles

# Players Date qualified
1 Poland Iga Świątek 6 August[3]
2 Aryna Sabalenka 5 September[4]
3 United States Coco Gauff 14 October[5]
4 Italy Jasmine Paolini 14 October[5]
5 Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina 14 October[5]
6 United States Jessica Pegula 14 October[5]
7
8

Doubles

# Players Date qualified
1 Ukraine Lyudmyla Kichenok
Latvia Jelena Ostapenko
12 September[6]
2 Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-Wei
Belgium Elise Mertens
16 September[7]
3 Canada Gabriela Dabrowski
New Zealand Erin Routliffe
7 October[8]
4 Italy Sara Errani
Italy Jasmine Paolini
7 October[8]
5 Czech Republic Kateřina Siniaková
United States Taylor Townsend
7 October[8]
6
7
8

Points breakdown

Singles

 Player has qualified for WTA Finals.
* Player is active in Ningbo.

Updated as of 14 October 2024.[9]

Seed Player Grand Slam WTA 1000 Best other    Total   
points
Tourn.[a] Titles
Best combined WTA
only
AUS FRA WIM USO 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pld. Abs.
1 Aryna Sabalenka W
2000
QF
430
A
0
W
2000
W
1000
F
650
F
650
QF
215
QF
215
R16
120
A
0
W
1000
F
325
SF
195
QF
108
QF
108
R32
65
R32
10
9,091 16 2 4
2 Poland Iga Świątek R32
130
W
2000
R32
130
QF
430
W
1000
W
1000
W
1000
SF
390
A
0
A
0
A
0
W
1000
F
500
SF
390
SF
195
R16
120
A
0
A
0
8,285 13 5 5
3 United States Coco Gauff SF
780
SF
780
R16
240
R16
240
W
1000
SF
390
SF
390
R16
120
R16
120
R16
120
SF
390
W
250
QF
215
SF
195
QF
108
R32
10
A
0
A
0
5,348 17 2 2
4 Italy Jasmine Paolini R16
240
F
1300
F
1300
R16
240
R16
120
R16
120
R16
120
R32
65
R32
65
A
0
W
1000
QF
215
SF
195
QF
108
RR
35
R64
10
R64
10
R32
1
5,144 18 1 1
5 Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina R64
70
QF
430
SF
780
R64
70
F
650
SF
390
A
0
A
0
A
0
A
0
A
0
F
650
W
500
W
500
W
500
QF
215
QF
108
R32
10
4,873 14 5 3
6 United States Jessica Pegula R64
70
A
0
R64
70
F
1300
W
1000
F
650
QF
215
R16
120
R64
10
R16
30
A
0
W
500
SF
195
SF
195
SF
195
R16
120
RR
35
A
0
4,705 16 3 2
7* China Zheng Qinwen F
1300
R32
130
R128
10
QF
430
SF
390
QF
215
R16
120
R32
65
R64
10
A
0
F
650
W
250
QF
215
R16
120
QF
75
R16
60
R64
10
A
0
4,050 18 2 1
8* Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková[b] QF
430
R128
10
W
2000
R64
70
R64
10
R64
10
A
0
A
0
R32
10
QF
108
QF
54
R32
1
R32
1
R32
1
R32
1
R16
1
2,707 14 2 1
Alternates
9 United States Emma Navarro R32
130
R16
240
QF
430
SF
780
SF
390
QF
215
R16
120
R32
65
R64
10
R64
10
R16
120
W
250
SF
195
SF
195
SF
195
SF
98
R32
65
R16
60
3,568 22 0 1
10 United States Danielle Collins R64
70
R64
70
R16
240
R128
10
W
1000
SF
390
R16
120
A
0
A
0
A
0
A
0
W
500
F
325
QF
245
R16
85
QF
54
R64
35
R32
32
3,176 17 4 2
11* Daria Kasatkina R64
70
R64
70
R32
130
R64
70
R16
120
R16
120
R32
65
R32
65
R32
65
R32
65
R16
120
W
500
F
325
F
325
F
325
F
325
QF
108
R16
60
2,928 23 0 1
12* Spain Paula Badosa R32
130
R32
130
R16
240
QF
430
SF
390
SF
390
R16
120
R32
65
R64
35
A
0
A
0
W
500
QF
108
R32
65
R16
60
R16
30
R64
10
R128
10
2,713 19 2 1
13* Anna Kalinskaya QF
430
R64
70
R16
240
R32
130
R16
120
R16
120
R16
120
R32
65
R32
65
R32
65
F
680
F
325
R16
85
R32
65
R32
32
Q2
13
R64
10
R64
10
2,645 20 0 0
14* Brazil Beatriz Haddad Maia R32
130
R128
10
R32
130
QF
430
QF
215
R32
65
R32
65
R32
65
R32
65
R32
65
R16
120
W
500
SF
195
F
163
QF
108
R16
60
R16
60
RR
35
2,481 25 0 1
15* Diana Shnaider R128
10
R128
10
R32
130
R16
240
SF
390
R16
120
R32
65
R32
65
R64
35
R64
35
R64
30
W
500
W
250
W
250
SF
195
QF
54
R32
25
R32
10
2,414 23 0 3
16* Mirra Andreeva R16
240
SF
780
R128
10
R64
70
QF
215
QF
215
QF
215
R128
10
R128
10
A
0
R32
65
W
250
QF
108
R16
60
QF
54
R64
10
R32
1
2,313 16 1 1

Notes

  1. ^ 0-point penalties will be applied for every WTA 1000 in which players had or would had been accepted into the main draw but were absent and if players fail to fulfill their WTA 500 tournaments commitment obligations, unless they qualify for a long-term injury exemption.
  2. ^ Krejčíková qualified as one of this year's Grand Slam champions as she will be ranked in the top 20 on 4 November 2024.[10]

Doubles

 Team has qualified for WTA Finals.
* Team is active in Ningbo or Osaka.
x Team can no longer qualify.

Updated as of 14 October 2024.[11]

Seed Team Points    Total   
points
Tourn Titles
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 Ukraine Lyudmyla Kichenok
Latvia Jeļena Ostapenko
W
2000
F
1300
W
500
W
500
QF
430
QF
215
QF
215
QF
215
QF
215
R32
130
R16
120
SF
108
5,948 15 3
2* Canada Gabriela Dabrowski
New Zealand Erin Routliffe
F
1300
SF
780
F
650
F
650
QF
430
SF
390
F
325
W
250
QF
215
R16
120
R16
120
R16
10
5,240 15 1
3 Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei
Belgium Elise Mertens
W
2000
W
1000
SF
780
SF
390
W
250
QF
215
QF
215
R32
130
QF
120
R64
10
R16
10
R16
10
5,130 13 3
4 Italy Sara Errani
Italy Jasmine Paolini
F
1300
W
1000
W
1000
W
500
SF
390
R16
240
R16
240
QF
215
R32
130
R32
10
R32
10
R16
10
5,045 14 3
5 United States Caroline Dolehide
United States Desirae Krawczyk
W
1000
SF
780
SF
780
F
650
SF
390
QF
215
R32
130
R16
120
R16
120
QF
108
R16
60
R32
10
4,363 17 1
6 Chinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching
Veronika Kudermetova
SF
780
F
650
W
500
F
325
F
325
R16
240
R16
240
QF
215
SF
195
R16
120
R16
120
QF
108
3,818 12 1
7* United States Nicole Melichar-Martinez
Australia Ellen Perez
F
650
W
500
W
500
QF
430
SF
390
F
325
R16
240
QF
215
SF
195
R32
130
R16
120
QF
108
3,803 22 2
8 Czech Republic Kateřina Siniaková
United States Taylor Townsend[a]
W
2000
SF
780
QF
215
QF
215
R32
10
R16
1
3,221 6 1
Alternates
9* United States Sofia Kenin
United States Bethanie Mattek-Sands
W
1000
W
500
SF
390
SF
390
R16
240
R16
240
R32
130
R16
120
R16
120
R32
10
R32
10
R32
10
3,160 13 2
10x Netherlands Demi Schuurs
Brazil Luisa Stefani
W
1000
QF
430
QF
430
QF
215
QF
215
SF
195
SF
195
R16
120
R64
10
R32
10
R32
10
R32
10
2,840 16 1
11* Kazakhstan Anna Danilina
Irina Khromacheva
W
1000
W
500
QF
430
W
250
W
250
SF
195
F
163
R32
10
R32
10
R16
1
2,809 10 4

Notes

  1. ^ Siniaková/Townsend qualified as one of this year's Grand Slam champions ranked in the top 20 on 4 November 2024.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Turnaj mistryň míří do kontroverzní destinace. Rijád ve finále porazil Česko" [WTA Finals is heading to a controversial destination. Riyadh defeated the Czech Republic in the final]. iDNES.cz (in Czech). March 12, 2024. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  2. ^ "2024 WTA Rulebook" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Defending champion Iga Swiatek qualifies for WTA Finals Riyadh". Women's Tennis Association. 6 August 2024. Archived from the original on 8 August 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  4. ^ "Aryna Sabalenka qualifies for WTA Finals Riyadh". Women's Tennis Association. 5 September 2024. Archived from the original on 6 September 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d "Gauff, Rybakina among four singles players to qualify for WTA Finals Riyadh". Women's Tennis Association. 14 October 2024. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  6. ^ "Kichenok & Ostapenko become first doubles team to qualify for WTA Finals". Women's Tennis Association. 12 September 2024. Archived from the original on 16 September 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Hsieh Su-Wei & Elise Mertens secure qualification for WTA Finals Riyadh". Women's Tennis Association. 16 September 2024. Archived from the original on 16 September 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  8. ^ a b c d "Three more doubles teams qualify for WTA Finals Riyadh". Women's Tennis Association. 7 October 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  9. ^ "WTA Race Singles Ranking". WTA. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  10. ^ "PIF Race to the WTA Finals: Gauff, Zheng rise with significant weeks ahead". WTA Tennis. 7 October 2024.
  11. ^ "WTA Race Doubles Ranking". WTA Tour. Retrieved 1 January 2024.