2024 WTA Finals

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Date2 – 9 November
Edition53rd (singles) / 48th (doubles)
Draw8S / 8D
Prizemoney$15.25M
2024 WTA Finals
Date2 – 9 November
Edition53rd (singles) / 48th (doubles)
Draw8S / 8D
Prize money$15.25M
SurfaceHard (indoor)
LocationRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
VenueKing Saud University Indoor Arena
Champions
Singles
United States Coco Gauff
Doubles
Canada Gabriela Dabrowski / New Zealand Erin Routliffe
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The 2024 WTA Finals was the professional women's year-end championship tennis tournament run by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). It was the 53rd edition of the singles event and the 48th edition of the doubles competition and took place between 2 and 9 November. The tournament was contested by the eight highest-ranked singles players and doubles teams of the 2024 WTA Tour. It took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, marking its return to Asia for the first time since 2019, and the fifth consecutive finals to be held in a different city (Shenzhen in 2019, Guadalajara in 2021, Fort Worth in 2022, and Cancún in 2023). This was the first time that Saudi Arabia hosted the tournament.

Singles

Doubles

Tournament

Qualifying

Eight players/teams to compete in singles/doubles.[1] To qualify, players/teams have to play a minimum of eight WTA 1000 or WTA 500 tournaments during the season. 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

Prize money and points

Qualified players

Singles

# Players Date qualified
1 Aryna Sabalenka5 September[3]
2Poland Iga Świątek6 August[4]
3United States Coco Gauff14 October[5]
4Italy Jasmine Paolini14 October[5]
5Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina14 October[5]
6United States Jessica Pegula14 October[5]
7China Zheng Qinwen16 October[6]
8Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková16 October[6]

Doubles

# Players Date qualified
1Ukraine Lyudmyla Kichenok
Latvia Jelena Ostapenko
12 September[7]
2Canada Gabriela Dabrowski
New Zealand Erin Routliffe
7 October[8]
3Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei
Belgium Elise Mertens
16 September[9]
4Italy Sara Errani
Italy Jasmine Paolini
7 October[8]
5United States Caroline Dolehide
United States Desirae Krawczyk
14 October[5]
6United States Nicole Melichar-Martinez
Australia Ellen Perez
18 October[10]
7Chinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching
Veronika Kudermetova
18 October[10]
8Czech Republic Kateřina Siniaková
United States Taylor Townsend
7 October[8]

Points breakdown

Head-to-head records

Below are the head-to-head records as they approached the tournament.

Singles

  Sabalenka   Świątek       Gauff       Paolini   Rybakina   Pegula     Zheng   KrejčíkováOverallYTD W–L
1 Aryna Sabalenka 4–8 4–4 2–2 6–3 6–2 4–0 6–132–2054–12
2 Poland Iga Świątek 8–4 11–1 3–0 2–4 6–4 6–1 2–238–1659–8
3 United States Coco Gauff 4–4 1–11 2–0 1–0 1–4 1–0 0–110–2050–16
4 Italy Jasmine Paolini 2–2 0–3 0–2 2–2 0–5 0–3 0–24–1937–17
5 Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina 3–6 4–2 0–1 2–2 1–3 2–0 0–312–1741–9
6 United States Jessica Pegula 2–6 4–6 4–1 5–0 3–1 1–0 1–120–1539–14
7 China Zheng Qinwen 0–4 1–6 0–1 3–0 0–2 0–1 1–05–1447–16
8 Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková 1–6 2–2 1–0 2–0 3–0 1–1 0–1 10–1019–14

Doubles

  Kichenok
Ostapenko
Dabrowski
 Routliffe 
Hsieh
 Mertens 
Errani
  Paolini  
Dolehide
Krawczyk
 Melichar 
Perez
Chan
Kudermetova
Siniaková
Townsend
OverallYTD W–L
1 Ukraine Lyudmyla Kichenok
Latvia Jeļena Ostapenko
2–1 0–2 0–1 0–0 2–2 1–0 0–15–735–11
2 Canada Gabriela Dabrowski
New Zealand Erin Routliffe
1–2 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–1 0–1 0–12–634–14
3 Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei
Belgium Elise Mertens
2–0 0–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–14–127–10
4 Italy Sara Errani
Italy Jasmine Paolini
1–0 0–0 0–1 1–0 2–0 1–0 0–05–133–11
5 United States Caroline Dolehide
United States Desirae Krawczyk
0–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 0–03–225–15
6 United States Nicole Melichar
Australia Ellen Perez
2–2 1–0 0–1 0–2 0–1 1–1 0–04–735–20
7 Chinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching
Veronika Kudermetova
0–1 1–0 0–0 0–1 0–1 1–1 0–02–428–9
8 Czech Republic Kateřina Siniaková
United States Taylor Townsend
1–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 3–012–5

See also

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