2025 WTA Finals

Last updated
2025 WTA Finals
Date1 – 8 November
Edition54th (singles) / 49th (doubles)
Draw8S / 8D
SurfaceHard (indoor)
Location Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
VenueKing Saud University Indoor Arena
2024 Champions
Singles
Flag of the United States.svg Coco Gauff
Doubles
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Gabriela Dabrowski / Flag of New Zealand.svg Erin Routliffe
  2024  · WTA Finals ·  2026  

The 2025 WTA Finals is a planned professional women's year-end championship tennis tournament that is scheduled to run from 1 to 8 November 2025 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). It is set to be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the second straight year and is due to be the 54th edition of the singles event and the 49th edition of the doubles competition. The tournament will be contested by the eight highest-ranked singles players and doubles teams of the 2025 WTA Tour.

Contents

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

Points breakdown

Singles

  Player is active at Australian Open qualifying, in Adelaide or Hobart.

Updated as of 5 January 2025. [2]

RankPlayerGrand SlamWTA 1000Best other   Total   
points
TournTitles
Best combinedWTA
only
AUS FRA WIM USO 1234561234567
1 Flag of the United States.svg Coco Gauff W
500
50011
Flag placeholder.svg Aryna Sabalenka W
500
50011
3Flag placeholder.svg Polina Kudermetova Q1
2
F
350
35220
4 Flag of Poland.svg Iga Świątek F
325
32510
5 Flag of Denmark.svg Clara Tauson W
250
R32
1
25121
6 Flag of Ukraine.svg Anhelina Kalinina SF
195
R32
1
19620
7Flag placeholder.svg Mirra Andreeva SF
195
19510
8 Flag of Japan.svg Naomi Osaka F
163
16310
Alternates
9 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Marie Bouzková QF
108
R32
25
13320
10 Flag of the United States.svg Ashlyn Krueger QF
108
R32
13
12120
11 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Kimberly Birrell Q1
2
QF
108
11020
12 Flag of Tunisia.svg Ons Jabeur QF
108
R32
1
10920
13 Flag of the United States.svg Robin Montgomery Q1
2
SF
98
10020
Flag of the United States.svg Alycia Parks Q1
2
SF
98
10020
15 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Karolína Muchová SF
95
9510
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Elena Rybakina SF
95
9510
17 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Gao Xinyu Q1
2
QF
70
7220
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Suzan Lamens R16
60
Q2
12
7220
19 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Leylah Fernandez RR
45
R32
25
7020
20 Flag of Italy.svg Jasmine Paolini QF
65
6510

Doubles

  Team is active in Adelaide or Hobart.

Updated as of 4 January 2025. [3]

RankTeamPoints   Total   
points
TournTitles
123456789101112
1Flag placeholder.svg Mirra Andreeva
Flag placeholder.svg Diana Shnaider
W
500
50011
2 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Priscilla Hon
Flag placeholder.svg Anna Kalinskaya
F
325
32510
3 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Jiang Xinyu
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Wu Fang-hsien
W
250
R16
1
25121
4 Flag of Hungary.svg Tímea Babos
Flag of the United States.svg Nicole Melichar-Martinez
SF
195
R16
1
19620
5 Flag of Japan.svg Shuko Aoyama
Flag of Japan.svg Eri Hozumi
SF
195
19510
6 Flag of Serbia.svg Aleksandra Krunić
Flag of the United States.svg Sabrina Santamaria
F
163
16310
7 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chan Hao-ching
Flag of Ukraine.svg Lyudmyla Kichenok
QF
108
R16
1
10920
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Anna Danilina
Flag placeholder.svg Irina Khromacheva
QF
108
R16
1
10920
Alternates
9 Flag of Spain.svg Paula Badosa
Flag of Tunisia.svg Ons Jabeur
QF
108
10810
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Xu Yifan
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yang Zhaoxuan
QF
108
10810
11 Flag of Japan.svg Makoto Ninomiya
Flag of Hungary.svg Fanny Stollár
SF
98
9810
Flag of the United States.svg Sloane Stephens
Flag of Denmark.svg Clara Tauson
SF
98
9810
13 Flag of New Zealand.svg Monique Barry
Flag of New Zealand.svg Jade Otway
QF
54
5410
Flag of the United States.svg Ann Li
Flag of the United States.svg Katie Volynets
QF
54
5410
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Rebecca Marino
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Tara Moore
QF
54
5410
Flag of Thailand.svg Peangtarn Plipuech
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Tsao Chia-yi
QF
54
5410
17 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Marie Bouzková
Flag of the United States.svg Bethanie Mattek-Sands
R16
1
R16
1
220
Flag of Spain.svg Cristina Bucșa
Flag placeholder.svg Yana Sizikova
R16
1
R16
1
220
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Talia Gibson
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Maya Joint
R16
1
R16
1
220
Flag of the United States.svg Quinn Gleason
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Kimberley Zimmermann
R16
1
R16
1
220
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Guo Hanyu
Flag placeholder.svg Alexandra Panova
R16
1
R16
1
220

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