2026 WTA Finals

2026 WTA Finals
Date	7–14 November
Edition	55th (singles) / 50th (doubles)
Draw	8S / 8D
Surface	Hard (indoor)
Location	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Venue	King Saud University Indoor Arena
2025 Champions
Singles
Elena Rybakina
Doubles
Veronika Kudermetova / Elise Mertens
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The 2026 WTA Finals is a professional women's year-end championship tennis tournament that is organized from 7 to 14 November 2026 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). It is held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the third straight year and is the 55th edition of the singles event and the 50th edition of the doubles competition. The tournament is contested by the eight highest-ranked singles players and doubles teams of the 2026 WTA Tour.

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:

• The four Grand Slam events;
• Six best mandatory WTA 1000 tournaments from the following seven events: Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, Rome, Toronto/Montreal, Cincinnati and Beijing;
• The best mandatory WTA 1000 tournament from the following three events: Doha, Dubai and Wuhan;
• The best seven results from any other mandatory WTA 1000, WTA 500 and WTA 250 tournaments.

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 scheduled to play at the United Cup, in Brisbane or Auckland.

Updated as of 22 December 2025 ^[update] . ^[2]

Rank	Player	Grand Slam				WTA 1000							Best other							Total    points	Tourn	Titles
						Best combined						WTA only
		AUS	FRA	WIM	USO	1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1	Anna Blinkova												W 250	Q1 1						251	2	1
	Victoria Mboko												W 250	RR 1						251	2	1
	Janice Tjen												W 250	R32 1						251	2	1
4	Kimberly Birrell												F 163	Q1 1						164	2	0
	Cristina Bucșa												F 163	R64 1						164	2	0
	Lilli Tagger												F 163	Q1 1						164	2	0
7	Leylah Fernandez												SF 98	R32 1						99	2	0
	Maya Joint												SF 98	RR 1						99	2	0
Alternates
9	Joanna Garland												SF 98							98	1	0
	Viktorija Golubic												SF 98							98	1	0
	Dominika Šalková												SF 98							98	1	0
	Lanlana Tararudee												SF 98							98	1	0
13	Himeno Sakatsume												QF 72							72	1	0
14	Arina Rodionova												QF 66							66	1	0
15	Belinda Bencic												QF 54	RR 1						55	2	0
	Sorana Cîrstea												QF 54	R64 1						55	2	0
	Anna Kalinskaya												QF 54	R64 1						55	2	0
	Alycia Parks												QF 54	R32 1						55	2	0
	Yulia Putintseva												QF 54	Q1 1						55	2	0
	Donna Vekić												QF 54	R32 1						55	2	0

See also

• WTA rankings
• 2026 WTA Tour
• 2026 ATP Finals

References

1. "2025 WTA Rulebook" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association . Retrieved 22 December 2025.
2. "Race to the WTA Finals". WTA. Retrieved 22 December 2025.

External links

• Official website