2026 WTA Finals

2026 WTA Finals
Date	7–14 November
Edition	55th (singles) / 50th (doubles)
Draw	8S / 8D
Prize money	$15,500,000
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 planned professional women's year-end championship tennis tournament that is scheduled to run from 7 to 14 November 2026 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). ^[1] It is set to be played in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the third straight year and will be the 55th edition of the singles event and the 50th edition of the doubles competition. The tournament will be 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. ^[2] 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

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

DNQ

A

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

  Player is active in Abu Dhabi or Cluj-Napoca.

Updated as of 31 January 2026 ^[update] . ^[3]

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	Elena Rybakina	W 2000											QF 108							2,108	2	1
2	Aryna Sabalenka	F 1300											W 500							1,800	2	1
3	Elina Svitolina	SF 780											W 250							1,030	2	1
4	Jessica Pegula	SF 780											SF 195							975	2	0
5	Mirra Andreeva	R16 240											W 500	QF 108						848	3	1
6	Victoria Mboko	R16 240											F 325	W 250	RR 32					847	4	1
7	Iva Jovic	QF 430											F 163	SF 98						691	3	0
8	Belinda Bencic	R64 70											F 500	QF 54	R16 1					625	4	0
Alternates
9	Coco Gauff	QF 430											SF 150							580	2	0
	Iga Świątek	QF 430											W 150							580	2	1
11	Amanda Anisimova	QF 430											R16 60							490	2	0
12	Madison Keys	R16 240											QF 108	QF 108						456	3	0
13	Karolína Muchová	R16 240											SF 195							435	2	0
14	Wang Xinyu	R16 240											F 163	R16 30	R32 1					434	4	0
15	Yulia Putintseva	R16 240											R16 85	QF 54	R32 45					424	4	0
16	Kimberly Birrell	R128 10											SF 195	F 163	R32 32					400	4	0
17	Elise Mertens	R16 240											SF 150							390	2	0
18	Diana Shnaider	R32 130											SF 195	R16 60						385	3	0
19	Elisabetta Cocciaretto	R128 10											W 268	R16 30	R16 30					338	4	1
20	Marta Kostyuk	R128 10											F 325							335	2	0

Doubles

  Team is scheduled to play in Abu Dhabi.

Updated as of 31 January 2026 ^[update] . ^[4]

Rank	Team	Points												Total    points	Tourn	Titles
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
1	Elise Mertens Zhang Shuai	W 2000												2,000	1	1
2	Anna Danilina Aleksandra Krunić	F 1300	SF 195	SF 195	R16 1									1,691	4	0
3	Hsieh Su-wei Jeļena Ostapenko	W 500	QF 430	QF 108										1,038	3	1
4	Gabriela Dabrowski Luisa Stefani	SF 780	R16 1											781	2	0
5	Ena Shibahara Vera Zvonareva	SF 780												780	1	0
6	Eri Hozumi Wu Fang-hsien	QF 430	SF 98	R16 1	R16 1									530	4	0
7	Kateřina Siniaková Zhang Shuai	W 500												500	1	1
8	Guo Hanyu Kristina Mladenovic	W 250	R16 240											490	2	1
Alternates
9	Ellen Perez Demi Schuurs	R16 240	SF 195	R16 1										436	3	0
10	Kimberly Birrell Talia Gibson	QF 430	R16 1											431	2	0
11	Kateřina Siniaková Taylor Townsend	QF 430												430	1	0
12	Asia Muhammad Erin Routliffe	R16 240	QF 108	R16 1	R16 1									350	4	0
13	Xu Yifan Yang Zhaoxuan	F 163	R32 130	QF 54	R16 1									348	4	0
14	Cristina Bucșa Ellen Perez	F 325												325	1	0
	Lyudmyla Kichenok Desirae Krawczyk	F 325												325	1	0
16	Quinn Gleason Elena Pridankina	W 250	R64 10											260	2	1
	Katarzyna Piter Janice Tjen	W 250	R64 10											260	2	1
18	Jiang Xinyu Wang Yafan	W 250												250	1	1
	Aldila Sutjiadi Janice Tjen	W 250												250	1	1
20	Miyu Kato Fanny Stollár	R16 240	R16 1	R16 1										242	3	0

See also

• WTA rankings
• 2026 WTA Tour
• 2026 ATP Finals

References

1. "WTA unveils 2026 Calendar: Riyadh to maintain the WTA Finals in an 11-month tennis season". tennisuptodate.com. 9 October 2025.
2. "2026 WTA Rulebook" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association . Retrieved 21 January 2026.
3. "Race to the WTA Finals". WTA. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
4. "WTA Doubles Race". WTA. Retrieved 16 January 2026.

External links

• Official website