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 Indian Wells.

Updated as of 8 March 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				R32 65						QF 215	QF 108	R16 120						2,508	5	1
2	Jessica Pegula	SF 780				R32 65						W 1000	SF 195							2,040	4	1
3	Aryna Sabalenka	F 1300				R16 120							W 500							1,920	3	1
4	Elina Svitolina	SF 780				R32 65						F 650	W 250	R16 120						1,865	5	1
5	Victoria Mboko	R16 240				R16 120						F 650	F 325	W 250	RR 32					1,617	6	1
6	Karolína Muchová	R16 240				R32 65						W 1000	SF 195							1,500	4	1
7	Mirra Andreeva	R16 240				R32 65						QF 215	W 500	R16 120	QF 108					1,248	6	1
8	Coco Gauff	QF 430				R32 65						SF 390	SF 150	R32 10						1,045	5	0
Alternates
9	Amanda Anisimova	QF 430				R16 120						SF 390	R16 60	R32 10						1,010	5	0
10	Iga Świątek	QF 430				R32 65						QF 215	W 150							860	4	1
11	Iva Jovic	QF 430				R64 10						R16 120	F 163	SF 98	R16 30					851	6	0
12	Belinda Bencic	R64 70				R32 65						R16 120	F 500	QF 54						809	5	0
13	Cristina Bucșa	R128 10				R64 35						R64 10	W 500	F 163	R32 32	R64 10	R32 1			761	8	1
14	Kimberly Birrell	R128 10				R64 35						R32 95	SF 195	F 163	SF 98	R32 32	Q2 20			648	8	0
15	Sorana Cîrstea	R64 70				R32 65						R16 120	W 250	R16 60	QF 54	Q 25				644	7	1
16	Elise Mertens	R16 240				R32 65						R16 120	SF 150	R32 65						640	5	0
17	Sára Bejlek	R128 10										R32 65	W 525	R16 30						630	4	1
18	Anna Kalinskaya	R32 130				R32 65						QF 215	R32 65	R16 60	QF 54	R32 32				621	7	0
19	Clara Tauson	R32 130				R32 65						QF 215	SF 195	R64 10	R32 1	R32 1				617	7	0
20	Maria Sakkari	R64 70				R32 65						SF 390	QF 90	R32 1						616	5	0

Doubles

  Team is active in Indian Wells.

Updated as of 8 March 2026 ^[update] . ^[4]

Rank	Team	Points												Total    points	Tourn	Titles
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
1	Anna Danilina Aleksandra Krunić	F 1300	W 1000	SF 390	QF 215	SF 195	SF 195							3,295	6	1
2	Gabriela Dabrowski Luisa Stefani	W 1000	SF 780	SF 390	R16 120									2,290	4	1
3	Elise Mertens Zhang Shuai	W 2000	R16 10	R32 10										2,020	3	1
4	Hsieh Su-wei Jeļena Ostapenko	F 650	W 500	QF 430	QF 108									1,688	4	1
5	Ellen Perez Demi Schuurs	R16 240	SF 195	R16 120	R16 120	R16 120	QF 108							903	6	0
6	Ena Shibahara Vera Zvonareva	SF 780												780	1	0
7	Laura Siegemund Vera Zvonareva	F 650	R16 120											770	2	0
8	Tereza Mihalíková Olivia Nicholls	F 325	QF 215	R32 130	R32 10	R32 10	R16 1							691	6	0
Alternates
9	Eri Hozumi Wu Fang-hsien	QF 430	R16 120	SF 98	R32 10	R32 10	R16 1	R16 1						670	7	0
10	Lyudmyla Kichenok Desirae Krawczyk	F 325	QF 215	R16 120										660	3	0
11	Sara Errani Jasmine Paolini	SF 390	R32 130	R16 120	R16 10									650	4	0
12	Guo Hanyu Kristina Mladenovic	W 250	R16 240	QF 215	R16 1									706	4	1
13	Cristina Bucșa Nicole Melichar-Martinez	R16 240	QF 215	QF 215	R16 120	R16 1								681	5	0
14	Kateřina Siniaková Taylor Townsend	QF 430	QF 215											645	2	0
15	Ekaterina Alexandrova Maya Joint	W 500												500	1	1
	Cristina Bucșa Jiang Xinyu	W 500												500	1	1
	Kateřina Siniaková Zhang Shuai	W 500												500	1	1
18	Jaqueline Cristian Elena-Gabriela Ruse	SF 390	SF 98											488	2	0
	Xu Yifan Yang Zhaoxuan	F 163	R32 130	R16 120	QF 54	R32 10	R32 10	R16 1						488	7	0
20	Storm Hunter Maya Joint	R16 240	QF 215											455	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