The WTA Finals is the season-ending championship of the WTA Tour. It is the most significant tennis event in the women's annual calendar after the four majors, as it features the top eight singles players and top eight doubles teams based on their results throughout the season.
The WTA rankings are the ratings defined by the Women's Tennis Association, introduced in November 1975. The computer that calculates the ranking is nicknamed "Medusa".
Dalma Rebeka Gálfi is a Hungarian professional tennis player. On 12 September 2022, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 79. On 19 September 2022, she peaked at No. 126 in the WTA doubles rankings. Gálfi has won nine singles titles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
Wang Yafan is a Chinese tennis player. On 7 October 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 47. She peaked at No. 49 in the doubles rankings on 15 February 2016.
Danielle Rose Collins is an American professional tennis player. She has reached career-high WTA rankings of No. 7 in singles and No. 79 in doubles. Collins has won two WTA Tour singles titles, at the 2021 Palermo Open and the 2021 Silicon Valley Classic, and one WTA Tour doubles title at the 2023 Charleston Open with Desirae Krawczyk. She reached a major singles final at the 2022 Australian Open.
Mayar Sherif Ahmed Abdel-Aziz is an Egyptian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 31 in singles, achieved on 19 June 2023, making her the highest ranked Egyptian player in the Open Era. She also has a career-high ranking of No. 88 in doubles, reached on 11 July 2022. Sherif has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, at the 2022 Emilia-Romagna Open. She has also won a record six WTA 125 singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour along with nine singles titles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She is the younger sister of Rana Sherif Ahmed.
Julia Grabher is an Austrian professional tennis player. On 29 May 2023, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 61. On 29 August 2016, she peaked at No. 387 in the doubles rankings. She is the current No. 1 Austrian female player.
Natela Georgiyevna Dzalamidze is a Russian-born Georgian tennis player.
Elena-Gabriela Ruse is a Romanian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 51 in singles and 32 in doubles. She won her maiden WTA Tour singles title at the 2021 Hamburg European Open. She has also won six singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Olga Danilović is a Serbian professional tennis player. On 26 June 2023, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 93. On 24 April 2023, she peaked at No. 104 in the WTA doubles rankings. In July 2018, Danilović won her first WTA Tour singles title in Moscow, beating Anastasia Potapova in the final. She also won two WTA doubles titles, first in Tashkent and the second one in Lausanne. On the WTA Challenger Tour, she has won one doubles title. She has also won five singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit. Playing for Serbia Fed Cup team, Danilović has a win–loss record of 12–8 in Fed Cup competition.
The 2018 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2018 tennis season. The 2018 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF); the WTA Premier tournaments ; the WTA International tournaments; the Fed Cup and the year-end championships. Also included in the 2018 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which is organized by the ITF and does not distribute ranking points.
Cristina Bucșa is a Moldovan-born Spanish professional tennis player.
Simona Waltert is a Swiss tennis player.
Hailey Baptiste is an American professional tennis player. On 4 March 2024, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 105. She has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour with one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She has also won four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
The 2021 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2021 tennis season. The 2021 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA 1000 tournaments, the WTA 500 tournaments, the WTA 250 tournaments, the Billie Jean King Cup, and the year-end championships. Also included in the 2021 calendar are the Summer Olympic Games, which were rescheduled from 2020.
Peyton Mckenzie Stearns is an American tennis player. She has been ranked by the WTA as high as world No. 43 in singles achieved on 18 September 2023 and No. 89 in doubles achieved on 29 January 2024.
Ashlyn Krueger is an American professional tennis player. Krueger has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of world No. 70, achieved on 26 February 2023, and a doubles ranking of No. 106, attained in June 2023.
The 2023 WTA Tour was the global elite women's professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2023 tennis season. The 2023 WTA Tour calendar comprised the Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA 1000 tournaments, the WTA 500 tournaments, the WTA 250 tournaments, the Billie Jean King Cup, the year-end championships, and the team events United Cup and Hopman Cup. 2023 also marked the return of the WTA to China, after strict COVID-19 protocols in the country and the disappearance of former tennis player Peng Shuai.
Emily Appleton is a British tennis player.
Erika Aleksandrovna Andreeva is a Russian tennis player. In singles, she has been ranked as high as No. 94 by the WTA, on 18 March 2024. She also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 274, achieved on 11 December 2023. Andreeva owns a doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She has also won three singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit.
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