The WTA Tour's eight best women's players will compete in Saudi Arabia to close the 2024 season. Since 1972, the WTA Finals have been the season-ending event and the value of winning is second only to the four Grand Slams and the Summer Olympics.
Unlike any other tournament on the WTA Tour, the WTA Finals has a unique format for the eight players who qualify. Players can only qualify for the WTA Finals if they have played in at least eight WTA 1,000 or WTA 500 events.
At the 2024 WTA Finals, Iga Swiatek is the only player who has ever won. Of the remaining seven competitors, only two have reached the final before and two others are entering for the first time.
Martina Navratilova is the all-time WTA Finals champion with eight titles – the most successful ever. Steffi Graf and Serena Williams are second in the history books with five WTA Finals wins, Chris Evert four.
When will the 2024 WTA Finals take place?
The 2024 WTA Finals will begin on Saturday, November 2 and end a week later, on November 9. The WTA Tour has not confirmed the match times.
Competition format
At the WTA Finals, in both singles and doubles, players are divided into two groups of four. Players will play in a round-robin format, with the top two advancing to the semi-finals.
The WTA determines the rankings for the group stage based on the number of matches won by each player. If necessary, the WTA will consider the most matches and head-to-head records, and additional criteria such as number of games played, game and set winning percentage.
The group winner will face the second-placed player in the other group in the semi-finals. The semi-finals and final will then be played according to the standard system.
Players participating
The eight WTA Tour stars eligible for the 2024 WTA Finals include the women's singles champions from the Australian Open, US Open, French Open and Wimbledon.
Aryna Sabalenka is aiming to win her first WTA Finals after winning in Australia and the US this year. In 2022, the Belarusian reached the final but lost to Caroline Garcia.
Iga Swiatek will enter the 2024 WTA Finals as the defending champion, having won the 2023 tournament in Cancun, Mexico. The Polish world No. 2 is also the 2024 French Open champion.
Other players include Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Jasmine Paolini, Zheng Qinwen, Elena Rybakina, Barbora Krejcikova.
Draw results
Purple panel: [1] Sabalenka, [4] Paolini, [5] Rybakina, [7] Zheng.
Orange board: [2] Swiatek, [3] Gauff, [6] Pegula, [8] Krejcikova.
Where will the 2024 WTA Finals take place?
This is the first time the WTA Finals have been held in Saudi Arabia and will return to Riyadh in 2025 and 2026.
Location: King Saud University Indoor Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Total capacity: 10,000 seats
Bonuses and Reward Points
The WTA Tour, which is bringing the WTA Finals to Saudi Arabia, has also seen a 70% increase in prize money from 2023, with 15.25 USD million on offer. The winner with a perfect record will take home 5 million USD.
If the champion loses, the prize money is 2.5 million USD. The runner-up will receive 1.27 USD million and each win will be 350,000 USD. The players who participate will receive 335,000 USD each, while the two reserve players, Emma Navarro and Daria Kasatkina, will receive 250,000 USD regardless of whether they play or not.
In terms of points, each win in the group stage will be added 200 points. In the final, the champion has 900 points, the runner-up has 400 points.
