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The WTA Finals (formerly known as the WTA Tour Championships [3] or WTA Championships) 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 format for the event has also changed multiple times over the past 51 editions of the tournament. Between 1984-98, for example, the singles final was a best-of-five set match.
Standings are determined by: 1. number of wins; 2. number of matches; 3. in two-player ties, head-to-head records; 4. in three-player ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two players remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two players remain tied), then (c) WTA rankings.
The 2024 WTA Finals was the professional women's year-end championship tennis tournament run by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). It was the 53rd edition of the singles event and the 48th edition of the doubles competition and took place between 2 and 9 November.
That the WTA was left still scrambling for a venue by the start of September goes back to a 10-year contract to stage the Finals in Shenzhen, China, which only produced one tournament in 2019.
In the singles, point totals are calculated by combining point totals from sixteen tournaments (excluding ITF and WTA 125 tournaments). [4] Of these sixteen tournaments, a player's results from the four Grand Slam events, the four WTA 1000 tournaments with 1,000 points for the winner, and (for the players who played the main draw of least two such tournaments) the best results from two WTA ...
The WTA Finals are being held in Saudi Arabia for the first time - a move which has been criticised by some because of the country's human rights record. Sabalenka falls apart against Rybakina
Siniaková claimed the year-end individual WTA No. 1 doubles ranking after winning her first two round-robin matches. [7] Paolini, Townsend, and Caroline Dolehide made their debuts in the doubles competition at the WTA Finals. [8] Paolini was the only player in this edition to qualify for both the singles and doubles tournaments. [9]