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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.
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 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.
Furthermore, she also did not drop a set throughout the entire tournament, the first to do so since Serena Williams in 2012. Świątek dropped just 20 games throughout the entire tournament, the fewest since the reintroduction of the round-robin format in 2003. [2] By winning the title, Świątek regained the WTA No. 1 ranking from Aryna Sabalenka.
Likewise, the ATP Tour introduced a match tiebreak format for doubles tournaments in 2006. The WTA Tour adopted that rule in 2007. Tie-break sets even for final sets are now nearly universal in all levels of professional play. All tournaments outside the four Grand Slams have used tie-break sets since at least 2006.
the best of seven results from all WTA 1000 Mandatory, WTA 500, WTA 250, and WTA 125 Tournaments and ITF W15+ events the WTA Finals as a bonus tournament if the player attended All WTA players also have a Universal Tennis Rating , based on head-to-head results.
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.