2024 WTA Tour Finals Riyadh preview and how to watch live
World number one Aryna Sabalenka, Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen and five-time Grand Slam winner Iga Swiatek are among the group battling it out for glory.
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Who will reign supreme in the WTA Tour Finals (2-9 November) in Riyadh?
Eight women’s singles players and eight women’s doubles pairings will battle it out in Saudi Arabia in the tennis season finale, vying for the crown of year-end champions.
Iga Swiatek returns as a two-time Grand Slam winner this year and the defending WTA Finals champion. Her biggest challenger will be Aryna Sabalenka, the new world number one who swept the hard-court Slams in fashion.
There have been seven different singles champions from seven different nationalities since 2016 – will that trend continue this year?
Here is everything you need to know for the 2024 season finale.
WTA Tour Finals – singles and doubles lineups
Headlining the finals in Saudi Arabia are the tour’s Grand Slam champions this year in Swiatek and Sabalenka. Polish star Swiatek has won two of the three meetings in 2024, but no.1 Sabalenka has surged ahead in the rankings after a dominant few months.
Jasmine Paolini has qualified for both the singles and the doubles finals after a stellar year, the latter of which she will contend with her Paris 2024 gold medal partner Sara Errani.
The last player to achieve the same feat was Coco Gauff, who has won two titles in 2024 and vying for her first WTA Finals triumph.
In the doubles draw, world number one pair Lyudmyla Kichenok and Jelena Ostapenko will fancy their chances at glory with in the absence of defending champions Laura Siegemund and Vera Zvonareva.
Though they head to Riyadh as the lowest-ranked doubles pairing, Wimbledon champions Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova have excelled in 2024, with the former also winning the French Open with Gauff.
Taylor Townsend of the USA and Katerina Siniakova of Czechia are the Wimbledon 2024 champions.
2024 WTA Tour Finals - singles groups
2024 WTA Tour Finals - doubles groups
WTA Tour Finals – format and schedule
The action begins on Saturday, 2 November with Hsieh Su-Wei and Elise Mertens taking on Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez in doubles, followed by the Opening Ceremony and the first two singles matchups.
Every day will see four matches played at the King Saud University Indoor Arena until the day of the finals on 9 November, where the queens of the 2024 tennis season will be crowned.
The full match schedule is available here, pending the player matchups to be confirmed.
WTA Tour Finals – how to watch live
Tennis Channel is the place for fans in the US to watch the WTA Tour Finals, while Sky Sports hold rights in the UK and central European territories.
In Australia, you can watch the action on beIN Sports, for Canada it is DAZN while SuperSport and New World TV will show every ball live in Africa.
The full list of broadcasters is available here.