The 8 best WTA singles players and doubles teams have touched down in Fort Worth Texas ahead of this year’s WTA finals. This is the first season ending tournament staged in the United States since 2005 in Los Angeles, California.
The tournament gets underway on Monday 31th October, with the finals taking place on the 7th of November.
Four of the eight players in the singles field will be making their WTA finals debuts. Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Ons Jabeur and Daria Kasatkina all qualified for the very first time, with the former two also teaming up in the doubles tournament.
The tournament is missing the Australian Open winner Ashleigh Barty following her retirement, and Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.
The Kazakh would have made the top 8 in the WTA Race to Fort Worth if ranking points were awarded at SW19, but the decision was taken by the WTA to remove ranking points from the Championships in response to the tournament’s ban of Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing.
The player to stop at this year’s tournament is world number 1 Iga Swiatek, who lifted the Roland Garros and US Open trophies this year. The Pole is seeking her 9th title of 2022 and has an extraordinary 18-1 record over her seven competitors this week.
Swiatek has been drawn alongside Coco Gauff, Caroline Garcia and Daria Kasatkina in the Tracy Austin Group. Garcia is the only player in the field to have defeated Swiatek in 2022, on the clay in Warsaw.
Ons Jabeur, Jessica Pegula, Maria Sakkari and Aryna Sabalenka make up the Nancy Richey Group. Pegula is the most in-form player on tour besides Swiatek, after winning the biggest title of her career in Guadalajara last week.
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In the doubles tournament, top seeds Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova were drawn in the same group as Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff. Krejcikova and Siniakova won three Majors in 2022 and are the team to beat in the Rosie Casals Group.
The Pam Shriver Group is headed by No.2 seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Giuliana Olmos. Their toughest challenge may come in the form of 4th seeds Veronica Kudermetova and Elise Mertens.
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Jessica Pegula will face Maria Sakkari in the opening singles match of the tournament. In the evening session, Ons Jabeur will take on Aryna Sabalenka.
The tournament is a round-robin format. Each player faces the other three competitors in the group before the top two progress to the semi-finals.