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The 2025 WTA Finals has concluded with new Singles and Doubles champions crowned at the popular annual event held on the hard indoor courts at the King Saud University Indoor Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from November 1-8.
This was the second straight year the tournament—organized by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA)—was held in Riyadh and featured the 54th edition of the Singles tourney and the 49th edition of the Doubles competition.
The WTA Finals Draw featured the WTA’s eight highest-ranked Singles players and the eight highest-ranked Doubles teams on the women’s pro tennis circuit. The prize money was an impressive $15,500,000, and the Semifinals and Final both were ticket sell-outs.
Let’s take a look at who won this year’s singles and doubles competitions in Riyadh, how the final WTA Final Standings look like after the dust has settled, and what the 2026 WTA calendar looks like and where to get your tickets for WTA events next year.
Rybakina Tops #1-Seed Sabalenka to Win WTA Finals Singles
The top eight ranked Women’s Singles players in the WTA headed to Saudi Arabia as Aryna Sabalenka (#1), Iga Świątek (#2), Coco Gauff (#3), Amanda Anisimova (#4), Jessica Pegula (#5), Elena Rybakina (#6), Madison Keys (#7), and Jasmine Paolini(#8).
With four Americans, one would think the US would have fared better in the tournament, but only Pegula and Anisimova made the Semifinals. Serena Williams Group player and Kazakhstani star Rybakina came in as the No. 6 seed in the tourney and won the event.
In winning her first-ever WTA Finals, Rybakina was down a set to Świątek in her opener before rallying for the win. She next defeated Pegula in the Semis (4-6, 6-4, 6-3) and then top-seed and Stefanie Graf Group winner Sabalenka in the Final in straight sets (6-3, 7-6).
After going a perfect 5-0 in the 2025 WTA Finals, Rybakina (6-8 lifetime vs Sabalenka) earned a cool $5.23 million—the largest payout in the history of women’s professional sports—while runner-up Sabalenka took home $2.7 million in prize money.
“It’s been an incredible week. I honestly didn’t expect any result, and to go so far is just incredible,” said Rybakina of the event. On an 11-match win streak, Rybakina won two WTA 100 events and is the first player from Kazakhstan to win a major and the first to be ranked in the top 10.
Who Are the Last 10 WTA Finals Singles Champions?
With 28-year-old Kazakh Elena Rybakina winning her first WTA Finals, that makes it 11 different winners in the last 11 competitions and a player from 10 different countries winning the WTA Finals 10 straight times since 2015.
The last player to repeat in this year-ending tourney was American Serena Williams, who won the event from 2012 to 2014 and has five WTA Finals crowns in her awards closet.
The USA is the only nation with multiple WTA Final titles in the last 15 seasons. Icon Serena and her sister, 2009 WTA Finals champion Venus Williams, won 5 of the 7 WTA Finals played from 2006 to 2014. American Coco Gauff was the WTA Finals 2024 winner.
- 2025—Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan)
- 2024—Coco Gauff (USA)
- 2023—Iga Świątek (Poland)
- 2022—Caroline Garcia (France)
- 2021—Garbiñe Muguruza (Spain)
- 2020—No competition (COVID-19)
- 2019—Ashleigh Barty (Great Britain)
- 2018—Elina Svitolina (Ukraine)
- 2017—Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark)
- 2016—Dominika Cibulková (Slovakia)
- 2015—Agnieszka Radwańska (Poland)
Kudermetova-Mertens Win Second WTA Finals Doubles Crown
The 2025 WTA Finals Doubles tournament saw the top eight ranked Women’s Doubles teams in Riyadh, in Kateřina Siniaková and Taylor Townsend (#1), Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini (#2), Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe (#3), and Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens (#4), seeded in the top half of the bracket.
Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider (#5), Hsieh Su-wei and Jeļena Ostapenko (#6), Timea Babos and Kuisa Stefani (#7), and Las Vegas native Asia Muhammad and Demi Schurrs (#8) were seeded in the bottom half of the doubles bracket.
In the Semis, Babos-Stefani beat Su-wei-Ostapenko (6-4, 7-6) with Kudermetova-Mertens ousting top-seeds Siniaková-Townsend (4-6, 7-6, [10-6]) to make the Final, where Kudermetova-Mertens won the Martina Navratilova Trophy in straight sets (7-6, 6-1).
And this was very appropriate, with Russian Kudermetova and Belgian Mertens playing in the Martina Navritalova Group with Siniaková-Townsend in the Liezel Huber Group. Kudermetova and Mertens also captured the 2022 WTA Finals Doubles championship.
What Players Finished Atop the Final 2025 WTA Rankings?
The final 2025 WTA final standings show Aryna Sabalenka (10,870 points) still the queen of women’s Singles, followed by Iga Świątek (8,395), Coco Gauff (6,763), Amanda Anisimova (6,287), WTA Final-winner Elena Rybakina (5,850), Jessica Pegula (5,583), Madison Keys (4,335), and Jasmine Paolini (4,325).
The final WTA Doubles (not team) rankings are Kateřina Siniaková (8,780 points), teammate Taylor Townsend (8,485), Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini (7,195 tied-3rd), Elise Mertens (6,730), Veronika Kudermetova (6,635), Jeļena Ostapenko (6.405), Erin Routliffe (6,330), and Hsieh Su-wei (6,018).
What Do the WTA, Tennis Calendars Look Like in 2026?
The WTA recently announced its 2026 WTA Tour calendar, and the new season will have 10 WTA 1000 tournaments, 17 WTA 500 tournaments, and 22 WTA 250 tournaments.
The 2026 WTA season again concludes with the Finals in Riyadh for a third straight year. Here are dates for the four Majors in 2026. Want to catch these matches live? Get your tickets right here.
- Australian Open (January 12-February 1)
- French Open (May 24-June 7)
- Wimbledon (June 29-July 12)
- US Open (August 30-September 13)
This year, Madison Keys won the Australian Open, Coco Gauff took the French Open, Iga Świątek won Wimbledon, and Aryna Sabalenka captured the US Open.