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In this article, we have gathered all the essential information about the 2025 Women’s World Tennis Championships, the WTA Finals. Schedule, prize money, TV coverage, odds.
WTA Finals venue & dates
The 2025 WTA Finals will take place from 1 November to 8 November 2025. The tournament will be held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, in a hard court, indoor tournament environment.
Although the WTA has been criticised by the international community for its human rights record, especially women’s rights, Riyadh has already won the right to host the WTA Finals for the period 2024-2026.
Conduct and format
The WTA Finals is always held at the very end of the season, with the best active players of the year. The 2025 edition will take the following format:
- The eight best singles players + eight best doubles teams will take part in the tournament.
- The method of the competition: first a round-robin in two groups of four, then the first two places in each group will go through to the knockout stage.
- Type of course: indoor hard court.
This format ensures that each participant plays a minimum of three matches (in the group stage) and then whoever does well can progress – creating a high experience and value for spectators and competitors alike.
Overall WTA Finals prize money
The overall prize pool for the 2025 WTA Finals is outstanding, with a total prize pool of USD 15,500,000 (“$15.5 million”).
While the detailed breakdown is not yet fully public, the following facts are known. All participants will receive $335,000 for their participation, and if someone wins the tournament undefeated, they could be $5,235,000 richer.
| 2025 | Remuneration $ USD |
|---|---|
| Participation fee | $335,000 |
| Victory in the group | $350,000 |
| Semi-final | $1,270,000 |
| Final | $2,500,000 |
| Winner (undefeated) | $5,235,000 |
Watch WTA Finals Riyadh live stream WTA Finals 2025
- In Hungary the competition will be broadcast live by Network4 Hungary
- In the United States, Tennis Channel will provide live and archived coverage of the 2025 WTA Finals on its TV channel and app (Tennis Channel App).
- In the UK, the coverage will be broadcast by Sky Sports (more specifically Sky Sports Tennis).
- The WTA’s official “Where to watch” page lists broadcasters for several regions: Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America.
Participants (individual)
The eight best players of the year qualify for the World Championship at the end of the year. As no one has yet indicated that they will not participate due to injury or other reasons, the following field will be available for the 2025 World Cup:
- Aryna Sabalenka
- Any Swiatek
- Coco Gauff
- Amanda Anisimova
- Madison Keys
- Jessica Pegula
- Jasmine Paolini
- Elena Rybakina
Former WTA Finals champions
The Women’s World Tennis Championships were first held in 1972. The record holder is Czech-American Martina Navratilova, who won 8 singles titles (!) and 13 doubles golds. She is followed in the all-time rankings by 24-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams, who has won the World Championships a total of 5 times.
The balance of women’s tennis is shown by the fact that 9 different winners have been crowned in the 9 tournaments held over the last 10 years.
| Year | Winner |
| 2015 | Agnieszka Radwańska |
| 2016 | Dominika Cibulková |
| 2017 | Caroline Wozniacki |
| 2018 | Elina Svitolina |
| 2019 | Ashleigh Barty |
| 2020 | Not organised due to Covid |
| 2021 | Garbiñe Muguruza |
| 2022 | Caroline Garcia |
| 2023 | Any Świątek |
| 2024 | Coco Gauff |
The favourites for the 2025 WTA Finals
This year’s tournament seems even more unpredictable than in the past. World number one Sabalenka is of course the biggest favourite, as his favourite surface is hard court. Sabalenka’s big opponent is 2023 winner Iga Swiatek, but Cauff and Asiminova, who have been great in the second half of the season, could also be in with a good chance.
Most of the bookmakers are still waiting for the outright markets to open, but we have already found a market on GGbet. In fact, the odds are quite interesting, as it looks like we could be looking at a bookmaker error.
On GGbet, the top favourite is Swiatek, who is 5 times odds, with Gauff at six times odds and Asiminova at seven times odds. There are no odds on Sabalena at the moment, but these numbers are huge, so it’s worth a punt, especially as there is even a tennis free bet on GGbet.
