{"id":227875,"date":"2025-10-20T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227875\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:41:10","slug":"wta-finals-doubles-fields-set-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227875\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Finals Doubles Fields Set \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WTA announced today that Timea Babos &amp; Luisa Stefani and Asia Muhammad &amp; Demi Schuurs have qualified for the WTA Finals Riyadh presented by PIF to set the doubles field.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams have qualified for the first time, but Babos is a three-time WTA Finals champion (from 2017-19) and Schuurs celebrates her sixth qualification, reaching the semifinals in 2019, 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"  data-\/>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>Both pairings now join Katerina Siniakova &amp; Taylor Townsend, Sara Errani &amp; Jasmine Paolini, Gabriela\u00a0Dabrowski &amp; Erin Routliffe, Veronika Kudermetova &amp;\u00a0Elise Mertens, Mirra Andreeva &amp; Diana Shnaider and Hsieh Su-Wei and Jelena Ostapenko in the draw to compete for the prestigious WTA Finals Martina Navratilova Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Action begins on November 1.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-1024x674.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57520\"  data-\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WTA announced today that Timea Babos &amp; Luisa Stefani and Asia Muhammad &amp; Demi Schuurs have qualified&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-227875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}