{"id":266628,"date":"2025-11-06T13:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266628\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:53:10","slug":"wta-finals-tennis-jessica-pegula-v-jasmine-paolini-aryna-sabalenka-v-coco-gauff-live-wta-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266628\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Finals tennis: Jessica Pegula v Jasmine Paolini, Aryna Sabalenka v Coco Gauff \u2013 live | WTA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key events<\/p>\n<p>Show key events only<\/p>\n<p>Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">We\u2019ve a match tiebreaker going on in today\u2019s first doubles match; the pairs are Dabrowski\/Routliffe and Babos\/Stefani.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject=WTA Finals tennis: Jessica Pegula v Jasmine Paolini, Aryna Sabalenka v Coco Gauff \u2013 live&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/nov\/06\/wta-finals-tennis-aryna-sabalenka-v-coco-gauff-jessica-pegula-v-jasmine-paolini-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-690ca5958f08d1d8177767c3#block-690ca5958f08d1d8177767c3\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-1mulgdf\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Updated at\u00a008.47 EST<\/p>\n<p>Preamble<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Greetings all and welcome to your afternoon fun and joy, also known as the final round of group matches in the 2025 WTA Tour Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">We begin with Jessica Pegula v Jasmine Paolini, plenty to be going on with, except following them on to court we\u2019re blessed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/aryna-sabalenka\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> v Coco Gauff \u2013 a treat in any circumstances, never mind these.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Paolini is out, having lost both her matches in a state of enthusiastic exhaustion, but the other three are fighting for two semi-final slots, Sabalenka sitting 2-0 and the others two 1-1. Depending on what happens today, these are the permutations, from least complex to most:<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">If Paolini and Gauff win, Gauff wins the group and Sabalenka takes second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">If Pegula and Sabalenka win, Sabalenka wins the group and Pegula takes second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">If Paolini and Sabalenka both win in two, Sabalenka wins the group and Gauff takes second; If Paolini and Sabalenka both win in three, Sabalenka wins the group and Pegula takes second; if Paolini wins in three and Sabalanka wins in two, Sabalenka wins the group and Gauff takes second; and if Paolini wins in two and Sabalanka wins in three, Sabalenka wins the group and Gauff takes second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">If Gauff and Pegula both win in two, Gauff wins the group and Pegula takes second; if Gauff and Pegula both win in three, Gauff wins the group and Sabalenka takes second; if Gauff wins in two and Pegula wins in three, Gauff wins the group and Sabalenka takes second; and if Gauff wins in three and Pegula wins in two, which players move on will be decided by the number of games won across the group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Got it? No? Me neither, but all will soon be revealed and, in the meantime, it\u2019s our pleasure to ignore outcome and focus on process: this is going to be good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Play: 5pm local, 2pm GMT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject=WTA Finals tennis: Jessica Pegula v Jasmine Paolini, Aryna Sabalenka v Coco Gauff \u2013 live&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/nov\/06\/wta-finals-tennis-aryna-sabalenka-v-coco-gauff-jessica-pegula-v-jasmine-paolini-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-690b2c7a8f08fa7fae30618c#block-690b2c7a8f08fa7fae30618c\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-1mulgdf\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Updated at\u00a008.30 EST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature We\u2019ve a match tiebreaker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-266628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266628","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=266628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}