{"id":230496,"date":"2025-10-28T17:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230496\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:39:09","slug":"wta-finals-2025-who-is-playing-format-prize-money-and-ranking-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230496\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Finals 2025: Who is playing, format, prize money and ranking points?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The WTA Finals start on Saturday, 1 November in Saudi Arabia, with the top eight women&#8217;s players in singles and doubles competing in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matches take place in a round-robin format between two groups of four. The top two players or doubles pairs from each group advance to the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tournament takes place at the King Saud University Indoor Arena, playing on hard courts, following a three-year deal to stage the event in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The final is on Sunday, 8 November, with the singles winner lifting the Billie Jean King Trophy and the doubles earning the Martina Navratilova Trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coco Gauff is the defending singles champion after beating China&#8217;s Qinwen Zheng in 2024&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WTA Finals start on Saturday, 1 November in Saudi Arabia, with the top eight women&#8217;s players in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-230496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}