![\"Zverev](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/66cae41e-9e24-474e-8ae0-2fdea816598a.jpg\" "\\"Zverev")
Zverev secured year-end number one\u010cTK \/ APA \/ HELMUT FOHRINGER<\/p>\n
It is also a big week for those looking to qualify for the ATP Finals, with the last real major opportunity to secure some substantial points and move up the rankings.<\/p>\n
Daniil Medvedev<\/a> sealed his spot in Turin last week, joining Zverev, Alcaraz and Ben Shelton<\/a>, but four more places remain up for grabs.<\/p>\n Flavio Cobolli<\/a>, home favourite Arthur Fils<\/a>, Frances Tiafoe<\/a>, Alex de Minaur<\/a> and Rafael Jodar<\/a> are in the strongest positions, while seven-time Paris champion\u00a0Novak Djokovic<\/a>, Taylor Fritz<\/a> and Jiri Lehecka<\/a> remain in contention. However, they will need a huge week in France, potentially winning the title.<\/p>\n Due to the draw featuring just 56 players, the tournament will provide some fantastic first-round matches. They include Djokovic vs Valentin Vacherot<\/a>, Tommy Paul<\/a> vs Holger Rune<\/a>, Learner Tien<\/a> vs Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a> and Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> vs Hubert Hurkacz<\/a>.<\/p>\n WTA Finals Indian Wells (November 8th to 15th)<\/p>\n The season-ending WTA Finals gets underway on Sunday, as the world’s best eight players battle it out for glory at Indian Wells. Starting with a round-robin format, players will be split into two groups before the top two in each qualify for the semi-finals.<\/p>\n Defending champion Elena Rybakina<\/a> will head into the tournament with plenty of form and confidence, having won the Ningbo title a few weeks ago and securing the year-end number one ranking for the first time in her career.<\/p>\n Last year’s runner-up Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, Roland Garros champion Mirra Andreeva<\/a>, Jessica Pegula<\/a>, former winners Coco Gauff<\/a> and Elina Svitolina<\/a>, Karolina Muchova<\/a>, and Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova<\/a> make up the rest of the draw.<\/p>\n It is a competition with massive prestige, pitting the best against the best and providing the opportunity for players to end the season on an incredible high.<\/p>\n The draw for the WTA Finals will take place this week.<\/p>\n Several players will be bringing their season to a close at the WTA 250 tournaments in Chennai and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n The third edition of the Chennai Open sees defending champion Janice Tjen<\/a> of Indonesia returning as the number one seed. The 23-player tournament also includes recent Guangzhou finalist Lilli Tagger<\/a>, Magda Linette<\/a> and Panna Udvardy<\/a>.<\/p>\n There is a slightly higher-profile field over in Hong Kong, as top seed Sorana Cirstea<\/a> plays in the final tournament of her career before bidding farewell to tennis.<\/p>\n Cirstea has enjoyed a stellar last year, reaching a career-high ranking of 15th in the world. The Romanian could play\u00a0Venus Williams<\/a> in the second round, but the American will have to end a 16-match losing streak to book that match-up.<\/p>\n Philippine star Alexandra Eala<\/a> is the second seed and opens with a tricky contest against Alycia Parks<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Leylah Fernandez<\/a>, who is coming off final defeats in Ningbo and Tokyo, and Maria Sakkari<\/a> are the third and fourth seeds, respectively.<\/p>\n Former world number two Paula Badosa<\/a> and Grand Slam champion Sofia Kenin<\/a> are also lurking in the draw.<\/p>\n Tolga Akdeniz is a global senior editor for Flashscore, specialising in football, basketball and tennis. Our resident Turkish football expert, he can often be found devouring the Super Lig. Tolga lives in London – you can follow him on\u00a0X<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>, and read his latest features right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have truly arrived at crunch time in the tennis calendar, with Paris playing host to the last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-821914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821914","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=821914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/b834641c-4bb2-4e7f-8172-89e085e19d1e.jpg\" "\\"The")
The top eight qualified for the WTA FinalsFlashscore<\/p>\n![\"Sorana](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/a0b95c76-3f4a-40b7-935b-8e6a1c85c256.jpg\" "\\"Sorana")
Sorana Cirstea career statsFlashscore<\/p>\n