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Tournament: 2022 WTA Finals
Dates: 31 October – 7 November
Edition: 51st (singles) / 46th (doubles)
Draw: 8S / 8D
Prize money: TBD
Surface: Hard (i)
Location: Fort Worth, United States
Venue: Dickies Arena

Qualifying

In the singles, point totals are calculated by combining point totals from sixteen tournaments (excluding ITF and WTA 125 tournaments).[4] Of these sixteen tournaments, a player's results from the four Grand Slam events, the four WTA 1000 tournaments with 1,000 points for the winner, and (for the players who played the main draw of least 2 such tournaments) the best results from two WTA 1000 tournaments with 900 points for the winner must be included.

In the doubles, point totals are calculated by any combination of eleven tournaments throughout the year. Unlike in the singles, this combination does not need to include results from the Grand Slams or WTA 1000 tournaments.

Format

Both the singles and doubles event features eight players/teams in a round robin event, split into two groups of four. Over the first four days of competition, each player/team meets the other three players/teams in her group, with the top two in each group advancing to the semifinals. The first-placed player/team in one group meets the second-placed player/team in the other group, and vice versa. The winners of each semifinal meet in the championship match.

Round robin tie-breaking methods

The final standings are made using these methods:

Greatest number of match wins.
Greatest number of matches played.
Head-to-head results if only two players are tied, or if three players are tied then:
a. If three players each have the same number of wins, a player having played less than all three matches is automatically eliminated and the player advancing to the single elimination competition is the winner of the match-up of the two remaining tied players.
b. Highest percentage of sets won.
c. Highest percentage of games won.

Swiatek, Jabeur among first qualifiers announced for 2022 WTA Finals
World No.1 Iga Swiatek earned her second qualification for the year-end finale, while Ons Jabeur secured her place. Reigning WTA Finals doubles champions Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova will return to defend their title.

By Press Release



ST PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The WTA announced Monday that World No.1 Iga Swiatek, US Open finalist Ons Jabeur and the doubles team of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova have secured their qualification for the 2022 WTA Finals.

Jabeur will be making her first appearance at the season-ending tournament, and Swiatek her second, which is being held in Fort Worth, Texas, at the state-of-the-art Dickies Arena as the event returns to the United States for the first time since 2005. The pairing of Krejcikova and Siniakova return as defending champions in what will be their fourth consecutive team appearance.

“I’m really excited to qualify for the WTA Finals this year for the second time in my career and I’m really looking forward to playing in front of the fans in Fort Worth,” Swiatek said.

Swiatek has won a tour-leading seven titles this season, six of which spanned a 37-match winning streak from February to July. The Polish 21-year-old won consecutive titles at the Qatar TotalEnergies Open (Doha), BNP Paribas Open (Indian Wells), Miami Open presented by Itaú, Porsche Tennis Grand Prix (Stuttgart), Internazionali BNL d'Italia (Rome) and Roland Garros. She lifted her third Grand Slam title on Saturday at the US Open and has amassed a 55-7 win loss record this year.

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Tunisia’s Jabeur becomes the first Arab woman to qualify for the WTA Finals, and this season has won the biggest titles of her career at the WTA 1000 level Mutua Marid Open and WTA 500 bett1open (Berlin). In addition, she reached the title match at the US Open, Credit One Charleston Open and Internazionali BNL d'Italia (Rome). Jabeur reached a career-high ranking of No.2 on June 27 this year, making her the highest-ranked African and Arab tennis player ever, man or woman.

Before contesting the final in New York over the weekend, Jabeur, became the first Arab player to reach a Grand Slam singles final, finishing runner-up at The Championships, Wimbledon in July.

“It is such an honor to qualify for the WTA Finals,” Jabeur said. “It was my goal from the beginning of the season to play the tournament and I can’t wait to compete as one the top 8 players in the world.”


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Confirming their qualification having lifted the US Open doubles title over the weekend, the Czech duo of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova will make their fourth consecutive appearance at the WTA Finals. In 2021, they became the first all-Czech team to lift the WTA Finals Martina Navratilova Trophy and will hope to be the seventh team overall to successfully defend the WTA Finals crown.

Siniakova, the current WTA World No.1 in doubles, and Krejcikova first played on the Hologic WTA Tour together at Nürnberg in 2014 and this season have won three titles, all coming at Grand Slam level, at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and now the US Open.

"We are so excited that we are going to play the WTA Finals again," Siniakova said.

Added Krejcikova: "We are really looking forward to playing in Fort Worth in Texas and hopefully defending our title."

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Close race for the 8th spot...does Wta have a clause for major winners, like ATP has? And will W count?!

Strangely, the WTA site says Kudermetova has 2497 points,
on sept 26, slightly ahead of Sakkari..why this discrepancy?
Assuming the target is around 2400, Badosa needs to get 150, Bencic needs 200..Keys a few less..all 3 plus Sakkari and Kudermetova have a good shot, then, for the last spot...

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 2:16 am Close race for the 8th spot...does Wta have a clause for major winners, like ATP has? And will W count?!

The WTA doesn't have that clause for major winners.

skatingfan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 5:18 am

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 2:16 am Close race for the 8th spot...does Wta have a clause for major winners, like ATP has? And will W count?!

The WTA doesn't have that clause for major winners.

So bye bye Rybakina, then...thanks

I'm waiting for all the posts about why the women's Wimbledon champion isn't in the lineup for the YEC on tennis twitter. That should be fun.

The race is now to catch the straggler...Kudermetova..Bencic would be my bet...Keys has a bad draw at Ostrava...Sakkari and Badosa are probably not going to do much with the strong fields coming up...

Kudermetova has surfaced in Tunisia..I wa worried about her .MiA..she is at the cusp of qualifying, needs points...

What a mess.
It would be ridiculous, of course, but it is getting to the point in which you almost need "qualies" for the YEC.
(I know, the "qualies" are the whole year, but I hope I made my point).