WTA Finals 2024 Live Streaming: Groups, schedule, format and all you need to know

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The WTA Finals 2024 is all set to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from November 2 to 9. The King Saud University Indoor Arena will host four matches every day before the finals. Iga Swiatek is the defending champion after she defeated Jessica Pegula, the US Open 2024 runner-up in the final last year.

Aryna Sabalenka, who recently dethroned Swiatek as the World No.1 and won the Wuhan Open, is a part of the Purple Group alongside Jasmine Paolini, the Wimbledon and French Open runners-up, Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, and Qinwen Zheng, who won the gold medal in the Paris Olympics.

Paolini will also pair up with Sara Errani in the White Group in doubles. The Orange Group in singles comprises Swiatek, who won a hat-trick of French Open titles, Coco Gauff, the 2023 US Open champion, Pegula and Barbora Krejcikova, the Wimbledon champion.

The pair of Hsieh Su-Wei & Elise Mertens and Nicole Melichar-Martinez & Ellen Perez will start proceedings on November 2. The Opening Ceremony will take place, after which the singles matches will get underway. Sabalenka will face Zheng before Paolini faces Rybakina.

Where to watch WTA Finals 2024

There is no telecast of the WTA Finals in India. Live Streaming of the tournament will be available on Tennis Channel.

What is the prize money for WTA Finals 2024

The singles champion will earn a prize money of no less than 4.45 million US dollars, which is more than Ash Barty’s 4.42 US dollars back in 2019. If a player stays unbeaten throughout, she will get as much as 5.15 million US dollars. The tournament has a record prize pool of 15.25 million US dollars.

WTA Final 2024 Groups

Singles

Purple Group: Aryna Sabalenka, Jasmine Paolini, Elena Rybakina, Qinwen Zheng,

Orange Group: Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Barbora Krejcikova

Doubles

Green Group: Lyudmila Kichenok/Jelena Ostapenko, Hsieh Su-Wei/Elise Mertens, Nicole Melichar-Martinez/Ellen Perez, Katerina Siniakova/Taylor Townsend

White Group: Gabriela Dabrowski/Erin Routliffe, Sara Errani/Jasmine Paolini, Caroline Dolehide/Desirae Krawczyk, Chan Hao-Ching/Veronika Kudermetova

WTA Final 2024 Formats

The singles and doubles competition will take place in a round-robin format. The players and teams finishing in the top two of each group will advance to the semi-finals. The top finisher from each group will face the No.2 placed player in the other group.

WTA Final 2024 Singles Schedule

Here’s the data in a tabular format:

Date Match Time
Saturday 2 Nov Aryna Sabalenka vs Zheng Qinwen Not Before 8:30 pm
Jasmine Paolini vs Elena Rybakina
Sunday 3 Nov Iga Swiatek vs Barbora Krejcikova Not Before 3:30pm
Coco Gauff vs Jessica Pegula Not Before 8:30 pm
Monday 4 Nov TBC vs TBC Not Before 6:00 pm
TBC vs TBC Not Before 8:30 pm
Tuesday 5 Nov TBC vs TBC Not Before 6:00 pm
TBC vs TBC Not Before 8:30 pm
Wednesday 6 Nov TBC vs TBC Not Before 6:00 pm
TBC vs TBC Not Before 8:30 pm
Thursday 7 Nov TBC vs TBC Not Before 6:00 pm
TBC vs TBC Not Before 8:30 pm
Friday 8 Nov Purple Group winner vs Orange Group runner-up Not Before 8:30 pm
Orange Group winner vs Purple Group runner-up
Saturday 9 Nov Semi-final winner 1 vs Semi-final winner 2 Not Before 9:30 pm

Published By:

sabyasachi chowdhury

Published On:

Nov 1, 2024



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