WTA Finals Come to Indian Wells November 8 to 15
The season finale moved from Riyadh at the tour's request. Elena Rybakina is the defending champion.
The WTA Finals, the women's tour's season-ending championship for its top eight singles players and doubles teams, will be played November 8 to 15 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in California, after moving from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the Australian Associated Press reported when the tour announced the change in July.
"Following two impactful years of the WTA Finals in Riyadh, the WTA requested to move the 2026 WTA Finals to a new host location," the tour said, and the Saudi Tennis Federation agreed to end the hosting arrangement. WTA chair Valerie Camillo called Indian Wells, home of the BNP Paribas Open each March, an exceptional stage.
Players qualify through the season-long Race to the Finals and must have played at least eight WTA 1000 or 500 events. Elena Rybakina won last year's title, beating Aryna Sabalenka in the final. The field fills over the next two weeks; the WTA's site lists who has qualified.
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