2023 WTA Finals

The 2023 WTA Finals (officially the GNP Seguros WTA Finals Cancun) was the professional women's championship tennis tournament run by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). It was the 52nd edition of the singles event and the 47th edition of the doubles competition and took place in Cancún, Mexico between 29 October and 6 November, marking the return to Mexico for the second time after the 2021 edition was held in Guadalajara, and the fourth consecutive finals to be held in a different staged city (Shenzhen in 2019, Guadalajara in 2021, and Fort Worth in 2022). The tournament was held on an outdoor hardcourt and was contested by the eight highest-ranked singles players and doubles teams of the 2023 WTA Tour.

Singles

 * 🇵🇱 Iga Świątek def. 🇺🇸 Jessica Pegula, 6–1, 6–0.

This was Świątek's sixth WTA Tour title of the year and first WTA Finals title.

Doubles

 * 🇩🇪 Laura Siegemund / Vera Zvonareva def. 🇺🇸 Nicole Melichar-Martinez / 🇦🇺 Ellen Perez, 6–4, 6–4

Location
There were four other cities in contention to host the WTA Finals prior to Cancún's selection as the host city. These cities were Riyadh, Ostrava, Cluj-Napoca, and Washington, D.C. A temporary venue was built on the grounds of the Paradisus Cancún hotel at an estimated cost of $6 million. The stadium seats 4,300 people, the lowest capacity ever for the WTA Finals. Multiple players and coaches complained about the stadium's conditions, saying the surface was inconsistent.

Qualifying
In the singles, point totals are calculated by combining point totals from sixteen tournaments (excluding ITF and WTA 125 tournaments). 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 two 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 six 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:


 * 1) Greatest number of match wins
 * 2) Greatest number of matches played
 * 3) 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

Prize money and points
The total prize money for the 2023 WTA Finals is US$9 million. The tables below are based on the updated draw sheet information.


 * An undefeated champion would earn the maximum 1,500 points, and $3,024,000 in singles or $648,000 in doubles.

Singles
The singles draw of the 2023 edition of the Year-end Championships will feature one number-one and major champion, and two major finalists. The competitors were divided into two groups.

Doubles
The doubles draw of the 2023 edition of the Year-end Championships will feature four number-ones, three major champions and two major finalist teams. The pairs were divided into two groups.

Singles
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Doubles
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Head-to-head records
Below are the singles head-to-head records as they approached the tournament.