2024 WTA Finals: Statistical information of the eight players who have qualified for Riyadh

Shahida Jacobs
Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka, Coco Gauff and Jasmine Paolini
Pictured: Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka, Coco Gauff and Jasmine Paolini

The names of the eight players who will play at the 2024 WTA Finals in Saudi Arabia have been confirmed so let’s take a look at how they have performed so far during the 2024 campaign.

Iga Swiatek will return to defend her title at the $15.25m season-ending event in Riyadh and she will be joined by Aryna Sabalenka – who will be the top seed – Coco Gauff, Jasmine Paolini, Elena Rybakina, Jessica Pegula, Zheng Qinwen and Barbora Krejcikova.

WTA Finals line-up

1. Aryna Sabalenka – 9,091 points

2024 W-L record: 54-12
Titles: 4
Ranking: 2
Prize money for year to date: $8,694,260

Aryna Sabalenka started the year with a Grand Slam as she successfully defended her Australian Open crown and she finished the major season with a bang as she won the US Open for the first time. She also won the Cincinnati and Wuhan WTA 1000 titles while she also finished runner-up at three tournaments.

Sabalenka started the year at No 2 behind Swiatek in the WTA Rankings, but she is favourite to finish ahead of the Pole this time around while she is also gunning for her first-ever WTA Finals trophy.

This will mark her fifth appearance at the season-ending event with her best display a run to the final in 2022 when she lost against Caroline Garcia. Last year she lost in the semi-final against Swiatek.

2. Iga Swiatek 8,285 points

2024 W-L record: 59-8
Titles: 5
Ranking: 1
Prize money for year to date: $7,515,693

Iga Swiatek dominated during the clay-court season as she won the three biggest titles on the surface at the Madrid Open, Italian Open and French Open.

Having also won the Qatar Open and Indian Wells Open, Swiatek was the first to qualify for the season-ending event at the beginning of August.

But her form has dipped during the second half of the season as she made early exits in Cincinnati and the US Open before skipping the Asia swing.

Swiatek is the defending WTA Finals champion as she won last year’s tournament undefeated while the previous year she reached the semi-final.

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3. Coco Gauff – 5,348 points

2024 W-L record: 50-16
Titles: 2
Ranking: 3
Prize money for year to date: $4,548,847

Coco Gauff had an up-and-down season as she started the 2024 campaign with the Auckland Open title and reached the last four at the Australian Open and French Open.

But she then suffered a slump – particularly during the North American hard-court campaign as she failed to defend any of her titles, including her US Open trophy – before pulling things back in China.

Gauff won the China Open and reached the last four of the Wuhan Open.

This will be her third WTA Finals appearance and she is yet to make it past the group stage.

4. Jasmine Paolini – 5,144 points

2024 W-L record: 37-17
Titles: 1
Ranking: 4
Prize money for year to date: $5,030,798

What a year it has been for Jasmine Paolini as the diminutive Italian won the biggest title of her career at the Dubai Tennis Championships in February. It is only her second title and first since September 2021.

A few months later she reached her maiden Grand Slam final as she finished runner-up to Iga Swiatek at Roland Garros and she followed it up with another runners-up spot at Wimbledon.

Paolini, who will make her WTA Finals debut, started the year at No 30 and will finish inside the top five.

5. Elena Rybakina – 4,971 points

2024 W-L record: 41-9
Titles: 2
Ranking: 5
Prize money for year to date: $3,191,915

2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina won titles at Brisbane, Abu Dhabi and Stuttgart and also finished runner-up at the WTA 1000 tournaments in Qatar and Miami.

She looked set for another great season as she also reached the semi-final at Wimbledon, but her campaign has been disrupted by illness, injury and off-court troubles.

The Kazakh star has missed more than 10 tournaments and hasn’t played since the US Open as she skipped the Asia swing while she also parted company with her long-term coach Stefano Vukov during the final Grand Slam of the year.

Rybakina didn’t get out of the group phase during her WTA Finals debut last year.

6. Jessica Pegula – 4,971 points

2024 W-L record: 41-15
Titles: 2
Ranking: 4
Prize money for year to date: $3,911,622

Jessica Pegula won the German Open and the Canadian Open, but her biggest achievement this year will be her run to the final of the US Open where she finished runner-up to Sabalenka.

The American will make her third appearance at the WTA Finals her best coming last year when she lost in the showpiece match against Swiatek.

7. Zheng Qinwen – 4,971 points

2024 W-L record: 43–16
Titles: 2
Ranking: 7
Prize money for year to date: $3,112,555

Zheng Qinwen is the first Chinese woman since Li Na in 2013 to reach the WTA Finals and she is also the first Chinese woman since Li in that same year to win 40 matches in a calendar year.

The 22-year-old won the Palermo title and also claimed gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics while she finished runner-up at the Australian Open and recent Wuhan Open.

She will make her WTA Finals debut in Riyadh.

8. Barbora Krejcikova – 2,706 points

2024 W-L record: 19-14
Titles: 1
Ranking: 12
Prize money for year to date: $3,706,175

Although Barbora Krejcikova will finish the year outside the top eight in the WTA Rankings, she qualifies as one of the Grand Slam winners as she won Wimbledon.

That was her only final and title of the campaign as she has struggled with injury this campaign.

This will be her second WTA Finals appearance as she exited after the round-robin phase in 2021.