A season that began with doubts has given way to a Wimbledon revival and a Cincinnati final. Now Iga Swiatek chases Aryna Sabalenka into the year-end showdown in Riyadh.

By beating Rybakina and making the Cincinnati title match, Swiatek improved to 6,753 ranking points in 2025 - the only player with more points is Aryna Sabalenka, who stands at 7,610. After the Pole, Coco Gauff comes at third spot with 4,944 points and the American is the next in line to secure a Riyadh ticket.

Some movements were seen in the WTA Race to Riyadh after the Cincinnati Open, which saw Iga Swiatek win her 11th WTA 1000 title and secure her classification for the WTA Finals. The world No. 2 has

WTA Finals 2025 will take place from November 1 to 8. Only the eight highest-ranked singles players and doubles teams will qualify in this event.

The WTA Finals originally were supposed to be played in Shenzhen, China, through 2030. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was canceled in 2020 and shifted to Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2021.

Jannik Sinner's retirement after five games of the 2025 Cincinnati Open men's singles final against Carlos Alcaraz was the latest evidence that the schedule needs to change. The 2025 Canadian Open

Iga Swiatek has lost just two of her 14 WTA Tour finals on hard-courts - currently a historic record on the WTA Tour.

Coco Gauff of the U.S. kisses her trophy after winning against China's Qinwen Zheng in their women's singles final match of the WTA finals at the King Saud University Indoor Arena, in Riyadh ...