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.

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 2025 Cincinnati Open has been expanded to include more players — and therefore last longer — this year. The tournament will now run for two weeks, beginning on August 7, with the finals landing on a Monday (August 18). The men's final on Aug. 18 begins at 3 p.m. ET and the women's final will take place after that, no earlier than 6 p.m. ET.

There is another player, a former Grand Slam champion, who strengthened her position in another race: the WTA Finals race. Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon Ladies Singles champion, has clawed her way into the race for a WTA Finals spot.

Iga Swiatek, the 2023 WTA Finals champion, is set to make her fifth consecutive appearance at the season-ending tournament. She joins No.1 Aryna Sabalenka, who secured her place in Riyadh in July.

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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.

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