2017 WTA Finals

2017 WTA Finals
Date	October 22 – 29
Edition	47th (singles) / 42nd (doubles)
Draw	8S/8D
Surface	Hard / Indoor
Location	Kallang, Singapore
Venue	Singapore Indoor Stadium
2016 Champions
Singles
Dominika Cibulková
Doubles
Ekaterina Makarova / Elena Vesnina

The 2017 WTA Finals was a women's tennis tournament at Kallang, Singapore. It was the 47th edition of the singles event and the 42nd edition of the doubles competition. The tournament was contested by eight singles players and eight doubles teams.

Tournament

Singapore Indoor Stadium hosted the WTA Finals for the first time in 2014.

The 2017 WTA Finals will take place at the Singapore Indoor Stadium the week of October 23, 2017, and will be the 47th edition of the event. The tournament is run by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) as part of the 2017 WTA Tour. Singapore is now the ninth city to host the WTA Finals since its inauguration in 1972 and will host the event for at least five years.

Qualifying

In singles, point totals are calculated by combining point totals from sixteen tournaments. Of these sixteen tournaments, a player's results from the four Grand Slam events, the four Premier Mandatory tournaments, and the best results from two Premier 5 tournaments must be included.
In doubles, point totals are calculated by any combination of eleven tournaments throughout the year. Unlike in singles, this combination does not need to include results from the Grand Slams or Premier-level tournaments.

Format

The singles event features eight players in a round robin event, split into two groups of four. Over the first four days of competition, each player meets the other three players in her group, with the top two in each group advancing to the semifinals. The first-placed player in one group meets the second-placed player in the other group, and vice versa. The winners of each semifinal meet in the championship match. The doubles event returns to a single elimination event. The winners of each quarterfinal match will advance to the semifinals and the winners of each semifinal match will advance to the final.

Round robin tie-breaking methods

The final standings of each group were determined by the first of the following methods that applied:

1. Greatest number of 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.

Singles

Rankings as of January 30, 2017.
Players in blue are currently active in St. Petersburg or Taiwan.

Rank	Athlete	Grand Slam tournament				Premier Mandatory				Best Premier 5		Best other						Total points	Tours	Titles
		AUS	FRA	WIM	USO	INW	MIA	MAD	BEI	1	2	1	2	3	4	5	6
Qualified for WTA Finals
1	Serena Williams	W 2000										2R 30						2030	2	1
2	Venus Williams	F 1300										2R 30						1330	2	0
3	Johanna Konta	QF 430										W 470	SF 110					1010	3	1
4	Karolina Plíšková	QF 430										W 470						900	2	1
5	Coco Vandeweghe	SF 780										2R 55						835	2	0
6	Mirjana Lučić-Baroni	SF 780										2R 30	Q2 13					823	3	0
7	Garbiñe Muguruza	QF 430										SF 180						610	2	0
8	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	QF 430										QF 100	1R 1					531	3	0
9	Barbora Strýcová	4R 240										SF 185	QF 60					485	3	0
10	Agnieszka Radwańska	2R 70										F 305	QF 60					435	3	0
11	Alizé Cornet	2R 70										F 305	SF 57					432	3	0
12	Svetlana Kuznetsova	4R 240										QF 100	2R 55					395	3	0
13	Zhang Shuai	2R 70										W 140	F 95	2R 55	1R 1			361	5	1
14	Mona Barthel	4R 280										SF 55	1R 18	1R 1	1R 1			355	5	0
15	Angelique Kerber	4R 240										QF 100	2R 1					341	3	0
16	Eugenie Bouchard	3R 130										SF 185	1R 1					316	3	0

See also

• 2017 WTA Elite Trophy
• 2017 ATP World Tour Finals

External links

• Official website