WTA Finals
The WTA Finals bring together the eight best singles players and the eight best doubles pairs of the women’s tennis season.
The season’s grand finale
Rolex has been the Official Timekeeper of the WTA Finals since 2009 and Global Partner of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) since 2025.
The WTA Finals tournament is the grand finale to the women’s season, contested by the eight best players on the tour. The season’s top eight doubles pairs also vie for honours at the event.
A milestone in the history of women’s tennis
The WTA Finals trace their origins back to 1972, a transformative moment in the history of women’s sport. Held in Boca Raton, Florida, and originally known as the Virginia Slims Championships, the inaugural edition was won by 17-year-old Chris Evert, a prodigious talent who would go on to claim the title three more times. The tournament predated the formation of the WTA itself, arriving as women’s tennis was asserting its right to a professional future.
That future arrived the following year. In 1973, Billie Jean King convened a meeting of fellow players and founded the WTA, uniting the women’s professional game under a single tour. The season-ending championship stood at the heart of this new era.
Apart from Evert, several other Rolex Testimonees have triumphed at the event. Coco Gauff (2024), Iga Świątek (2023), Caroline Garcia (2022), Garbiñe Muguruza (2021), Caroline Wozniacki (2017) and Justine Henin (2006, 2007) have all won the WTA Finals, while Angelique Kerber, Sloane Stephens, Li Na and Qinwen Zheng have reached the title-deciding match.