ST PETERSBURG, FL, October 1, 2025 (WTA Press Release)

The WTA announced today that 2024 WTA Finals winner Coco Gauff and the doubles team of Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider have qualified for the WTA Finals Riyadh presented by PIF.

Gauff will return to Riyadh as defending champion having lifted her first WTA Finals crown in 2024, in doing so becoming the youngest winner of the prestigious season-ending tournament in 20 years. The 21-year-old is set to make her fourth consecutive appearance at the crown jewel event and will join PIF WTA World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka and Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek in Riyadh who secured their places earlier this year.

Andreeva and Shnaider are set to make their WTA Finals debut and are the fifth doubles pair to confirm their qualification, in addition to Katerina Siniakova & Taylor Townsend, Sara Errani & Jasmine Paolini, Gabriela Dabrowski & Erin Routliffe and Veronika Kudermetova & Elise Mertens.

Gauff has reached three singles finals this season, including winning Roland-Garros for the first time which marked the second Grand Slam title of her career (after the US Open in 2023). She also reached back-to-back WTA 1000 finals, finishing runner-up at both the Mutua Madrid Open and the Internazionali BNL D’Italia in Rome.

Her early season form proved a sign of things to come, posting a perfect 5-0 record in singles play to guide Team USA to win the United Cup before going on to reach the quarterfinal stage at the Australian Open.  Gauff also posted additional quarterfinal runs at the WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open, WTA 500 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix (Stuttgart) and is currently through to the last eight at the WTA 1000 China Open in Beijing.

Gauff will now bid to be the first player since Serena Williams to defend the WTA Finals title, doing so from 2012-2014.