The world's top eight female tennis players are in Mexico for the WTA Tour Finals 2023 — the traditional end-of-season tournament.
Plaza Quintana Roo in Cancun will host the event that sees the elite slug it out for the title and the prospect of ending the year as the top-ranked player in the world.
With defending champion Caroline Garcia having failed to qualify, this year's competition — as with many of recent tournaments in women's tennis — will witness a fairly open field, with four-time grand slam winner Iga Swiatek and World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka among the favourites. There's also a doubles event, which runs throughout the week.
Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff ensure there's a strong United States representation at the Finals, and both made winning starts to their tournaments. Gauff, the 2023 US Open champion, lost just one game in her opening match against Ons Jabeur.
Here, The Sporting News provides all the details on the event, the players competing and how to follow it all around the world.
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When is the WTA Finals 2023?
The WTA Finals 2023 began on Sunday, October 29 and run until Sunday, November 5 with the singles and doubles finals both taking place on the last day.
The matches take place on a hardcourt surface in a temporary stadium, with the winner netting a cool $9 million (£7.4).
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WTA Finals 2023 live stream, TV channel
With matches broadcast every day, the tournament will be streamed or televised by the following outlets around the world:
| TV channel | Streaming | |
| USA | — | Tennis Channel |
| UK | — | Amazon Prime Video |
| Australia | — | beIN Sports |
| Canada | — | TVA Sports, DAZN |
| India | — | — |
| New Zealand | — | beIN Sports Connect |
| Malaysia | 8TV/Astro | Astro |
| Singapore | — | StarHub TV+ |
| Hong Kong | — | Now TV |
It all comes down to this 🏆
— wta (@WTA) October 23, 2023
The field is set for the final showdown in Cancun 🔒#WTAFinals pic.twitter.com/lWCPYpGnMm
WTA Finals past winners
Caroline Garcia won the single's event in Texas in 2022, with Garbine Muguruza taking home the trophy from Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2021.
Ash Barty won the 2019 event, which was staged in Shenzhen, China. The tournament wasn't held in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The most successful player of all time in terms of WTA Finals trophies is Martina Navratilova, who won eight singles and 13 doubles titles in her career.
List of multiple winners of the WTA Finals
| Player | Singles titles | Doubles titles | Total |
| Martina Navratilova | 8 | 13 | 21 |
| Pam Shriver | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Martina Hingis | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Steffi Graf | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Serena Williams | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Lindsay Davenport | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Chris Evert | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Billie Jean King | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Lisa Raymond | 0 | 4 | 4 |
WTA Finals 2023 qualified singles players
Here are the eight singles players who have qualified in 2023:
- Aryna Sabalenka
- Iga Swiatek
- Coco Gauff
- Elena Rybakina
- Jessica Pegula
- Ons Jabeur
- Marketa Vondrousova
- Maria Sakkari
Karolina Muchova withdrew from the tournament with a continuing wrist injury. As the first alternate, Maria Sakkari moved into the field.
And here are the eight doubles pairings also set to compete in Mexico:
- Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff
- Storm Hunter and Elise Mertens
- Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova
- Demi Schuurs and Desirae Krawczyk
- Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara
- Ellen Perez and Nicole Melichar-Martinez
- Erin Routliffe and Gabriela Dabrowski
- Laura Siegemund and Vera Zvonareva