The “Serena Williams Group” is the first to go in singles as the year-end WTA Finals get under way in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

It’s probably the deeper group, although Madison Keys was a bit of q question mark as she hasn’t played in quite awhile, choosing a training block this fall instead. And that turned out to show.

In doubles, it’s the Martina Navratilova Group, perhaps the (relatively) weaker of the two groups.

The fact that defending champions, the Cana-Kiwis Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe, saw their points from that title drop off before this tournament means they dropped down to the No. 3 seed.

And that means they turned out to be in a group with Siniakova and Townsend, and Andreeva and Shnaider.

(Riyadh is 7 hours ahead through Saturday, 8 hours ahead after that)

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WTA FInals Riyadh
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Surface: Indoor Hard
Category: WTA 250
Dates: Nov. 1 – 8, 2025
Prize money: $15,500,000
Draws: S8 – D8

Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025
Final results

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Serena Williams Group – singles

[2] Iga Swiatek (POL) def. [7] Madison Keys (USA) 61 62

[6] Elena Rybakina (KAZ) def [4] Amanda Anisimova (USA) 63 61

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Martina Navratilova Group – doubles

[1] Sara Errani / Jasmine Paolini (ITA) def. [8] Asia Muhammad (USA) / Demi Schuurs (NED) 63 63

[6] Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE) / Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) def. [4] Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) / Elise Mertens (BEL) 16 75 [10-5]

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