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 is a bit of q question mark as she hasn’t played in quite awhile, choosing a training block this fall instead.

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
Order of play

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Center Court (3:30 p.m. start – 8:30 a.m. EDT)

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

2. [2] Iga Swiatek (POL) vs. [7] Madison Keys (USA) (not before 6 p.m.)

3. [4] Amanda Anisimova (USA) vs. [6] Elena Rybakina (KAZ)

4. [4] Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) / Elise Mertens (BEL) vs. [6] Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE) / Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)

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