12 months-Finish Championships, the Most Unique Event in Girls’s Tennis,
Set for Ft. Price, Tex.
American Stars Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula will Compete in Singles and Doubles Attracts
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27, 2022 – Tennis Channel could have full, stay protection of the season-ending WTA Finals in Ft. Price, Tex., October 31-November 7. The event, which options the top-eight singles and doubles level earners of 2022, is probably the most unique occasion in girls’s tennis and this 12 months consists of American stars Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula for the primary time. Each will compete in singles and as a doubles workforce. The motion will happen stay on Tennis Channel, streaming service Tennis Channel Plus and free ad-supported tv channel T2 on Samsung TV Plus beginning with the primary day of play.
Tennis Channel plans to point out greater than 60 stay hours of the WTA Finals in 2022, with one other 60 hours of encore replays. The community’s typical every day protection will get underway at 4 p.m. ET, with two singles and two doubles matches through the round-robin stage of the event (full schedule beneath). Semifinal matches are set for Sunday, Nov. 6, at 2:30 p.m. ET and eight p.m. ET, with singles and doubles finals deliberate for Monday, Nov. 7, at 6:30 p.m. ET.
Corridor of Famer Pam Shriver (@PHShriver) will announce matches for the community, alongside analysts and fellow Corridor of Famers Tracy Austin (@thetracyaustin) and Lindsay Davenport (@LDavenport76). Shriver received 10 WTA Tour Finals doubles championships throughout her profession, whereas Austin received the occasion’s 1980 singles title. Davenport received the singles crown in 1999 and three doubles tournaments. Award-winning sportscaster Steve Weissman (@Steve_Weissman) will host the community’s event desk with former participant Chanda Rubin (@Chanda_Rubin). A 1996 Australian Open doubles champion, Rubin certified for the year-end championships in 2003. Studio present Tennis Channel Reside, hosted by adorned announcer Brett Haber, will delve into the WTA Finals with Austin and Davenport, with appearances by former No. 1 Andy Roddick (@andyroddick).
All through the tennis season, gamers accumulate factors based mostly on their on-court achievements. On the finish of the 12 months, the top-eight singles and doubles level earners qualify for the WTA Finals, which break up the celebrities into two teams of 4 singles gamers and doubles groups in every draw. The primary stage of the competitors is held in a round-robin format, with gamers dealing with everybody else of their group and assured not less than three matches through the occasion. This setup additionally offers tennis followers every day lineups of high-caliber matches between the best-performing stars of the season. The highest two singles gamers or doubles groups from every group advance to the single-elimination semifinals, with winners competing for the year-end championship.
Since changing into an in a single day phenomenon as a 15-year outdated together with her defeat of all-time nice Venus Williams at Wimbledon in 2019, Gauff’s star has risen with every successive marketing campaign. In 2022 she put collectively her finest season so far, climbing to No. 4 in singles and reaching the French Open closing, her first at a significant event. In doing so she turned the youngest in a Grand Slam championship since 2004, and adopted the achievement by reaching the quarterfinals on the US Open this summer time.
Heading into her first WTA Finals, Pegula has been one of the vital constant gamers on the professional circuit this 12 months. She reached the quarterfinals on the Australian Open, French Open and US Open, and lately received her first WTA 1000 event in Guadalajara, Mexico, this month. She is at the moment a career-high No. 3 in singles, the top-ranked American since 2019.
Gauff and Pegula additionally made noise in doubles, ending the 12 months ranked No. 4, the best spot for an American workforce since Williams and her sister Serena in 2010.
Different stars within the 2022 WTA Finals embrace World No. 1 Iga Swiatek, who at occasions has appeared unbeatable. She received 37 matches in a row within the first half of the season (probably the most by a participant since 1997) and have become the primary since 2016 to win two majors in the identical 12 months together with her French Open and US Open championships. No. 2-ranked Ons Jabeur’s season was one other popping out celebration. Along with reaching a profession milestone within the rankings, she achieved back-to-back main singles finals at Wimbledon and the US Open, and received her first WTA 1000 in Madrid. Jabeur additionally set new requirements as the primary Arab or North African girl to crack the highest 5 in rankings and attain a significant singles closing.
Tennis Channel’s Reside 2022 WTA Finals Protection
Date Time (ET) Occasion
Monday, Oct. 31 4 p.m. Singles, Doubles Spherical Robin
Tuesday, Nov. 1 4 p.m. Singles, Doubles Spherical Robin
Wednesday, Nov. 2 4 p.m. Singles, Doubles Spherical Robin
Thursday, Nov. 3 4 p.m. Singles, Doubles Spherical Robin
Friday, Nov. 4 2:30 p.m. Singles, Doubles Spherical Robin
8 p.m. Singles, Doubles Spherical Robin
Saturday, Nov. 5 2:30 p.m. Singles, Doubles Spherical Robin
8 p.m. Singles, Doubles Spherical Robin
Sunday, Nov. 6 2:30 p.m. Singles, Doubles Semifinals
8 p.m. Singles, Doubles Semifinals
Monday, Nov. 7 6:30 p.m. Singles, Doubles Finals
