A USA affair at the 2025 WTA Finals, featuring Coco Gauff, Amanda Anisimova and more

Of the 24 players competing at the 2025 WTA Finals (1-8 November), six of them are sporting the Stars and Stripes.

No nation is better represented at the year-end women’s tennis finals than the USA, with four singles players and two in the doubles event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The last time four U.S. singles stars competed was in 2002, so long ago that the competition was still called the WTA Tour Championships, and today’s USA singles No. 1, Coco Gauff, was not yet born.

Defending champion Gauff leads a star-studded field in Saudi Arabia, where she aims to become the first back-to-back victor since fellow USA star Serena Williams, 11 years ago.

As a third of the lineup represents the U.S., many eyes will be fixed on whether any of the sextet will be victorious come 8 November.

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World No. 3 Gauff comes into the WTA Finals as the top-ranked U.S. singles player, thanks to a season in which she lifted the French Open trophy at Roland-Garros and the Wuhan Open title. Despite suffering serving struggles, the 21-year-old has nonetheless been at the top of her game.

Her closest challenger is Amanda Anisimova, the New Jersey native who made her first two career Grand Slam finals at Wimbledon and the US Open. Add to that her WTA 1000 titles in Dubai and Beijing, Anisimova’s aggressive playing style has seen her shoot through the rankings this year.

Three of the four major champions of the 2025 season are from the USA, starting with Madison Keys and her fairytale debut Slam triumph at the Australian Open. She has not won anything since - nor played for two months - but her run at Melbourne Park with wins over the top two seeds is proof that the 30-year-old is here to compete.

Just because Jessica Pegula has not conquered a major, it does not rule her out of contention. The world No. 5 has been in the year-end top 10 every season since 2022 and will look to go one step further from her runners-up feat at the 2023 finals.

The USA representation does not stop there, as two doubles pairings include a U.S. player. Doubles world No. 2 Taylor Townsend has four trophies this season and reached the top of the rankings for the first time. She pairs up with ten-time Grand Slam champ Katerina Siniakova of Czechia.

Asia Muhammad, 34, also achieved a career-best rank, reaching No. 8 earlier in the year. The American and playing partner Demi Schuurs of Netherlands, who is into her sixth consecutive WTA Finals with a fifth different pairing.

2025 WTA Finals – who will end the season as USA No. 1?

The race for U.S. No. 1 in singles will go to the wire in Riyadh. Players earn 200 points for a group stage win, 400 points in the semi-final, and 500 points in the final. That means a maximum of 1,500 points is on offer for a player who wins all five matches en route to the championship.

Gauff currently leads the overall rankings charge with 6,563 points, having already dropped her 1,300 points from winning the 2024 WTA Finals. That she remains USA No. 1 reflects an outstanding campaign going into the final stretch, though there is still work to do for the Georgia native.

She is in a group with Pegula, while Anisimova and Keys have been drawn together in the other round-robin group. Keys can only rise as high as No. 3, meaning that the fight for U.S. No. 1 is between Gauff, Anisimova, and Pegula.

The upper hand belongs to Gauff, who will secure the distinction with a second consecutive WTA Finals trophy. Her margin also means that, if she is the only U.S. player to reach the final, she will retain top spot.

Anisimova must make up a near 700-point margin, which may not even be possible if she were, for example, to defeat Gauff in the knockout stage. For Pegula, she must win five out of five and hope that her U.S. rivals fail to go deep in the finals.

The USA can boast seven singles champions and 11 doubles winners at the WTA Finals, the leading nation in both fields. Will the Star-Spangled Banner fly high again at the summit of women’s tennis? The season finale on the hard courts in Saudi Arabia will reveal all.

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