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Kateřina Siniaková regained the WTA number 1 doubles ranking at the end of the tournament. Routliffe and Elise Mertens were also in contention for the top ranking at the beginning of the tournament. Hsieh Su-wei was aiming to complete a career Grand Slam in women's doubles. She and Mertens lost in the first round to Mladenovic and Zhang.
In doubles, the top-ranked team is the pair who, over the previous 52 weeks, has gathered the most WTA rankings points. Points are awarded based on how far a team advances in tournaments and the category of those tournaments. The WTA has used a computerized system for determining doubles rankings since 1984. The current number 1 doubles player ...
The WTA rankings are based on a rolling 52-week, cumulative system. A player's ranking is determined by her results at a maximum of 18 tournaments (or 19 if she competed in the WTA Finals) for singles and 12 for doubles. Points are awarded based on how far a player advances in a tournament.
Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens defeated the defending champion Kateřina Siniaková and her partner Storm Hunter in the final, 6–3, 6–4 to win the women's doubles tennis title at the 2024 Indian Wells Masters. [1] [2] It was Hsieh's 13th and Mertens' seventh WTA 1000 doubles title. Hsieh reclaimed the WTA No. 1 doubles ranking from Mertens ...
Alycia Parks and Taylor Townsend defeated Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez in the final, 6–7 (1–7), 6–4, [10–6] to win the women's doubles title at the 2023 Cincinnati Masters. [1] Lyudmyla Kichenok and Jeļena Ostapenko were the defending champions, [2] but lost in the second round to Parks and Townsend. [1]
Siniaková claimed the year-end individual WTA No. 1 doubles ranking after winning her first two round-robin matches. [7] Paolini, Townsend, and Caroline Dolehide made their debuts in the doubles competition at the WTA Finals. [8] Paolini was the only player in this edition to qualify for both the singles and doubles tournaments. [9]
While at the WTA, Scott put together the largest sponsorship in the history of women's sports, a six-year, $88 million sponsorship deal with Sony Ericsson. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] On 24 March 2009, Scott announced that he was resigning as WTA chief to take up a new position as the commissioner of the Pac-10 Conference , on 1 July 2009.
Laura Siegemund and Vera Zvonareva defeated Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez in the final, 6–4, 6–4 to win the doubles tennis title at the 2023 WTA Finals. [1] Siegemund became the first German WTA Finals doubles champion. Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens were the reigning champions, [2] but Kudermetova did not qualify this year.