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TC Live WTA Finals Coverage Starts Sunday

By Tennis Now | @Tennis_Now | Wednesday, October 25, 2023US Open champion Coco Gauff and Montreal champion Jessica Pegula will take aim at the WTA Finals championship.Tennis Channel will televise the tournament live from Cancun starting Sunday.More: Slumping Rune Sent PackingTC touts it will televise more than 50 lives hours of coverage from the season-ending WTA Finals.Coverage starts Sunday, October 29th at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time. World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, four-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek, 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina and reigning Wimbledon winner Marketa Vondrousova are among the contenders in Cancun.World No. 3 Gauff is No. 4 in doubles. Pegula is also No. 4 in doubles with her partner Gauff, and No. 4 in singles. Both qualified for the event for the first time in 2022 and will play singles and pair with each other for doubles again this year.

The WTA Finals divides the eight singles players into pools of four, with every woman playing one match each against the other members of her group. At the end of the week, both pools’ top-two players advance to the single-elimination semifinals and final. The tournament uses the same format for the year’s eight best doubles teams.Tennis Channel’s exclusive WTA Finals coverage will include more than 50 live hours and 30 hours of encore replays. Live play at the eight-day event gets underway at 3:30 p.m. ET every day except Sunday, November 5th, when the singles and doubles finals begin at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time.Tennis Channel's complete WTA Finals schedule here:
Before that, every day will feature four matches: two singles and two doubles. These will be held in round-robin format until Saturday, Nov. 4, which will feature two singles and two doubles semifinals, elimination matches to determine the finalists on November 5.Hall of Famer Lindsay Davenport won the women’s year-end singles title in 1999 and doubles championships from 1996-1998. She returns as a Tennis Channel analyst during this year’s event. She will work in the booth with announcer and former player Chanda Rubin, who reached the WTA Finals in 2003 and is the 1996 Australian Open doubles champion.Recently retired CoCo Vandeweghe will be one half of the network’s tournament-desk team, interviewing players and guests with award-winning Tennis Channel host Steve Weissman.In addition to Gauff and Pegula, Americans Desirae Krawczyk and Nicole Melichar-Martinez are on doubles teams that qualified for this year’s WTA Finals. Krawczyk (World No. 11) won three doubles titles in 2023 and is a former doubles finalist at Roland Garros. Melichar-Martinez’s (World No. 23) resume includes more than a dozen doubles championships, with doubles finals appearances at Wimbledon and the US Open.
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Richard Pagliaro

Richard Pagliaro is Tennis Now Managing Editor. He is a graduate of New York University and has covered pro tennis for more than 35 years. Richard was tennis columnist for Gannett Newspapers in NY, served as Managing Editor for TennisWeek.com and worked as a writer/editor for Tennis.com. He has been TennisNow.com managing editor since 2010.

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