WTA Finals: The best women’s tennis players of the year head to Indian Wells

The 2026 WTA Finals starts Sunday, Nov. 8, as the best eight women’s tennis players of the season compete for the tour’s flagship prize at Indian Wells Tennis Garden, Calif. World No. 1 Elena Rybakina leads the field, having won the Australian Open and U.S. Open titles in the banner season of her career to date. In both of those finals, she defeated Aryna Sabalenka, the player she usurped at the top of the world rankings. But Sabalenka won the WTA 1000 BNP Paribas Open at this venue in March, de