The WTA Finals 2026 arrive this Saturday, November 14, at their semifinals with four players who aspire to conquer the last great title of the women's circuit. The Russian Mirra Andreeva, the American Jessica Pegula, the Ukrainian Elina Svitolina and the Czech Linda Noskova are the protagonists of a decisive day that will be played at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, in California, after a group stage that has left several surprises, including the elimination of Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff.
The matches will begin at 21:00 hours in peninsular Spain, with the matchup between Andreeva and Pegula. Next will be Svitolina and Noskova, whose match is scheduled in a guide estimate around the 22:30 hours, although it will depend on the duration of the first semifinal. The two winners will face each other on Sunday, November 15, in the tournament final, which brings together the best players of the season.
The schedules correspond to peninsular Spain and the Balearic Islands. In the Canary Islands, the first semifinal will begin at 20:00 hours and the second is planned around 21:30 hours.
The official WTA schedule establishes that the second match will be played when the first ends, so its start time may vary. After the individual semifinals, the two doubles matchups will be held as well, also with the aim of securing a spot in the Sunday finals.
Andreeva faces Pegula after a perfect group stage
The first semifinal will pit Mirra Andreeva and Jessica Pegula against each other, two players who have not yet faced each other in an official match on the WTA circuit. The Russian arrives as one of the tournament’s great protagonists after completing the group stage with three wins in three matches, while the American secured her qualification on a final day that was especially tight.
Andreeva has shown great superiority during the first phase. She began by defeating Elina Svitolina by 6-4 and 6-0, repeated that score against Aryna Sabalenka and closed her participation with a victory by 6-2 and 6-1 against Diana Shnaider, who replaced Karolina Muchova due to health problems. The Russian has dropped only eleven games in her three matches and faces her first individual appearance at the WTA Finals with the possibility of reaching the final.
For her part, Jessica Pegula had to save a match point against Linda Noskova to stay alive in the tournament. The American ultimately managed to defeat the Czech by 7-6, 4-6 and 7-5, a result that allowed her to advance to the semifinals and eliminated Coco Gauff using tiebreak criteria. Pegula, who already played the final of the WTA Finals in 2022, will look to return to the title match against an opponent who still does not know defeat in this edition.
Svitolina and Noskova play for the other spot in the final
The second semifinal will feature Elina Svitolina and Linda Noskova, two players with different paths during the group stage. The Ukrainian arrives reinforced after eliminating Aryna Sabalenka on the last day, while the Czech managed to finish as the top seed of her group despite losing her last match against Pegula.
Svitolina defeated Sabalenka 6-3, 3-6 and 6-1, a decisive win to reach the semifinals. The Ukrainian, champion of the WTA Finals in 2018, had started the tournament with a loss to Andreeva, but she managed to bounce back with wins over Karolina Muchova and the number two in the draw. She is the only one of the four semifinalists who already knows what it means to win this tournament.
Noskova, for her part, began the competition with wins in two sets over Marta Kostyuk and Coco Gauff. Although she fell to Jessica Pegula, her record allowed her to finish at the top of the group and reach the knockout rounds in her first appearance at the WTA Finals.
The Czech woman also has an advantage in their head-to-head matchups: she has won three of the four matches she has played against Svitolina. Her most recent win came in September, during the Billie Jean King Cup final. The Ukrainian will try to even out that record to reach a new seasonal final.
Where to watch the semifinals and when the final is played
Spanish fans will be able to follow the semifinals of the WTA Finals 2026 through WTA TV and Tennis Channel, with the latter available on Orange TV. The TV schedule also includes its broadcast through Amazon Prime Video, depending on the channels and subscriptions available for each user.
The competition is held this year in Indian Wells, United States, between November 8 and November 15, after two editions played in Riyadh. The eight singles participants were initially divided into two groups of four players, from which the two best-ranked have advanced to play the semifinals.
In addition to the title, the four tennis players compete for an important financial and sporting prize. The organization has established a total prize pool of ten million dollars, of which eight million correspond to the singles draw. Each semifinal win also grants 400 points for the WTA rankings.
The singles final will be played on Sunday, November 15, starting at 21:00 in Spain, and will pit the winners of Andreeva-Pegula and Svitolina-Noskova against each other. It will be the last match of the year in a competition that has reached its decisive knockout stage without some of the main favorites and with four contenders ready to close the season with the trophy.