WTA Finals
Mirra Andreeva and Elina Svitolina will meet in the final of the WTA Finals in Indian Wells on Sunday 15 November. On Saturday Andreeva beat Jessica Pegula 6-3, 6-4 and Svitolina beat Linda Nosková 6-2, 6-1. The final starts at noon local time, 8pm UK time.
Andreeva Beats Pegula
Andreeva won her fourth match of the week in straight sets, in an hour and 25 minutes. She broke Pegula four times from nine break points, was broken twice, and won 71 points to Pegula’s 57. Pegula, who had saved a match point against Nosková on Thursday to reach the semi-finals, won only 20 of her 32 first-serve points.
Andreeva, 19, has dropped 18 games in eight sets this week, and two of her four wins have been 6-4, 6-0, against Svitolina and Aryna Sabalenka. She won the title on these courts at the 2025 BNP Paribas Open.
Svitolina Beats Nosková
The second semi-final took 65 minutes. Nosková, the Group 1 winner, served 11 double faults and won only 22 of the 50 points on her serve, and Svitolina broke her five times from ten break points. Svitolina won 62 points to 40.
Svitolina lost her opening group match to Andreeva and then won three in a row, against Karolína Muchová, Sabalenka and Nosková. She won the WTA Finals in 2018 and is in the final for the second time.
Doubles
Kateřina Siniaková and Taylor Townsend beat the top seeds, Gabriela Dabrowski and Luisa Stefani, 7-6(4), 6-3, and Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini beat Hanyu Guo and Kristina Mladenovic 6-3, 6-4. Siniaková and Townsend play Errani and Paolini in the doubles final on Sunday.
Semi-Final Results
| Semi-final | Result | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Mirra Andreeva (3) v Jessica Pegula (5) | Andreeva won 6-3, 6-4 | 1h 25m |
| Elina Svitolina (6) v Linda Nosková (8) | Svitolina won 6-2, 6-1 | 1h 05m |
The Final
Andreeva leads the head-to-head 2-1. She won their first meeting at Indian Wells in 2025, 7-5, 6-3, Svitolina won in the fourth round of the Australian Open in January, 6-2, 6-4, and Andreeva won their group match here on Monday 9 November, 6-4, 6-0. The WTA Finals are live on Sky Sports Tennis and NOW in the UK. Our WTA Finals final tips have our pick, and Friday’s results are in our day six report. Every event we follow is in the tournaments index.