ST. PETERSBURG, FL, USA – The WTA today announced that the doubles teams of Sara Errani & Jasmine Paolini, Gabriela Dabrowski & Erin Routliffe and Katerina Siniakova & Taylor Townsend have qualified for the WTA Finals Riyadh.

They are the third, fourth and fifth combinations to secure their participation after Jelena Ostapenko & Lyudmyla Kichenok and Hsieh Su-Wei & Elise Mertens confirmed their qualification in September.

More than half of the doubles field is now ready for the WTA Finals Riyadh, with three qualifying places remaining for the PIF Race to the WTA Finals.

While Jasmine Paolini will make her WTA Finals debut, Sara Errani is no stranger to the prestigious season-ending event. She competed in doubles from 2012 to 2014 and also qualified in singles in 2012 and 2013.

The Italian duo took early season silverware at the WTA 500 Upper Austrian Women’s Linz in February and then tasted success on home soil by winning the WTA 1000 Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome. They finished second at Roland-Garros before capping a fairytale summer by winning the gold medal in doubles at the Paris Olympics, and confirmed their qualification for Riyadh by winning the China Open in Beijing this weekend.

This season marks Dabrowski’s sixth overall appearance at the WTA Finals, while her partner Routliffe made history at the event last season as the tournament’s first-ever qualifier from New Zealand. The team, who went undefeated in the group stage in 2023, have had another excellent season on the Hologic WTA Tour, highlighted by winning the title at WTA 250 Rothesay Open Nottingham.

They also reached a further four finals at WTA 1000 events at the National Bank Open presented by Rogers (Toronto) and Miami Open presented by Itaú, WTA 250 Rothesay International Eastbourne and finally The Championships, Wimbledon, the latter of which Routliffe to the top saw it rise. PIF WTA World Number 1 Ranking in doubles for the first time in her career.

Siniakova and Townsend, who won the Wimbledon championships in July, have confirmed their qualification as they will either finish in the Top 7 or end the season as the highest-ranked Grand Slam winning team, ranked between numbers 8 and 20 on the leaderboard . Townsend makes her WTA Finals debut, while Siniakova will make her sixth consecutive appearance at the event and has reached the final three times, winning the title in 2021 and finishing runner-up in 2018 and 2022.

The Czech-American duo only worked together in May, but found immediate success. They reached the quarter-finals at the WTA 1000 Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome and then secured their Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, beating fellow qualifiers Dabrowski and Routliffe in the final. They enjoyed another quarter-final finish at the WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open and capped off a great summer by reaching the semi-finals at the US Open.

The 2024 WTA Finals will feature the top 8 singles and doubles teams from the PIF Race to the WTA Finals Leaderboard (with 8th place going to the singles and doubles team that has won a Grand Slam if they are ranked No. 8 to No. 20) . It features the world’s top eight singles and doubles teams competing in a round-robin format, with the singles champion lifting the WTA Finals Billie Jean King Trophy and the doubles champions earning the WTA Finals Martina Navratilova Trophy.

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