The 2025 WTA Finals Riyadh field is set and thoroughly stacked with the eight best players from the season, but who will ultimately lift the trophy? Tennis Channel Analysts Chanda Rubin and Jan-Michael Gambill argue the title could come down to a mix of conditions and mental toughness.
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“On these courts, when you’re inside an arena and conditions are pretty standardized, it favors those clean ballstrikers,” said Rubin, a former Australian Open semifinalist, of the indoor event. “I kind of like that for Amanda Anisimova, but it’s her first time making the tour finals. So, we’ll see how quickly she gets used to just everything surrounding it. But she has been fabulous.”
Anisimova will indeed cap a breakthrough season with a maiden berth at the WTA Finals, having reached back-to-back major finals at Wimbledon and the US Open. This fall, she captured a second WTA 1000 title of the year at the China Open, beating both two Riyadh rivals along the way in Jasmine Paolini and Coco Gauff.
