Coco Gauff earned the biggest pay cheque in the history of women’s tennis, pocketing £3.7m when she defeated Qinwen Zheng to claim the first WTA Finals event to be staged in Riyadh.

Join Tanya Aldred for updates as two players in the final for the first time battle for the title in Riyadh.   19:38 Confetti falls on the finallists like cherry blossom on an extremely windy day,

Coco Gauff may be saving the best for last. In what is shaping up to be potentially her best week of the season, Coco Gauff beat the world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in two turbulent sets Friday to set up a championship battle against the Olympic gold medalist Zheng Qinwen this weekend at the WTA Tour Finals.