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Sep 21, 2026
Catherine WhitakerHOST
Uh, Valerie Camilo, the WTA chair, says, "The WTA has always owned the WTA Finals, but now we're going to operate it, too.
Catherine WhitakerHOST
We are not going to do everything ourselves, but we are taking control of this event, of the creation of the revenue, and the controlling of the expenses, and that allows us to control our own destiny." The finals, which involve the best eight singles players and doubles teams of the year, will be staged at the Spectrum Center, which is where the Charlotte Hornets play their home NBA games.
Catherine WhitakerHOST
Um, now the basketball season will be in full swing next November, which is when the WTA Finals are happening, and because of the frequency of home games, the finals will be reduced from eight to five days, which will likely affect revenue for the tournament.
Catherine WhitakerHOST
Um, Camilo says the WTA has already started exploring alternative formats with the players, but if the round-robin element of the tournament survives, the finalists would need to play every day.
BhaskarHOST
SecondServAces.com actually had a massive spike in traffic the second that press release dropped.
Elena CruzHOST
Like, literally overnight, we're going from global uncertainty to the Spectrum Center in North Carolina.
Elena CruzHOST
And they're condensing the whole event into just five days.
Julian PricePANELIST
Five days? That is an incredibly compressed timeline for the crown jewel of the women's tour.
BrianHOST
It is an established sports city with a large tennis fandom in a friendly time zone for U.S. and European television viewers, which makes up for the tour's biggest markets.
BrianHOST
Its downtown area also has the facilities, accessibility, and capacity to accommodate a large sporting event with the Spectrum Center, home to the NBA's Charlotte Hornets, chosen as the venue for the Tour Finals.
BrianHOST
In a statement released Wednesday, the Charlotte Sports Foundation credited financial support from a number of regional economic enterprises, local government funding, and investment from Charlotte's corporate community.
BrianHOST
Camillo said the WTA taking operational ownership of the finals is a signal of how the tour aims to run in the future, as it moves away from receiving licensing fees from hosts.
Mike HaydenHOST
That was North Carolina's governor Josh Stein on Wednesday's announcement that the WTA is relocating its global headquarters from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Charlotte, North Carolina, and the WTA Finals are coming with it, starting in 2027.
Mike HaydenHOST
Set for an initial three-year run, the WTA Finals will be played at the Spectrum Center through 2029.
Mike HaydenHOST
WTA chairperson Valerie Camillo also took to the podium to celebrate this move.
Valerie CamilloSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[upbeat music] The cultural conversation around women and women's sports has fundamentally changed.
Doug BransonHOST
You're never going to extinguish the hope because the hope is the sickness.
Doug BransonHOST
Schumann says, I just found out that Dave Chappelle is doing a show at Spectrum Center October 21st.
Doug BransonHOST
Pre-sale just started and I want to go.
Doug BransonHOST
But that's opening night in Brooklyn.
Doug BransonHOST
It's so insane to me, the idea that you wouldn't have one single beat reporter traveling.
Doug BransonHOST
Because it's one thing for people to file into the Spectrum Center for a press conference held by the Charlotte Hornets and ask some questions.
Doug BransonHOST
It's another thing entirely to say, hey, there's going to be someone following the Charlotte Hornets around trying to get honest answers about what's happening on the floor.
Walker MehlHOST
I can tell you it doesn't mean anything good.
Sarah SpainHOST
The Women's Tennis Association finals are headed to Charlotte, North Carolina.
Sarah SpainHOST
The governing body announced on Wednesday that starting in 2027, the season-ending event will take place at the Spectrum Center, home of the MNBA's Charlotte Hornets.
Sarah SpainHOST
The Charlotte venue will host the finals for at least three years, and the WTA will also relocate its global headquarters from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Charlotte as part of the deal.
Sarah SpainHOST
The announcement comes after the finals took place in Saudi Arabia for the last two years.
Abe MadkourHOST
I'm Abe Madkour.
Abe MadkourHOST
Wednesday, a big day in SBJ's hometown as the city of Charlotte became an even more global player in sports as the WTA, the Women's Tennis Association, is bringing their finals, their season-ending event that features its top players, to Spectrum Center in Charlotte from 2027 to '29.
Abe MadkourHOST
The WTA is also relocating its global headquarters from St. Petersburg to Charlotte over the next year as part of the deal.
Abe MadkourHOST
So I was at an event yesterday announcing the move, and this is very big for Charlotte.
Abe MadkourHOST
So this competition to bring the WTA finals to Charlotte was competitive.
Abe MadkourHOST
They were up against Las Vegas, uh, Sacramento, uh, Gdansk in Poland.
Abe MadkourHOST
But Charlotte won out, and the Spectrum Center will be the venue from the '27 through the '29 editions, and then they'll see what's next.
Abe MadkourHOST
So the bottom line, a big, big move for the WTA, not just of their season-ending event, but of their headquarters and a big win for the city of Charlotte.
Baker MachadoHOST
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Baker MachadoHOST
And finally, the Women's Tennis Association is heading to Charlotte as the tour's season-ending WTA finals will move to Spectrum Center, home of the Hornets, for three years starting in 2027.
Baker MachadoHOST
The WTA is also relocating its global headquarters from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Charlotte as part of the deal.
Baker MachadoHOST
It's a huge shift for an event that's bounced around in recent years from Fort Worth in 2022 to a Saudi Arabia deal that ended early due to the conflict in the Middle East to this year's stop in Indian Wells.
Preston WillettHOST
I know they'll play Duke later on, but it's kind of like you're going into this shop of horrors.
Preston WillettHOST
It's kind of like when Virginia basketball went back to Charlotte, the Spectrum Center, after they lost to UMBC, just kind of being back in that arena.
Preston WillettHOST
It was for the ACC championship that next year before they went on their run to win a championship.
Preston WillettHOST
But how much do you think that's kind of maybe not weighing on them, but just kind of wanting to get get that out?
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