Ukrainian and Latvian lead the seeding and are in the green group.
Ukrainian Lyudmila Kichenok and Latvian Elena Ostapenko identified their rivals in the doubles group of the WTA Final Tournament.
The Ukrainian-Latvian tandem is the first seed and will play in the green quartet, the official WTA website reports.
Green group
- Lyudmila Kichenok/Elena Ostapenko (Ukraine/Latvia, 1)
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Xie Shuwei/Elise Mertens (Chinese Taipei/Belgium 2)
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Nicole Melicar-Martinez/Ellen Perez (USA/Australia, 6)
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Kateřina Siniakova/Taylor Townsend (Czech Republic/USA, 8)
White group
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Gabriela Dabrowski/Erin Routliffe (Canada/New Zealand, 2)
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Sara Errani/Jasmine Paolini (Italy, 4)
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Caroline Dolehide/Desiree Krawczyk (USA, 5)
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Zhan Haoqing/Veronica Kudermetova (Chinese Taipei/-, 7)
The top two pairs from the group will advance to the semi-finals.
The final WTA tournament will be held in the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, from November 2 to 9.
Source: korrespondent

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