Nitto ATP Finals 2024

Participation fees per division explored in a separate table below:

Format, Qualification, Qualified Players and Player Profiles 

A round robin format will be utilised at the finals, with eight singles and doubles players vying for the title. There will be two groups of four players each with 8 seeds to be determined by the PIF ATP rankings on November 9, after the last ATP Tour event of the calendar year. 

The seeding will have two groups, A and B. Group A will place the top seeded players/team, while the second seeded players/team will be placed in Group B. Players/teams seeded 3 and 4, 5 and 6, 7 and 8, are drawn in pairs, with the first drawn placed in Group A.

Each player/team will play the other three players in their group, with the winner of each group placed in separate semi-final brackets. The top player in Group A will play the runner-up in Group B, and vice versa, and should there be two or more players tied after the round robin matches, the ties will be broken by the Tie-Break Procedure.

The matches will be the best of three tie-break sets, including the final. The semi-finals last four players will also be determined by the round robin, with the format thereafter being a single elimination competition.

The doubles matches will all be two-sets and a Match-Tie-break.

Qualification

The competing eight players will qualify based on the precedence of the following criteria, based on the World Championships Rulebook:

A) Top seven players in the PIF ATP Race after the last ATP Tour of the calendar year, 9 November 2024, followed by

B) A minimum of two Grand Slam winners in the calendar year, in order of their positions, and they must be ranked anywhere between eighth and twenty in the ATP rankings on November 9, followed by

C) Players ranked eighth and below on November 9.

H3- Qualified players

Singles

Daniil Medvedev recently qualified for the ATP Finals, joining three other players who qualified in the months of September and October, respectively.

Doubles

Aussies, Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson qualified on October 26^th, becoming the fourth doubles team to qualify for the Nitto ATP finals.

What is a double crown?

A double crown is winning the year-end championships in both singles and doubles in the same year.

Player Profiles, Singles

Jannik Sinner

Italian Jannik Sinner is the No.1 ranked in singles by the ATP and the first Italian player to reach the summit of the rankings. Sinner boasts 17 singles titles on the ATP Tour, two majors and four Masters 1000 titles.

The 23-year-old turned pro in 2018 and became the youngest ATP 500 champion in 2021 at the Citi Open. His accumulated prize money is a staggering $29,108,484, for someone who recently turned pro.

Alexander Zverev

The current world No.3, Alexander Zverev, qualified on September 1^st and is a German national. Zverev has won 22 ATP singles titles and 2 in doubles. The German is a runner-up in two Grand Slams, the 2020 US Open and 2024 French Open. 

In 2017, he became one of the youngest Challenge Tour title winners at the age of 17 and is a former junior world No.1 with a junior major singles title to boast of, among other notable achievements in his career. 

Zverev’s total accumulated earnings are $44,836,889, and he is the 5^th all-time in earnings.

Carlos Alcaraz

Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz began his professional career in 2018 at a tender age of 15 years. The former No.1 ranked player has won 16 ATP singles titles, including four major titles and five Masters 1000 titles.

Following his first major singles title in 2022, Alcaraz become the youngest man and first male teenager to top the singles ranking at 19 years, 4 months, and 6 days old. In earnings, he has accumulated $36,062,555.

Daniil Medvedev 

Medvedev turned pro in 2014 and has been ranked as high as No.1 in the ATP’s world rankings, with 20 ATP Tour singles titles, including the 2021 US Open and the 2020 ATP Finals. His 2021 US Open title saw him become the only player to defeat the top three ranked players on his way to the title.

The Russian is seventh all-time in earnings, with an accumulated $42,990,314 prize monies in his career.

Player Profiles, doubles

Marcelo Arevalo, Mate Pavic

Marcelo Arevalo’s singles and doubles rankings of No. 139 and No.4 make him the highest ranked Salvadoran in tennis, with twelve ATP doubles titles. His partner, Mate Pavic is a former No.1 in doubles and is a seven-time Grand Slam Champion who also boasts an impressive 39 titles on the ATP Tour. 

Marcel Granollers, Horacio Zeballos

2024 saw Marcel Granollers reach a career high doubles ranking of No.1 and a singles ranking of No.19. Granollers has won 31 ATP titles, 4 of which were in singles while 27 are in doubles. His partner, Horacio Zeballos became the first Argentinian to be ranked No.1 in doubles and has a career high singles ranking of No.39. Zeballos has won 22 ATP doubles titles, with his first title ironically won in his native Argentina.

Simone Bolelli, Andrea Vavassori

In 2008, Simone Bolelli, along with his partner at the time, Fabio Fognini, became the first male all-Italian pair to win a major title in the Open Era. His highest double ranking is No.8 in 2015 and ranked No.36 in singles in 2009. Bolelli’s partner, Andrea Vavassori, who is a fellow Italian, has a career high ranking of No.9 in doubles and No.128 in singles, achieved in 2024. Vavassori, has five ATP Tour doubles titles, finding more success in Challenger events, with sixteen titles. 

Max Purcell, Jordan Thompson

Max Purcell won his first Grand Slam title at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships and has a career high ranking of No.8 in doubles and No. 40 in singles. His Aussie partner, Jordan Thompson has one singles title and six doubles titles. In 2024, Thompson achieved career high rankings of No.7 in doubles and No.28 in singles.

Schedule, Match List and Key Matches

With qualifications still active, match lists and the identification of key matches will follow at a later stage, However, the schedule, reflecting the dates and times of matches is available for both singles and doubles.

Schedule

ATP Finals History, Statistics and Records

Since Jack Kramer’s year-long series tennis tournaments implementation in 1969, men’s tennis has featured a year-end championship. 

The first was held in Tokyo, Japan, in 1970 and was subsequently held in Paris, Barcelona, Boston, Melbourne, Stockholm and Houston, before it’s thirteen-year association with Madison Square Garden in New York from 1977 to 1989.

Stan Smith won the maiden event held in Tokyo with IIlie Natase winning the subsequent four titles consecutively from 1971 to 1975, before being dethroned by Guillermo Vilas in fives sets. Fast-forward the history to as recent as 2023, we have Novak Djokovic, who’s steadily surging towards qualification for this year’s finals as the reigning champion.

The 37-year-old would be featuring in the year end championships for the 17^th time should he make qualification, equalling Rafael Nadal and one behind Roger Federer. Djokovic has the most titles at the event with seven.

Statistics and Records

Singles