ATP Finals: players, schedule, betting odds, where to watch, how to win

The legends of the game will always give it a good go at the ATP Finals, so it offers a ton of exciting tennis action – and great betting opportunities – for the enterprising sports fan.

Here is everything you need to know about the ATP Finals.

ATP Finals: players and leaderboards

The ATP Finals is the final event of the annual ATP Tour, scheduled to take place in November each year, confirmed to take place in Italy up to at least 2030. For five years in a row, the event was guaranteed to take place in Turin, but the venue kept changing over time. For instance, the venue in 2024 was the Inalpi Arena rather than the Pala Alpitour, like in 2023. These small changes can make a significant impact – while the event is always set to take place on hard-court venues, they all play somewhat differently in terms of speed. The event is the equivalent of the WTA’s season-ender in Riyadh.

The ATP Finals is an eight-player indoor tennis competition featuring the best-performing tennis players of the year. Based on points earned in the wider tennis circuit (the Grand Slams, the ATP Masters, and other ranking points tournaments, including ATP 500 and ATP 250 competitions to a limited extent), the top seven players are guaranteed to qualify, with up to two Grand Slam winners from lower down the list accommodated next – if no player made a Cinderella run, then the eighth spot is filled by the eighth-ranked player.

What is the format of the ATP Finals?

The ATP Finals divide the players into two groups of four, where they play out a round-robing bracket, with the top two advancing to the semifinals, where the winner of one group faces the runner-up of the other for a spot in the final.

All matches are best-of-three, with tie-breaks in each set. The group stage tiebreakers are as follows:

• Most wins
• Most matches played
• Head-to-head result
• Highest percentage of sets won
• Highest percentage of games won
• ATP rank after the last ATP Tour tournament of the year

ATP Finals winners and leaderboards

The precursor of the ATP Finals was known as the Masters Grand Prix, and it was first held in 1970. Later, it was known as the ATP Tour World Championships between 1990 and 1999, then it was rebranded as the Tennis Masters Cup between 2000 and 2008, then as the ATP World Tour Finals from 2009 to 2016. Since then, it is simply known as the ATP Finals. It has, however, always been one of the most important indoor tennis tournaments in the world.

2024 ATP Finals: players and points

• Jannik Sinner – 10,300 points
• Alexander Zverev – 7,315 points
• Carlos Alcaraz – 6,810 points
• Danil Medvedev – 4,830 points
• Taylor Fritz – 4,300 points
• Casper Ruud – 3,855 points
• Alex de Minaur – 3,745 points
• Andrey Rublev – 3,720 points

ATP Finals leaderboards: biggest winners and greatest records

The ATP Finals features some of the greatest tennis players of all time, so it is no surprise that the ones with their initials etched into the record books are legends of the game, and their accomplishments are incredible to consider. Without further ado, here are the most important ATP Finals records for you to keep in mind when evaluating the results and players in this competition.

Unsurprisingly, Novak Djokovic has multiple ATP Finals records to his name. He has the most number of titles with seven, one ahead of Roger Federer. He also has the most number of consecutive titles with four, stretching between 2012 and 2015, and he is the oldest-ever champion courtesy of his 2023 triumph, when he was 36 years and five months of age. However, the Swiss tennis legend also has a handful of standout accomplishments of his own. Namely, Roger Federer is the all-time match wins leader at the ATP Finals as of 2024, with a win-loss record of 59-17, which amounts to a 77.7% win percentage. Federer also has the most finals appearances at the ATP Finals, with ten, and he has also played in the most editions, with seventeen appearances to his name.

Tennis legends of the past also show up in the historical record. Ilie Năstase, the 1946-born International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee, holds the best-even winning percentage with an astonishing 22-3 record, an 88% win rate. Ivan Lendl is in second place with a 39-10 record and a 0.796 percentage metric.

Over in the doubles department, John McEnroe and Peter Fleming hold the record with seven titles – seven consecutive ones at that – but the other American due of Mike and Bob Bryan have the most match wins to their name, with 42 and 38 of them, respectively. McEnroe also holds the unique distinction of being the youngest-ever winner in singles and doubles alike, having won both competitions in 1978 at 19 years and 10 months of age. McEnroe would repeat this “double crown” accomplishment in 1983 and 1984 as well, but he wasn’t the first to do it – that distinction goes to a fellow American called Stan Smith back in 1980. Back in the era of multiple year-end championships, Boris Becker held a “triple crown” with wins at the ATP Finals, the WCT Finals, and the Grand Slam Cup in the same year, 1988.

Incredibly, the oldest-ever doubles winner in ATP Finals history, the aforementioned Mike Bryan, managed to win in 2018 at 40 years and 6 months, showing that everything is possible, even at the highest level of competitive tennis.