The field for the 2026 Nitto ATP Finals is complete, with Rafael Jodar taking the eighth and final place after Carlos Alcaraz beat Taylor Fritz in the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters on Friday, 6 November.

The season-ending championship runs from 15 to 22 November at the Inalpi Arena in Turin, Italy. It is the sixth consecutive year the event has been held in Turin, which is contracted to host through 2027, and for the first time in the tournament's history there will be a new champion guaranteed, with two-time defending champion Jannik Sinner ruled out by injury.

Zverev leads the field

Alexander Zverev, the world No. 1 since 2 November, leads the eight-man field after finishing top of the Race to Turin on 9,350 points. He is joined by Alcaraz on 6,100, Ben Shelton on 5,520 and Daniil Medvedev on 3,820, with Flavio Cobolli, Arthur Fils, Frances Tiafoe and Jodar completing the line-up.

Zverev and Medvedev are the only former champions in the field, with Zverev winning the title in 2018 and 2021 and Medvedev lifting the trophy in 2020. Three members of the ATP No. 1 Club, Zverev, Alcaraz and Medvedev, will compete in Turin, and every champion since 2020 is now a member of that group.

Four debutants in Turin

Cobolli, Fils, Tiafoe and Jodar will all play the season finale for the first time. Cobolli is the fourth active Italian to play on home soil in the event, following Matteo Berrettini, Sinner and Lorenzo Musetti, and it is the fourth consecutive year an Italian has qualified for the singles field.

Fils will be the first Frenchman to compete in the season finale since Gael Monfils in 2016. With Alcaraz and Jodar both in the field, two Spaniards have qualified directly for the first time since Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer in 2015.

Jodar's remarkable rise

Jodar's qualification is the standout story of the field. One year ago he was still a college student-athlete at the University of Virginia and ranked No. 166 in the world. He is the first player to qualify for the ATP Finals in his first season on the main professional tour, having made his first tour-level main-draw appearance at the 2026 Australian Open.

He won his first ATP Tour title in Marrakech, reached the Washington final and made his first Masters 1000 final in Shanghai, climbing to a career-high No. 15 in August. He is also the first player to reach the season finale the year after playing the Next Gen ATP Finals since Alcaraz did so in 2021 and 2022.

Sinner out, Djokovic misses out

Sinner won the last two editions, beating Taylor Fritz in 2024 and Alcaraz 7-6(4) 7-5 in the 2025 final, but he announced on 6 October that his season was over because of a right knee injury. Novak Djokovic also misses out after failing to qualify for only the second time in 20 seasons.

Alcaraz arrives in Turin as the form player, having won the Paris Masters on Sunday, 8 November, beating Shelton 7-6(5) 7-5 in the final. Shelton will try to become the first left-handed player to win the year-end title since John McEnroe in 1984, while he and Tiafoe will try to become the first American winner since Pete Sampras in 1999.

The draw takes place on Thursday, 12 November, at about 12:45 p.m. CET, following the pre-tournament press conference. The singles groups will be named after John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl, with the top two in each group reaching the semi-finals.