The ATP Finals is the season-ending championship of the men's tennis tour, for the eight best singles players — and the eight best doubles teams — of the year. The 2026 edition runs from 15 to 22 November at the Inalpi Arena in Turin, Italy, and it is played as a round robin followed by knockout semi-finals and a final, so a player can lose a group match and still lift the title.

It is the only event of its size on the men's tour that works this way. For the rest of the season, tournaments are straight knockout draws. In Turin, entry is by invitation only: the eight best players of the year, and nobody else.

Who has qualified for the 2026 ATP Finals?

The 2026 singles field is Alexander Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz, Ben Shelton, Daniil Medvedev, Flavio Cobolli, Arthur Fils, Frances Tiafoe and Rafael Jodar. Zverev arrives as the new world No. 1, having replaced Jannik Sinner at the top on 2 November after winning Roland Garros and the US Open. Alcaraz won the Australian Open in 2026 and claimed his first Paris Masters title on 9 November, beating Shelton in the final.

Four of the eight are debutants: Cobolli, the home player from Italy, Fils, the first Frenchman to qualify since 2016, Tiafoe and Jodar, who took the last place in his first full season on the tour. Medvedev is a former champion, having won the event in 2020, and Zverev won it in 2018 and 2021.

Two big names are missing. Sinner, the champion in 2024 and 2025, ended his season in October with a knee injury. Novak Djokovic, a six-time champion who last won in 2023, failed to qualify after a second-round defeat to Rinky Hijikata at the Paris Masters left him 12th in the Race to Turin. Alex de Minaur and Taylor Fritz, who finished 10th and 11th, are the likely alternates.

How does the round-robin format work?

The eight singles players are split into two groups of four. Everyone in a group plays the other three once, in best-of-three sets with a tiebreak at 6-6 in every set, including the final. The top two players in each group go through to the semi-finals, where each group winner meets the runner-up from the other group, and the tournament then finishes as a normal knockout.

Because each player is guaranteed three matches, one bad day is survivable: two wins from three is usually enough to reach the semi-finals. With only three matches each, ties in a group table are common. They are broken in this order: most match wins, then most matches played, then the head-to-head result if two players are tied, then the highest percentage of sets won, and then of games won, if three are tied.

When is the draw and what are the groups called?

The draw takes place on Thursday 12 November at around 11:45 UK time, following a pre-tournament press conference. The singles groups are named after past champions: the John McEnroe Group and the Ivan Lendl Group. Zverev and Alcaraz, as the top two seeds, are placed in separate groups, and seeds three and four, five and six, and seven and eight are then drawn in pairs, with the first name drawn from each pair going into the first group.

The group matches run from Sunday 15 to Friday 20 November, the semi-finals are on Saturday 21 November, and both finals — singles and doubles — are on Sunday 22 November.

How do players qualify?

Qualification runs on the Race to Turin, a ranking that counts only results from the current calendar year, unlike the 52-week ATP ranking. Everyone starts the Race at zero on 1 January. Points are calculated the same way in both rankings — 2,000 for winning a Grand Slam and 1,300 for reaching the final — but the Race only measures one season.

The top seven in the Race when the regular season ends qualify outright. The eighth place has a special rule: if a player who won a Grand Slam that year sits between 8th and 20th in the Race, he takes the last spot ahead of whoever is eighth. Otherwise it goes to the player eighth in the Race. The next two players travel to Turin as alternates and step in if someone withdraws.

How many points and how much prize money are on offer?

Unlike every other event, the ATP Finals pays per win rather than by round reached. Each round-robin win is worth 200 ranking points, a semi-final win 400 and the final 500, so an unbeaten champion collects 1,500 points — only the Grand Slams, at 2,000, are worth more. A champion who dropped a group match finishes with 1,300.

On the ATP's 2026 prize table, each round-robin win is worth $405,000, a semi-final win $1,206,000 and the final $2,412,000, with a participation fee of $338,000 for playing all three group matches. An unbeaten champion therefore earns $5,171,000, the largest payout for winning any tournament in tennis.

Who has won the ATP Finals the most times?

Novak Djokovic leads with seven titles, won between 2008 and 2023. Roger Federer is second with six, while Ivan Lendl and Pete Sampras won five each and Ilie Nastase four in the event's first years. The tournament has existed since 1970, when it was first played in Tokyo as the Masters Grand Prix. It spent 2009 to 2020 at the O2 Arena in London, moved to Turin in 2021 and is scheduled to stay there through 2030.

Frequently asked questions

Can a player lose a match and still win the ATP Finals? Yes. A single defeat in the group stage does not end a player's tournament — two wins from three is often enough to reach the semi-finals, and champions have lost a round-robin match on the way to the title.

When is the 2026 ATP Finals final? The singles and doubles finals are both on Sunday 22 November 2026, after semi-finals on Saturday 21 November.

Why are Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic not playing? Sinner, the 2024 and 2025 champion, ended his season in October with a knee injury. Djokovic failed to qualify, finishing 12th in the Race to Turin after losing in the second round of the Paris Masters.

How is the Race to Turin different from the ATP rankings? The Race counts only results from the current calendar year, starting at zero on 1 January, while the ATP rankings are calculated on a 52-week rolling basis.