ATP Finals 2025: Who is playing, prize money & format explained
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The ATP Finals start on Sunday, 9 November in Turin as the top eight men's players in singles and doubles compete at the end-of-season tournament in Italy.
Matches take place in a round-robin format between two groups of four. The top two players or doubles pairs from each group advance to the knockout stage.
The tournament takes place at the 12,000-capacity Inalpi Arena, playing on hard courts, following a five-year deal to stage the event in the Piedmont region.
The final is on Sunday, 16 November, with the singles winner lifting the ATP Finals trophy.
Jannik Sinner is the defending singles champion after beating American Taylor Fritz in the final to become the first Italian winner of the competition.
Who is playing?
World number one Jannik Sinner is the first Italian to win the ATP Tour Finals
In the singles, the Jimmy Connors Group features top seed Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Taylor Fritz and Australian Alex de Minaur.
Defending champion Sinner faces third seed Alexander Zverev, sixth seed Ben Shelton and either Lorenzo Musetti or Felix Auger-Aliassime in the Bjorn Borg Group.
In the doubles, the Peter Fleming Group consists of top seeds British pair Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool, second seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacia Zeballos, sixth seeds Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz and Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori.
In the John McEnroe Group, Harri Heliovaara and Britain's Henry Patten face third seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic, British pair Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski and eighth seeds Christian Harrison and Evan King.
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What is the prize money?
The tournament is to offer a record £12m ($15.5m) in total prize money - an increase of $250,000 on 2024.
An undefeated champion in Turin will walk away with a record £3.87m ($5.07m).
Sinner won the 2024 edition without losing a set - pocketing £3.73m in the process.
Three-match participation fee: £253,000 ($331,000)
Round-robin match win: £303,000 ($396,500)
Semi-final win: £904,000 ($1.18m)
Final win: £1.8m ($2.37m)
Undefeated champion: £3.87m ($5.07m)
How many ranking points are available?
An undefeated champion can earn a maximum of 1,500 ATP ranking points.
Players earn 200 points per round-robin match victory, 400 points for a semi-final win and 500 points for winning the tournament.
The Grand Slams - Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open - award 2,000 points to the winner.
Who are the past winners?
Novak Djokovic has been drawn against Carlos Alcaraz, Taylor Fritz and Alex de Minaur in 2025
The event was founded in 1970, originally known as the Masters Grand Prix, before the ATP took over the running of the competition in 1990.
Djokovic holds the record for the most singles titles with seven, winning the tournament four times in a row between 2012 and 2015.
Andy Murray is the only British singles winner.
In the doubles, Great Britain's Joe Salisbury and American partner Rajeev Ram won the title in 2022 and 2023.
The past 10 men's singles winners:
2024 - Jannik Sinner
2023 - Novak Djokovic
2022 - Novak Djokovic
2021 - Alexander Zverev
2020 - Daniil Medvedev
2019 - Stefanos Tsitsipas
2018 - Alexander Zverev
2017 - Grigor Dimitrov
2016 - Andy Murray
2015 - Novak Djokovic
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