ATP Finals

ATP Finals
Tournament information
Founded	1970 (1970)
Location	London United Kingdom (2009–2020)
Venue	The O2 Arena
Category	ATP Finals
Surface	Hard / indoors
Draw	8S / 8D
Prize money	US$7,500,000
Website	atpfinals.com
Current champions
Men's singles	Andy Murray
Men's doubles	Henri Kontinen John Peers

The ATP Finals is the second highest tier of men's tennis tournament after the four Grand Slam tournaments.

It is held annually in November at the O2 Arena in London, United Kingdom. The ATP Finals are the season-ending championships of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour, featuring the top eight singles players and doubles teams of the ATP Rankings. The tournament was first held in 1970, although it had a different name at the time.

Roger Federer holds the record for the most singles titles, with six, while Peter Fleming and John McEnroe hold the record with 7 titles in doubles.

In the current tournament, winners are awarded up to 1500 rankings points; with each round-robin loss, 200 points are deducted from that amount.

History

The event is the fourth evolution of a championship which began in 1970. It was originally known as the Masters Grand Prix and was part of the Grand Prix Tennis Circuit. It was organised by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF). It ran alongside the competing WCT Finals the season-ending championships for the rival World Championship Tennis Tour. The Masters was a year-end showpiece event between the best players on the men's tour, but did not count for any world ranking points.

In 1990, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) took over the running of the men's tour and replaced the Masters with the ATP Tour World Championship. World ranking points were now at stake, with an undefeated champion earning the same number of points they would for winning one of the four Grand Slam events. The ITF, who continued to run the Grand Slam tournaments, created a rival year-end event known as the Grand Slam Cup, which was contested by the 16 players with the best records in Grand Slam competitions that year.

In December 1999, the ATP and ITF agreed to discontinue the two separate events and create a new jointly-owned event called the Tennis Masters Cup. As with the Masters Grand Prix and the ATP Tour World Championships, the Tennis Masters Cup was contested by eight players. However, player who is ranked number eight in the ATP Champion's Race world rankings does not have a guaranteed spot. If a player who wins one of the year's Grand Slam events finishes the year ranked outside the top eight but still within the top 20, he is included in the Tennis Masters Cup instead of the eighth-ranked player. If two players outside the top eight win Grand Slam events, the higher placed player in the world rankings takes the final spot in the Tennis Masters Cup.

In 2009 the Masters was renamed to the ATP World Tour Finals and got scheduled to be held at The O₂ in London from 2009 to 2013.^[1] In 2012 the organisers extended the contract by two years up to 2015.^[2][3]In 2015 the contract was extended again for three years up to 2018.^[4] In 2017 the event was renamed to ATP Finals and the contract with the O₂ Arena was extended to 2020.^[5][6]

For many years, the doubles event was held as a separate tournament the week after the singles competition, but more recently they have been held together in the same week and venue.

For most of its history, the event has been considered as the most important indoor tennis tournament on the world tour (there were a few exceptions, when the event was organized outdoors: 1974 Melbourne & 2003–2004 Houston), allowing for controlled conditions of play, regarding both surface type and illumination system.

Qualification

There are eight players or teams, and playing is mandatory except for injury or other good cause.

Qualification is as follows:

(a) the top seven players in the ATP rankings (b) up to two grand slam winners ranked between 8 and 20 (in order of ATP ranking, if any such players exist) (c) the next players in the ATP rankings, until the quota of eight is reached.

Points, prize money and trophies

The ATP Finals currently (2016) rewards the following points and prize money, per victory:^[7]

• ¹ Prize money for doubles is per team.

There is also an appearance fee of $179,000 singles, and $88,000 per doubles team. The two alternates are paid $100,000 (singles) and $34,000 (doubles teams).

An undefeated champion would earn the maximum 1,500 points, and $2,391,000 in singles or $455,000 in doubles.

In addition, prizes include the Barclays ATP Singles and Doubles World Tour Finals Trophies and the ATP Tour World No.1 Trophy, all made by London-based silversmiths Thomas Lyte ^[8][9] .

Format

Unlike all other singles events on the men's tour, the ATP Finals is not a straightforward knock-out tournament. Eight players are divided into two groups of four and play three round-robin matches each against the other players in their group. The two players with the best records in each group progress to the semifinals, with the winners meeting in the final to determine the champion. Though it is theoretically possible to advance to the semi-finals of the tournament with two round-robin losses, no player in the history of the singles tournament has won the title after losing more than one round-robin match.

The current round robin format of two groups of four players progressing to a semifinal and final, has been in place for all editions of the tournament except the following years:

• 1970, 1971 – Round robin with no semifinals or finals, winner decided on best performed player
• 1982, 1983, 1984 – 12 player knock-out tournament with no round robin. The top four seeds in the event received a bye in the first round.
• 1985 – 16 player knock-out tournament with no round robin

Sponsors

The tournament has traditionally been sponsored by the title sponsor of the tour; however, from 1990–2008 the competition was non-sponsored, even though the singles portion of the event as part of the ATP tour was sponsored by IBM. In 2009, the tournament gained Barclays PLC as title sponsor.^[10] Barclays confirmed in 2015 that they would not renew their sponsorship deal once it expires in 2016.^[11]

Venues

Past finals

Singles

Location	Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
↓ Masters Grand Prix ↓
Tokyo	1970	Stan Smith	Rod Laver	Round Robin
Paris	1971	Ilie Năstase (1/4)	Stan Smith	Round Robin
Barcelona	1972	Ilie Năstase (2/4)	Stan Smith	6–3, 6–2, 3–6, 2–6, 6–3
Boston	1973	Ilie Năstase (3/4)	Tom Okker	6–3, 7–5, 4–6, 6–3
Melbourne	1974	Guillermo Vilas	Ilie Năstase	7–6(8–6), 6–2, 3–6, 3–6, 6–4
Stockholm	1975	Ilie Năstase (4/4)	Björn Borg	6–2, 6–2, 6–1
Houston	1976	Manuel Orantes	Wojtek Fibak	5–7, 6–2, 0–6, 7–6(7–1), 6–1
New York City	1977	Jimmy Connors	Björn Borg	6–4, 1–6, 6–4
	1978	John McEnroe (1/3)	Arthur Ashe	6–7(5–7), 6–3, 7–5
	1979	Björn Borg (1/2)	Vitas Gerulaitis	6–2, 6–2
	1980	Björn Borg (2/2)	Ivan Lendl	6–4, 6–2, 6–2
	1981	Ivan Lendl (1/5)	Vitas Gerulaitis	6–7(5–7), 2–6, 7–6(8–6), 6–2, 6–4
	1982	Ivan Lendl (2/5)	John McEnroe	6–4, 6–4, 6–2
	1983	John McEnroe (2/3)	Ivan Lendl	6–3, 6–4, 6–4
	1984	John McEnroe (3/3)	Ivan Lendl	7–5, 6–0, 6–4
	1985	Ivan Lendl (3/5)	Boris Becker	6–2, 7–6(7–4), 6–3
	1986	Ivan Lendl (4/5)	Boris Becker	6–4, 6–4, 6–4
	1987	Ivan Lendl (5/5)	Mats Wilander	6–2, 6–2, 6–3
	1988	Boris Becker (1/3)	Ivan Lendl	5–7, 7–6(7–5), 3–6, 6–2, 7–6(7–5)
	1989	Stefan Edberg	Boris Becker	4–6, 7–6(8–6), 6–3, 6–1
↓ ATP Tour World Championships ↓
Frankfurt	1990	Andre Agassi	Stefan Edberg	5–7, 7–6(7–5), 7–5, 6–2
	1991	Pete Sampras (1/5)	Jim Courier	3–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–3, 6–4
	1992	Boris Becker (2/3)	Jim Courier	6–4, 6–3, 7–5
	1993	Michael Stich	Pete Sampras	7–6(7–3), 2–6, 7–6(9–7), 6–2
	1994	Pete Sampras (2/5)	Boris Becker	4–6, 6–3, 7–5, 6–4
	1995	Boris Becker (3/3)	Michael Chang	7–6(7–3), 6–0, 7–6(7–5)
Hanover	1996	Pete Sampras (3/5)	Boris Becker	3–6, 7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–4), 6–7(11–13), 6–4
	1997	Pete Sampras (4/5)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6–3, 6–2, 6–2
	1998	Àlex Corretja	Carlos Moyá	3–6, 3–6, 7–5, 6–3, 7–5
	1999	Pete Sampras (5/5)	Andre Agassi	6–1, 7–5, 6–4
↓ Tennis Masters Cup ↓
Lisbon	2000	Gustavo Kuerten	Andre Agassi	6–4, 6–4, 6–4
Sydney	2001	Lleyton Hewitt (1/2)	Sébastien Grosjean	6–3, 6–3, 6–4
Shanghai	2002	Lleyton Hewitt (2/2)	Juan Carlos Ferrero	7–5, 7–5, 2–6, 2–6, 6–4
Houston	2003	Roger Federer (1/6)	Andre Agassi	6–3, 6–0, 6–4
	2004	Roger Federer (2/6)	Lleyton Hewitt	6–3, 6–2
Shanghai	2005	David Nalbandian	Roger Federer	6–7(4–7), 6–7(11–13), 6–2, 6–1, 7–6(7–3)
	2006	Roger Federer (3/6)	James Blake	6–0, 6–3, 6–4
	2007	Roger Federer (4/6)	David Ferrer	6–2, 6–3, 6–2
	2008	Novak Djokovic (1/5)	Nikolay Davydenko	6–1, 7–5
↓ ATP World Tour Finals ↓
London	2009	Nikolay Davydenko	Juan Martín del Potro	6–3, 6–4
	2010	Roger Federer (5/6)	Rafael Nadal	6–3, 3–6, 6–1
	2011	Roger Federer (6/6)	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	6–3, 6–7(6–8), 6–3
	2012	Novak Djokovic (2/5)	Roger Federer	7–6(8–6), 7–5
	2013	Novak Djokovic (3/5)	Rafael Nadal	6–3, 6–4
	2014	Novak Djokovic (4/5)	Roger Federer	walkover
	2015	Novak Djokovic (5/5)	Roger Federer	6–3, 6–4
	2016	Andy Murray	Novak Djokovic	6–3, 6–4

Doubles

Location	Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
↓ Masters Grand Prix ↓
Tokyo	1970	Stan Smith Arthur Ashe	Round Robin
	1971 – 1974	Not held
Stockholm	1975	Juan Gisbert Manuel Orantes	Round Robin
Houston	1976	Fred McNair Sherwood Stewart	Brian Gottfried Raúl Ramírez	6–4, 5–7, 5–7, 6–4, 6–4
New York City	1977	Bob Hewitt Frew McMillan	Robert Lutz Stan Smith	7–5, 7–6, 6–3
	1978	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Wojtek Fibak Tom Okker	6–4, 6–2, 6–4
	1979	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Wojtek Fibak Tom Okker	6–3, 7–6, 6–1
	1980	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Peter McNamara Paul McNamee	6–4, 6–3
	1981	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Kevin Curren Steve Denton	6–3, 6–3
	1982	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Sherwood Stewart Ferdi Taygan	7–5, 6–3
	1983	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Pavel Složil Tomáš Šmíd	6–2, 6–2
	1984	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Mark Edmondson Sherwood Stewart	6–3, 6–1
	1985	Stefan Edberg Anders Järryd	Joakim Nyström Mats Wilander	6–1, 7–6(7–5)
London	1986	Stefan Edberg Anders Järryd	Guy Forget Yannick Noah	6–3, 7–6(7–2), 6–3
	1987	Miloslav Mečíř Tomáš Šmíd	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	6–4, 7–5, 6–7(5–7), 6–3
	1988	Rick Leach Jim Pugh	Sergio Casal Emilio Sánchez	6–4, 6–3, 2–6, 6–0
	1989	Jim Grabb Patrick McEnroe	John Fitzgerald Anders Järryd	7–5, 7–6(7–4), 5–7, 6–3
↓ ATP Tour World Championships ↓
Gold Coast	1990	Guy Forget Jakob Hlasek	Sergio Casal Emilio Sánchez	6–4, 7–6(7–5), 5–7, 6–4
Johannesburg	1991	John Fitzgerald Anders Järryd	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	6–4, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4
	1992	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	John Fitzgerald Anders Järryd	6–2, 7–6(7–4), 5–7, 3–6, 6–3
	1993	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–5), 6–4
Jakarta	1994	Jan Apell Jonas Björkman	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6–4, 4–6, 4–6, 7–6(7–5), 7–6(8–6)
Eindhoven	1995	Grant Connell Patrick Galbraith	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	7–6(8–6), 7–6(8–6), 3–6, 7–6(7–2)
Hartford	1996	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	Sébastien Lareau Alex O'Brien	6–4, 5–7, 6–2, 7–6(7–3)
	1997	Rick Leach Jonathan Stark	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	6–3, 6–4, 7–6(7–3)
	1998	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6–4, 6–2, 7–5
	1999	Sébastien Lareau Alex O'Brien	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	6–3, 6–2, 6–2
Bangalore	2000	Donald Johnson Piet Norval	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	7–6(10–8), 6–3, 6–4
↓ ATP World Doubles Challenge Cup[13] ↓
Bangalore	2001 (held in 2002)	Ellis Ferreira Rick Leach	Petr Pála Pavel Vízner	6–7(6–8), 7–6(7–2), 6–4, 6–4
↓ Tennis Masters Cup ↓
	2002	Not Held
Houston	2003	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro	6–7(6–8), 6–3, 3–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–4
	2004	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Wayne Black Kevin Ullyett	4–6, 7–5, 6–4, 6–2
Shanghai	2005	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro	Leander Paes Nenad Zimonjić	6–7(6–8), 6–3, 7–6(7–4)
	2006	Jonas Björkman Max Mirnyi	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6–2, 6–4
	2007	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	Simon Aspelin Julian Knowle	6–2, 6–3
	2008	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7–6(7–3), 6–2
↓ ATP World Tour Finals ↓
London	2009	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Max Mirnyi Andy Ram	7–6(7–5), 6–3
	2010	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi	7–6(8–6), 6–4
	2011	Max Mirnyi Daniel Nestor	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	7–5, 6–3
	2012	Marcel Granollers Marc López	Mahesh Bhupathi Rohan Bopanna	7–5, 3–6, [10–3]
	2013	David Marrero Fernando Verdasco	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7–5, 6–7(3–7), [10–7]
	2014	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Ivan Dodig Marcelo Melo	6–7(5–7), 6–2, [10–7]
	2015	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	6–4, 6–3
	2016	Henri Kontinen John Peers	Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram	2–6, 6–1, [10–8]

Singles performances

Titles	Player	Years Won	Years Runner-up
6	Roger Federer	2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011	2005, 2012, 2014, 2015
5	Ivan Lendl	1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987	1980, 1983, 1984, 1988
	Pete Sampras	1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999	1993
	Novak Djokovic	2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015	2016
4	Ilie Năstase	1971, 1972, 1973, 1975	1974
3	Boris Becker	1988, 1992, 1995	1985, 1986, 1989, 1994, 1996
	John McEnroe	1978, 1983, 1984	1982
2	Björn Borg	1979, 1980	1975, 1977
	Lleyton Hewitt	2001, 2002	2004
1	Andre Agassi	1990	1999, 2000, 2003
	Stan Smith	1970	1971, 1972
	Nikolay Davydenko	2009	2008
	Stefan Edberg	1989	1990
	Jimmy Connors	1977
	Àlex Corretja	1998
	Gustavo Kuerten	2000
	Andy Murray	2016
	David Nalbandian	2005
	Manuel Orantes	1976
	Michael Stich	1993
	Guillermo Vilas	1974
0	Jim Courier		1991, 1992
	Vitas Gerulaitis		1979, 1981
	Rafael Nadal		2010, 2013
	Arthur Ashe		1978
	James Blake		2006
	Michael Chang		1995
	Juan Martín del Potro		2009
	David Ferrer		2007
	Juan Carlos Ferrero		2002
	Wojciech Fibak		1976
	Sébastien Grosjean		2001
	Yevgeny Kafelnikov		1997
	Rod Laver		1970
	Carlos Moyá		1998
	Tom Okker		1973
	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga		2011
	Mats Wilander		1987

Doubles performances

Titles	Player	Years Won	Years Runners-up
7	Peter Fleming	1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984
	John McEnroe	1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984
4	Bob Bryan	2003, 2004, 2009, 2014	2008, 2013
	Mike Bryan	2003, 2004, 2009, 2014	2008, 2013
	Daniel Nestor	2007, 2008, 2010, 2011	1998, 2006
3	Anders Järryd	1985, 1986, 1991	1989, 1992
	Rick Leach	1988, 1997, 2001
2	Todd Woodbridge	1992, 1996	1993, 1994
	Mark Woodforde	1992, 1996	1993, 1994
	Max Mirnyi	2006, 2011	2009, 2010
	Jacco Eltingh	1993, 1998	1995
	Paul Haarhuis	1993, 1998	1995
	Nenad Zimonjić	2008, 2010	2005
	Stefan Edberg	1985, 1986
	Jonas Björkman	1994, 2006
1	Sherwood Stewart	1976	1982, 1984
	John Fitzgerald	1991	1989, 1992
	Mark Knowles	2007	1998, 2006
	Stan Smith	1970	1977
	Tomáš Šmíd	1987	1983
	Guy Forget	1990	1986
	Sébastien Lareau	1999	1996
	Alex O'Brien	1999	1996
	Michaël Llodra	2005	2003
	Fabrice Santoro	2005	2003
	Arthur Ashe	1970
	Juan Gisbert	1975
	Manuel Orantes	1975
	Fred McNair	1976
	Bob Hewitt	1977
	Frew McMillan	1977
	Miloslav Mečíř	1987
	Jim Pugh	1988
	Jim Grabb	1989
	Patrick McEnroe	1989
	Jakob Hlasek	1990
	Jan Apell	1994
	Grant Connell	1995
	Patrick Galbraith	1995
	Jonathan Stark	1997
	Donald Johnson	2000
	Piet Norval	2000
	Ellis Ferreira	2001
	Marcel Granollers	2012
	Marc López	2012
	David Marrero	2013
	Fernando Verdasco	2013
	Jean-Julien Rojer	2015
	Horia Tecău	2015
	Henri Kontinen	2016
	John Peers	2016

Records

Most single titles:^[14]

Most doubles titles:^[14]

Most single appearances:

1. Roger Federer – 14 (2002–2015)
2. Andre Agassi – 13 (1988–1991, 1994, 1996, 1998–2003, 2005)
3. Ivan Lendl – 12 (1980–1991)
4. Boris Becker – 11 (1985–1992, 1994–1996)
   Jimmy Connors – 11 (1972–1973, 1977–1984, 1987)
   Pete Sampras – 11 (1990–2000)

See also

• Grand Slam (tennis)
• ATP World Tour Masters 1000
• ATP World Tour 500 series
• ATP World Tour 250 series

References

External links

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