Turin in November, indoors, with nobody left to beat but the other seven
The ATP Finals is the season-ending championship of the ATP Tour and the most significant event in the men’s year after the four majors. It gathers the top eight singles players and the top eight doubles teams on the basis of their results across the season, with the eighth place reserved, if required, for a player or team who won a major that year and finished ranked between ninth and twentieth.
It has been held in Turin since 2021 and is contracted there through 2028, at the Inalpi Arena, formerly the Palasport Olimpico. This is the single most important practical fact about the event, because it was played at The O2 in London from 2009 until 2020 and a great many people still look for it there.
The format is unlike anything else on the tour. The eight singles players and eight doubles teams are divided into two groups of four, and within each group everyone plays three round-robin matches. The top two from each group then contest knockout semi-finals and a final. It means no player is eliminated by a single bad afternoon, and it means every match in the group stage carries consequences for somebody else’s qualification.
The stakes are real rather than ceremonial. A champion who wins the title without losing a round-robin match earns the maximum of 1,500 ranking points, which is enough to reorder the top of the game in a single week. The event was first held in 1970, shortly after the beginning of the Open Era, when it was the Masters Grand Prix; it became the ATP Tour World Championships in 1990, the Tennis Masters Cup at the end of 1999, the ATP World Tour Finals in 2009, and simply the ATP Finals in 2017.
Novak Djokovic holds the record for the most singles titles with seven. In doubles, Peter Fleming and John McEnroe jointly hold the record with seven, won consecutively between 1978 and 1984 — a run that is unlikely to be approached again given how doubles partnerships now form and dissolve.
The most recent champion is Jannik Sinner, who took the 2025 title in front of a home crowd, with Harri Heliövaara and Henry Patten winning the doubles. The Italian dimension is not incidental to the event any more: the combination of a home player at the top of the game and a host city that has held the tournament for half a decade has given the week a following that the London years never quite produced.
Tell us which sessions you want and we will hold seats and a base in Turin for the week
The men’s autumn has two anchors and we arrange them together: the Laver Cup in late September and the ATP Finals in November. Corporate hosting, client programmes and delegation logistics across the week run through our Business Concierge team.
The host city is a large part of the argument for going. Turin is the capital of Piedmont, and November is the right month to be there — truffle season is in progress in the Langhe an hour to the south, the Barolo and Barbaresco villages are at their quietest, and the city’s cafés and arcades are built for cold weather.
The tennis is indoors, which means the week is weather-proof in a way that no summer event can be, and the sessions are scheduled so that mornings are free. Most of our clients build two days outside the city into the week, usually in the wine country, and treat the arena as the fixed point rather than the whole trip.
It is also the last event of the season, which changes the atmosphere. Everyone in the building knows there is nothing after it, and the players arrive with a year’s accumulated form and fatigue. That combination produces tennis that is either extraordinary or strangely flat, and rarely anything in between.
In November, at the end of the ATP Tour season
In Turin, at the Inalpi Arena. The tournament is contracted to the city through 2028
No. London hosted from 2009 to 2020 at The O2. The event moved to Turin in 2021
The top eight singles players and top eight doubles teams of the season, with one place reserved for a major winner ranked ninth to twentieth
Two groups of four, three round-robin matches each, then knockout semi-finals and a final
Four to six months. The field is not known until the final weeks, so seats are taken before the players are
The Inalpi Arena sits close to the city centre, and Turin runs extra shuttle services throughout tournament week.
Yes, the 2026 edition is scheduled for 8-15 November, matching the tournament’s usual mid-November slot.
Public sales typically open in the spring, several months before the eight qualifiers are confirmed.
Nitto Denko has been the tournament’s title sponsor since 2017, lending its name to the official branding.
Not since the 2007 move to round-robin groups, the eight-man draw and knockout semi-finals have stayed consistent since.
