2024 Nitto ATP Finals Qualifications
The Nitto ATP Finals doubles field is set!
Koolhof/Mektic, Bopanna/Ebden, Krawietz/Puetz and Heliovaara/Patten qualify
October 28, 2024
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Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektic will compete together in the Nitto ATP Finals for the second time.
By ATP staff
The doubles field for the 2024 Nitto ATP Finals has been set. After Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow lost the Rolex Paris Masters, Wesley Koolhof/Nikola Mektic, Rohan Bopanna/Matthew Ebden, Kevin Krawietz/Tim Puetz and Harri Heliovaara/Henry Patten all qualified to end the season.
Those teams join Marcelo Arevalo/Mate Pavic, Marcel Granollers/Horacio Zeballos, Simone Bolelli/Andrea Vavassori and Max Purcell/Jordan Thompson in Turin. The year-end tournaments will be held at the Inalpi Arena from 10-17 November.
Koolhof and Mektic, the 2020 Nitto ATP Finals champions, qualified to end the season for the second time as a team. Four years ago, the Dutch-Croatian duo lifted the trophy at the O2 in London.
They won four titles in 2024, winning in Auckland, Rotterdam, Indian Wells and Shanghai. Two of those events, Indian Wells and Shanghai, are ATP Masters 1000 tournaments. Koolhof and Mektic also made the finals in 's-Hertogenbosch and Basel.
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Bopanna and Ebden will compete together in the Nitto ATP Finals for the second consecutive year. They started the year on a high by winning the Australian Open. They also won in Miami, made the final of Adelaide and the semi-final of Roland Garros.
Semi-finalist in Turin last year in India and Australia, when he lost to Granollers and Zeballos. Bopanna was the runner-up at the Nitto ATP Finals, advancing to the championship match in 2012 with Mahesh Bhupathi and 2015 with Florin Mergea. He also participated in this event in 2011 with Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi.
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Krawietz and Puetz will play in the year-end tournament as a duo for the first time. Krawietz has competed in the tournament each season from 2019-21, twice with Andreas Mies (2019-20) and Horia Tecau (2021). Puetz will make his debut.
The Germans won in Hamburg, reached the grand final of the US Open and also made championships in Brisbane and Halle. They fought their way to the semifinals in Indian Wells and Miami, and also reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and Wimbledon.
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Heliovaara and Patten began their partnership during the clay court season and the pairing has paid dividends. After winning in Marrakech and Lyon, they went on to make a run at Wimbledon in their first major tournament.
The Finnish and British team also won in Stockholm and reached the finals in Bucharest and Beijing. Heliovaara competed in the 2022 Nitto ATP Finals against Lloyd Glasspool.
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