Casper Ruud, Alex de Minaur and Andrey Rublev complete the 2024 Nitto ATP Finals field | ATP Tour
2024 Nitto ATP Finals Qualifications
Ruud, De Minaur and Rublev complete 2024 Nitto ATP Finals field
Read about this year's postseason playoffs
November 05, 2024
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The 2024 Nitto ATP Finals will take place from 10-17 November at the Inalpi Arena.
By ATP staff
With Novak Djokovic unable to compete due to injury, the field for the 2024 Nitto ATP Finals is now set. Casper Ruud, Alex de Minaur and Andrey Rublev have entered the final three singles positions at the end of the season, which will be played at the Inalpi Arena in Turin from 10-17 November.
The stars will join Jannik Sinner, Alexander Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev and Taylor Fritz on the court.
Ruud returns to the year-end tournament two years after claiming one of the best results of his career at the tournament. The Norwegian reached the title decider at the 2022 Nitto ATP Finals and will be making his third appearance at the prestigious event.
De Minaur is set to make his Nitto ATP Finals debut and become the first Australian singles player to compete in a season finals since former PIF ATP Rankings No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt made the final in 2004.
Rublev will make his fifth consecutive appearance at the end of the season. After participating in the last year of the event in London, he has qualified for all four events held in Turin.
This year's Nitto ATP Finals will award $15.25 million in prize money, and the singles champion has a chance to win a record $4.8 million – the biggest prize on the men's tour – if he lifts the trophy without losing a match.
ATP chairman Andrea Gaudenzi “Congratulations to all the players who have earned the right to fight for the final title of the season at the 2024 Nitto ATP Finals. After a great year, the best players in tennis are heading to Turin for what promises to be an unforgettable tournament. With the grand prize for the winner of the men's tour and one of the sport's most prestigious titles on the line, this event is the final stage to close an exciting season.”
All eight players in the field have qualified or competed in the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF. Sinner (2019) and Alcaraz (2021) are previous champions of the event, while De Minaur made two finals (2018-19) and Rublev advanced to the championship match (2017). It's also the first year that all eight singles players are 20 years old since 2010.
Medvedev and Zverev are the two players on the field who have won the Nitto ATP Finals. Medvedev won in the last year of the event in London (2020), while Zverev won in 2018 and 2021.
Sinner, Alcaraz and Medvedev reached No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings. Sinner has already won the ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF honors, becoming the first Italian to achieve this.
The second field is also set. Marcelo Arevalo/Mate Pavic, Marcel Granollers/Horacio Zeballos, Wesley Koolhof/Nikola Mektic, Simone Bolelli/Andrea Vavassori, Max Purcell/Jordan Thompson, Rohan Bopanna/Matthew Ebden, Harri Heliovaara/Henry Patten and Kevin Krawietz/Tim Puetz will compete. title at the Inalpi Arena.
THE ART OF DRAWING
This will be the fourth edition of the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin. The tournament will be held on Thursday 7 November following the pre-tournament press conference, which will start at 12pm CET.
With the honor of the first No.1 in the PIF ATP Rankings, and the most successful doubles team, the singles teams at this year's Nitto ATP Finals will be the Ilie Nastase Group and the John Newcombe Group, while the doubles teams will be Bob Bryan Group and Mike Bryan Group.
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