ATP Finals 2024: Qualification, format, players, prize money, and schedule

With the WTA Finals wrapped up, it's time to gear up for the ATP Finals. The world’s top men’s players are ready to compete in the season’s final event. Here’s everything you need to know about ATP Finals 2024, compiled by the Dailysports team.

ATP Finals 2024: Qualification Criteria

The tournament features both singles and doubles competitions, with the same selection criteria applying to both. To be eligible, players must have competed in at least eight ATP 1000 or ATP 500 events over the season.

Qualification is based on the following criteria:

• ATP’s Top 7 ranked players
• Any player or pair that won a Grand Slam title during the season but is ranked between eighth and twentieth
• The second-highest-ranked player or pair that won a Grand Slam this season, ranked between eighth and twentieth, if any of the top seven withdraws

ATP Finals 2024: Participants

The lineup for the singles draw was set almost at the last minute, with the withdrawal of defending champion Novak Djokovic due to injury.

The singles participants are:

• Jannik Sinner
• Alexander Zverev
• Carlos Alcaraz
• Daniil Medvedev
• Taylor Fritz
• Casper Ruud
• Andrey Rublev
• Alex de Minaur

The doubles lineup includes:

• Marcelo Arévalo / 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
• Kevin Krawietz / Tim Puetz

ATP Finals 2024: Format

The format for singles and doubles competitions is identical. Players are divided into two groups of four. Each player or team competes against every other in their group. The top two from each group advance to the semifinals, where the first-place finisher in one group plays the second-place finisher in the other, and vice versa. Semifinal winners move on to the final.

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ATP Finals 2024: Prize Money

Unlike the women’s tournament, which has standardized participation prizes, the ATP Finals feature a tiered prize structure based on performance.

For one match played, singles players earn $165,000 and doubles teams receive $67,100. Participating in three matches raises these amounts to $331,000 in singles and $134,000 in doubles.

The maximum prize money for an undefeated run is $4.8 million for singles and $959,000 for doubles.

ATP Finals 2024: Schedule

Group stage matches will be held from November 10 to November 15. The playoffs kick off the following day, with semifinals on November 16 and finals on November 17.

Both tournaments are guaranteed to have new champions this year, as Djokovic is unable to defend his title due to injury, and the doubles team of Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury did not qualify for the event.