ATP Finals 2024: Date, UK start time, format and how to follow as Novak Djokovic pulls out after injury
The ATP Finals mark the end of the Tour for the year and some of the world’s best tennis stars will be competing for glory in Italy.
It is a unique event that puts the eight highest-ranked men’s singles players and doubles teams on the ATP Tour up against each other.
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Last year, Novak Djokovic made it back-to-back titles after beating Carlos Alcaraz on the way to seeing off Jannik Sinner in the showpiece.
However, the defending champion, already qualified as the sixth most successful player on the ATP tour, has since withdrawn through injury.
2024 ATP Finals: Date and how to follow
The ATP Finals started on Sunday, November 10 and will run until Sunday, November 17.
It is being held in Turin, Italy on the hard courts at the Inalpi Arena.
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Play will be with the first getting starting at 11:30pm local time and the second at 6pm local time.
In the UK, that means sessions will get started at 10:30am and 5pm.
The event will be broadcast live on Sky Sports Tennis. You can watch the action on TV or online on Sky Go or NOW and more details can be found .
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2024 ATP Finals: Format and players
The ATP tournament is played in a round-robin and finals format.
The group stage sees the eight players split into two groups of four before each player plays the other three members of their group.
To decide the groups, the top-seeded player is placed in Group A while the second-seeded player is placed in Group B.
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The rest of the players will then be drawn into a group each and find out who they will face.
Once the round-robin is completed, the winner of Group A takes on the runner-up of Group B and vice versa.
The winners of the semi-finals then compete in the final for the title.
Each singles game is played over three tie-break sets while each doubles game is made up of two sets and a match tie-break.
The eight seeds are determined by the ATP Race to Turin rankings.
Ilie Nastase Group
Jannik Sinner, Daniil Medvedev, Taylor Fritz, Alex de Minaur
John Newcombe Group
Alexander Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz, Casper Ruud, Andrey Rublev
Past ATP Finals champions
All winners over the last decade
- 2014 - Novak Djokovic
- 2015 - Novak Djokovic
- 2016 - Andy Murray
- 2017 - Grigor Dimitrov
- 2018 - Alexander Zverev
- 2019 - Stefanos Tsitsipas
- 2020 - Daniil Medvedev
- 2021 - Alexander Zverev
- 2022 - Novak Djokovic
- 2023 - Novak Djokovic
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2024 ATP Finals: Schedule
All times UK
Round robin
- Sunday, November 10 - 10:30am / 5pm
- Monday, November 11 - 10:30am / 5pm
- Tuesday, November 12 - 10:30am / 5pm
- Wednesday, November 13 - 10:30am / 5pm
- Thursday, November 14 - 10:30am / 5pm
- Friday, November 15 - 10:30am / 5pm
Semi-finals
- Saturday, November 16 - 11pm / 5pm
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Finals
- Sunday, November 17 - 2pm
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