Next Generation ATP Finals

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Next Generation ATP Finals
Tournament information
Founded2017;7 years ago (2017)
Editions5
Location Milan, Italy (2017–2022)
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2023–2027)
Venue PalaLido (2017–2022)
King Abdullah Sports City (2023–2027)
CategoryExhibition
Surface Hard (indoor)
Draw8S
Prize money US$2,000,000 (2023)
Website nextgenatpfinals.com
Current champions (2023)
Singles Flag of Serbia.svg Hamad Medjedovic

The Next Generation ATP Finals (branded as the Next Gen ATP Finals) is an annual men's professional exhibition tennis tournament organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the best players of the season aged 20 years old or younger. The event debuted in 2017 at the PalaLido in Milan, where it was also staged for the next four editions, before it was moved to King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, beginning in 2023. From 2017 to 2023 the age threshold was 21 years and under. [1]

Contents

Ranking points, prize money and other features

The tournament does not distribute points for the ATP rankings for the participants. The ATP does not count it as an official ATP Tour tournament victory, but matches count towards official win–loss season record. Prize money worth US $2,275,000 is distributed and counts to the players' totals. From the beginning, the tournament regularly has incorporated new and experimental features that may or may not be introduced into other tennis events later on. It pioneered the implementation of electronic line-calling (so called 'Hawk-Eye Live' completely replacing human line-judges) back in 2017. [2] Other experimental features include scoring systems different from recognized tennis matches, players communicating with their coaches via headphones, and so on.

History

Following a competitive bid process, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) announced that the Italian Tennis Federation, in association with the Italian Olympic Committee, would organise a new ATP tournament featuring the world’s top 21-and-under singles players of the ATP Tour season. The first five editions of the Tournament were hosted in Milan, Italy from 2017 to 2022. [3] Already in the first year, a special circumstance occurred. The 20-year-old Alexander Zverev played such a successful season that he was qualified at the same time for the Next Generation ATP Finals and for the ATP Finals of the best eight players from 2017. As the events were dated close and scheduled directly one after the other, the Hamburg native opted for the latter option. [4]

For the 2024 season, the ATP announced an expansion of the Next Gen brand. In addition to lowering the age threshold from 21-and-under to 20-and-under, a Next Gen Accelerator Programme was introduced. This allows Next Gen labelled players who reach the top 350 of the ATP rankings up to 8 opportunities to enter the main draws of ATP Challenger Tour 125 and 100 events. Furthermore, those who reach the top 250 are provided a main draw entry for an ATP 250 event, along with two qualifying opportunities for them. [1]

Format

Played over five days, the format for the competition consists of two round robin groups, followed by the semi-finals and final. Played on a singles-only court, the competition features the best seven qualified 20-and-under players of the season, plus one wild card. [5]

Rules

A number of rule changes from the normal ATP format are used for the competition: [5]

Qualification

The Top 7 players in the Emirates ATP Race to Jeddah (formerly the Race to Milan) will qualify. The eighth spot will be reserved for a wild card, the winner of a qualifying tournament. Eligible players must be 20-and-under as of the end of that calendar year. [7]

Results

Singles

VenueYearChampionRunner-upScore in final
Milan 2017 Flag of South Korea.svg Chung Hyeon Flag of Russia.svg Andrey Rublev 3–4(5–7), 4–3(7–2), 4–2, 4–2
2018 Flag of Greece.svg Stefanos Tsitsipas Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alex de Minaur 2–4, 4–1, 4–3(7–3), 4–3(7–3)
2019 Flag of Italy.svg Jannik Sinner Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alex de Minaur 4–2, 4–1, 4–2
2020 No competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Flag of Spain.svg Carlos Alcaraz Flag of the United States.svg Sebastian Korda 4–3(7–5), 4–2, 4–2
2022 Flag of the United States.svg Brandon Nakashima Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Jiří Lehečka 4–3(7–5), 4–3(8–6), 4–2
Jeddah 2023 Flag of Serbia.svg Hamad Medjedovic Flag of France.svg Arthur Fils 3–4(6–8), 4–1, 4–2, 3–4(9–11), 4–1

Next Gen ATP Finals appearances

Key
WWinner
FRunner-up
SFLost in semi-finals
RRLost in Round Robin group stage
(A)Alternate (did not play from the beginning)
(A')Alternate (played from the beginning, original player withdrew before the tournament)
(R)Withdrew during the tournament
(WC)Entered as a Wildcard
(NP)Did not play
↓Older format (2017–2018 only)↓
3rdWon third place match
4thLost third place match
Note

When there are more than eight players listed for any year, it is usually due to withdrawal by one or more players because of injury. When a player withdraws early in the tournament, his place is filled by the next-highest qualifier. Participants are listed in order of number of appearances and best result. The 2020 edition was not played due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Player#Best
result		Years
Year of best result underlined (Wins in bold)		Qualified
but not played		W–L
Flag of the United States.svg Brandon Nakashima 2W 2021, 2022 –7–2
Flag of Russia.svg Andrey Rublev 2F 2017, 2018 –6–4
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alex de Minaur 2F 2018, 2019 –8–2
Flag of the United States.svg Frances Tiafoe 2SF 2018, 2019 –3–4
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Dominic Stricker 2SF 2022 (A'), 2023 –4–4
Flag of Italy.svg Lorenzo Musetti 2RR 2021, 2022 2023 2–4
Flag of South Korea.svg Chung Hyeon 1W 2017 –5–0
Flag of Greece.svg Stefanos Tsitsipas 1W 2018 2019 5–0
Flag of Italy.svg Jannik Sinner 1W 2019 (WC) [8] 2021, 2022 4–1
Flag of Spain.svg Carlos Alcaraz 1W 2021 2022, 2023 5–0
Flag of Serbia.svg Hamad Medjedovic 1W 2023 –5–0
Flag of the United States.svg Sebastian Korda 1F 2021 –4–1
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Jiří Lehečka 1F 2022 –3–2
Flag of France.svg Arthur Fils 1F 2023 –4–1
Flag of Russia.svg Daniil Medvedev 13rd 2017 (A')–2–2
Flag of Croatia.svg Borna Ćorić 14th 2017 –3–1
Flag of Spain.svg Jaume Munar 14th 2018 (A')–1–4
Flag of Serbia.svg Miomir Kecmanović 1SF 2019 (A')–2–2
Flag of Argentina.svg Sebastián Báez 1SF 2021 (A')–2–2
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jack Draper 1SF 2022 –2–2
Flag of France.svg Luca Van Assche 1SF 2023 –2–2
Flag of Russia.svg Karen Khachanov 1RR 2017 –1–2
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Denis Shapovalov 1RR 2017 2018, 2019 1–2
Flag of the United States.svg Jared Donaldson 1RR 2017 –0–3
Flag of Italy.svg Gianluigi Quinzi 1RR 2017 (WC)–0–3
Flag of the United States.svg Taylor Fritz 1RR 2018 –1–2
Flag of Italy.svg Liam Caruana 1RR 2018 (WC)–0–3
Flag of Poland.svg Hubert Hurkacz 1RR 2018 (A')–1–2
Flag of France.svg Ugo Humbert 1RR 2019 –1–2
Flag of Norway.svg Casper Ruud 1RR 2019 –1–2
Flag of Sweden.svg Mikael Ymer 1RR 2019 (A')–1–2
Flag of Spain.svg Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 1RR 2019 (A')–1–2
Flag of Argentina.svg Juan Manuel Cerúndolo 1RR 2021 –0–3
Flag of Denmark.svg Holger Rune 1RR 2021 (A') 2022, 2023 1–2
Flag of France.svg Hugo Gaston 1RR 2021 (A')–0–3
Flag of Italy.svg Francesco Passaro 1RR 2022 (A')–1–2
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Tseng Chun-hsin 1RR 2022 –0–3
Flag of Italy.svg Matteo Arnaldi 1RR 2022 (A')–0–3
Flag of Italy.svg Flavio Cobolli 1RR 2023 –1–2
Flag of Italy.svg Luca Nardi 1RR 2023 –1–2
Flag of Jordan.svg Abdullah Shelbayh 1RR 2023 (WC)–1–2
Flag of the United States.svg Alex Michelsen 1RR 2023 –0–3
Flag of Germany.svg Alexander Zverev 0–– 2017, 2018 0–0
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Félix Auger-Aliassime 0–– 2019, 2021 0–0
Flag of the United States.svg Jenson Brooksby 0–– 2021 0–0
Flag of the United States.svg Ben Shelton 0–– 2023 0–0

Subsequent achievements of Next Gen ATP Finals players

Bold: Player won the tournament
Italics: Player qualified that particular year but did not participate.

Rankings

World No. 1s

PlayerNext Gen appearanceAchieved World No. 1Ref.
Flag of Russia.svg Daniil Medvedev 2017 28 February 2022 [9]
Flag of Spain.svg Carlos Alcaraz 2021 12 September 2022 [10]
Flag of Italy.svg Jannik Sinner 2019 , 2021 , 2022 10 June 2024

Top Ten

PlayerNext Gen appearanceHighest RankingRef.
Flag of Norway.svg Casper Ruud 2019 2 [11]
Flag of Germany.svg Alexander Zverev 2017, 2018 [12]
Flag of Greece.svg Stefanos Tsitsipas 2018 , 2019 3 [13]
Flag of Denmark.svg Holger Rune 2021, 2022 4
Flag of the United States.svg Taylor Fritz 2018 5
Flag of Russia.svg Andrey Rublev 2017, 2018
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Félix Auger-Aliassime 2019, 2021 6
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alex de Minaur 2018, 2019
Flag of Poland.svg Hubert Hurkacz 2018
Flag of Russia.svg Karen Khachanov 2017 8
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Denis Shapovalov 2017, 2018, 2019 10
Flag of the United States.svg Frances Tiafoe 2018, 2019

Grand Slams

Grand Slam winners

PlayerNext Gen appearanceGrand Slam titles wonRef.
AU FR WB US Total
Flag of Russia.svg Daniil Medvedev 2017 ——— 2021 1 [14]
Flag of Spain.svg Carlos Alcaraz 2021 — 2024 2023, 2024 2022 4 [15]
Flag of Italy.svg Jannik Sinner 2019 2024 —— 2024 2 [16]

Grand Slam finalists

  • Number of titles won are within parentheses
PlayerNext Gen appearancesGrand Slam finalsRef.
AU FR WB US Total
Flag of Russia.svg Daniil Medvedev 2017 2021, 2022, 2024 —— 2019, 2021 , 2023 6 (1) [14]
Flag of Germany.svg Alexander Zverev 2017 , 2018 — 2024 — 2020 2 (0) [17]
Flag of Greece.svg Stefanos Tsitsipas 2018 , 2019 2023 2021 ——2 (0) [18]
Flag of Norway.svg Casper Ruud 2019 — 2022, 2023 — 2022 3 (0) [19]
Flag of Spain.svg Carlos Alcaraz 2021 — 2024 2023 , 2024 2022 4 (4) [15]
Flag of Italy.svg Jannik Sinner 2019 2024 —— 2024 2 (2) [16]

Olympic medalists

PlayerNext Gen appearancesOlympic medalsRef.
Gold medal icon.svg GoldSilver medal icon.svg SilverBronze medal icon.svg BronzeTotal
Flag of Germany.svg Alexander Zverev 2017 , 2018 2020 ——1 [17]
Flag of Italy.svg Lorenzo Musetti 2021 , 2022 —— 2024 1 [20]
Flag of Spain.svg Carlos Alcaraz 2021 — 2024 —1 [15]

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