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Next Gen ATP Finals
Current event 2025 Next Gen ATP Finals
ATP Tour
Founded2017; 9 years ago (2017)
Editions8
LocationMilan, Italy (2017–2022)
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2023–2025)
VenueFiera Milano (2017–2018), PalaLido (2019–2022)
King Abdullah Sports City Stadium (2023–2025)
CategoryExhibition
SurfaceHard (indoor)
Draw8S
Prize moneyUS$2,101,250 (2025)
Websitenextgenatpfinals.com
Current champions (2024)
SinglesBrazil João Fonseca

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 Fiera Milano.[1] After two years it was moved to the PalaLido in Milan, where it was staged for the next three editions (not held in 2020). It was then moved to King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, where it was held from 2023 until 2025. From 2017 to 2023 the age threshold was 21 years and under.[2]

Ranking points, prize money and other features

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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.[3] Other experimental features include scoring systems different from recognized tennis matches, players communicating with their coaches via headphones, and so on.

History

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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.[4] 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 Gen 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 German opted for the latter option.[5]

In 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 ATP Challenger Tour 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.[2]

Format

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Played over five days, the format for the competition consists of two round robin groups, followed by the semifinals and final. Played on a singles-only court, the competition features the best eight qualified 20-and-under players of the season (until 2023 it featured the best seven players plus one wildcard).[6][7]

Rules

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A number of rule changes from the normal ATP format are used for the competition:[7]

Qualification

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The Top 8 eligible players, 20-and-under as of the end of that calendar year, in the ATP Race to Jeddah (formerly the Race to Milan) qualify.[9] Until the 2023 edition, the Top 7 qualified and the eighth spot was reserved for a wildcard, the winner of a qualifying tournament.[10]

Results

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Singles

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Venue Year Champion Runner-up Score
Milan 2017 South Korea Chung Hyeon Russia Andrey Rublev 3–4(5–7), 4–3(7–2), 4–2, 4–2
2018 Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas Australia Alex de Minaur 2–4, 4–1, 4–3(7–3), 4–3(7–3)
2019 Italy Jannik Sinner Australia Alex de Minaur 4–2, 4–1, 4–2
2020 No competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Spain Carlos Alcaraz United States Sebastian Korda 4–3(7–5), 4–2, 4–2
2022 United States Brandon Nakashima Czech Republic Jiří Lehečka 4–3(7–5), 4–3(8–6), 4–2
Jeddah 2023 Serbia Hamad Medjedovic France Arthur Fils 3–4(6–8), 4–1, 4–2, 3–4(9–11), 4–1
2024 Brazil João Fonseca United States Learner Tien 2–4, 4–3(10–8), 4–0, 4–2
2025

Next Gen ATP Finals appearances

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Key
W Winner
F Runner-up
SF Lost in semi-finals
RR Lost 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)↓
3rd Won third place match
4th Lost 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 cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Player # Best
result 		Years
Year of best result underlined (Wins in bold) 		Qualified
but not played 		W–L
United States Brandon Nakashima 2 W 2021, 2022 – 7–2
Australia Alex de Minaur 2 F 2018, 2019 – 8–2
Russia Andrey Rublev 2 F 2017, 2018 – 6–4
France Arthur Fils 2 F 2023, 2024 – 5–3
Switzerland Dominic Stricker 2 SF 2022(A'), 2023 – 4–4
France Luca Van Assche 2 SF 2023, 2024 – 4–4
United States Frances Tiafoe 2 SF 2018, 2019 – 3–4
United States Alex Michelsen 2 SF 2023, 2024 – 3–4
United States Nishesh Basavareddy 2 SF 2024, 2025 – 3–4
Italy Lorenzo Musetti 2 RR 2021, 2022 2023 2–4
South Korea Chung Hyeon 1 W 2017 – 5–0
Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas 1 W 2018 2019 5–0
Italy Jannik Sinner 1 W 2019 (WC)[11] 2021, 2022 4–1
Spain Carlos Alcaraz 1 W 2021 2022, 2023 5–0
Serbia Hamad Medjedovic 1 W 2023 – 5–0
Brazil João Fonseca 1 W 2024 – 5–0
United States Sebastian Korda 1 F 2021 – 4–1
Czech Republic Jiří Lehečka 1 F 2022 – 3–2
United States Learner Tien 1 F 2024 – 3–2
Russia Daniil Medvedev 1 3rd 2017(A') – 2–2
Croatia Borna Ćorić 1 4th 2017 – 3–1
Spain Jaume Munar 1 4th 2018(A') – 1–4
Serbia Miomir Kecmanović 1 SF 2019(A') – 2–2
Argentina Sebastián Báez 1 SF 2021(A') – 2–2
Error creating thumbnail: Jack Draper 1 SF 2022 – 2–2
Norway Nicolai Budkov Kjær 1 SF 2025 – 2–2
Russia Karen Khachanov 1 RR 2017 – 1–2
Canada Denis Shapovalov 1 RR 2017 2018, 2019 1–2
United States Jared Donaldson 1 RR 2017 – 0–3
Italy Gianluigi Quinzi 1 RR 2017(WC) – 0–3
United States Taylor Fritz 1 RR 2018 – 1–2
Poland Hubert Hurkacz 1 RR 2018(A') – 1–2
Italy Liam Caruana 1 RR 2018(WC) – 0–3
France Ugo Humbert 1 RR 2019 – 1–2
Norway Casper Ruud 1 RR 2019 – 1–2
Sweden Mikael Ymer 1 RR 2019(A') – 1–2
Spain Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 1 RR 2019(A') – 1–2
Denmark Holger Rune 1 RR 2021(A') 2022, 2023 1–2
Argentina Juan Manuel Cerúndolo 1 RR 2021 – 0–3
France Hugo Gaston 1 RR 2021(A') – 0–3
Italy Francesco Passaro 1 RR 2022(A') – 1–2
Chinese Taipei Tseng Chun-hsin 1 RR 2022 – 0–3
Italy Matteo Arnaldi 1 RR 2022(A') – 0–3
Italy Flavio Cobolli 1 RR 2023 – 1–2
Italy Luca Nardi 1 RR 2023 – 1–2
Jordan Abdullah Shelbayh 1 RR 2023(WC) – 1–2
Czech Republic Jakub Menšík 1 RR 2024 – 0–3
China Shang Juncheng 1 RR 2024 – 0–3
Spain Rafael Jódar 1 RR 2025 – 2–1
Croatia Dino Prižmić 1 RR 2025 – 1–2
Spain Martín Landaluce 1 RR 2025 – 0–3
Germany Justin Engel 1 RR 2025 – 0–3
Germany Alexander Zverev 0 – – 2017, 2018 0–0
Canada Félix Auger-Aliassime 0 – – 2019, 2021 0–0
United States Jenson Brooksby 0 – – 2021 0–0
United States Ben Shelton 0 – – 2023 0–0

Subsequent achievements of Next Gen ATP Finals players

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

Rankings

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World No. 1s

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Player Next Gen appearance Achieved world No. 1 Ref.
Russia Daniil Medvedev 2017 28 February 2022 [12]
Spain Carlos Alcaraz 2021 12 September 2022 [13]
Italy Jannik Sinner 2019, 2021, 2022 10 June 2024

Top Ten

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Player Next Gen appearance Highest ranking Ref.
Norway Casper Ruud 2019 2 [14]
Germany Alexander Zverev 2017, 2018 [15]
Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas 2018, 2019 3 [16]
Denmark Holger Rune 2021, 2022 4
United States Taylor Fritz 2018
Error creating thumbnail: Jack Draper 2022
Russia Andrey Rublev 2017, 2018 5
Canada Félix Auger-Aliassime 2019, 2021
United States Ben Shelton –
Australia Alex de Minaur 2018, 2019 6
Poland Hubert Hurkacz 2018
Russia Karen Khachanov 2017 8
Canada Denis Shapovalov 2017, 2018, 2019 10
United States Frances Tiafoe 2018, 2019

Grand Slam tournaments

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Grand Slam tournament winners

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Player Next Gen appearance Grand Slam tournaments won Ref.
AU FR WB US Total
Russia Daniil Medvedev 2017 — — — 2021 1 [17]
Italy Jannik Sinner 2019 2024, 2025 — 2025 2024 4 [18]
Spain Carlos Alcaraz 2021 — 2024, 2025 2023, 2024 2022,2025 6 [19]

Grand Slam tournament finalists

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  • Number of titles won are within parentheses
Player Next Gen appearances Grand Slam tournament finals Ref.
AU FR WB US Total
Russia Daniil Medvedev 2017 2021, 2022, 2024 — — 2019, 2021, 2023 6 (1) [17]
Germany Alexander Zverev 2017, 2018 2025 2024 — 2020 3 (0) [20]
United States Taylor Fritz 2018 — — — 2024 1 (0) [21]
Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas 2018, 2019 2023 2021 — — 2 (0) [22]
Norway Casper Ruud 2019 — 2022, 2023 — 2022 3 (0) [23]
Italy Jannik Sinner 2019 2024, 2025 2025 2025 2024, 2025 6 (4) [18]
Spain Carlos Alcaraz 2021 — 2024, 2025 2023, 2024, 2025 2022, 2025 7 (6) [19]

Olympic medalists

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Player Next Gen appearances Olympic medals Ref.
File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Total
Germany Alexander Zverev 2017, 2018 2020 — — 1 [20]
Spain Carlos Alcaraz 2021 — 2024 — 1 [19]
Italy Lorenzo Musetti 2021, 2022 — — 2024 1 [24]

See also

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References

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