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New ground will be broken Sunday at Inalpi Arena no matter who lifts the Nitto ATP Finals trophy between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner.

Since both players enter the championship clash undefeated, the winner will depart Turin with a record $5,071,000, the richest payout in the event’s history.

Last year, Sinner claimed the crown without dropping a set and collected $4,881,100 — then the largest prize awarded at the event.

This edition, the winner is guaranteed to earn more than $5 million in winnings because both Alcaraz and Sinner advanced through their group without losing a match.

The highly anticipated singles final between Alcaraz and Sinner is scheduled for not before 6 p.m. 

Day 7 of the 2025 Nitto ATP Finals saw Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz earn semi-final wins on Saturday in Turin.

Sinner defeated Alex de Minaur to charge into his third consecutive final at the tournament. Alcaraz raced past Felix Auger-Aliassime to reach his maiden title match at the season finale.

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In August, Felix Auger-Aliassime was No. 27 in the PIF ATP Rankings. Three months later, he closed his season inside the Top 5 after advancing to the semi-finals at the Nitto ATP Finals.

The 25-year-old produced a blistering finish to the year, hitting a career-high ranking and establishing himself as a major force at the season-ending showpiece in Turin.

“[I feel] back where I belong. Back where I feel like I can play with more consistency,” Auger-Aliassime said on Saturday night after losing to Carlos Alcaraz. “I am really happy to be part of this tournament, to have played that way in the last few months…

“It's great progression I've had this year. I've always believed that since I was a kid, my ambition was to win Grand Slams and be No. 1 in the world. I've had ups and downs, but honestly through it all, I always believed I could be there. I still believe today. Now it's a matter of doing the right things to improve. If I do, we'll see where that leaves me.”

We’ve been building towards this moment for some time.

From their respective titles as emerging talents at the Next Gen ATP Finals to their Grand Slam sweep during the past two seasons, it all adds up to this moment Sunday when World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz and No. 2 Jannik Sinner face off in the Nitto ATP Finals title match (6 p.m. CET/noon ET) for the first time inside Turin's Inalpi Arena.

As if to emphasise their dominance, Alcaraz and Sinner dropped a combined 13 games in their respective resounding semi-final wins Saturday over Felix Auger-Aliassime and Alex de Minaur.

Alcaraz will be looking to crown his season by adding a personal-best ninth title – and first at the season finale – just three days after claiming ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF honours for the second time. But he know nothing will be handed to him Sunday.
"It is great facing Jannik," Alcaraz said, looking ahead to the final. "If it was someone else I wouldn't mind to be honest, but it is great…I have to play my plan A if I want to beat him, if I want to win the tournament. We will both raise our levels to the top, which is great for the fans and the crowd."

Sinner, who most recently was No. 1 for a week after winning the Rolex Paris Masters, looks to become an undefeated champion for the second straight year by winning his 10th consecutive match in Turin and extending his indoor winning steak to 31 matches.

Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner will face each other in the title match of the 2025 Nitto ATP Finals Sunday, 6 p.m. CST/12 p.m. ET.

Sunday’s match in Turin will mark their seventh consecutive meeting in a tournament final. Alcaraz won their most recent encounter at the US Open, where the Spaniard defeated Sinner in four sets to clinch the title. With the victory, he improved to 10-5 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series.

Alcaraz is aiming to win his maiden trophy at the prestigious season finale. The 22-year-old clinched ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF honours by going 3-0 in the group stage matches. He holds a 71-8 record on the season, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index, and will be playing in his 32nd tour-level final, chasing his ninth trophy of the year.

Defending champion Sinner is set to compete in his third consecutive final at the tournament and is on a 30-match winning streak on indoor hard courts. The 24-year-old has not dropped a set or his serve all week and is aiming to capture his sixth title of the season. The Italian has won only one of his five matches against Alcaraz this year, with his lone victory coming in the Wimbledon championship match.

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Being in the same sentence as Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic is almost always a good thing. That is certainly the case this week for Jannik Sinner.

By reaching the championship match at the Nitto ATP Finals on Saturday, the Italian joined Federer and Djokovic as the only players to reach the final at all four majors and the Nitto ATP Finals in the same season.

Federer did it in 2006 and 2007, before Djokovic accomplished the feat in 2015 and 2023. The common thread between those four? Federer and Djokovic won the Nitto ATP Finals on each occasion.

That is not all that Sinner has going for him at Inalpi Arena. The home favourite has proven a dominant force in Turin over the past two seasons.

Since beginning last year’s Nitto ATP Finals, the San Candido native has not lost a set in nine matches at the season finale. In 2024, he did not drop more than four games in a set.

Carlos Alcaraz advanced to the championship match at the Nitto ATP Finals for the first time on Saturday evening in Turin, where he ended the run of a recently resurgent Felix Auger-Aliassime to set a seismic final against his main rival Jannik Sinner.

Alcaraz received the ATP Year-end No. 1 presented by PIF trophy on Friday and celebrated that achievement by putting on a show against Auger-Aliassime. The 22-year-old was a man on a mission in front of the capacity crowd in Inalpi Arena, producing several jaw-dropping moments to earn a 6-2, 6-4 victory after one hour and 23 minutes.

“I felt like I could do everything on court,” Alcaraz said on his first-set display. “It didn’t matter if I did forehand down the line, drop shot or backhand down the line, I felt that everything was going to be in. I think that confidence helped through the whole match, pushing him to the limit, pushing him to do something different and I am happy that I continued playing such great tennis.”

Into a Tour-leading 11th final of the year, the top seed is the first Spaniard to reach the championship match at the prestigious year-end event since Rafael Nadal in 2013. Alcaraz is trying to become the first player from his country to lift the trophy since Alex Corretja in 1998.

Joe Salisbury moved to within one win of capturing his third Nitto ATP Finals trophy on Saturday when he teamed with Neal Skupski to overcome Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool 6-7(3), 6-3, 10-8.

Cash and Glasspool clinched Year-End ATP Doubles No. 1 presented by PIF honours earlier this week following their standout season that featured seven titles. However, they were unable to bookend their year with an appearance in the championship match in Turin, with Salisbury and Skupski edging a dramatic semi-final in one hour and 31 minutes.

Salisbury has now won his past 14 matches at the Nitto ATP Finals, having triumphed in Turin in 2022 and 2023 with Rajeev Ram. The 33-year-old did not qualify for the tournament last year. Skupski is into the final at the season-end event for the first time and he and Salisbury will face Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten in the final on Sunday at 3pm local time (CET).

In a tight clash, little separated the teams in the first set, with just the one break point on offer, leaving a tie-break to decide the opener. Cash and Glasspool played the more proactive tennis in the breaker and struck a few bullet returns to lead.

The latter stages of Kyle Edmund’s career may have been hampered by injuries, but the former No. 14 in the PIF ATP Rankings is not ready to let the tough moments dominate as he reflects on his 13-year professional career.

The 30-year-old Briton announced his retirement in August after a series of physical issues that included one surgery a year in 2020, 2021, and 2022. Although his retirement decision is just three months old, Edmund already feels happy to focus on his experiences as an elite performer on the world stage.

“You definitely look back with more positivity [with time],” he told ATPTour.com in Turin, where he and seven other recently retired ATP Tour stars were honoured in a special ceremony on Friday night at the Nitto ATP Finals. “For me, when I was ending [my career], it was a bit of a negative because something is coming to an end that you are so passionate about and so invested in. But you can look back and enjoy those things.”

Edmund turned pro in 2012, the year that Andy Murray ended Great Britain’s 76-year wait for a men’s singles major champion at the US Open. Within three years, Edmund was making more British tennis history alongside Murray in the Davis Cup: the 20-year-old made his debut for his country in the 2015 final against Belgium, just three months after he broke the Top 100 for the first time, as Great Britain won its first title for 79 years.

Renowned for his huge forehand, which combined raw power with vicious whipped topspin, Edmund went on to win two ATP 250 titles — in Antwerp in 2018 and New York in 2020 — while his standout moment at the majors came at the 2018 Australian Open. He defeated then-World No. 12 Kevin Anderson and No. 3 Grigor Dimitrov en route to the semi-finals in Melbourne, where he fell to Marin Cilic.

Alex de Minaur says he knows how to beat Jannik Sinner. It's just the execution that's the challenge.

"I know how to beat him. It's just not that easy to do, right? You've got to hit the ball very hard, very flat, very deep and very close to the lines,” De Minaur said following his semi-final exit against the Italian at the Nitto ATP Finals on Saturday. “It is something that I try to do, but it's obviously not the easiest thing to do.

“I do think for me to have genuine chances, I need to serve well throughout the whole match. My serve dropped a little bit and could have been better.”

De Minaur now trails Sinner 0-13 in the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head series but did hold his own throughout much of the first set in their latest clash in Turin. The Australian led 5-4 in the first set but was broken when serving at 5-5 and from there it was largely one-way traffic.

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Jannik Sinner powered past Ben Shelton on Friday at the Rolex Paris Masters to reach the semi-finals of the French ATP Masters 1000 event for the first time and continue his push to return to World No. 1.

The second seed delivered a statement in his 400th tour-level match, ousting the American 6-3, 6-3 to extend his indoor winning streak to 24, dating back to November 2023. Should Sinner claim his fifth trophy this season — and first ATP Masters 1000 title of 2025 — he would return to No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings on Monday.

“It was a very tough match. At times against Ben you don’t have a lot of control because of his incredible serving, but today I felt like I was returning very well,” said Sinner, who won 71 per cent of his second-serve return points, according to Infosys ATP Stats. “Also from the back of the court, I played very solid and also very aggressive, so I’m very happy about today’s match.”

Sinner did not commit a single unforced error off his reliable two-handed backhand and finished with just 10 on his forehand. The Italian was aggressive on second-serve returns and showcased lightning-fast reflexes against Shelton’s hefty delivery.

Felix Auger-Aliassime moved to within 90 points of Lorenzo Musetti in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin on Friday, when he ended the run of French wild card Valentin Vacherot to reach the semi-finals at the Rolex Paris Masters.

Vacherot had won his past 10 ATP Masters 1000 matches, highlighted by his fairytale victory in the Shanghai final earlier this month. However, he was unable to cope with Auger-Aliassime’s weight of shot and intensity in Paris, where the ninth seed earned a 6-2, 6-2 win to reach his fourth Masters 1000 semi-final.

“Every opponent is different. It was an interesting challenge coming onto court today and playing a player I knew from practice but had never played in a match. He is so confident and you are kind of scared to be honest," Auger-Aliassime said. "You are not sure if he has got some magic right now that nobody else has but he is playing unbelievably. But I had to be so focused from the start and this level of intensity from the first game I brought helped ease me into the match and I played some good tennis.”

Auger-Aliassime rallied from a set down in his first three matches in the French capital but was in control from early on in his first Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting against Vacherot. The 25-year-old, who broke Vacherot’s serve in the opening game, has reached 10 tour-level semi-finals this season, lifting trophies in Adelaide, Montpellier and Brussels.

Auger-Aliassime will next meet Alexander Bublik. The eight-time tour-level titlist is 90 points behind Musetti in the Live Race To Turin and will leapfrog the Italian if he reaches the final. Auger-Aliassime is chasing his second appearance at the Nitto ATP Finals, having qualified in 2022.

Jannik Sinner advanced to the quarter-finals at the Rolex Paris Masters for the first time on Thursday, when he moved past Francisco Cerundolo 7-5, 6-1 to keep alive his hopes of returning to No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings.

The Italian moved tentatively at times between points in the opening set and flexed out his right leg but never called for a medical timeout during the 86-minute clash. The second seed struck 12 winners to just two unforced errors in the opening set to lead and then won a 10-minute game at the start of the second set to break Cerundolo’s serve, striking a forehand winner on his second break point of the game. From that moment, Sinner raced to victory.

"I was up twice with the break in the first set and I could not convert," Sinner said. "I put myself in not an easy situation, but I am happy with how I ended the match and I felt much better. Hopefully, it will give me the confidence to start off in a good way tomorrow. Hopefully, I can recover physically, which is my main priority. Today was a great match and a great performance from my side."

With his win, Sinner became the first Italian to reach the quarter-finals at all nine ATP Masters 1000 events. The 24-year-old has triumphed at Masters 1000s in Miami, Canada, Cincinnati and Shanghai.

Sinner, who leads Cerundolo 4-2 in the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head series, has won his past 23 matches indoors and has kept alive his hopes of capitalising on Carlos Alcaraz’s early Paris loss in the battle for World No. 1: The Italian can return to top spot next Monday if he can lift his first Masters 1000 title of the season.

Alex de Minaur has qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals for the second consecutive season.

The 26-year-old guaranteed his spot at the season finale in Turin when he reached the Rolex Paris Masters quarter-finals on Thursday.

Before De Minaur qualified last year, the most recent Australian who played in the tournament was Lleyton Hewitt in 2004. Now De Minaur is returning to compete at Inalpi Arena for the second time.

The seventh Turin qualifier won the third ATP 500 of his career this year in Washington, where he saved three championship points in a dramatic final against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.

De Minaur also made the final in Rotterdam and semi-finals in Monte-Carlo, Beijing and Vienna. He earned the 300th tour-level victory of his career in Vienna.

Ben Shelton qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals on Thursday when he reached the quarter-finals of the Rolex Paris Masters, leaving only one spot remaining at the season finale in Turin.

Shelton will play in the year-end championships for the first time after a career-best season in which he made his second major semi-final and claimed ATP Masters 1000 glory for the first time.

With Shelton and Taylor Fritz in the field, it is the first time two American singles players will compete for the Brad Drewett Trophy since 2006, when James Blake and Andy Roddick were in the field. Blake advanced to the final that year.

Shelton made a quick start to his 2025 campaign by reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open, where only eventual champion Jannik Sinner was able to stop him.

The big-serving lefty made the Munich final in April and in June cracked the Top 10 in the PIF ATP Rankings, becoming the fourth lefty from the United States to do so (since 1973). He joined Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe and Roscoe Tanner.