Novak Djokovic Leads the ATP Finals With Seven Titles: Every Champion Since 1970

The figures are our own count. We rebuilt every edition, match by match, from the draws published on Wikipedia, and checked every champion and runner-up against the official list and the players' win-loss records against the tournament's historical stats; they agree with ours.

ATP Finals winners list: every champion since 1970

Stan Smith won the first edition, in Tokyo in 1970, and Ilie Nastase the second, in Paris; both were decided by round-robin standings, with no final. Every edition since 1972 has ended in a final. The table lists all 56, most recent first.

Most ATP Finals titles: Djokovic, Federer, Lendl and Sampras

Djokovic's seven titles came over 15 years, from 2008 to 2023, four of them in a row from 2012 to 2015. Roger Federer won six and reached a record 10 finals, and Ivan Lendl and Pete Sampras won five each. Of the 26 champions, 15 won the title once.

• Lendl reached nine finals in a row, from 1980 to 1988, and won five of them.
• Federer won the most matches at the event, 59, against 17 losses; Djokovic is 50-18 and Lendl 39-10.
• Nine men have won the title in consecutive years: Nastase, Bjorn Borg, Lendl, John McEnroe, Sampras, Lleyton Hewitt, Federer, Djokovic and, in 2024 and 2025, Jannik Sinner.
• The defending champion has kept the title 17 times in 55 editions.

How often the world No. 1 wins the ATP Finals

The year-end No. 1, the player who finishes the season on top of the ATP rankings, won the Finals in 24 of the 53 seasons from 1973 to 2025, lost the final 10 times, went out earlier 13 times and did not play six times, among them Jimmy Connors from 1974 to 1976 and Carlos Alcaraz in 2022. Counting only the editions the year-end No. 1 played, it is 24 of 47, about half.

Seeding gives a similar answer. The No. 1 seed won 15 of the 40 editions since 1986, 38 percent, two fewer than the year-end No. 1 in those years: Gustavo Kuerten in 2000 and Hewitt in 2001 won as the No. 2 seed and finished the season No. 1. Since 2000 the No. 1 seed has won 10 of 26, close to its rate at the majors, 43 of 107 men's Grand Slams since 2000, 40 percent. Since 1986, 21 champions were one of the top two seeds and nine came from seeds five to eight; the lowest-seeded was David Nalbandian, eighth in 2005.

Losing a round-robin match at the ATP Finals

In the 50 editions with a group stage, 27 champions lost a round-robin match, more than half, and 23 went through unbeaten. None has won the title after losing two. Twelve of the 27 beat in the final the player who had beaten them in their group: Sampras did it three times, against Boris Becker in 1994 and 1996 and Andre Agassi in 1999, and Djokovic did it most recently, against Sinner in 2023.

The two group winners met in the final 18 times in those 50 editions, most recently Alcaraz and Sinner in 2025, and 21 champions finished second in their group. Winning all five matches in straight sets is rarer: in the round-robin format only Lendl in 1986 and Sinner in 2024 and 2025 have done it.

Youngest and oldest ATP Finals champions

Champions were 25.3 years old on average on the day of the final. The youngest was John McEnroe, 19 years and 332 days old at the 1978 edition, played in January 1979. The oldest is Djokovic, 36 years and 181 days old in 2023, a year after winning at 35. Only three titles have gone to a player aged 30 or older: Federer's in 2011 and Djokovic's in 2022 and 2023.

The majors have older champions. Since 2000 the men's Grand Slam champions were 27.1 years old on average, and 29 of their titles went to players aged 30 or older; the ATP Finals champions of the 26 editions since 2000 averaged 25.9, with three such titles.

ATP Finals and Grand Slam titles in the same season

In 31 of the 56 editions, the champion also won a major singles title that season, 55 percent. The longest run without one lasted six editions, from 1988 to 1993, when Becker (twice), Stefan Edberg, Agassi, Sampras and Michael Stich won the Finals in seasons without a major. Every champion since 2022 won a major the same year: Djokovic in 2022 and 2023, Sinner in 2024 and 2025. Five champions have never won a major singles title: Alex Corretja (1998), Nalbandian (2005), Nikolay Davydenko (2009), Grigor Dimitrov (2017) and Stefanos Tsitsipas (2019).

ATP Finals host cities and format history

Fifteen cities have hosted the event. New York held it 13 times, all at Madison Square Garden from 1977 to 1989, and London 12, at The O2 from 2009 to 2020; Turin has hosted it since 2021.

The rules of the event have changed too. It has used four formats:

• 1970 and 1971: a single round robin, of six and then seven players, with no final.
• 1972 to 1981: two round-robin groups of four, then semifinals and a final.
• 1982 to 1985: a knockout, with 12 players and then 16 in 1985.
• Since 1986: two groups of four again, with the top two in each group reaching the semifinals.

Finals were best of five sets from 1972 to 2007, except the three played in January 1978 to 1980 and the 2004 final; the final has been best of three since 2008. Because of the January dates, 1986 had two editions, and Lendl beat Becker in both finals, in January and in December.

2025 ATP Finals: Sinner keeps the title

Sinner beat Alcaraz 7-6(4), 7-5 in Turin on November 16, 2025, without losing a set all week, as in 2024. The two had split the season's four majors, and it was the first final between the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds since 2016. Alcaraz, the top seed, won all three group matches and sealed the year-end No. 1 ranking during the week; Djokovic withdrew with a shoulder injury before the start and was replaced by Lorenzo Musetti.

2026 ATP Finals: dates, venue and format

The 2026 ATP Finals are scheduled for November 15 to 22 at the Inalpi Arena in Turin, the sixth in a row in the city. The format is the one used since 1986: eight players in two groups of four, each playing the other three in the group, with the top two of each group going through to the semifinals. Every singles match, the final included, is best of three tiebreak sets. Until then, scores and draws from the tournaments in play are on the Vertize tennis scores page, and the rest of the tour is in the tennis section.

ATP Finals history: frequently asked questions

Who has won the most ATP Finals titles? Novak Djokovic, with seven: 2008, 2012 to 2015, 2022 and 2023. Roger Federer has six.

Who won the 2025 ATP Finals? Jannik Sinner, who beat Carlos Alcaraz 7-6(4), 7-5 in the final in Turin for a second title in a row.

Where and when are the 2026 ATP Finals? At the Inalpi Arena in Turin, Italy, from November 15 to 22, 2026.

Who is the youngest ATP Finals champion? John McEnroe, 19 years and 332 days old at the 1978 edition, played in January 1979. The oldest is Djokovic, 36 at the 2023 edition.

How this was built: every singles edition of the ATP Finals and its predecessors (the Masters, the ATP Tour World Championships, the Tennis Masters Cup and the ATP World Tour Finals) from 1970 to 2025, 56 editions and 54 finals. Groups, round-robin matches, semifinals and finals were read from the Wikipedia draw pages through the MediaWiki API and checked against the official list of champions, which differs only in the games of two finals, 1991 and 2015, where the ATP's results archive agrees with Wikipedia. Seeds are those printed in the draws. Year-end No. 1s come from the ATP (its 2017 list and its announcements since), Grand Slam champions from Wikipedia, and dates of birth from Wikipedia, checked against ATP profiles for 11 of the 26 champions. Ages are counted on the last day of each edition, the day of the final. See also our methodology. Data collected October 14, 2026.