History and palmares of the ATP Finals

Last update 14 December, 2022 by Alberto Llopis

Every year, las ATP Finals put an end to the tennis season. In this article we will review the history and record of one of the most important tournaments on the men's circuit.

Las ATP Finals, also known as Masters Cup, began to dispute in the year 1970. The eight best tennis players according to the ranking usually participate in it. ranking ATP. These are divided into two groups of four players and the first two classified from each group, after playing the corresponding 'league', qualify for the semifinals.

It is an indoor tournament, that is to say, It is played on a hard indoor court.. This is something that has created some controversy since some players, as Rafa Nadal, They have stated on various occasions that the surface should change every year so as not to favor certain tennis players.

Palmarés of the Final ATP: Players with more titles

The player who has won the Masters Cup champion title the most times is Roger Federer. The Swiss achieved it in a total of 6 occasions. Behind him, three illustrious names appear, What did they do with the trophy? 5 times: The Czech Ivan Ledl, the American Pete Sampras and the serbian Novak Djokovic.

After this poker of aces, other historical tennis players appear. The Romanian Ilia Nastase won the title four times, behind him, the German Boris Becker and the american John McEnroe, they did it three times.

Swedish Bjorn Borg, the australian Leyton Hewitt and the german Alexander Zverev got the title of champion of the ATP Finals on two occasions.

Orantes and Corretja the only Spaniards on the list

There are several players who achieved the title only once. The Spanish Manuel Orantes y Alex Corretja, two of the best Spanish tennis players in history. Besides the Americans Jimmy Connors y Stan Smith, the Russians Nikolay Davydenko y Daniil Medvedev, the argentines Guillermo Vilas y David Nalbandian, The Swedish Stefan Edberg, German Michael Stitch, the brazilian Gustavo Kuerten, the british Andy Murray, the bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and the greek Stefanos tsitsipas.