ATP Finals 2024: Date, UK start time, format and how to follow as Novak Djokovic aims to defend title in Turin

The ATP Finals mark the end of the Tour for the year and the world’s best tennis stars will be competing for glory in Italy. 

It is a unique event that puts the eight highest-ranked men’s singles players and doubles teams on the ATP Tour up against each other.

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Last year, Novak Djokovic made it back-to-back titles after beating Carlos Alcaraz on the way to seeing off Jannik Sinner in the showpiece. 

All three of those stars are expected to feature in this tournament while Daniil Medvedev and Alexander Zverev will also be playing. 

2024 ATP Finals: Date and how to follow

The ATP Finals will take place from Sunday, November 10 until Sunday, November 17. 

It is being held in Turin, Italy on the hard courts at the Inalpi Arena. 

Play will be split over two sessions with the first getting starting at 11:30pm local time and the second at 6pm local time. 

In the UK, that means sessions will get started at 10:30am and 5pm. 

The event will be broadcast live on Sky Sports Tennis. You can watch the action on TV or online on Sky Go or NOW and more details can be found here.

talkSPORT and talkSPORT.com will also provide you with all the latest news and reaction. 

To tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 through the website, click HERE for the live stream. 

You can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.

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2024 ATP Finals: Format and players

The ATP tournament is played in a round-robin and finals format.

The group stage sees the eight players split into two groups of four before each player plays the other three members of their group. 

To decide the groups, the top-seeded player is placed in Group A while the second-seeded player is placed in Group B. 

The rest of the players will then be drawn into a group each and find out who they will face.

Once the round-robin is completed, the winner of Group A takes on the runner-up of Group B and vice versa. 

The winners of the semi-finals then compete in the final for the title. 

Each singles game is played over three tie-break sets while each doubles game is made up of two sets and a match tie-break. 

The eight seeds are determined by the ATP Race to Turin rankings. 

So far, five players have already qualified while the final three places are yet to be decided. 

Players already qualified: 

• Jannik Sinner 
• Carlos Alcaraz 
• Alexander Zverev 
• Daniil Medvedev 
• Taylor Fritz 

Still in contention

• Novak Djokovic 
• Casper Ruud 
• Andrey Rublev 
• Alex De Minaur 
• Grigor Dimitrov
• Tommy Paul 
• Stefanos Tsitsipas

2024 ATP Finals: Schedule

All times UK

Round robin

• Sunday, November 10 – 10:30am / 5pm
• Monday, November 11 – 10:30am / 5pm
• Tuesday, November 12 – 10:30am / 5pm
• Wednesday, November 13 – 10:30am / 5pm
• Thursday, November 14 – 10:30am / 5pm
• Friday, November 15 – 10:30am / 5pm

Semi-finals 

• Saturday, November 16 – 11pm / 5pm 

Finals

• Sunday, November 17 – 2pm