ATP World Tour Finals

"Masters Cup" redirects here. For the disc golf event, see Masters Cup (disc golf).

Barclays ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour
Location	London  United Kingdom (2009–2012)
Venue	O2 arena
Category	World Tour Finals
Surface	Hard / Indoors
Draw	8M / 8D
Prize money	US$4,450,000
Website	www.barclaysatpworldtourfinals.com

The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals is a tennis tournament played at the end of each year, involving the top eight players in the men's tennis world rankings.

Unlike most of the other events on the men's tour, the ATP World Tour Finals is not a straightforward knock-out tournament. Eight players are divided into two groups of four, and play three round-robin matches each against the other three players in their group. From there, the two players with the best records in each group progress to the semifinals, with the winners meeting in the final to determine the champion. Winners are awarded up to 1500 rankings points.

A similar event on the women's tour is the WTA Tour Championships.

Short history

The event is actually the fourth evolution of a championship which began in 1970. It was originally known simply as the Masters Grand Prix and was part of the Grand Prix Tennis Circuit, and was organised by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) ITF. It ran along side the competing WCT Finals the other season ending championships for the rival World Championship Tennis Tour. The Masters was a year-end showpiece event between the best players on the men's tour, but did not count for any world ranking points. In 1990, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) took over the running of the men's tour and replaced the Masters with the ATP Tour World Championship. World ranking points were now at stake, with an undefeated champion earning the same number of points they would for winning one of the four Grand Slam events. The ITF, who continued to run the Grand Slam tournaments, created a rival year-end event known as the Grand Slam Cup, which was contested by the 16 players with the best records in Grand Slam competitions that year. In December 1999, the ATP and ITF agreed to discontinue the two separate events and create a new jointly-owned event called the Tennis Masters Cup. As with the Masters and the ATP Tour World Championships, the Tennis Masters Cup is contested by eight players. However, under the rules of the Tennis Masters Cup, the player who is ranked number eight in the ATP Champion's Race world rankings does not have a guaranteed spot. If a player who wins one of the year's Grand Slam events finishes the year ranked outside the top eight but still within the top 20, he may be included in the Tennis Masters Cup instead of the eighth-ranked player. If two players outside the top eight win Grand Slam events, the higher placed player in the world rankings will take the final spot in the Tennis Masters Cup.

In 2009 the Masters have been renamed the ATP World Tour Finals and it will be staged at The O₂ in London from 2009 to 2012.^[1]

For many years, the doubles event was held as a separate tournament the week after the singles competition. But more recently they have been held together in the same week and venue. Like the singles competition, the doubles involves the eight most successful teams on the tour each year and starts with a group phase with each team playing three round-robin matches.

Former World No.1s Pete Sampras, Ivan Lendl and Roger Federer hold the record for the most titles, each with 5.

Sponsors

The tournament has traditionally been sponsored by the title sponsor of the tour, however from 1990–2008 the competition was unsponsored even though the tour at the time was sponsored by IBM. In 2009 the tournament gained a title sponsor in Barclays.^[2]

Venues

Location	Years	Surface	Stadium	Capacity
Tokyo	1970	Carpet	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium	6,500
Paris	1971		Stade Pierre de Coubertin	5,000
Barcelona	1972		Palau Blaugrana	5,700
Boston	1973		Boston Garden	14,900
Melbourne	1974	Grass	Kooyong Stadium	8,500
Stockholm	1975	Carpet	Kungliga tennishallen	6,000
Houston	1976		The Summit	16,300
New York City	1977–1989		Madison Square Garden	17,500
Frankfurt	1990–1995		Festhalle Frankfurt	12,000
Hanover	1996–1999	Hard Carpet	Hanover fairground	15,000
Lisbon	2000	Hard	Pavilhão Atlântico	12,000
Sydney	2001		Acer Arena	17,500
Shanghai	2002		SNIEC
Houston	2003–2004		Westside Tennis Club	5,240
Shanghai	2005–2008	Hard Carpet	Qizhong City Arena	15,000
London	2009–2012	Hard	O2 Arena[3]	17,500

Past finals

Singles

Location	Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
ATP World Tour Finals
London	2011
	2010	Roger Federer (5/5)	Rafael Nadal	6–3, 3–6, 6–1
	2009	Nikolay Davydenko (1/1)	Juan Martín del Potro	6–3, 6–4
Tennis Masters Cup
Shanghai	2008	Novak Djokovic (1/1)	Nikolay Davydenko	6–1, 7–5
	2007	Roger Federer (4/5)	David Ferrer	6–2, 6–3, 6–2
	2006	Roger Federer (3/5)	James Blake	6–0, 6–3, 6–4
	2005	David Nalbandian (1/1)	Roger Federer	6–74–7, 6–711–13, 6–2, 6–1, 7–67–3
Houston	2004	Roger Federer (2/5)	Lleyton Hewitt	6–3, 6–2
	2003	Roger Federer (1/5)	Andre Agassi	6–3, 6–0, 6–4
Shanghai	2002	Lleyton Hewitt (2/2)	Juan Carlos Ferrero	7–5, 7–5, 2–6, 2–6, 6–4
Sydney	2001	Lleyton Hewitt (1/2)	Sébastien Grosjean	6–3, 6–3, 6–4
Lisbon	2000	Gustavo Kuerten (1/1)	Andre Agassi	6–4, 6–4, 6–4
ATP Tour World Championships
Hanover	1999	Pete Sampras (5/5)	Andre Agassi	6–1, 7–5, 6–4
	1998	Àlex Corretja (1/1)	Carlos Moyá	3–6, 3–6, 7–5, 6–3, 7–5
	1997	Pete Sampras (4/5)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6–3, 6–2, 6–2
	1996	Pete Sampras (3/5)	Boris Becker	3–6, 7–67–5, 7–67–4, 6–711–13, 6–4
Frankfurt	1995	Boris Becker (3/3)	Michael Chang	7–67–3, 6–0, 7–67–5
	1994	Pete Sampras (2/5)	Boris Becker	4–6, 6–3, 7–5, 6–4
	1993	Michael Stich (1/1)	Pete Sampras	7–67–3, 2–6, 7–69–7, 6–2
	1992	Boris Becker (2/3)	Jim Courier	6–4, 6–3, 7–5
	1991	Pete Sampras (1/5)	Jim Courier	3–6, 7–67–5, 6–3, 6–4
	1990	Andre Agassi (1/1)	Stefan Edberg	5–7, 7–67–5, 7–5, 6–2
Masters Grand Prix
New York City	1989	Stefan Edberg (1/1)	Boris Becker	4–6, 7–68–6, 6–3, 6–1
	1988	Boris Becker (1/3)	Ivan Lendl	5–7, 7–67–5, 3–6, 6–2, 7–67–5
	1987	Ivan Lendl (5/5)	Mats Wilander	6–2, 6–2, 6–3
	1986	Ivan Lendl (4/5)	Boris Becker	6–4, 6–4, 6–4
	1985	Ivan Lendl (3/5)	Boris Becker	6–2, 7–67–4, 6–3
	1984	John McEnroe (3/3)	Ivan Lendl	7–5, 6–0, 6–4
	1983	John McEnroe (2/3)	Ivan Lendl	6–3, 6–4, 6–4
	1982	Ivan Lendl (2/5)	John McEnroe	6–4, 6–4, 6–2
	1981	Ivan Lendl (1/5)	Vitas Gerulaitis	6–75-7, 2–6, 7–68–6, 6–2, 6–4
	1980	Björn Borg (2/2)	Ivan Lendl	6–4, 6–2, 6–2
	1979	Björn Borg (1/2)	Vitas Gerulaitis	6–2, 6–2
	1978	John McEnroe (1/3)	Arthur Ashe	6–75–7, 6–3, 7–5
	1977	Jimmy Connors (1/1)	Björn Borg	6–4, 1–6, 6–4
Houston	1976	Manuel Orantes (1/1)	Wojtek Fibak	5–7, 6–2, 0–6, 7–67–1, 6–1
Stockholm	1975	Ilie Năstase (4/4)	Björn Borg	6–2, 6–2, 6–1
Melbourne	1974	Guillermo Vilas (1/1)	Ilie Năstase	7–68–6, 6–2, 3–6, 3–6, 6–4
Boston	1973	Ilie Năstase (3/4)	Tom Okker	6–3, 7–5, 4–6, 6–3
Barcelona	1972	Ilie Năstase (2/4)	Stan Smith	6–3, 6–2, 3–6, 2–6, 6–3
Paris	1971	Ilie Năstase (1/4)	Stan Smith	Round Robin
Tokyo	1970	Stan Smith (1/1)	Rod Laver	Round Robin

Doubles

Location	Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
ATP World Tour Finals
London	2011
	2010	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi	7–68–6, 6–4
	2009	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Max Mirnyi Andy Ram	7–67–5, 6–3
Tennis Masters Cup
Shanghai	2008	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7–67–3, 6–2
	2007	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	Simon Aspelin Julian Knowle	6–2, 6–3
	2006	Jonas Björkman Max Mirnyi	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6–2, 6–4
	2005	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro	Leander Paes Nenad Zimonjić	6–76–8, 6–3, 7–67–4
Houston	2004	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Wayne Black Kevin Ullyett	4–6, 7–5, 6–4, 6–2
	2003	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro	6–76–8, 6–3, 3–6, 7–67–3, 6–4
	2002	Not Held
ATP World Doubles Challenge Cup[4]
Bangalore	2001	Ellis Ferreira Rick Leach	Petr Pála Pavel Vízner	6–76–8, 7–67–2, 6–4, 6–4
ATP Tour World Championships
Bangalore	2000	Donald Johnson Piet Norval	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	7–610–8, 6–3, 6–4
Hartford	1999	Sébastien Lareau Alex O'Brien	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	6–3, 6–2, 6–2
	1998	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6–4, 6–2, 7–5
	1997	Rick Leach Jonathan Stark	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	6–3, 6–4, 7–67–3
	1996	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	Sébastien Lareau Alex O'Brien	6–4, 5–7, 6–2, 7–67–3
Eindhoven	1995	Grant Connell Patrick Galbraith	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	7–68–6, 7–68–6, 3–6, 7–67–2
Jakarta	1994	Jan Apell Jonas Björkman	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6–4, 4–6, 4–6, 7–67–5, 7–68–6
Johannesburg	1993	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	7–67–4, 7–67–5, 6–4
	1992	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	John Fitzgerald Anders Järryd	6–2, 7–67–4, 5–7, 3–6, 6–3
	1991	John Fitzgerald Anders Järryd	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	6–4, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4
Sanctuary Cove	1990	Guy Forget Jakob Hlasek	Sergio Casal Emilio Sánchez	6–4, 7–67–5, 5–7, 6–4
Masters Grand Prix
London	1989	Jim Grabb Patrick McEnroe	John Fitzgerald Anders Järryd	7–5, 7–67–4, 5–7, 6–3
	1988	Rick Leach Jim Pugh	Sergio Casal Emilio Sánchez	6–4, 6–3, 2–6, 6–0
	1987	Miloslav Mečíř Tomáš Šmíd	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	6–4, 7–5, 6–75–7, 6–3
	1986	Stefan Edberg Anders Järryd	Guy Forget Yannick Noah	6–3, 7–67–2, 6–3
New York City	1985	Stefan Edberg Anders Järryd	Joakim Nystrom Mats Wilander	6–1, 7–67–5
	1984	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Mark Edmondson Sherwood Stewart	6–3, 6–1
	1983	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Pavel Složil Tomáš Šmíd	6–2, 6–2
	1982	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Sherwood Stewart Ferdi Taygan	7–5, 6–3
	1981	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Kevin Curren Steve Denton	6–3, 6–3
	1980	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Peter McNamara Paul McNamee	6–4, 6–3
	1979	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Wojtek Fibak Tom Okker	6–3, 7–6, 6–1
	1978	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Wojtek Fibak Tom Okker	6–4, 6–2, 6–4
	1977	Bob Hewitt Frew McMillan	Robert Lutz Stan Smith	7–5, 7–6, 6–3
Houston	1976	Fred McNair Sherwood Stewart	Brian Gottfried Raúl Ramírez	6–4, 5–7, 5–7, 6–4, 6–4
Stockholm	1975	Juan Gisbert Manuel Orantes	Round Robin
	1974 – 1971	Not Held
Tokyo	1970	Stan Smith Arthur Ashe	Round Robin

Singles finals matrix

Titles won	Player	Years Won	Runners-up
5	Ivan Lendl	1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987 (5)	1980, 1983, 1984, 1988 (4)
	Pete Sampras	1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999 (5)	1993 (1)
	Roger Federer	2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010 (5)	2005 (1)
4	Ilie Năstase	1971, 1972, 1973, 1975 (4)	1974 (1)
3	Boris Becker	1988, 1992, 1995 (3)	1985, 1986, 1989, 1994, 1996 (5)
	John McEnroe	1978, 1983, 1984 (3)	1982 (1)
2	Björn Borg	1979, 1980 (2)	1975, 1977 (2)
	Lleyton Hewitt	2001, 2002 (2)	2004 (1)
1	Andre Agassi	1990 (1)	1999, 2000, 2003 (3)
	Stan Smith	1970 (1)	1972 (1)
	Stefan Edberg	1989 (1)	1990 (1)
	Nikolay Davydenko	2009 (1)	2008 (1)
	Guillermo Vilas	1974 (1)
	Manuel Orantes	1976 (1)
	Jimmy Connors	1977 (1)
	Michael Stich	1993 (1)
	Àlex Corretja	1998 (1)
	Gustavo Kuerten	2000 (1)
	David Nalbandian	2005 (1)
	Novak Djokovic	2008 (1)
0	Vitas Gerulaitis		1979, 1981 (2)
	Jim Courier		1991, 1992 (2)
	Tom Okker		1973 (1)
	Wojciech Fibak		1976 (1)
	Arthur Ashe		1979 (1)
	Mats Wilander		1987 (1)
	Michael Chang		1995 (1)
	Yevgeny Kafelnikov		1997 (1)
	Carlos Moyá		1998 (1)
	Sébastien Grosjean		2001 (1)
	Juan Carlos Ferrero		2002 (1)
	James Blake		2006 (1)
	David Ferrer		2007 (1)
	Juan Martín del Potro		2009 (1)
	Rafael Nadal		2010 (1)

Honor Roll (singles)

Last ten tournaments:

Player	Years	Matches	W-L	W %	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	Best result
Andre Agassi	3	8	3–5	.375	RR	F		RR							F (2003)
Tomáš Berdych	1	3	1–2	.333									RR		RR (2010)
James Blake	1	5	3–2	.600					F						F (2006)
Guillermo Coria	3	8	1–7	.125		RR	RR	RR							RR (2003, 2004, 2005)
Albert Costa	1	3	1–2	.333	RR										RR (2002)
Nikolay Davydenko	5	20	12–8	.600				SF	RR	RR	F	W			W (2009)
Novak Đoković	4	15	8-7	.533						RR	W	RR	SF		W (2008)
Roger Federer	9	41	34–7	.829	SF	W	W	F	W	W	RR	SF	W		W (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010)
David Ferrer	2	8	4–4	.500						F			RR		F (2007)
Juan Carlos Ferrero	2	8	4–4	.500	F	RR									F (2002)
Mardy Fish
Richard Gasquet	1	3	1–2	.333						RR					RR (2007)
Gastón Gaudio	2	7	2–5	.286			RR	SF							SF (2005)
Fernando González	2	5	2–3	.400				RR (A)		RR					RR (2005, 2007)
Tim Henman	1	3	1–2	.333			RR								RR (2004)
Lleyton Hewitt	2	10	7–3	.700	W		F								W (2002)
Thomas Johansson	1	1	0–1	.000	RR (A)										RR (2002)
Ivan Ljubičić	2	6	2–4	.333				RR	RR						RR (2005, 2006)
Carlos Moyà	3	10	5–5	.500	SF	RR	RR								SF (2002)
Andy Murray	3	11	7–4	.636							SF	RR	SF		SF (2008, 2010)
Rafael Nadal	4	16	8–8	.500					SF	SF		RR	F		F (2010)
David Nalbandian	3	13	6–7	.462		RR		W	SF						W (2005)
Jiří Novák	1	3	1–2	.333	RR										RR (2002)
Juan Martín del Potro	2	8	4–4	.500							RR	F			F (2009)
Mariano Puerta	1	3	0–3	.000				RR							RR (2005)
Tommy Robredo	1	3	1–2	.333					RR						RR (2006)
Andy Roddick	6	19	8–11	.421		SF	SF		RR	SF	RR		RR		SF (2003, 2004, 2007)
Marat Safin	2	7	2–5	.286	RR		SF								SF (2004)
Rainer Schüttler	1	4	2–2	.500		SF									SF (2003)
Gilles Simon	1	4	2–2	.500							SF				SF (2008)
Robin Söderling	2	7	3–5	.375								SF	RR		SF(2009)
Radek Štěpánek	1	2	0–2	.000							RR (A)				RR (2008)
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	1	3	1–2	.333							RR				RR (2008)
Fernando Verdasco	1	3	0–3	.000								RR			RR (2009)

Stage	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Champion	L Hewitt	R Federer	R Federer	D Nalbandian	R Federer	R Federer	N Djoković	N Davydenko	R Federer
Final	JC Ferrero	A Agassi	L Hewitt	R Federer	J Blake	D Ferrer	N Davydenko	JM del Potro	R Nadal
Semifinal	R Federer C Moyá	A Roddick R Schüttler	A Roddick M Safin	N Davydenko G Gaudio	R Nadal D Nalbandian	R Nadal A Roddick	A Murray G Simon	R Federer R Söderling	N Djoković A Murray
Round Robin	A Agassi A Costa T Johansson (A) J Novák M Safin	G Coria JC Ferrero C Moyá D Nalbandian	G Coria G Gaudio T Henman C Moyá	A Agassi G Coria F González (A) I Ljubicić M Puerta	N Davydenko I Ljubicić T Robredo A Roddick	N Davydenko N Djoković R Gasquet F González	JM del Potro R Federer A Roddick R Štěpánek (A) JW Tsonga	N Djoković A Murray R Nadal F Verdasco	T Berdych D Ferrer A Roddick R Söderling	T Berdych N Djoković R Federer D Ferrer M Fish A Murray R Nadal JW Tsonga

Facts

• Players who won the tournament undefeated (since 1990):
  1. Michael Stich, Germany, 1993
  2. Lleyton Hewitt, Australia, 2001
  3. Roger Federer, Switzerland, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010
• Players who won back-to-back titles:
  1. Ilie Năstase, Romania, 1971–1973
  2. Björn Borg, Sweden, 1979–80
  3. Ivan Lendl (2), Czechoslovakia, 1981–1982; 1985–1987
  4. John McEnroe, United States, 1983–1984
  5. Pete Sampras, United States, 1996–1997
  6. Lleyton Hewitt, Australia, 2001–2002
  7. Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, 2003–2004; 2006–2007
• Most consecutive titles:

1. Ivan Lendl, 3

1. Ilie Năstase, 3

• Most consecutive finals:

1. Ivan Lendl, Czechoslovakia, 9 (1980–1988)

2. Ilie Năstase, Romania, 5 (1971–1975)

2. Roger Federer, Switzerland, 5 (2003–2007)

4. Stan Smith, United States, 3 (1970–1972)

4. Boris Becker, Germany, 3 (1994–1996)

See also

• ATP World Tour Finals appearances
• ATP Challenger Tour Finals
• WTA Tour Championships
• WCT Finals
• WCT World Doubles
• World Championship Tennis
• Grand Prix tennis circuit

References

1. ^ London Awarded 2009 ATP World Tour Finals
2. ^ "ATP agree $35 million deal for showpiece tournament". Reuters. 2008-06-18. http://ca.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idCAL1860103820080618. 
3. ^ Newbery, Piers (2007-07-03). "London to host World Tour Final". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/6264650.stm. 
4. ^ Associated Press ^AP (2002-01-16). "ATP sets Double Challenge Cup for Jan. 29-Feb. 2 in Bangalore". http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-49565357.html. Retrieved 2008-11-03. 

External links

• Official website
• atpworldtour.com profile
• Official live streaming website