ATP Finals 2026: Field, Dates and Favourites After Paris

The eight-man field for the ATP Finals 2026 is set after Carlos Alcaraz beat Ben Shelton 7-6 (7-5) 7-5 to win his first Paris Masters title on Sunday. The season-ending event runs from 15 to 22 November at the Inalpi Arena in Turin, with world number one Alexander Zverev, Alcaraz and four first-time qualifiers, including the American Frances Tiafoe, in the draw. Jannik Sinner, the champion in Turin in 2024 and 2025, is missing: the ATP lists him as out for the rest of 2026 after injury.

Here is who qualified, how the tournament works, when matches start in US and UK time and who the favourites are.

Who Has Qualified for the ATP Finals 2026?

According to the ATP’s Race to Turin standings after Paris, the singles field is:

• Alexander Zverev (Germany): world number one since 2 November and winner of Roland Garros and the US Open this year
• Carlos Alcaraz (Spain): Australian Open champion, arriving on a nine-match winning streak
• Ben Shelton (United States): four titles in 2026 and a first Grand Slam final
• Daniil Medvedev (Russia)
• Flavio Cobolli (Italy): a Roland Garros finalist, making his debut on home soil
• Arthur Fils (France): the first Frenchman to qualify since Gael Monfils in 2016
• Frances Tiafoe (United States): a debut at 28
• Rafael Jodar (Spain): a debut at 20, only ten months after his tour-level debut at the Australian Open

Australia’s Alex de Minaur, 10th in the Race, is the first alternate. The ATP noted that this is the second year running with two Americans in the field; before 2025, that had not happened since Andy Roddick and James Blake in 2006.

How Did Alcaraz Win the Paris Masters?

Alcaraz saved all six break points he faced in a tense first set and took the tie-break by winning four of the last five points from 4-3 down, BBC Sport reported. Shelton broke in the second set and served for a 5-3 lead, but Alcaraz broke back and won five of the final six games. Two days earlier he had saved two match points against Taylor Fritz in the quarter-finals.

It was his ninth Masters 1000 title and his first in Paris, where he had never previously gone beyond the quarter-finals. He now needs only Canada and Shanghai to join Novak Djokovic and Sinner as the only men to win all nine Masters events. “It’s something I’ve been chasing for a long time,” Alcaraz said. “I had some of the toughest losses of my career here.” The win also avenged his five-set defeat by Shelton at the US Open in September, which came in his first tournament back from four months out with a wrist injury.

How Does the ATP Finals Format Work?

The eight singles players are split into two round-robin groups of four. Each player meets the other three in his group, and the top two from each group reach the semi-finals, followed by a one-match final. The draw and group names had not been announced when the field was confirmed. Doubles runs alongside: Britain’s Henry Patten and Finland’s Harri Heliovaara have already sealed the year-end number one ranking, BBC Sport reported.

What Time Do ATP Finals Matches Start?

The tournament’s published schedule puts singles sessions not before 2pm and 8.30pm in Turin. That is 8am and 2.30pm Eastern Time in the US, and 1pm and 7.30pm in the UK. In the United States the event is shown on Tennis Channel, in the UK on Sky Sports and in Canada on TSN, according to the tournament’s broadcast listings. The final is on Sunday, 22 November.

Who Is the Favourite to Win the ATP Finals 2026?

Zverev arrives as the top seed and, according to Tennis Majors, “the clear favourite”, leading Sinner by 100 ranking points (9,550 to 9,450). He won the ATP Finals in 2018 and 2021 and told Corriere della Sera: “I don’t think I have much else to prove.”

Alcaraz, though, has the form. BBC Sport said he has won three titles and lost only once in 17 matches since the US Open, and the ATP Finals is one of the few big titles he has not yet won. Shelton and Medvedev, the 2020 champion, are the most dangerous of the rest, while home crowds will get behind Cobolli.

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Featured image: Carlos Alcaraz at Roland Garros, 30 May 2025, by Like tears in rain / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. File photo.

Sources

• ATP Tour — Tiafoe among quartet of Nitto ATP Finals first-time qualifiers, Mover of Week (9 November 2026).
• ATP Tour — Carlos Alcaraz defeats Ben Shelton to win first Paris title (8 November 2026).
• BBC Sport — Paris Masters: Carlos Alcaraz takes revenge on Ben Shelton to win title for first time (8 November 2026).
• Tennis Majors — Zverev: “I don’t think I have much else to prove” before Turin (9 November 2026).
• Fresh Calendars — ATP Finals 2026 in Turin: Nov. 15-22, Qualified Players and TV (5 November 2026).