2020 ATP Finals

Daniil Medvedev defeated Dominic Thiem, 4–6, 7–6^(7–2), 6–4.^[2]

Wesley Koolhof / Nikola Mektić defeated Jürgen Melzer / Édouard Roger-Vasselin 6–2, 3–6, [10–5].^[3]

The ATP Finals had a round-robin format, with eight players/teams divided into two groups of four. The eight seeds were determined by the ATP rankings and ATP Doubles Team Rankings on the Monday after the last ATP Tour tournament of the calendar year. All singles matches, including the final, were best of three sets with tie-breaks in each set including the third. All doubles matches were two sets (no ad) and a Match Tie-break.^[4]

The ATP Finals currently (2020) rewards the following points and prize money, per victory:^[5]

• RR is the points or prize money won in the round robin stage.
• ¹ Prize money for doubles is per team.
• An undefeated champion would earn the maximum 1,500 points, and $2,114,000 in singles or $354,500 in doubles.

Eight players compete at the tournament, with two named alternates. Players receive places in the following order of precedence:^[6]

1. First, the top 7 players in the ATP Race to London on the Monday after the final tournament of the ATP Tour, that is, after the 2020 Sofia Open.
2. Second, up to two 2020 Grand Slam tournament winners ranked anywhere 8th–20th, in ranking order
3. Third, the eighth ranked player in the ATP rankings

In the event of this totaling more than 8 players, those lower down in the selection order become the alternates. If further alternates are needed, these players are selected by the ATP.^[6]

Provisional rankings are published weekly as the ATP Race to London, coinciding with the 52-week rolling ATP rankings on the date of selection. Points are accumulated in Grand Slam, ATP Tour and ATP Challenger Tour tournaments from the 52 weeks prior to the selection date, with points from the previous years Tour Finals excluded. Players accrue points across 18 tournaments, usually made up of:

• The 4 Grand Slam tournaments
• The 8 mandatory ATP Masters tournaments
• The best results from any 6 other tournaments that carry ranking points

All players must include the ranking points for mandatory Masters tournaments for which they are on the original acceptance list and for all Grand Slams for which they would be eligible, even if they do not compete (in which case they receive zero points). Furthermore, players who finished 2017 in the world's top 30 are commitment players who must (if not injured) include points for the 8 mandatory Masters tournament regardless of whether they enter, and who must compete in at least 4 ATP 500 tournaments (though the Monte Carlo Masters may count to this total), of which one must take place after the US Open. Zero point scores may also be taken from withdrawals by non-injured players from ATP 500 tournaments according to certain other conditions outlined by the ATP.^[6] Beyond these rules, however, a player may substitute his next best tournament result for missed Masters and Grand Slam tournaments.

Players may have their ATP Masters 1000 commitment reduced by one tournament, by reaching each of the following milestones:

1. 600 tour level matches (as of January 1, 2020),
2. 12 years of service,
3. 31 years of age (as of January 1, 2020).

If a player satisfies all three of these conditions, their mandatory ATP Masters 1000 commitment is dropped entirely. Players must be in good standing as defined by the ATP as to avail of the reduced commitment.^[6]

The ATP Cup will count as an additional event in a player's rankings breakdown.^[7]

Eight teams compete at the tournament, with one named alternates. The eight competing teams receive places according to the same order of precedence as in Singles.^[6] The named alternate will be offered first to any unaccepted teams in the selection order, then to the highest ranked unaccepted team, and then to a team selected by the ATP.^[6] Points are accumulated in the same competitions as for the Singles tournament. However, for Doubles teams there are no commitment tournaments, so teams are ranked according to their 18 highest points scoring results from any tournaments.

Below are the head-to-head records as they approached the tournament.

Overall

		Djokovic	Nadal	Thiem	Medvedev	Zverev	Tsitsipas	Rublev	Schwartzman	Overall	YTD W–L
1	Novak Djokovic		29–27	7–4	4–2	3–2	4–2	0–0	5–0	52–37	39–3
2	Rafael Nadal	27–29		9–5	3–0	5–2	5–1	1–0	10–1	60–38	25–5
3	Dominic Thiem	4–7	5–9		3–1	8–2	4–3	2–2	6–3	32–27	22–7
4	Daniil Medvedev	2–4	0–3	1–3		2–5	5–1	3–0	4–0	17–16	23–10
5	Alexander Zverev	2–3	2–5	2–8	5–2		1–5	4–0	2–2	18–25	27–9
6	Stefanos Tsitsipas	2–4	1–5	3–4	1–5	5–1		2–2	1–1	15–22	28–12
7	Andrey Rublev	0–0	0–1	2–2	0–3	0–4	2–2		0–1	4–13	40–8
8	Diego Schwartzman	0–5	1–10	3–6	0–4	2–2	1–1	1–0		8–28	25–12

Indoor hardcourt

		Djokovic	Nadal	Thiem	Medvedev	Zverev	Tsitsipas	Rublev	Schwartzman	Overall	YTD W–L
1	Novak Djokovic		4–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	8–4	2–1
2	Rafael Nadal	2–4		0–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	5–6	3–1
3	Dominic Thiem	1–1	0–0		1–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	6–3	2–1
4	Daniil Medvedev	0–1	0–1	0–1		1–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	5–6	9–4
5	Alexander Zverev	1–1	2–0	0–2	2–1		0–1	0–0	2–0	7–5	12–1
6	Stefanos Tsitsipas	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–0		1–0	0–1	4–4	6–3
7	Andrey Rublev	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	0–1		0–0	1–3	13–2
8	Diego Schwartzman	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–2	1–0	0–0		1–6	5–2

		Pavić   Soares	Ram  Salisbury	Krawietz  Mies	Granollers Zeballos	Koolhof  Mektić	Peers   Venus	Melzer   Roger-V.	Kubot   Melo	Overall	YTD W–L
1	Mate Pavić Bruno Soares		1–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	7–5	20–10
2	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	1–1		0–1	3–2	0–2	0–1	0–0	2–2	6–9	18–7
3	Kevin Krawietz Andreas Mies	2–1	1–0		0–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	6–5	19–13
4	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	1–1	2–3	1–0		0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	5–4	22–6
5	Wesley Koolhof Nikola Mektić	0–2	2–0	1–1	0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	3–3	20–12
6	John Peers Michael Venus	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–0		1–0	1–0	3–2	22–10
7	Jürgen Melzer Édouard Roger-V.	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–1		0–1	1–4	23–13
8	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0		5–4	20–11