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The ATP Finals round-robin stage is coming to a close in Turin, with Taylor Fritz and Lorenzo Musetti officially the first players to end their campaigns at the year-end championships.

Fritz looked well-placed to qualify in the final day of Group Jimmy Connors action in Turin, though the sixth seed’s loss to Alex de Minaur on Thursday left him unable to qualify for the semi-final.

That result meant Musetti needed to defeat Carlos Alcaraz to qualify for the knockout rounds, though the Italian’s straight-set defeat saw him join Fritz in exiting the event, Alcaraz topping the group and de Minaur progressing in second.

Here, we look at the prize money and ranking points that both Fritz and Musetti will take home from the ATP Finals.

What ranking points did Fritz and Musetti earn in Turin?

No ranking points are automatically awarded to players for qualifying for the year-end championships, meaning players have to contest — and win — matches to earn points.

Both Fritz and Musetti end their ATP Finals campaigns with one win and two defeats, with Fritz’s win coming over the Italian, and Musetti’s sole win coming versus de Minaur.

That means that both men earn 200 ranking points for their ATP Finals campaigns, with 200 points on offer per round-robin win in Turin.

De Minaur has also earned 200 ranking points thanks to his win over Fritz on Thursday, with Alcaraz on a full 600 points after an unbeaten group-stage campaign.

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What prize money did Fritz and Musetti earn in Turin?

Prize money works differently from ranking points at the ATP Finals, with a participant fee awarded to all of who qualified for the year-end championships.

Having successfully completed all three round-robin matches in Turin, both Fritz and Musetti will receive a complete participant fee of $331,000 for their campaigns.

However, with one win in Turin as well, both men add to their prize money payouts for the tournament.

Each round-robin win at the ATP Finals is worth a staggering $396,500, meaning that Fritz and Musetti both leave the tournament with total prize money earnings of $727,5000 for their campaigns.

De Minaur is also on $727,5000 for his campaign so far, while Alcaraz is already on $1,520,000 in winnings for the tournament, thanks to an unbeaten round-robin stage.

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Carlos Alcaraz spoke about a range of topics, including clinching the year-end No 1 ranking, after defeating Lorenzo Musetti at the 2025 ATP Finals in Turin.

The 22-year-old downed world No 9 Musetti 6-4, 6-1 to ensure he topped the Jimmy Connors Group at the season-ending championships with a 3-0 record.

Alcaraz‘s victory means he will finish 2025 on top of the ATP Rankings ahead of his rival, Jannik Sinner, who is ranked second. This is the second year Alcaraz will end as world No 1 after 2022.

Carlos Alcaraz speaks after topping Jimmy Connors Group at ATP Finals

• Carlos Alcaraz labelled 2025 his best season on indoor courts and spoke about his preparation for the end of the campaign
• The Spaniard spoke about the different feelings that come with securing the year-end No 1 ranking and winning a Grand Slam title
• The six-time major champion called for changes to the Davis Cup as he was asked if the team competition should be held less often than every year

The world No 1 will face either Alexander Zverev or Felix Auger-Aliassime in the semi-finals at the ATP Finals, where he is chasing a maiden title.

Here is everything Alcaraz said in his press conference after defeating Musetti in Turin.

Reaction to finishing year as world No 1 and reaching ATP Finals semi-finals

ALCARAZ: Well, it’s a great achievement. It was the goal to end the year as No 1. Yeah, after getting the win in this match and know that I got and achieved my goal of the year, it means a lot. I think I’ve been playing great tennis. Excited about keep it going. I’m playing a semi-final here in the ATP Finals.

Has this been Alcaraz’s best season on indoor courts?

ALCARAZ: Well, I would say is difficult to say that is my best season on indoor courts because I just played Paris Bercy, and Paris Bercy I lost in the first round. Here it’s still the semi-final. So let’s see how it’s going to be. I reached the semi-final here back in 2023 again, so I don’t know. I don’t play too many indoors tournaments per year, which means that I don’t get so much experience on playing in this surface. But just feeling great after every match. Yeah, hopefully in the semi-final still keep feeling even better… I forgot that I won Rotterdam, so… I forgot that. I would say yeah, it’s my best season indoor so far.

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Alcaraz’s process to prepare for the end of the season

ALCARAZ: Coming at the end of the season, approaching the indoor swing at the end of the season, for me it’s always great having time at home preparing as much as I can or as good as I can these tournaments. It doesn’t mean that I’m going to play well or not. I’m just really happy that I came here with confident, knowing that I’m playing a great tennis. I had really good preparation before this tournament. It’s always to get to know yourself, what you need on and off the court. I think approaching this time of the year, I think I’ve done it pretty well.

Comparing the feeling of securing the year-end No 1 ranking with winning a Grand Slam

ALCARAZ: Well, I would say it’s different feelings. Winning Grand Slams is always a goal. End the year as No 1, obviously it’s always a goal as well. Securing ending the year as No 1 here, for example in this match, the tournament is not over, you have to play a semi-final. The tournament keeps going. It’s kind of different because always it’s great, you can celebrate it with my team, with my close people that they are here. But right after you got to still focus on recover, on going as soon as bed as you can, just to be ready for the semi-final.

Comparing to winning a Grand Slam, the tournament is over, you can relax, you can do whatever you want after achieve one of the best things you can achieve on our sport, that is getting a Grand Slam. I would say it’s kind of a different feeling.

Would it be better to hold the Davis Cup Finals every two or three years?

ALCARAZ: If I am honest with you, I think the Davis Cup is one of those tournaments that you’re not used to feel and play because you’re playing for your country, you’re playing with your teammates. It’s totally different. I think it’s one of the most privileged things you can do in our sport, representing your country. I agree that they got to do something in this event, because I think playing every year, I mean, it is not as good as it might be if you’re playing every two or three years. I think if the tournament is played like every two years or every three years, the players, the commitment of the players, it’s going to be even more because it’s unique, it’s different.

You’re not able to play every year. Yeah, I’m playing this year. I really want to win the Davis Cup one day because for me it’s a really important, important tournament. Jannik [Sinner] has won it twice. I think Lorenzo [Musetti] once or twice, as well. For me, I would say it’s normal for them because the season has been so long. They might keep it to have one more week to recover, to do vacation, to do pre-season, which is understandable. It’s normal. But I would say they got to do something about it to make the Davis Cup unique.

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The ATP Finals is slowly approaching the business end of the tournament, with the final phase of round-robin matches already underway in Turin.

Group Jimmy Connors comes to its conclusion on Thursday, before Group Bjorn Borg ends on Friday with Jannik Sinner facing Ben Shelton, and Alexander Zverev taking on Felix Auger-Aliassime.

Compared to Thursday’s scenarios, the permutations for Friday’s action are much simpler to understand; here, we look at what is at stake for all four men inside the Inalpi Arena.

What’s at stake between Sinner and Shelton?

Sinner’s first two matches at the ATP Finals have been primetime night session matches in Turin, though his final round-robin match against Shelton has been moved to the daytime slot.

There is one very simple reason for that: in terms of qualifying, there is nothing at stake in this match.

Having already beaten Auger-Aliassime and Zverev in Turin, Sinner is already guaranteed to finish atop Group Bjorn Borg, regardless of his result here.

While, having tasted defeat to both the German and Canadian on his ATP Finals debut, Shelton cannot qualify for the semi-final stage.

It would be easy to describe this match as a ‘dead rubber’, though there is still significant prize money and ranking points at stake for both men.

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Each round-robin win in Turin is worth both 200 ranking points and a staggering $396,500 in winnings, ensuring that both men still have plenty to play for, regardless of the lack of ramifications.

Sinner will enter this contest as an overwhelming favourite for victory, having won his last seven matches — and last 17 sets — against the American.

What’s at stake between Zverev and Auger-Aliassime?

With Sinner already guaranteed to progress as the group winner, and Shelton already out of contention, Zverev and Auger-Aliassime have clear scenarios in their encounter.

Whoever wins this match will qualify in second place and face the winner of Group Jimmy Connors in the semi-final, while whoever loses will exit the tournament.

Both men have picked up wins over Shelton and tasted defeats to Sinner at the ATP Finals this year, leading to a straight shootout between the two.

Zverev holds a 6-3 advantage in their head-to-head, though it was Auger-Aliassime who won their most recent meeting — defeating the German at the US Open this summer.

This will be the final round-robin match of the tournament, with the semi-finals taking place on Saturday, and the final on Sunday.

Order of play (Friday, November 14 – local time)

n/b 14:00: (1) Jannik Sinner vs (5) Ben Shelton
n/b 20:30: (3) Alexander Zverev vs (8) Felix Auger-Aliassime

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Alex de Minaur overcame his demons to seal a stunning win over Taylor Fritz at the ATP Finals on Thursday — a result that holds huge ramifications in Turin.

After a heartbreaking loss to Lorenzo Musetti on Tuesday, de Minaur’s hopes looked all but over at the year-end championships, with the Australian falling to a 0-5 career record at the ATP Finals.

However, a 7-6(3), 6-3 win over Fritz provides the perfect tonic after his loss to Musetti, and holds huge significance for himself, the Italian, and Carlos Alcaraz in Group Jimmy Connors.

What does victory mean for de Minaur?

After opening losses to Alcaraz and Musetti in Turin, de Minaur’s ATP Finals hopes were hanging by a thread heading into Thursday.

The only way the Australian could have any hope of qualification was if he could beat sixth seed and 2024 runner-up Fritz in straight sets — something he was able to do in style.

Victory for de Minaur this afternoon now means that he will qualify for the semi-final if Alcaraz beats Musetti in the final Group Jimmy Connors match tonight, a result that would see the Australian finish second.

What does defeat mean for Fritz?

Fritz had one win and one loss to his name across his first two matches, beating Musetti in straight sets before a three-set defeat to Alcaraz on Tuesday.

That set won against Alcaraz put the American in with a solid chance of qualification come Thursday, with his destiny largely still within his own hands.

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However, a straight-set loss to de Minaur was the absolute worst-case scenario for Fritz, and last year’s finalist is now officially out of the tournament and is unable to progress — regardless of Alcaraz and Musetti’s result.

What does it mean for Alcaraz and Musetti?

Alcaraz and Musetti will be focusing on their own match, but this afternoon’s result holds huge significance for both men in this group.

The good news for Alcaraz is that he has now officially qualified for the knockout stage, with neither de Minaur nor Fritz able to overtake him.

The Spaniard will top the group should he beat Musetti on Thursday night, and face the runner-up from Group Bjorn Borg in the last four — one of Alexander Zverev or Felix Auger-Aliassime.

Should Alcaraz lose to Musetti, he would finish in second place behind the Italian — booking a blockbuster semi-final against Jannik Sinner, the winner of Group Bjorn Borg.

De Minaur’s win now means that Musetti must absolutely defeat Alcaraz on Thursday to have any chance of progression.

If Musetti were to lose, he, de Minaur, and Fritz would all hold three points — though the Australian would reach the semi-final due to a higher percentage of sets won.

A win for the Italian would see him top the group ahead of Alcaraz, moving ahead of the Spaniard on head-to-head.

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Alexander Zverev has addressed whether Jannik Sinner is “unplayable” after his straight-set defeat to the world No 2 at the 2025 ATP Finals.

The world No 3 fell 4-6, 3-6 to four-time major champion Sinner in the round robin stage at the season-ending championships in Turin on Wednesday.

Zverev was unable to convert any of the seven break points he had, while Sinner won two of his four break points as both sets were decided by a single break.

Alexander Zverev addresses whether Jannik Sinner is ‘unplayable’

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Sinner now holds a 6-4 record against Zverev having won the pair’s last five encounters in a run that started with a win in Cincinnati in August last year.

Zverev won four of the pair’s first five meetings, which all came before Sinner won his first Grand Slam in 2024.

Sinner’s win ensured his qualification for the semi-finals in Turin, while Zverev must defeat Felix Auger-Aliassime in his final round robin match in order to progress.

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In his press conference after losing to Sinner in Turin, Zverev was asked a question about Sinner being “unplayable.”

Q. “I was pretty impressed with your first set. You served 87% of first serves. You won 19 out of 26 points [on first serve]. You still lost 6-4.What do you say to yourself in these occasions? What could I have done better? It’s unplayable?”

Zverev: “It’s not unplayable. I had many opportunities. He had one [in the second set], he used the chance. This is why he’s No 1 in the world, you know? He uses the chances that he gets.

It was a high-level match. He just used his chances much, much better than me. That’s why, in the end, he won both sets.”

The 28-year-old was then asked what he can do to get closer to Sinner.

“Number one is to stay healthy and injury-free. This year was a nightmare for me injury-wise. All the time I had something. It was difficult for me to improve when I always had to try to get healthy. This is number one thing,” Zverev said.

“Look, of course I think it’s quite easy for you guys to ask these questions because the score says 6-4, 6-3. If you look deeper into the match, I really believe that it could have been more than 6-4, 6-3, so… Don’t always judge it by the score.”

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Aryna Sabalenka was without a doubt the best player on the WTA Tour in 2025, but Rennae Stubbs feels the four-time Grand Slam winner will be “highly disappointed” with her season.

The Belarusian started the year at No 1 and also finished the campaign at the top as she became only the seventh woman to spend an entire calendar year atop the WTA Rankings whlie she also won the most titles (four) and topped the prize money earnings list ($15,008,519).

Although she reached four Grand Slam finals, Sabalenka won only won – and that was at the US Open when she defeated Amanda Anisimova in the final – with her other titles coming at the WTA 500 Brisbane International and the WTA 1000 Miami Open and Madrid Open.

She lost five of the nine finals she played in and some were big ones as she was beaten by Madison Keys at the Australian Open, Coco Gauff at the French Open and, most recently, Elena Rybakina at the WTA Finals.

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Doubles legend Stubbs was full of praise for Sabalenka’s “outrageously good” consistency in 2025, but says the four-time major winner will feel she should’ve won more trophies, especially majors.

“Aryna Sabalenka, another fantastic year, finishes world number one. It’s been a long time since [somebody has] gone back-to-back, since somebody has done that as well number one,” the four-time women’s doubles Grand Slam winner said on the Rennae Stubbs podcast.

“But having said that, I would venture to say that she would say it was a great year, but it wasn’t the year that she would have hope for.

“And that’s an amazing thing to say when you reach as many finals as she has, as you are the pinnacle of world number one two years in a row, the consistency that she had this year was outrageously good.

“But having only won one, essentially one major title, the US Open, I would say that she would say that this year was a little bit of a failure.

“And I mean that in the nicest way, because she’s been so good and consistently the best player all year and making all the finals that she did.

“I think she would be highly disappointed that she lost in the finals of the Australian Open, that she lost in the semi-finals of Wimbledon, that she lost the final of the French Open, and then she lost to Rybakina in the WTA Final.

“I think that for her, someone who’s that dominant would be very disappointed that they didn’t get more major titles under their belt this year. And she sort of deserved it, but in the end, if you don’t win, you don’t deserve it.”

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Jannik Sinner kept his hopes of beating Carlos Alcaraz to the year-end No 1 ranking alive after he sealed his passage to the last four of the ATP Finals with a thrilling win against Alexander Zverev in front of his home fans.

Zverev pushed Sinner in a competitive first set, but he failed to take his chances in a match that saw him miss out on seven break points and then faltered at crucial moments in a 6-4, 6-3 defeat.

“A very, very competitive match, a very close match,” said Sinner. “I felt like I was serving very well in important moments. I tried to play the best tennis possible when it mattered, which fortunately went my way.

“We both changed a little bit tactically, so I felt like we both were trying to hit quite fast, quite flat, but I’m very happy with how I returned his serve.

“It’s very difficult. One of the best serves in the game. The group I’m in, with Sascha (Zverev) and Ben (Shelton), it’s very difficult to return their serves.”

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This was another polished performance from Zverev, as he lifted his game in the key moments and won an impressive 83 per-cent of his first serve points.

His success in saving seven break points was crucial to the outcome of the match, as he won two of the four break point chances he had against Zverev.

Sinner out-aced Zverev 12-7 and that was an impressive effort against one of the biggest servers in tennis, with the service motion he was keen to improve after his US Open final defeat against Alcaraz in September in impressive working order.

Remarkably, Sinner has now won 28 successive matches in indoor conditions, and he suggested the conditions in Turin are suiting him.

“I feel like indoors suits my game style very well,” he added. “You don’t have the wind, you don’t have the sun, you always have the same feeling on the court and it always helps you feel more comfortable.”

This win against Zverev took his prize money for the ATP Finals to $1,124,000. That allowed him to move through the $15m barrier for 2025 and if you throw in the $6m he collected for winning the Six Kings Slam exhibition event last month.

His battle for the year-end world No 1 position with Alcaraz will continue into what will be a crucial Thursday, with the Spaniard getting his first chance to wrap up the prestigious ranking if he can beat Lorenzo Musetti on Thursday.

If Alcaraz is beaten by Sinner’s Italian compatriot, there are some scenarios that would see Sinner take on Alcaraz in the semi-finals in Turin on Saturday, where the world No 1 ranking could be on the line.

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It was clear from before he even muttered a word at his post-match press conference that Alex de Minaur should not have been in the line of fire of media questions so soon after one of his most painful defeats.

After coming so close to what would have been a first victory at the ATP Finals, De Minaur was forced to contemplate another narrow loss against a top 10 opponent in a year that has been littered by a succession of stories of what might have been.

In so many ways, De Minaur is one of the great achievers in tennis, with this gutsy performer lifting his game in recent years to a level that has secured his position in the upper echelons of the sport over the last few years, but he appears to have hit a ceiling in his levels when it comes to matches against the very best in men’s tennis.

De Minaur looked set to seal victory as he held the upper hand in the deciding set of his match against Lorenzo Musetti on Tuesday night, but he failed to hold serve when he had the match at his mercy at 5-4 and ended up slipping to another desperate loss.

Outside of the Laver Cup, De Minaur has now suffered 16 consecutive losses against players inside the top 10.

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During that miserable run, he has lost to Alexander Zverev, Jannik Sinner, Daniil Medvedev, Carlos Alcaraz, Taylor Fritz, Ben Shelton, Novak Djokovic, Andrey Rublev and Lorenzo Musetti, with this defeat clearly hitting him hard.

“If I really want to be serious about taking the next step in my career, these matches, I can’t lose them. I just can’t,” he said.

“I mean, it feels like I’ve lost a lot of them this year. More than anything, it’s getting to a point where mentally it’s killing me.

“I just (need to) win these matches. It’s something that if it doesn’t get sorted, it’s going to eat me alive.

“I need to get it sorted sooner rather than later. I don’t know how many times I can deal with a loss like this one.”

It wasn’t just the words offered up by De Minaur in his press conference that summed up his mood, with the despair in his face evident as he looked a little like a boxer who had just suffered a knock-out blow.

The rules at major tennis tournaments compel players to speak to the media if a request is submitted and at an event as big as the ATP Finals, that will mean offering up opinions after victories and defeats.

Tennis is one of the few sports that compels beaten players to face the media straight after their setback, with Naomi Osaka among those who have suggested in recent years that the rules over the requirements to speak to the media could be looked at.

Golf is a sport that has different rules for media engagements as players are not required to speak to the media, with Masters champion Rory McIlroy among those who has opted to skip his press conference duties at times in recent years.

De Minaur’s agony in Turin may well spark a debate over whether players who have just suffered the agony of a defeat need to put themselves through more pain by speaking about their loss so soon after.

While meeting the requirements of the media who make the effort to attend the tournament in person and promoting the sport of tennis always has to be factored into the decision over whether a player completes a press conference, this looked like a moment when a statement issued to the media rather than a painful appearance in front of the cameras would have been more suitable.

De Minaur was a little incoherent at times as he was struggling to come to terms with what happened to him and at a time when the world is focused on understanding the significance of looking after our mental health, this did not feel like a press conference that should have taken place.

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The ATP Finals produced another three-set thriller to kickstart Wednesday’s singles action in Turin, with Felix Auger-Aliassime fighting his way past Ben Shelton in a nailbiting affair.

After losing to Jannik Sinner on Monday night, Auger-Aliassime rallied from a set down to beat Shelton 4-6, 7-6(7), 7-5 and pick up his first win of the tournament, breaking in the final game to seal a crucial victory.

Triumph for the Canadian gives him a fighting chance of progressing out of his group, while Shelton’s hopes are now left hanging by a thin thread; here, we look at what the result means for both men in Turin.

What does victory mean for Auger-Aliassime?

After tasting defeat — and appearing to struggle with a calf problem — in his opening loss to Sinner on Monday, victory could prove crucial for Auger-Aliassime.

The Canadian now has a realistic chance of qualifying for the knockout stages of the year-end championship for the first time, having exited at the round-robin stage on his debut back in 2022.

The best, or at least the most straightforward, circumstance for Auger-Aliassime will come if Sinner beats Alexander Zverev in Wednesday’s night session match in Turin.

That would guarantee Sinner the top spot, and then ensure a straight shootout between the Canadian and Zverev for second position in the group.

If Zverev were to beat Sinner tonight, things would be a little more complicated, with all four men still looking to qualify for the semi-final stage.

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A win versus Zverev would likely be enough in this hypothetical scenario, though it could come down to sets won and games won between himself, the German, and Sinner — if the Italian beats Shelton to also finish on six points.

What does defeat mean for Shelton?

Shelton had his chances against Auger-Aliassime today, but, after an opening defeat to Alexander Zverev, is now 0-2 on his ATP Finals debut.

And, his hopes of potentially sealing a semi-final spot could be dashed sooner rather than later.

The American will officially be unable to qualify if Sinner beats Zverev tonight, a result that would see the Italian seal top spot and pit Auger-Aliassime against Zverev in a battle for second spot.

Shelton’s only slight hope of qualifying is if Zverev were to beat Sinner tonight, though he would need some big swings to go this way.

He would likely need to beat Sinner in straight sets on Friday — having lost 17 straight sets, and seven straight matches, versus the Italian — and hope Zverev comfortably beats Auger-Aliassime.

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