The tennis world is preparing for the big event that Turin will host with the best players on the circuit. The tournament that rewards perseverance and points earned throughout the season begins with a historic jackpot up for grabs to be distributed among all tennis players. In this way, everyone will seek to get the maximum possible amount of a global prize that will exceed 15 million dollars. That figure lends itself as the highest to divide in this tournament that is so exclusive and difficult to enter, since there is no freedom card and only eight players play.
The epic of this competition lies in the fact that completely change the format which is usually seen in tennis. In this type of competition, there are of the groupseach of four, who must face each other to seek to position themselves in the first two positions of the group. After, first and second of each group will be crossed in the semifinals to decide the two finalists.
For the first time in ATP Finals history, the undefeated champion award can reach a figure never seen before on the men’s circuit: 4,881,500 dollars. This figure could be the record for money earned throughout the history of tennis. However, it is not an easy task, since to do so you must win the tournament and, in addition, not miss a single match.
Despite this, finishing a tournament undefeated is exactly quite common, as is obvious. Every time someone wins a trophy, they do so after winning all the games. The Finals specialty is that the tension is not the same, since it is not direct elimination, but rather the group phase, in which you could miss a crashwith the risk that this may entail.
Therefore, for Carlos you can take that almost 5 million prize, you should first of all lift the trophy for the first time in his career and beat his three rivals in the group, semifinal and final. Thus, you must overcome Ruud, Rublev and Zverevthe most dangerous due to his great state of form. Once you have overcome that barrier, you must have the look at the other group. There, Medvedev, Fritz, De Minaur and Sinner, number one, could wait for him in the semis.
The importance given to this tournament is such that there are substitutes in case there is a drop in the group stage. These are chosen in relation to the next characters in the ranking, after the first eight. The two members travel to Turin and are part of the tournament if any player suffers an injury to the preliminary phase of the championship.
Stefanos Tsitsipas and Grigor Dimitrov will be the substitutes for the ATP Finals 2024.
Just by attending, they guarantee a check for $155,000, even if they don’t play for a single minute.
We’ll see if they’ll have the chance to go out and play. pic.twitter.com/UgnvO1T4ZL
— José Morón (@jmgmoron) November 6, 2024
In this case, those that have that replacement function son Tsitsipas y Dimitrovhow so just to go with reserves they already pocket a check $155,000 eachregardless of whether they play or not. With this information, you can see the dimension of this tournament for the tennis world, which brings together the best and has everything measured to the smallest detail.
