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The 2025 ATP Finals have begun, with Jannik Sinner returning to defend his crown in Turin. Sinner will once again hope to make the most of his home advantage, but where does the Italian maestro sit on the list of all-time ATP Finals champions?
By the time you are reading this, you might already know who won the title in 2025. But did it shake up the all-time leaderboard? Here are the most successful players in ATP Finals history.
Novak Djokovic – 7
Novak Djokovic won a record-setting seventh ATP Finals crown in 2023. But the Serbian has opted not to return to Palasport Olimpico since then to defend his title.
Although he had earned his spot with strong performances throughout the season, the 24-time Grand Slam champion withdrew from the 2024 tournament citing an unspecified injury issue. Injury also ruled him out of the 2025 edition.
Even though Djokovic will not be in Turin this year, his ATP Finals record remains safe. None of the current competitors are close to his ATP Finals trophy haul of seven.
Djokovic won his first ATP Tour Finals title in 2008. It was the final year the competition took place in Shanghai before moving to London.
He would win his second title four years later, beating none other than Roger Federer at the O2 Arena. The Swiss legend was in the running for a hat-trick title, but Djokovic had other plans – even though the best tennis betting sites saw Federer as the favourite.
After outlasting Federer in a two-hour-14-minute thriller in 2012, Djokovic defeated Nadal the next year before beating Federer once more in 2014. He is only the third player in history after Ilie Nastase and Ivan Lendl to win three ATP Tour Finals in a row.
Djokovic also won in 2015 to make history by winning four ATP Tour Final titles in a row. It’s a record that sets him apart from all other ATP Tour Finals champions in history.
He won his sixth title after a seven year break and defended it successfully the year later. Djokovic beat Casper Ruud in the 2022 final to lift the trophy for the first time in Turin. In 2023, he defeated local hero Sinner to win his seventh ATP Tour Finals title.
Roger Federer – 6
Federer finished his career with 20 Grand Slams and half a dozen ATP Tour Finals titles. He won the first of these six titles in 2003, beating Andre Agassi in Houston. He made it two in a row the next year, overcoming Lleyton Hewitt in the final.
Federer reached the final for the third consecutive time in 2005, but was unable to win it this time. After two successful campaigns in Houston, he lost to David Nalbandian in the 2005 ATP Tour Finals final in Shanghai.
The next two editions did not disappoint, however. Federer beat James Blake and David Ferrer in 2006 and 2007, respectively, to add two more ATP Tour Finals titles to his trophy cabinet.
He also won back-to-back titles in London. But, he failed to win three in a row again, as Djokovic beat him in the 2012 final.
Federer played the final two more times after that in 2014 and 2015. Both runs ended in disappointment, with Djokovic the one who denied him each time. Still, he is one of the most successful ATP Finals champions, as only Djokovic sits ahead of him in trophy count.
Ivan Lendl, Pete Sampras – 5
Ivan Lendl retired with an impressive eight Grand Slams in 1994. Even though Djokovic, Federer, and Nadal surpassed his haul in later years, Lendl remains one of the most decorated players in ATP Tour history.
The Czech legend won the ATP Tour Finals five times, which was a record when he hung up his racquet.
All of Lendl’s ATP Finals titles came during the tournament’s New York run. He won his first two in 1981 and 1982, then completed a hat-trick with three straight wins from 1985 to 1987.
Soon after, a 20-year-old Pete Sampras brought his US Open winning energy to the 1991 ATP Tour Finals. Sampras won in two different cities, but all of his wins were on German soil. After winning in Frankfurt in 1991 and 1994, Pistol Pete won three times in Hanover (1996,1997, and 1999).
Ilie Nastase – 4
Nastase claimed four ATP Finals titles during a dominant five-year run. He won three straight from 1971 to 1973 across Paris, Barcelona, and Boston – beating Stan Smith in the first two finals before defeating Tom Okker in ’73.
Guillermo Vilas beat him in the final in Melbourne in 1974. Nastase, however, had the last laugh the following year, when he silenced a hostile Swedish crowd in Stockholm by beating Bjorn Borg.
John McEnroe, Boris Becker – 3
Two more tennis royalties round out our all-time most successful ATP Finals champions list – John McEnroe and Boris Becker.
McEnroe won the tournament in 1978, beating fellow American Arthur Ashe. After losing the 1982 final to Lendl, he avenged his loss in 1983, beating the Czech star 6–3, 6–4, 6–4. He beat Lendl again in 1984 to win his third and final ATP Finals title.
Becker won his first in 1988, co-incidentally it also came against Lendl. The German won the next two in Frankfurt, beating Jim Courier in 1992 and Michael Chang in 1995.
Other than the ATP Finals champions mentioned above Borg, Hewitt and Alexander Zverev are the only players who won the tournament multiple times. Sinner will join this club if he can defend his title in 2025.
