Nitto ATP Finals: Dates, Tickets & Venue (Turin)

Eight players, one court, one week

The season ends here. The Nitto ATP Finals is the year-end championship for the top eight men’s singles players, decided by the year’s ranking race rather than by invitation. Alongside them come the eight best doubles teams.

The 2026 edition runs from 15 to 22 November at the Inalpi Arena. Turin has hosted the tournament since 2021, after decades in which it moved between cities including London, Shanghai and New York. The field arrives at the end of a long season, so the tennis sometimes swings between exhausted and ferocious within a single set.

The format that makes every match count

This is not a knockout from day one. The eight singles players are split into two groups of four, and each plays the other three in a round robin. The top two from each group go through to the semi-finals, then the final closes the week.

That structure changes how the tournament feels from the stands:

• A loss is not the end. A player can drop a match and still qualify, so early sessions carry tactical tension.
• The last group day decides everything. Permutations about sets and games won often hang over the final round-robin matches.
• Doubles runs on the same format, with its own groups, semi-finals and final.

Inside the Inalpi Arena

The building was born for ice hockey. It opened as the Palasport Olimpico for the 2006 Winter Olympics, designed by the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. From outside it reads as a long, low rectangular box with a metal skin, partly sunk below street level so it does not tower over the neighbourhood.

Inside, the seating rises steeply on all four sides of a single court. For tennis the hall seats on the order of 12,000, which puts even the upper rows closer to the baseline than at most outdoor stadium courts. The Finals traditionally stage play on a dark court under concentrated lighting, with the stands left dim, so the court glows like a stage set.

The arena sits in the Santa Rita district, southwest of the centre. Its neighbour across the square is the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino, home ground of Torino FC.

Day session, night session

A ticket buys a session, not a day. The Finals are typically split into an afternoon session and an evening session, each usually pairing one doubles match with one singles match. The arena is generally cleared between the two, so the evening crowd is a fresh house.

This rhythm shapes a Turin day for most visitors. Afternoon ticket holders tend to spend the morning in the centre and head out after lunch. Evening holders often fit in the Egyptian Museum or the Mole Antonelliana first, then eat late after play, which suits a city where dinner rarely starts before eight.

The full order of play, including which session hosts which match, appears on nittoatpfinals.com. Knockout-day schedules depend on group results, so semi-final pairings emerge only after the round robin ends.

Getting out to Santa Rita

The arena is a ride from the historic core, not a stroll. Most visitors base themselves near Torino Porta Nuova station or the arcaded streets around Via Po and Piazza Castello, then travel out by tram, bus or taxi. The journey across the grid of long, straight avenues is short by big-city standards.

Arriving from further afield, Turin’s two main rail stations are Porta Nuova and Porta Susa, both served by high-speed trains from Milan, which is about an hour away. Turin Airport at Caselle handles European flights. Fans flying long-haul, including the many who follow the tournament from Asia, often land in Milan and continue by train.

Taxis cluster around the arena after the evening session ends, and the queue for them is long. Plenty of fans walk a few blocks away from the square before hailing one or using public transport.

Vermouth between sessions

November Turin is cold, grey and frequently foggy. The city’s answer is indoors. Vermouth was commercialised here in the eighteenth century, and the early-evening aperitivo, a drink served with snacks on the counter, is the local ritual between work and dinner.

For a slower afternoon, these are the fixtures fans usually work around:

• Bicerin: a layered glass of espresso, hot chocolate and cream, served at Caffè Al Bicerin facing the Santuario della Consolata.
• Museo Egizio: one of the world’s major collections of Egyptian antiquities, on Via Accademia delle Scienze.
• Mole Antonelliana: the city’s spire-topped landmark, housing the National Cinema Museum and a glass lift to a viewing deck.
• Quadrilatero Romano: the old Roman street grid, now dense with small restaurants and wine bars.

The tournament also falls in white truffle season in nearby Alba. Menus across Piedmont lean on tajarin, the region’s thin egg pasta, and on agnolotti del plin, small pinched ravioli.

Courtside manners at the Inalpi

Tennis has its own rules for spectators, and the ushers here enforce them. Doors to each seating block close while a game is in progress. Latecomers, and anyone returning from the bar, wait at the entrance until the changeover, which comes after the first game of a set and then every two games.

A few habits separate seasoned fans from first-timers:

• Silence during points. Noise is fine between them, and the home crowd is loud then, especially for Italian players.
• No flash photography, and phones stay quiet while the ball is in play.
• Stay seated during rallies. Getting up mid-point blocks the view of the rows behind.
• Coffee is a standing affair. At bars around the city, Italians drink espresso at the counter, quickly; table service usually costs more.

Cards and contactless payment are widely accepted in Turin, at the arena and in most bars. Ticket categories and their current prices are listed on the official tournament site.