The eight-player field at the WTA Finals is set, and the ATP Finals field is taking shape.
Only the world’s best players compete at these prestigious season-ending tournaments, and as a result, they will arrive in Riyadh and Turin, respectively, with some pretty special achievements under their belts in 2024.
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In partnership with Stats Perform, we present some of the most notable milestones each player – listed in race order – has achieved in what has been a memorable season.
*Player names in italics are those who are next in line to qualify, but have not yet confirmed their places.
#1 Aryna Sabalenka
At the biggest women’s events in 2024 – Grand Slams and WTA 1000s – Aryna Sabalenka has won 46 matches, more than any other player.
Swiatek (45) and Gauff (40) are the only other women to win more than 40 matches at big events this season.
Sabalenka, the reigning Australian Open and US Open champion, finished with an extraordinary 18-1 record at the majors this year – this translates to a success rate of 94.74 per cent, the best single-season Grand Slam winning percentage of her career.
#1 Jannik Sinner
Sinner confirmed his ATP Finals qualification on 15 October, earlier in the season than any player in the past nine years. You have to go back to 2015, when Novak Djokovic qualified on 15 September, to find a player who cemented their spot sooner.
Sinner, who also won the AO and US titles, joins a select group – Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl, Pete Sampras and Roger Federer – of players aged 23 or under to win 6+ hard court titles in one Open-era season.
#2 Iga Swiatek
Swiatek qualified for the WTA Finals on 6 August, the fastest player to cement her spot at the season-ending event since Serena Williams in 2013.
The Polish star went 26-2 on clay this year, building a 24-match winning streak on the surface that took in the Madrid, Rome and Roland Garros titles and ended in the Olympic semifinals.
#2 Carlos Alcaraz
Alcaraz is an incredible 8-1 against top-five opponents in 2024, with four of those wins coming on hard court, three on clay, and two on grass.
He is the only player in ATP rankings history to score multiple top-five wins on all three surfaces in consecutive seasons; John McEnroe is the only other player to manage this in one season (1984).
#3 Coco Gauff
Since the WTA Finals introduced its eight-player, round-robin format in 2003 – moving away from a 16-player knockout format – Gauff is just the second player aged under 21 to qualify for three straight years at the event.
The last was Maria Sharapova, who qualified four straight years from 2004 to 2007.
#3 Alexander Zverev
With 61 match wins in 2024 – a tally bettered only by Sinner’s 65 – Zverev is just the fourth German in the Open era to notch 60+ wins in a single season.
The others? Boris Becker (1986, 1989, 1990), Michael Stich (1991, 1993, 1994) and Rainer Schuettler (2003).
#4 Jasmine Paolini
Since the WTA rankings were introduced in 1975 – almost 50 years ago – Jasmine Paolini is the second-oldest player to qualify for the WTA Finals as a top-five player.
At 28 years and 303 days, she will make her debut younger than only Li Na, who was 29 years and 241 days when she debuted as a top-five player at the 2011 WTA Finals in Istanbul.
#4 Daniil Medvedev
With 45 wins so far in 2024, Medevdev is on the brink of notching 50+ wins in consecutive seasons for the first time in his career, after winning 66 matches in 2023.
#5 Elena Rybakina
A champion in Brisbane, Abu Dhabi and Stuttgart, Rybakina is one of just four women to win 3+ WTA titles in 2024.
The others are Swiatek (5), Sabalenka (4) and Diana Shnaider (3).
#5 Taylor Fritz
Fritz could become just the third American this century to qualify multiple times at the ATP Finals.
The others were Andre Agassi (2000-03, 2005) and Andy Roddick (2003-04, 2006-07, 2008, 2010).
#6 Jessica Pegula
Pegula could become the oldest first-time winner of the WTA Finals since the event began in 1972.
She would be 30 years and 258 days on the day of the final, and would surpass Jana Novotna, who was 29 years and 52 days when she won in New York in 1997.
#6 Novak Djokovic
At 37 years and 172 days, Novak Djokovic could become the second-oldest player to appear at the ATP Finals after Roger Federer, who was 38 years and 94 days in 2019.
Djokovic is the oldest player to win the event since the ATP Finals began in 1970, thanks to his 2023 victory in Turin at age 36 years and six months.
#7 Zheng Qinwen
Zheng is just the second Chinese women in the event’s 52-year history to appear in singles at the WTA Finals.
Li Na was the other, when she competed at the WTA Finals from 2011 to 2013.
#7 Casper Ruud
Ruud could become just the fourth player in the past decade to reach multiple ATP Finals without winning an ATP event on hard court that season, after also doing so in 2022.
The others? Marin Cilic (2017-18), Matteo Berrettini (2019-21) and Stefanos Tsitsipas (2021-22).
#8 Barbora Krejcikova
Excluding alternates, 13th-ranked Krejcikova will be the first non-top 10 player to compete at the WTA Finals since 11th-ranked Vera Zvonareva 20 years ago.
Following a rule change, Krejcikova qualified for the WTA Finals as a Grand Slam singles champion in 2024, despite not finishing among the top eight in the Race to the Finals.
#8 Andrey Rublev
Since the event began in 1970, Rublev could become only the third player to reach the ATP Finals on five consecutive occasions without reaching a Grand Slam final.
The others were Raul Ramirez and Nikolay Davydenko.
#9 Alex de Minaur
De Minaur could become the first Aussie to appear in singles at the ATP Finals in 20 years, after Lleyton Hewitt in 2004.
De Minaur would be only the fourth Australian in the past four decades – after Pat Cash, Pat Rafter and Hewitt – to qualify for singles at the ATP Finals.