Group stage play starts on Wednesday in Jeddah, with the final set set for Sunday.
December 14, 2025
The draw for the Next Gen ATP Finals 2025, presented by PIF, has been announced.
Pupil Ten, last year's top seed and finalist, leads the Blue Group, which features Spanish players in the eight-man field: Martin Landaluce and Rafael Jodar plus Norwegian Nicolai Budkov Kjaer.
Belgian Alexander Blockx leads Red Group, which also includes Croatian Dino Prizmic, returning American Nishesh Basavareddy and 18-year-old German Justin Engel, the youngest player in the field.
The group stage will be held from Wednesday to Friday, with the semi-finals on Saturday and the final on Sunday.
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Mohammed Al-Sarah, president of the Saudi Tennis Federation, with ATP supervisor Ahmed Abdel-Azim during Sunday's draw ceremony. Photo: Corinne Dubreuil/ATP tour
Tien, 20, had a breakthrough first season on the ATP Tour with 32 tour-level wins. The American was a finalist in Jeddah last December and showed his level to the world in 2025. He won his first ATP Tour title in Metz and reached the final at the ATP 500 event in Beijing. Ten also advanced to the fourth round at the Australian Open and enjoyed a run to the last 16 at the ATP Masters 1000 event in Shanghai.
The southpaw recorded five Top 10 wins in 2025 and sits at career-high No. 28 in the PIF ATP rankings after starting the season outside the Top 120.
Landaluce hopes to follow in the footsteps of former champion Carlos Alcaraz in his debut. The Spaniard advanced to the second round at the ATP Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati and lifted the trophy at the ATP Challenger Tour event in Orleans, France.
Budkov Kjaer won his first ATP Challenger Tour title in Glasgow in February and returned to the winner's circle in July with back-to-back victories in Tampere and Astana, becoming the youngest Norwegian to claim multiple Challenger trophies. He then captured his fourth title of the season at that level at the Open de Vendee in France.
Jodar, who currently plays for the University of Virginia, will make his debut at the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF after a late-season surge. The Spaniard won three ATP Challenger Tour titles in the final three months of the season and will now join compatriot Martin Landaluce in the 20-and-under event. Last year the 19-year-old was a sparring partner in Jeddah.
Blockx will compete in Jeddah for the first time after another year of progress on the ATP Tour and ATP Challenger Tour. The Belgian won the Challenger crowns in Oeiras in January and Bratislava in November. The 20-year-old also qualified for the ATP Masters 1000 event in Miami and recorded his first tour-level victory in Cincinnati, where he defeated Marcos Giron.
Prizmic won two ATP Challenger Tour titles in 2025, in Zagreb and Bratislava respectively, and enjoyed a 14-match winning streak. The Croatian enjoyed a breakthrough on home soil at the ATP 250 in Umag, where he advanced to his first tour-level quarter-final.
Basavareddy, the 20-year-old Californian, will participate in the Next Gen ATP Finals, presented by PIF, for the second year in a row. He reached the semifinals in Auckland early in the season and recorded tour-level match victories in Cincinnati, Winston-Salem and Hangzhou. He is here with Gilles Cervara, former coach of Daniil Medvedev.
Engel impressed on home soil in 2025. He defeated compatriot Jan-Lennard Struff at the ATP 500 in Hamburg and advanced to the quarter-finals in Stuttgart. The German became the second-youngest player since 1990 to win a tour-level match (excluding Davis Cup) on all three surfaces: hard, clay and grass. Only Rafael Nadal accomplished this feat at a younger age, at 17 years and two months.