Former champions, event debutants, past finalists looking for redemption and two teams in a battle for ATP Year-End Doubles No. 1 presented by PIF Honors: There are plenty of storylines to be found from the doubles lineup at the 2025 Nitto ATP Finals.
The season’s eight best-performing teams gathered at the Inalpi Arena in Turin on Saturday for the media day ahead of the prestigious season finale. Among them were 2024 titleholders Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz, who will be the sixth seed this year.
“Very nice [to be back]“Of course,” Krawietz told ATPTour.com in Turin. “I have a lot of great memories here. Training here and seeing the boys and finishing in the top eight here, that was our goal at the start of the season. We did it again, so let’s compete.”
Puetz added: “I think we’ve had a very consistent year and have done very well in most tournaments. If you make it here, that’s just proof that you’ve had a good year. It doesn’t matter where you come from or where you got the points, you must have got a lot of points. I’m very proud to be back.”
Krawietz and Puetz line up alongside debutant team Julian Cash/Lloyd Glasspool, 2024 finalists Marcel Granollers/Horacio Zeballos and home favorites Simone Bolelli/Andrea Vavassori in Peter Fleming Group.
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Cash and Glasspool will contest their first Nitto ATP Finals together as the top seeds, and the duo are also poised to claim ATP Year-End Doubles No. 1 presented by PIF awards. The British lead second-placed Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten with 1305 points in the PIF ATP Live Doubles Teams Rankings.
Still, Heliovaara says he and his partner are prepared to tackle any mistake from their rivals, especially in the wake of his and Patten’s first ATP Masters 1000 win last weekend at the Rolex Paris Masters, where they defeated Cash and Glasspool in the final.
“It happened of course, the 1000 victory. I don’t think we felt that much pressure about it,” said the Finn. “We have had a number of semi-finals in the past and last week it was our turn to win [Nitto ATP Finals] doesn’t happen that often, so I don’t know if there’s extra pressure to win because the next opportunity may never present itself. We are confident and feel quite calm. We will play game by game and do our best.”
Heliovaara and Patten join Marcelo Arevalo/Mate Pavic, Joe Salisbury/Neal Skupski and Christian Harrison/Evan King in the John McEnroe Group at the Inalpi Arena. Salisbury, who won back-to-back titles in Turin in 2022 and 2023 with Rajeev Ram, is excited about the prospect of another title bid in Turin.
“It’s great to be back,” said the former No. 1 in the PIF ATP Doubles Rankings Salisbury. “It’s always exciting to come back for the Tour final. It obviously means you’ve had a great year. You’re treated better than anywhere else and you’re one of only eight teams, so it’s really special.”
Arevalo and Pavic don’t have to look far back for motivation this week in Turin. A year ago, the pair lost in a hard-fought championship match with Krawietz and Puetz, with both sets in that match going to tie-breaks.
“It’s always the goal to be back in Turin,” Arevalo said. “Last year we were quite close because we lost the final in two tiebreaks, so a few points would have changed the whole history. We are happy. Last year we had a great season and again this year we are having a great season so far, and this is just the icing on the cake. Hopefully we can play well here again.”
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Meanwhile, American duo Harrison and King are the only team where neither player has previous Nitto ATP Finals experience. They are also one of five teams with two players from the same country, the most teams of the same nationality at a single edition of the Nitto ATP Finals since 2004.
“I saw Stan Smith and Arthur Ashe win in 1970,” King said when asked about the United States’ storied history in Nitto ATP Finals doubles. “I thought that was pretty sweet. Other than that, we’re just trying to do our best. If we could do some good things here, it would be sweet. If we did well enough, we might get picked for the Davis Cup and that would be pretty cool, but we’re just competing here.”
Evan King and Christian Harrison on Saturday in Turin. Photo credit: Corinne Dubreuil/ATP Tour
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