Carlos Alcaraz could earn $5.17m in one week - but has to win every match to claim the full amount
At the ATP Finals, seven-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz will be licking his lips at a $5.17million prize pot - but only if he comes through Turin undefeated.
The Spaniard will play without the competition of long-time rival Jannik Sinner, the event’s reigning champion, who withdrew from the 2026 edition through injury.
To win the Finals and secure its whopping $5.17m winnings, Alcaraz must play and prevail in five successive matches in Turin, with his earnings increasing accordingly.
How can Carlos Alcaraz win $5.17million at the ATP Finals?
The Spaniard recently beat Ben Shelton to the Paris Masters title; on the way there, Alcaraz knocked out Taylor Fritz and ended his hopes of Turin qualification, costing the American dearly.
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That amount is $338,000 just to appear in the Finals’ ‘round robin’ phase, which an athlete must play all three matches of to earn, per the ATP website.
By winning a single tennis match in Turin’s group-stage phase, each athlete will earn an additional $405,000; if victorious in all three, their ‘round robin’ winnings will total over $1.5million.
Four players, of which Alcaraz will hope to be amongst, will progress to the Finals’ semi-finals, and a win there will pay out $1.2million to each match’s victor.
When Turin’s last-two players meet in the final, an eye-watering $2.4million will be up for grabs. If the Finals’ champion is undefeated in all five matches, they will net an overall total of $5.14million.
That figure is up from 1.61% from 2025, when Sinner became the most well-paid champion in the ATP end-of-year event’s history.
Alcaraz was Sinner’s final victim - the Italian prevailed in all five of his matches - in 2025, losing 6-7, 5-7 to his red-haired rival in Turin.
The Italian became the wealthiest champion in men’s Finals history; however, WTA Finals winner Elena Rybakina made more - she will miss out on an astonishing payday in 2026, despite the tournament’s 35% prize pot reduction from her record-high 2025 winnings.
Should Alcaraz become an undefeated champion in Turin this year, his earnings will still be less, by tens of thousands of dollars, than the payday enjoyed by Rybakina in 2025.
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When is the ATP Finals draw and what other history can Carlos Alcaraz make?
Beyond earning the largest Finals paycheque in ATP history - only if he wins, of course - Alcaraz would also take his first-ever Turin trophy back to Spain.
The seven-time Slam winner made it to the event’s final in 2025, was grouped by Casper Ruud and Alexander Zverev in 2024, and lost to Novak Djokovic, who recently admitted thoughts of retirement are closer than ever, in the semi-finals in 2023.
The ATP end-of-year event will be played from November 15 to 22, with Zverev, Shelton, Daniil Medvedev, Flavio Cobolli, Arthur Fils, Francis Tiafoe and Rafael Jodar serving as the Spaniard’s rivals.
The player who three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka believes will challenge both Alcaraz and Sinner in coming ATP Tour seasons will not be present in Turin.
The draw for the Finals will take place on Tuesday, November 12 at 12pm, ahead of the ‘round robin’ phase beginning on Sunday, November 15.
The semi-finals will be played on November 21, and the final in Turin will be played the day following on November 22.
The event’s two strongest champions are Novak Djokovic, who has won the Finals seven times, and Roger Federer, who has lifted six end-of-year trophies.
Shockingly, Alcaraz’s fellow Spaniard and the final ‘Big 3’ member, Rafael Nadal, never won the ATP Finals, despite lifting 22 Grand Slam titles.
Should Alcaraz prevail in Turin, and get over his end-of-year hump, he would begin his pursuit of not only catching Federer and Djokovic for Slam titles, but for ATP Finals titles, too.
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Topics: Carlos Alcaraz, Tennis
Kedar Bayley
