Next Gen ATP Finals 2025: How to watch, TV and streaming, dates, schedule, prize money, who's playing?

While the seasoned professionals are enjoying some hard-earned downtime, the stars of tomorrow are preparing to close the curtain on the 2025 ATP Tour season at this year's Next Gen ATP Finals.

Established as recently as 2017, the tournament has been won by esteemed names such as Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and Stefanos Tsitsipas, before the 2024 crown went to Brazilian prodigy Joao Fonseca.

However, the South American starlet will not be defending his juvenile title at the upcoming event, meaning that a new name will be etched onto the trophy during the festive competition.

Here, Sports Mole rounds up everything you need to know about the 2025 Next Gen ATP Finals.

When and where are the 2025 Next Gen ATP Finals?

The 2025 Next Gen ATP Finals will be held from December 17 to 21, in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah.

Players will convene at King Abdullah Sports City, a multipurpose sports venue which is hosting the Next Gen Finals from 2023 to 2027.

The complex also encompasses a 62,345-seater football stadium, which is set to be one of the host venues for the 2034 World Cup.

2025 Next Gen ATP Finals format

The Next Gen ATP Finals are reserved for the highest-ranked players aged 20 or under for the 2025 season, but the format is otherwise the same as the ATP Finals.

The octet have been split into two round-robin groups of four, and the top two from each group will progress to the semi-finals.

If two players are tied, their head-to-head record in the tournament is used as the primary tie-breaker; if three players are tied, they are split by percentage of sets won, then percentage of games won, and then finally head-to-head records.

If competitors still cannot be separated after the above criteria are applied, their ATP Ranking is used to determine their placement.

How to watch the 2025 Next Gen ATP Finals

Viewers in the UK can watch the Next Gen ATP Finals live on Sky Sports, or through the ATP Tour's official streaming service, TennisTV.

A full list of international broadcasters can be found here.

Who is playing at the 2025 Next Gen ATP Finals?

Not only has defending champion Fonseca pulled out, but Jakub Mensik - who won this year's Miami Open and was the heavy favourite for this tournament too - has also withdrawn.

As a result, the USA's Learner Tien - ranked 28th in the world - is the top seed for the event and arrived in Saudi Arabia on the back of beating Great Britain's Cameron Norrie in the final of the Moselle Open.

Tien memorably also battled past Daniil Medvedev en route to the fourth round of this year's Australian Open, and he is in the Blue Group with Spain's Martin Landulace and Rafael Jodar, as well as Norway's Nicolai Budkov Kjaer.

Meanwhile, the Red Group is headlined by second seed and world number 115 Alexander Blockx, the 20-year-old Belgian who won the boys title at the 2023 Australian Open.

The USA's Nishesh Basavareddy - who took a set off of Novak Djokovic at this year's Australian Open - Croatia's Dino Prizmic and Germany's Justin Engel complete the Red Group.