Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF Draw Is Out!
The draw for the 2025 Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF is out.
Top seed and last year’s finalist Learner Tien leads Blue Group, which features both Spanish players in the eight-man field – Martin Landaluce and Rafael Jodar plus Norway’s Nicolai Budkov Kjaer.
Belgian Alexander Blockx heads Red Group, which also features Croatian Dino Prizmic, returning American Nishesh Basavareddy and 18-year-old German Justin Engel, the youngest player in the field.
Group stage play will be held Wednesday through Friday, with the semi-finals Saturday and final Sunday.
See the Day 1 Schedule
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Tien, 20, enjoyed a breakthrough first season on the ATP Tour with 32 tour-level wins. A finalist in Jeddah last December, the American showcased 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. Tien 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 lefty recorded five Top 10 wins in 2025 and is at a career-high No. 28 in the PIF ATP Rankings, having started the season outside the Top 120.
Landaluce will hope to follow in the footsteps of former champion Carlos Alcaraz when he makes 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 maiden ATP Challenger Tour title in Glasgow in February and returned to the winner’s circle in July with back-to-back triumphs 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 countryman Martin Landaluce at the 20-and-under event. Last year, the 19-year-old was a sparring partner in Jeddah.
Red Group
Blockx will compete in Jeddah for the first time following another year of progress on the ATP Tour and ATP Challenger Tour. The Belgian won Challenger crowns in Oeiras in January and in Bratislava in November. The 20-year-old also qualified for the ATP Masters 1000 event in Miami and earned 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, enjoying a 14-match winning streak. The Croatian enjoyed a breakthrough run on home soil at the ATP 250 in Umag, where he advanced to his maiden tour-level quarter-final.
Basavareddy, the 20-year-old Californian, will compete at the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF for the second consecutive year. He reached the semi-finals in Auckland at the start of the season and earned tour-level match wins 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 beat countryman 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 the feat at a younger age, doing so at 17 years, two months.
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