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<\/p>\n ATP Tour
\n Rules & innovations unveiled for the 2025 Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF<\/p>\n
Rules include free fan movement and reduced break in between points<\/p>\n
December 03, 2025<\/p>\n
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Corinne Dubreuil\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n
Jakub Mensik finished first in the PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah in 2025.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
The eighth edition of the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF<\/a> is set to light up Jeddah later this month, when the world’s best 20-and-under players on the ATP Tour will battle it out for the season-ending crown in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n Following the PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah, the field has been set, and the ATP on Wednesday announced the rules and cutting-edge innovations for the 2025 event, which is to be held from 17-21 December.<\/p>\n Read all about the rules and innovations for the 2025 Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF<\/a> below.<\/p>\n SCORING<\/strong><\/p>\n – First-to-4, Best-of-5 set scoring: Each match shall be the best of 5 tie-break sets. Each CHANGEOVERS<\/strong><\/p>\n – There will be no change of ends after the first game. RULES INITIATIVES<\/strong><\/p>\n – Warm-up: Players will warm up for 3 minutes on court. INNOVATION INITIATIVES In-arena data analytics: more match statistics and analytics will be available to fans, players and coaches than ever before. The following data will be shown in the arena: The data will also be available to the players\u2019 coaches courtside via the ATP\u2019s performance analytics platform, ATP Tennis IQ Powered by PIF, as well as the provision of video footage tagged with match data available post-match.<\/p>\n Read More \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATP Tour Rules & innovations unveiled for the 2025 Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF Rules include…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":422905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-422904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115658372842759107","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nset shall be first to 4 games with a margin of 2 games and a tie-break (first to 7
\npoints with a margin of 2) played at 3-3. Each game shall be played using the No-Ad
\nscoring format with the Server choosing the service box.<\/p>\n
– Players will change ends and sit down for 90 seconds after the first three games
\nare played, once more if the set score reaches 3:2 (i.e., after two more games in the
\nset), and then again at the end of the set (regardless of the final set score).
– Players will change ends after every six points in the tie-break.
– Players will sit down at the end of the set for 90 seconds, reduced from 120
\nseconds.<\/p>\n
– Ball change: After every 7 games.
– Serve Shot Clock: Up to 8 seconds will be permitted between first and second serve.
\nA shot clock will display the time elapsed between the first and second serve.
– Time between Points: The time between points will be reduced from 25 seconds
\nto 15 seconds if a point is below three shots (e.g., 2 shots = 15 seconds; 3 shots =
\n25 seconds).
– Free Fan Movement: Free movement will be allowed in the stadium for the first
\nthree games of the match. After the first free games, fans will be allowed to move
\nfreely except for limited areas behind the baseline in direct player view. Movement by a spectator(s) in the designated free movement areas shall
\nnot constitute a legitimate pause in the shot clock.
– Umpire Chair: A lower umpire chair will be continued to be used to reduce the visual
\nobstruction for fans in the arena.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n
– Traditional tennis statistics including aces, serve percentages, break point
\nperformance
– Player performance based upon rally length
– Player Shot Quality broken down by Serve, Return, Forehand, Backhand and
\nMovement.
– Match Insights data detailing which Player has been \u201cIn Attack\u201d the most, who has won more points when attacking (\u201cConversion Score\u201d) and who has won the most points when defending (\u201cSteal Score\u201d)<\/p>\n
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