The ATP final tournament reaches its climax.
During this season, Harri Heliövaara has earned more than 1.1 million dollars in prize money even before the ATP final tournament. PDO
Harri Heliövaara plays its match of Henry Patten with the final of the ATP finals tournament. Opposite is Joe Salisbury/Neal Skupski.
Heliövaara/Patten took the opening set 7–5. The set ended with Salisbury’s first turnover of the entire tournament.
Salisbury requested a consultation from the medical staff after the ninth Game, but no major treatment measures were taken.
Heliövaara/Patten leads the second set 5–2.
The championship comes off with two set wins.
Iltalehti follows the progress of the match in this article.
Heliövaara/Patten and Salisbury/Skupski already met in the initial group stage. At that time, Salisbury/Skupski took the set of the match 7–6, 3–6, 10–7.
The couple Heliövaara/Patten has won the Australian Open and Wimbledon, but never the ATP final tournament.
About Finnish players Henri Kontinen had its match of John Peers with ATP finals champion in both 2016 and 2017.
Huge prize pools
A total of USD 15.5 million in prize money is awarded at the ATP Finals tournament.
In doubles, the maximum winning amount for a pair is $959,300. The amount includes the participation bonus and prize money for each win.
The couple Salisbury/Skupski, who have clicked all winning bonuses, are locked in the maximum amount.
Heliövaara/Patten have earned 506,200 dollars so far, to which a victory in the final would bring an additional 356,000 dollars.
The winner of the doubles is offered an even bigger money bag, the largest in the tournament’s history. The champion’s total pot will be a little over five million dollars.
They will meet in Sunday evening’s final Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner. So far, both have cashed in full winning bonuses.
One dollar is about 0.86 euros.