ATP World Tour Finals could stay in London beyond 2020, says CEO

The ATP World Tour Finals could stay in London when the deal ends in 2020.

The end-of-season showdown between the best players in the men’s game was brought to the capital by ATP CEO Chris Kermode in 2009.

“As the head of the Tour, I have the responsibility to ask, ‘Is this the right place to have it?’” Kermode told Standard Sport.

“It would be very difficult to find a city that could get two sessions a day of 17,500 people.

“But we need to keep looking, not rest on our laurels and evaluate in 2020, so who knows.”

In the bidding process last time, London vied with other European cities - with Berlin and Paris potential challengers after 2020 - while there was also interest from cities in Asia, the Middle East and South America.

Kermode added: “We’ll have to weigh up what we’ve created here and it’s got real roots now in London.

“But it doesn’t necessarily mean it can’t happen somewhere else.”

Roughly quarter of a million people attend the finals at the O2 Arena each year, with Roger Federer the favourite to win the title for a record seventh time on Sunday after topping his group with a third straight win on Thursday.