Race to Turin 2021 - Everything will be zeroed

After the exceptional year 2020, the ATP would like to allow something like normality to move in again in the coming season. At least when it comes to qualifying for the ATP Finals in Turin.

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Karen Khachanov only reported back to training later during the Corona break, which was also due to the strict regulations in Russia. For the Thiem's 7 prize money tournament in summer 2020, Khachanov came quite unprepared, but his stay in Gamsstadt still offered him a welcome change. At the time of the event in Kitzbühel, however, it was already foreseeable when the ATP tour would resume regular play. And how the rankings would go on. Karen Khachanov was not happy with it, as he explained to tennisnet at the time, because: Six of the eight participants for the ATP Finals in London would already have been determined due to the frozen points.

That should be different in the coming season. Back to normal, you could almost say. Because even before the current exceptional year 2020, only the points scored in a calendar year in the Race to London counted. However: even an adjusted calculation would have given the starting field for the last appearance in the O2 Arena, which we saw that way. If only these points plus those won at the ATP Finals had counted, Dominic Thiem would have finished the year in second place behind Novak Djokovic. And Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas should have let Alexander Zverev and Andrey Rublev pass them by.

Karen Khachanov, for the sake of completeness, was only able to collect 930 points at the 2020 tournaments.

This is what the 2020 race would have looked like (without the ATP Finals):