When Carlos Alcaraz finished off Casper Ruud 6-4, 6-4 under the roof in Paris on Saturday, he reached his 11th ATP Masters 1000 final, and the seventh different Masters event in which he has played for the title. Only Canada and Shanghai are missing. It also moved him level with Boris Becker and Daniil Medvedev on the all-time list of Masters 1000 finalists.
This is the full list of the men who have reached the most finals at the nine tournaments one level below the Grand Slams, with the titles each converted, since the series began in 1990.
Most ATP Masters 1000 Finals
| Rank | Player | Finals | Titles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Novak Djokovic | 60 | 40 |
| 2 | Rafael Nadal | 53 | 36 |
| 3 | Roger Federer | 50 | 28 |
| 4 | Andre Agassi | 22 | 17 |
| 5 | Andy Murray | 21 | 14 |
| 6 | Pete Sampras | 19 | 11 |
| 7 | Jannik Sinner | 14 | 10 |
| 8 | Alexander Zverev | 13 | 7 |
| =9 | Carlos Alcaraz | 11 | 9 |
| =9 | Boris Becker | 11 | 5 |
| =9 | Daniil Medvedev | 11 | 6 |
| =12 | Gustavo Kuerten | 10 | 5 |
| =12 | Thomas Muster | 10 | 8 |
Michael Chang, Stefan Edberg and Andy Roddick each reached nine finals.
The Big Three’s Numbers
Novak Djokovic holds both records: 60 finals and 40 titles. His 60th final came at Miami in 2025, when he was 37, which also made him the oldest Masters 1000 finalist. He has not reached one since.
Rafael Nadal, who retired in 2024, finished with 53 finals and 36 titles. Roger Federer reached 50 finals and won 28. Federer is the oldest champion, having won Miami in 2019 at 37.
Djokovic also owns the best single season: six Masters 1000 titles in 2015. Nadal in 2013 and Djokovic in 2011 each won five.
Sinner’s 2026
Jannik Sinner began 2026 with nine Masters 1000 finals and five titles. He then won five in a row in the spring: Indian Wells and Miami, which made up the Sunshine Double, and then Monte Carlo, Madrid and Rome on clay. That took him to 14 finals and 10 titles, and to one title short of Djokovic’s 2015 season record.
Rome, where he beat Ruud 6-4, 6-4 on 17 May, completed his Career Golden Masters, a title at all nine Masters 1000 events. He was 24. Djokovic, the only other man to do it, completed his first set at Cincinnati in 2018, at 31, by beating Federer 6-4, 6-4, and completed it again at the same event in 2020. The Rome title also extended Sinner’s record run of consecutive Masters 1000 match wins to 34, past the 31 Djokovic put together in 2011.
Sinner did not reach another Masters final in 2026. A knee injury ended his season in October.
Alcaraz, Zverev and Medvedev
Carlos Alcaraz came to Paris with eight Masters 1000 titles from 10 finals. His only other Masters final of 2026, in Monte Carlo, ended in a 7-6(5), 6-3 loss to Sinner. Paris, an event he said “has always been really tough for me”, gave him his first title there, a 7-6(5), 7-5 win over Ben Shelton.
Alexander Zverev reached his 13th final in Madrid this year and lost it to Sinner 6-1, 6-2. He has seven titles. Daniil Medvedev’s 11th final came at Indian Wells in March, a 7-6(6), 7-6(4) loss to Sinner. He has six titles.
Shelton’s Third Final
Ben Shelton, Alcaraz’s opponent in Paris, played his third Masters 1000 final and his first outside Canada. He won the event in Toronto in 2025 and defended it in Montreal in 2026; the Canadian tournament alternates between the two cities. Alcaraz now leads their head-to-head 4-1. Shelton’s one win came over five sets at this year’s US Open, and Alcaraz said on Saturday: “I really want to take revenge against Ben.”
Age Records
- Youngest finalist and champion: Michael Chang, 18, Toronto 1990.
- Next youngest champions: Rafael Nadal, 18, Monte Carlo 2005, and Carlos Alcaraz, 18, Miami 2022.
- Oldest finalist: Novak Djokovic, 37, Miami 2025.
- Oldest champion: Roger Federer, 37, Miami 2019.
The Nine Events
The Masters 1000 series has nine tournaments: Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, Madrid, Rome, Canada, Cincinnati, Shanghai and Paris. The series began in 1990, was renamed the Tennis Masters Series in 2000 and took the Masters 1000 name in 2009.
Seven of the nine are now 12-day events with 96-player draws. Madrid, Rome and Shanghai moved to that format in 2023, and Canada and Cincinnati followed in 2025. Monte Carlo and the Paris Masters keep 56-player draws. Our guides to the Shanghai Masters and the Cincinnati Open cover the longer format.
A Masters 1000 title is worth 1,000 points in the ATP rankings. For the all-time title counts at every level, see most ATP titles; for the season-ending event, see most ATP Finals titles. The Career Slam explainer covers the Grand Slam equivalent of the Golden Masters.
Season Snapshot — 8 November 2026
- 8 November 2026: Alcaraz beat Ben Shelton 7-6(5), 7-5 in the Paris final for his ninth Masters 1000 title and his first in Paris. It was Shelton’s first defeat in a Masters 1000 final.
- 2026 Masters 1000 titles before Paris include Sinner’s five, Shelton’s in Canada and Arthur Fils’s in Cincinnati.
- Active players’ counts above will change; retired players’ will not.
This snapshot is dated and will change. The career record above does not.
