The first 5 players in the world ranking will evolve at the Six Kings Slam, a demonstrative tour with huge prizes
Article by David Istrate – published Monday, October 13, 2025, 13:39 / Updated Monday, October 13, 2025 13:42
For the second year in a row, RIAD, the capital of Saudi Arabia, will host Six Kings Slam, a demonstrative tennis tournament attended by the first 5 players in the world ranking and Stefanos Tsitsipas (27 years, 24 ATP), tennis player who replaced the injured Jack Draper (23 years, 9 ATP).
In 2024, Riad hosted for the first time Six Kings Slam, a demonstrative tour with huge prizes. The inaugural edition was awarded by Jannik Sinner, after a victory in front of Carlos Alcaraz, score 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3. In the small final, Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal with 6-2, 7-6 (5). Daniil Medvedev and Holger Rune participated in the first edition.
Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic, qualified directly in the Six Kings Slam semifinals
A year later, the tournament will return to Saudi Arabia and will take place on October 15-18, the rights of transmission of parties being obtained by Netflix. The first 5 players of the world will evolve at RIAD: Carlos Alcaraz (22 years old, 1 ATP), Jannik Sinner (24 years, 2 ATP), Alexander Zverev (28 years old, 3 ATP), Taylor Fritz (27 years old, 4 ATP) and Novak Djokovic (38 years old, 5 ATP).
Initially, Jack Draper was to be present at the Six Kings Slam, but an injury ended prematurely the season, and his place was taken by Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Carlos Alcaraz, ATP world leader, and Novak Djokovic, a semifinalist at all 4 Grand Slam tournaments this year and player with 24 Grand Slam titles, will compete directly from the semifinals.
Here is the program of “quarters” and semifinals, the finals will take place on October 18th.
Quarters of final (October 15)
Semifinals (October 16)
For participating in the Six Kings Slam, each player will receive $ 1.5 million. Besides, The winner of the tournament will get another $ 4.5 million. The matches will take place in Kingdom Arena, a room inaugurated in 2024, with a capacity of 26,090 seats.
