Joe Salisbury placed second in the Nitto ATP Finals, capping off an outstanding season. Salisbury and Rajeev Ram finished the year as the second-best duo on the circuit, demonstrating their superiority throughout the week by going undefeated to the final.
They met French stars Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut in the final, whom they had defeated in the group stages, but the third seeds got their revenge, winning 6-4, 7-6. (0).
Murray and Soares lost a few close matches, including one to Ram and Salisbury, while Norrie was defeated by Casper Ruud and Novak Djokovic in one of the tournament's most important matchups.
Liam Broady reached the quarter-finals of the ATP Challenger in Helsinki during his last preparations.
Zsombor Piros and Joris De Loore were both defeated in straight sets, but Joao Sousa, the former World No.28, was defeated in a tough encounter, 6-7(3), 6-2, 7-6. (1).
On the ITF Tours, there were a couple of British doubles champions. Alicia Barnett won her sixth doubles championship of the year at the W25 Funchal, teaming Yu-Chieh Hsieh to defeat Ines Murta and Daniela Vismane 6-1, 3-6, 10-8 in a nail-biting final.
Dan Little and Ben Jones won the M15 Sharm El Sheikh for the second year in a row, defeating Neil Oberleitner and Volodymyr Uzhylovskyi 6-3, 6-2 in the final.
Billy Harris advanced to the final of the M15 Antalya tournament without dropping a set, but fell to third seed Daniel Michalski in three sets. His good form continues, as seen by his victory in Turkey a few weeks ago.