A closer look at Turin, the next host of the ATP Finals

After two years hosting the Next Gen Finals, Italy is now set to put on an even bigger year-end event—with the ATP Finals moving from London to Turin, where the championships will take place from 2021 through 2025.

The city is perhaps known best to American audiences as the site of the 2006 Winter Olympics, and the legacy of those Games will be have a clear presence in the forthcoming finals: The arena chosen, the Pala Alpitour, was the Olympic hockey venue 13 years ago.

It'll take a lot for the 12,350-seat venue to live up to the standard set by London's O2 Arena's 20,000 capacity over the past decade, but the players seem optimistic.

The Pala Alpitour was previously named the Palasport Olimpco since ti was built for the 2006 Winter Olympics at a cost of 87 million Euros, and is the largest indoor sporting arena in Italy. It's become a premier venue for concerts. The stadium has hosted hockey, basketball, mixed martial arts and volleyball events. Turin is home to two major soccer teams, Juventus F.C. and Torino F.C.

It's also easy to forget, with London being the centerpiece of the tour since 2009, that the Finals have a long history of moving around. They were first won in Tokyo by Stan Smith in 1970, and have since been held as far and wide as Sydney, Shanghai and, for 13 years, New York.

Turin will be just one of many next chapters.