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Nadal has claimed four titles on the tour this year, winning
46 matches and losing just six in a stellar 2017.
"I've had a great season so far and I am happy to have already
qualified for London," the Spaniard told the ATP website. "I
could not play last year because of injury so I look forward to
returning in November."
Nadal has never won the event, but finished runner-up in 2010
and 2013, losing out to Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic,
respectively.
The ATP World Tour Finals, which features the world's top eight
singles players and top eight doubles pairs, will be held at
London's O2 Arena from Nov. 12-19.
Federer is next in line to qualify for the event, for which he
is a near certainty after winning the Australian Open earlier
this year.
The Swiss will return to action in Stuttgart this week after
sitting out the entire claycourt season to prepare for
Wimbledon.
Young Austrian Dominic Thiem is third in the ATP race to London,
followed by Stan Wawrinka, Alexander Zverev, Djokovic, world
number one Andy Murray, and Belgium's David Goffin.
Players earn their place at the season finale by finishing in
the top eight of the race to London standings on Nov. 6, when
the World Tour regular season concludes after the Paris Masters.
The race is a calendar-year points race that starts at the
beginning of each season in the first week of January.
(Reporting by Simon Jennings in Bengaluru; Editing by Sudipto
Ganguly and Alison Williams)
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