Announced: 2025 ITF World Champions presented by UNIQLO
Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner are the 2025 ITF World Champions presented by UNIQLO, with nine other players also confirmed today as World Champions across doubles, wheelchair and junior categories.
Both Sabalenka and Sinner receive the prestigious award for the second time. Sabalenka has added to her World Champion award from 2023, while Sinner becomes the first player to be named men’s singles World Champion in back-to-back years since Novak Djokovic received the award in five consecutive years from 2011 to 2015.
In women’s doubles, the all-Italian duo of Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini are named ITF World Champions for the second straight year. Having also been named women’s doubles World Champion alongside Roberta Vinci in 2012-14, Errani extends her record for most World Champion awards in women’s doubles to five.
Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos have been announced as men’s doubles World Champions for the first time, and become the first Spanish and Argentinian players, respectively, to receive the World Champion award in the men’s doubles category.
In wheelchair tennis, Yui Kamiji, Tokito Oda and Niels Vink have received the ITF World Champion awards in the women’s, men’s and quad categories, respectively. Kamiji (also World Champion in 2014 and 2017) and Vink (also 2022 and 2023) receive the honour for a third time, while Oda is World Champion for the second consecutive year.
Ivan Ivanov makes history as junior boys World Champion, becoming the first Bulgarian player to win an ITF World Champion award in any category. USA’s Kristina Penickova is the junior girls World
Champion and is the first American player to be named as a junior World Champion since Whitney Osuigwe in 2017.
“Congratulations to all our 2025 ITF World Champions," said ITF President David Haggerty. "It has been another incredible year for tennis, with so many highlights across the Grand Slam tournaments, the tours and our team events.
"The 11 players we are recognising today have all enjoyed tremendous seasons and we are confident that they will continue to shine in 2026. We wish these and all players a restful off-season and good fortune for next year.”
The ITF World Champions in men’s and women’s singles and doubles are selected based on objective criteria considering all results from the season, placing special emphasis on the Grand Slam tournaments and the ITF’s World Cup of Tennis competitions, Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge.
For wheelchair and junior tennis, the ITF World Champions in each category are the players who end the year as the singles world No. 1s. The 2025 World Champions will be presented with their awards at a ceremony in 2026. Further details will be announced in due course.
Read more about the 2025 ITF World Champions below:
Women’s singles: Aryna Sabalenka
Sabalenka was ranked as world No. 1 throughout 2025, winning the title at the US Open (her fourth Grand Slam tournament victory), finishing runner-up at both the Australian Open and Roland Garros and reaching the semi-finals at Wimbledon. She also won titles in Brisbane, Miami and Madrid and reached a total of nine finals this season. She led the WTA Tour for most titles won, most matches won and most finals reached in 2025.
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Men’s singles: Jannik Sinner (ITA)
Sinner reached the final at all four Grand Slam tournaments in 2025, defeating Alexander Zverev to retain his title at the Australian Open and defeating defending champion Carlos Alcaraz to win his first Wimbledon title. He fell to Alcaraz in the finals at both Roland Garros and the US Open, the former match widely considered to be among the best matches of all-time. He ended the season strongly with further titles at Beijing, Vienna, Paris and the ATP Finals.
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Women’s doubles: Sara Errani (ITA)/Jasmine Paolini (ITA)
Errani and Paolini won their first Grand Slam title as a doubles team at Roland Garros, just 10 months after winning Olympic gold at the same venue. It was a first Grand Slam doubles title for Paolini and a sixth for Errani, with Errani having also won five major titles alongside Roberta Vinci in 2012-14. The duo also won titles in Doha, Rome and Beijing, reached the semi-finals at the US Open and were both members of the Italian team which won the Billie Jean King Cup title for the second straight year.
Men’s doubles: Marcel Granollers (ESP)/Horacio Zeballos (ARG)
Granollers and Zeballos won their first two Grand Slam titles, triumphing at Roland Garros and the US Open. Their success in Paris ended a streak of three defeats in Grand Slam finals, with Granollers also having finished runner-up alongside Marc Lopez at Roland Garros and the US Open in 2014. The pair won three other Tour-level titles together – at Bucharest, Madrid and Basel – and reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon. Both competed for their nations at the Davis Cup Final 8 in Bologna in November.
Women’s wheelchair: Yui Kamiji (JPN)
Kamiji won her ninth, 10th and 11th Grand Slam singles titles at the Australian Open, Roland Garros and the US Open in 2025 – her first major singles titles since 2020. She also finished runner-up in singles at Wimbledon and won the women’s wheelchair doubles title at Roland Garros. She returned to the world No. 1 ranking for the first time since 2018 following her title-victory at the Australian Open and has remained at No. 1 since then.
Men’s wheelchair: Tokito Oda (JPN)
Oda lost to Alfie Hewett in the singles final at the Australian Open in January but rebounded brilliantly, winning the singles titles at Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open this season. His first victory in New York took his tally of Grand Slam titles to seven and saw him become the fourth player in history to complete the ‘career Golden Slam’ in wheelchair singles (winning all four Grand Slam titles and the Paralympic gold medal). He has been ranked at No. 1 for all but one week of 2025.
Quad wheelchair: Niels Vink (NED)
Vink won two more Grand Slam singles titles in 2025, triumphing at Wimbledon and the US Open. He also finished runner-up at both the Australian Open and Roland Garros – making this season the second time in his career that he has reached the singles final at all four Grand Slam tournaments. Having regained the No. 1 ranking in January, he remained at the top of the rankings for the rest of the season.
Junior girls: Kristina Penickova (USA)
Penickova finished runner-up in the girls’ singles event at the Australian Open in January before winning J300 San Diego (USA) – the North American Regional Championships – in March. She also won the title at J200 Chuncheon (KOR), finished runner-up at both J500 Osaka (JPN) and the ITF World Tennis Tour Junior Finals, and won all six matches she contested at the Billie Jean King Cup Junior Finals as USA won the title for the fourth consecutive year.
Junior boys: Ivan Ivanov (BUL)
Ivanov won the boys’ singles titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open, becoming the first player to win multiple Grand Slam boys’ singles titles in a season since Tseng Chun-Hsin in 2018. He became just the 2nd Bulgarian player to win a Grand Slam boys’ singles title – after Grigor Dimitrov, who won the junior titles at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2008. Elsewhere at junior-level Ivanov also won the title at J300 Beaulieu-sur-Mer (FRA) and finished runner-up at J500 Milan (ITA). He won his first professional title on the ITF World Tennis Tour in May and made his Davis Cup debut during Bulgaria’s victory over Finland in September.