As the ITF World Tennis Tour enters its second quarter - with another 300 tournaments scheduled for players around the world over the next three months - we look back on the standout numbers, and players, from the first quarter of the year.

4300 players, 200 tournaments 

Almost 4300 players have been active on the ITF World Tennis Tour so far in 2022, with 2393 men and 1893 women contesting singles and doubles main draw and qualifying events between 3 January and 3 April.

The Tour has hosted 200 tournaments across 25 different nations, with 99 women’s and 101 men’s events taking place since the first week of January.

Most women’s tournaments hosted
Egypt, Tunisia: 13
Turkey: 12
Australia, France: 8
Mexico, Spain:  6

Most men’s tournaments hosted
Tunisia: 16
Egypt: 13
Turkey: 12
Australia, Spain, USA: 6

Stacking up the singles wins

Greek Sapfo Sakellaridi leads the way for match-wins on the women’s tour, closely followed by Chile's Barbara Gatica. Nineteen-year-old Sakellaridi won a Tour-leading 26 singles matches during the first three months of the year, including another five last week en route to the title at W15 Antalya, while Gatica has amassed 23 ITF match-wins. Both have climbed quickly in the rankings this year, with Gatica rising 111 spots to No. 248 on Monday and Sakellaridi moving 99 places to No. 493.

Frenchman Terence Atmane and Italian Edoardo Lavagno racked up the wins in men’s competition, each claiming 22 victories to propel themselves to career-high rankings of their own: No. 558 and No. 392, respectively.

Most ITF singles match-wins
Women: Sapfo Sakellaridi (GRE): 26, Barbara Gatica (CHI): 23
Men: Terence Atmane (FRA), Edoardo Lavagno (ITA): 22

Most ITF doubles match-wins
Women: Hong Yi Cody Wong (HKG): 29
Men: Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE): 27

Most match-wins at higher-prize money level events (W60):
Kathinka Von Deichmann (LIE): 15
Greet Minnen (BEL): 11
Ysaline Bonaventure (BEL): 10

That winning feeling

Americans Asia Muhammad and Brandon Holt, plus Greek Sapfo Sakellaridi and Japan's Sakura Hosogi were the most successful players in terms of silverware in the first quarter of the year, with all four picking up three singles titles. Holt embarked on a 16-match winning streak to start his season after a triple success on Mexican soil at M15 Cancun, while compatriot Muhammad won 15 straight singles and eight straight doubles matches at ITF events in Australia – a confidence boosting run that then propelled her to the Indian Wells doubles final alongside Ena Shibahara. As a result, she rocketed to No. 31 in the WTA doubles rankings. Hogosi collected all her titles at W15 events in Monastir, while Sakellaridi won two titles in Cairo and one in Antalya.

Most men’s singles titles
Brandon Holt (USA) – 3 (all at M15 Cancun)

Most women’s singles titles
Asia Muhammad (USA) – 3 (two at W25 Canberra, W25 Bendigo)
Sakura Hosogi (JPN) - 3 (all at W15 Monastir)
Sapfo Sakellaridi (GRE) - 3 (two at W15 Cairo, W15 Antalya)

Asia Muhammad and Ena Shibahara book a spot in the #IndianWells Final.

Muhammad has now won a combined 27 consecutive matches in singles and doubles across all levels.

Canberra 25K 1: 5S, 4D
Canberra 25K 2: 5S. 4D
Bendigo 25K: 5S
Indian Wells: 4D (and counting) pic.twitter.com/WHOv2WAues

— WTA Insider (@WTA_insider) March 18, 2022

Teenage breakthroughs

It's been the year for teenage breakthroughs, with 33 different teenage titlists (22 women, 11 men) on the ITF World Tennis Tour since the start of the year. Five teenagers have won multiple titles, Brenda Fruhvirtova being the pick of the bunch. The talented Czech became the first 14-year-old in ITF history to win back-to-back titles in consecutive weeks with her twin triumphs on Argentine soil at W25 Tucuman in February, and the youngest ITF tournament champion in six years.

On the men’s side, Juncheng Shang, the year-end junior world No. 1, is the youngest title winner after winning a fourth ITF title on American soil at M15 level while still only 17. Last year’s Roland Garros boys’ champion Luca Van Assche also won a title while still 17, claiming his maiden men’s title at M15 Bagnoles de l’Orne in January.

Back✌️back 🏆🏆

W25 Tucuman champion Brenda Fruhvirtova is the first 1️⃣4️⃣-year-old EVER to win ITF singles titles in consecutive weeks#ITFWorldTennisTour pic.twitter.com/RStTUCMZTC

— ITF (@ITFTennis) February 14, 2022

Teenagers winning multiple titles in 2022
Jessica Bouza Maneiro (ESP): W15 Villena, W15 Palmanova
Brenda Fruhvirtova (CZE): Both at W25 Tucuman
Selena Janicijevic (FRA): W25 Cairo, W15 Antalya
Petra Marcinko (CRO): Both at W25 Antalya
Sapfo Sakellaridi (GRE): Two at W15 Cairo, W15 Antalya
Nicholas David Ionel (ROU): M15 Sharm El Sheikh, M15 Marrakech
Alibek Kachmazov (RUS): M15 Kazan, M25 Nur-Sultan
Lukas Neumayer (AUT): Both at M15 Antalya

Age is just a number

At the other end of the scale, the ITF World Tennis Tour also welcomed some familiar names back to the winner’s circle. Tatjana Maria and Kenny De Schepper, both 34, are the oldest singles titlists on the Tour this year. On her return from the birth of her second child, former world No. 46 Maria won her first title in three and a half years at W60 Rome, while De Schepper, the former world No. 62, won his first singles title in almost five and a half years with victory at M25 Toulouse.