Miranda, Woodman named 2025 ITF Wheelchair Junior Players of the Year
Australia’s Jin Woodman and Vitoria Miranda of Brazil have been named as the recipients of the International Tennis Federation’s Wheelchair Tennis Junior of the Year Awards for 2025.
Introduced by the ITF in January 2020, the Junior of the Year Award recognises and honours a junior who demonstrates the values of commitment, consistency and sportsmanship whilst accomplishing impressive performance results throughout the year.
Nominations for the awards are sent to the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Committee and after careful consideration of the shortlist, Woodman and Miranda were chosen as this year’s worthy winners.
Woodman won three senior quad singles and three senior quad doubles titles during 2025, including his first ITF 2 singles title at the Toyota Open International de L’ile de Re and his first ITF 1 singles title at the Sardinia Open. He also won his first ITF 2 doubles title in Ile de Re, while his first ITF 1 doubles title came at the Swiss Open Geneva.
Still only 15 at the beginning of 2025, he contested his first senior Grand Slam quad singles draw at the Australian Open, winning his first senior Grand Slam singles match as he reached the quarter-finals.
Later in the year Woodman also reached the quad singles quarter-finals at the US Open after defeating world No.4 Ahmet Kaplan, while he won his opening doubles matches, too, at both Melbourne Park and New York, to reach his first senior Grand Slam doubles semi-finals.
Wodman’s senior titles in the second half of 2025 came against the backdrop of having spent more than three months on the sidelines earlier in the year with a fractured femur, his reintroduction to competition for the first time since the Australian Open coming at the Brisbane Wheelchair Classic and Queensland Open, where he won back-to-back junior singles titles and added the quad singles title in Queensland.
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World ranked No. 20 in quad singles at the start of 2025, Woodman had improved that ranking to No. 8 by the end of September as he claimed the last quad singles qualification spot for his first NEC Wheelchair Singles Masters and UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Masters. He also started and ended 2025 at No. 2 in the Junior Boys’ Rankings, completing his season at the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Junior Masters in Florida.
Meanwhile, having begun 2025 without any match wins against senior top 10-ranked opposition, he won six of his 14 matches against top-10 ranked opponents during 2025.
On learning of his award, Woodman said: “ I am thrilled to receive the ITF Junior Boy of the Year Award 2025. Thank you to the ITF for recognising my efforts, and for the support during the year with all the tournaments.
“I would like to thank the team at Tennis Australia, Maribyrnong Sports Academy and Hume Community Tennis, especially my coaches, including Tim Connelly, who always believes in me. I would also like to thank the players I’ve practised and competed with, which has helped me improve my game so much. Having several months off due to my femur injury made me reflect on just how much I loved and missed tennis and I was so happy to return in July.”
While Woodman is the first Australian player to win the Junior Boy of the Year Award, Vitoria Miranda is the first Brazilian player to win the Junior Girl of the Year Award.
Miranda won a total of 10 singles titles and eight doubles titles during 2025, including the Junior Grand Slam girls’ singles and girls’ doubles titles at the Australian Open and at Roland Garros.
After starting 2025 by winning the girls’ singles and doubles titles at the Melbourne Open Super Series, she fought back in fine style to beat Sabina Czauz of the USA 0-6 6-3 7-6(4) in the girls’ singles final at the Grand Slam at Melbourne Park, while defeating the same player 6-3 6-2 in the final in Paris.
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Miranda went on to help Brazil to win the women’s draw at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup Americas Qualification in February, but was then selected to Brazil’s junior team for the 2025 BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Antalya, where Brazil’s juniors finished fourth.
Elsewhere, she was women’s singles champion at the Caldas Novas ITF Futures in Brazil, girls’ singles champion at the Copa Indervalle In Colombia and a multiple champion in a combination of either women’s singles and doubles or junior singles draws at the Peru Open, the Copa Barranquilla in Colombia and the Uberlandia Open, São Paulo Open and Goiania Open in Brazil.
Outside of her achievements on court, Miranda gives motivational talks in schools and at other community events, sharing her journey in wheelchair tennis and emphasising the importance of accessibility, perseverance, and empowerment for people with disabilities. In so doing, she inspires others to believe in sports as a path to transformation.
While balancing training, travel, and competitions, Miranda also maintains strong academic performance and completed her high school studies in 2025 before going on to pursue higher education at university.
On learning of her ITF Wheelchair Tennis Junior of the Year award, the 18-year-old Brazilian No. 1 said:
“I have a strong feeling of gratitude; there is nothing better than ending my last junior year with this international recognition.
“My favourite memories of 2025 were the singles title at the Australian Open, entering the top 20 of the adult (women’s) world rankings, being a champion for South American, playing with great players and evolving as a person - especially as an athlete.
“My ambitions are to now play the Grand Slam in adult draws, win a Paralympic medal, go to college, be a champion of the Parapan American Games and to be able to show the world what wheelchair tennis is.”