The 2025 ITF World Junior Tennis Finals get underway on Monday 4 August in Prostejov, Czechia with 16 boys’ and 16 girls’ teams battling to be crowned the world’s best in the 14-and-under age category.

Reaching this stage of the competition is already a huge achievement and follows qualifying events in five regions – Asia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, South America and North/Central America and the Caribbean.

Qualified nations

Boys: Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czechia, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Rep., Peru, Slovakia, Spain, USA, Venezuela

Girls: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, P.R., Chinese Taipei, Colombia, Czechia, Great Britain, Japan, Korea, Rep., Romania, Sweden, Tunisia, USA, Venezuela

The players selected to represent their nations will now test themselves against the very finest in their age group, with the forthcoming week a significant step in the progression and development of all competitors.

In total there will be 24 nations represented at the 2025 ITF World Junior Tennis Finals which is a true festival of junior tennis, with players wearing their country’s colours with pride – just as professionals do in Billie Jean King Cup and Davis Cup.

Indeed, many of today’s top players have honed their skills at this event, going on to represent their nations at senior level, as well as earning individual honours at the Grand Slams and on the ATP and WTA Tours.

When the players take to the clay courts of Prostejov, they will be in excellent company and will follow in the footsteps of some esteemed competitors.

The following names have all contested the ITF World Junior Tennis Finals, reflecting the importance of this competition in a player’s on and off-court development.

Carlos Alcaraz, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Bianca Andreescu, Lorenzo Musetti, Katerina Siniakova, Juan Martin del Potro, Marketa Vondrousova, Alex de Minaur, Ash Barty, Felix Auger Aliassime, Frances Tiafoe, Linda Noskova, Mirra Andreeva, Elina Svitolina and Amanda Anisimova.

Engaging storylines in this competition emerge all the time and Jaime Alcaraz Garfia, the younger brother of five-time Grand Slam champion Carlos, will represent Spain at this year’s Finals.

By competing in Prostejov, the aspiring youngster will be following in the footsteps of his brother who competed at the ITF World Junior Tennis Finals in 2017 when Spain’s boys finished runners-up to Switzerland.

Elsewhere, it is the first time since 1992 that a girls' team from Sweden has qualified for the Finals, while a boys' team from Venezuela has qualified for the first time since 2015.

Similarly, it is the first time since 1998, when they were crowned ITF World Junior Tennis champions for the second time, that a boys' team from Austria has qualified for the Finals.

Should Czechia win the 2025 girls' title, meanwhile, it will be their ninth ITF World Junior Tennis title, and they will move ahead of Russia on the all-time list of ITF World Junior Tennis champions.

It would also be their fourth successive title, which would be an astonishing achievement. For balance, USA are the defending boys’ champions.

Each day there will be live streams from Prostejov, which will be available on the ITF website as will live scores from all courts.