Records, storylines, stardust: 2025 ITF World Tennis Masters Tour
The ITF World Tennis Masters Tour has enjoyed another stunning year, with a record 646 tournaments taking place across 69 nations and a record 42,795 players competing on the Tour.
The Masters World Team and Individual Championships were held at four venues in 2025: Manavgat in Türkiye, Palm Beach Gardens in Florida, USA, Lisbon in Portugal and Bol on Brac Island, Croatia.
Entries were stronger than ever, with 126 teams participating in the 30-45 Cups, 39 teams in the 50-55 Cups, 92 teams in the 60-70 Cups, and 71 teams in the 75-85 competition.
The pinnacle events of the Masters Tour also produced a number of individual highlights, including former Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup players lighting up the 30-45 World Championships in Manavgat, Türkiye.
Alberta Brianti and Giulia Gatto-Monticone led Italy to their fourth consecutive title in the Women’s 35+ Suzanne Lenglen Cup, while current ATP player Mark Whitehouse led Great Britain to their first title in the Men’s 30+ Cup. There was additional celebrity stardust in Manavgat with football legend Diego Forlan representing Uruguay in the Men’s 45+ Dubler Cup.
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At the 50-55 World Individual Championships in Lisbon, stars were born and legends grown as Slovenia’s Barbara Mulej (50+) won a sixth world title and USA’s Eoin Collins (55+) a fourth. Spain’s Jonathan Garcia (50+) and Italy’s Sabrina Cantoni (55+), meanwhile, won debut titles.
In the heat and humidity of Palm Beach Gardens, Australia dominated the 60-70 World Team Championships before established stars, including local favourites Carolyn Nichols (70+), Daniel Waldman (70+), and Susan Wright (65+), won individual titles.
Held for the first time in Bol on the idyllic Croatian island of Brac, the 75-90 World Individual Championships were dominated by legends of the Masters Tour and included titles for Great Britain’s June Pearce (90+) and Marjory Love (75+), Germany’s Herbert Althaus (90+), France’s Bruno Renoult (75+), and USA’s Donna Fales (85+).
Away from the World Championships, Nichols won the most women’s titles with 10 singles and 9 doubles titles. India’s Swarandeep Singh Dhodi almost matched this feat, with his 18 titles the most won by any man on Tour.
Nichols’s 10 singles titles were the most won by any player, the highlight of which was the World Individual Championships title. Multiple male players won 8 singles titles, including Glenn Busby and Bruno Renoult, who were also world champions.
While 2025 was a successful year for the Tour as a whole, it also marked another historic year for Asia. The ITF Masters department is actively working alongside the Asian Tennis Federation, National Associations and tournament organisers to continue to grow Masters tennis in Asia.
This is in line with the ITF Masters Tour’s strategy for 2023-2026, which emphasises the growth of tournaments and player participation, with a particular focus on Asia.
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According to the ITF’s recent Global Tennis Report (2024), Asia is the biggest continent in the world for number of players with 35.3 million, which represents 33.4% of the world’s tennis-playing population.
2025 saw a record 133 tournaments (up from 89 in 2024) take place in 10 host nations in Asia, including Philippines which hosted an ITF Masters tournament for the first time. The growth of the Masters Tour in Asia over the last 10 years has been astronomical: Asia hosted only 15 ITF Masters tournaments across eight nations in 2014.
Asian nations Turkmenistan and Pakistan also entered teams into the World Championships for the first time in Manavgat. Pakistan achieved a historic third place finish with a team led by former Davis Cup players Aqeel Khan and Aisam Qureshi. The latter is the President of the Pakistan Tennis Federation.
The 2025 World Masters Games, meanwhile, was held in Taipei and New Taipei City. The inaugural MT700 event formed part of the multi-sport World Masters Games and was a huge success, attracting players from across the globe.
While there is so much from 2025 to celebrate, the new ITF World Tennis Tour Masters season is only days away. 2026 promises to be another campaign full of fabulous tennis where names will be made and reputations enhanced.