The man from Mar del Plata Horacio Zeballos and the Spaniard Marcel Granollers were announced this Wednesday World champion 2025 Doubles by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), while the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka and the Italian Jannik Sinner They were named the best of the year on an individual level.
Zeballos and Granollers, this year’s winners of Roland Garros and the United States Open, are the first Argentine and Spanish players, respectively, to receive the award in this category.
At the individual level, the world number one, Aryna Sabalenka, winner of this year’s United States Open and finalist in Australia and Roland Garros, and the men’s number two, the Italian Jannik Sinner, who won the Grand Slams of Australia and Wimbledon and lost the finals of the other two majors to the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, received awards.
Both won this award for the second time, after the Belarusian received it in 2023 and Sinner in 2024. This makes him the first to be selected in consecutive years since Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, who was selected from 2011 to 2015.
In the women’s doubles, the Italian pair Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini won the award for the second time in a row, while in the wheelchair category the Japanese Tokito Oda and Yui Kamiji and in the quad category the Dutchman Niels Vink won. The ITF Junior World Champions are Bulgarian Ivan Ivanov and American Kristina Penickova.
“Congratulations to all of our 2025 ITF World Champions. It has been another incredible year for tennis with many highlights in the Grand Slam tournaments, circuits and our team competitions. The 11 players we are honoring have had exceptional seasons and we are confident that they will continue to shine in 2026. We wish them and all players a peaceful end to the season and good luck for next year,” emphasized David Haggerty, President of the ITF.
The ITF recalled that the world champions in men’s and women’s singles and doubles will be selected “according to objective criteria that take into account all results of the season, with particular emphasis on the Grand Slam, the Davis Cup and the Billie Jean King Cup.” In wheelchair and junior tennis, it is those who finish the year as world number one in singles.
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