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Finest ATP Tour Match of 2025 shortlist: Learn, watch & vote!
Alcaraz, Sinner, Djokovic wins function in shortlist
December 04, 2025
To mark the tip of one other thrilling season, ATPTour.com is unveiling our annual ‘Best Of’ series, which is able to replicate on probably the most intriguing rivalries, matches, comebacks, upsets and extra. Right this moment we spotlight 5 standout ATP Tour matches (not together with Grand Slams) from this season.
For 2025, followers have the prospect to vote for the ATP Match of the 12 months. Learn on for a recap of the shortlisted contenders.
Miami R3, De Minaur d. Fonseca 5-7, 7-5, 6-3
The Joao Fonseca hype-train had hit new heights by the point of March’s Miami Open presented by Itau. The teenage Brazilian, who closed 2024 by profitable the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF, shortly grew to become a star attraction for followers this season. Not least in Miami, the place he reached the third spherical of an ATP Masters 1000 for the primary time with the raucous backing of lots of of Brazilian followers.
But Alex de Minaur isn’t generally known as one of many ATP Tour’s nice rivals for nothing. Even within the face of a pro-Fonseca crowd, the Australian showcased all his battling talents to halt his opponent’s momentum. De Minaur recovered from shedding the opening set and from dropping serve within the opening sport of the decider to prevail in a pulsating third-round conflict.
“It was a hell of a battle. I knew coming in what to anticipate,” mentioned De Minaur, who nodded to the carnival really feel of the match by signing ‘Rio Open’ on the digital camera lens after his win. “Not solely is he an extremely gifted, harmful, explosive participant, however he’s enjoying with a lot confidence in the intervening time and the gang behind him. I knew I used to be going to be up in opposition to it and it was going to take each single ounce of me. Simply put my head down and started working, so very pleased with that win.”
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Monte-Carlo QF, Alcaraz d. Fils 4-6, 7-5, 6-3
A top quality encounter that includes loads of high-octane exchanges between two of the ATP Tour’s shiny younger stars lit up the quarter-finals at April’s Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters. Carlos Alcaraz and Arthur Fils, contesting their maiden Lexus ATP Head2Head conflict, gave an early indication that their rivalry will likely be one to savour for years to come back.
With each gamers producing loads of heavy hitting from the baseline, Alcaraz’s expertise and talent to carry his nerve underneath stress proved essential. Already a set down, the Spaniard saved three break factors at 5-5, 0/40 within the second set, and he later rallied from 1-3 within the third to earn a dramatic two-hour, 23-minute victory.
“I feel his degree is excessive proper now and he places loads of stress on his opponents,” mentioned Alcaraz, who went on to carry the title in Monte-Carlo. “Right this moment I might really feel it however in some moments he simply made a number of errors. I attempted to benefit from these factors and await my probabilities.”
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Washington QF, Moutet d. Medvedev 1-6, 6-4, 6-4
Corentin Moutet’s whirlwind week in Washington was highlighted by a exceptional quarter-final triumph in opposition to former No. 1 Daniil Medvedev. Having solely made the Mubadala Citi DC Open major draw as a fortunate loser, French lefty Moutet survived gruelling warmth, cramps, and a mid-match suspension attributable to lightning to ebook his last-four spot within the U.S. capital.
Moutet’s bid for a Maiden ATP 500 semi-final look was in tatters after he dropped a one-sided first set, however he deployed his artful sport to nice impact to rally and finally prevailed in a chaotic climax, which featured play being suspended attributable to lightning earlier than Medvedev might begin serving at 4-5 within the decider.
Upon returning to court docket, Medvedev provided up three double faults in his service sport, whereas Moutet instantly began cramping, however the Frenchman nonetheless someway pulled by means of by changing a manic match level that featured loads of scrambling from each gamers, a internet wire, and a scrumptious Moutet lob.
“I used to be feeling drained, however not that dangerous. After which, I do not know, in two minutes I simply began to really feel a number of cramps after which began to really feel my physique,” mirrored Moutet on the ultimate sport. “I used to be fairly fortunate with the interruption. It helped me rather a lot, even when I got here again on the court docket with cramps nonetheless.”
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Vienna F, Sinner d. Zverev 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
Like Moutet in D.C., Jannik Sinner additionally reduce by means of cramp to assert a three-set victory within the last of October’s Erste Bank Open. The Italian has turn into famend for his means to bulldoze by means of opponents (48 of his 58 tour-level wins in 2025 got here in straight units), however Zverev pushed him all the best way in a heavyweight championship-match conflict in Vienna.
Sinner initially started to maneuver gingerly after he dropped serve within the fourth sport of the opening set, which he was unable to rescue. Though he appeared to shake off that challenge and produced a cultured second-set show to pressure a decider, he resorted to pickle juice at changeovers and an extra-aggressive strategy to maintain rallies quick after cramp hit his left hamstring halfway by means of the third set.
No matter Sinner did within the face of his bodily struggles, it labored. After clinching a two-hour, 29-minute victory, Sinner earned his twenty first consecutive tour-level win on indoor exhausting courts, a streak he prolonged to 31 matches by the tip of the yr after subsequent title runs on the Rolex Paris Masters and Nitto ATP Finals. The Italian additionally defeated Zverev at each these occasions and completed 2025 with a 6-4 lead within the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head collection.
“It was such a troublesome begin on this last for me,” mirrored Sinner after sinking Zverev within the Austrian capital. “I simply tried to stay there mentally and play my greatest tennis when it got here. The third set was a little bit of a rollercoaster, however I used to be feeling the ball very nicely at occasions, so I attempted to push and I’m very glad after all to win one other title.”
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Athens F, Djokovic d. Musetti 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
Within the final regular-season title match of 2025, Novak Djokovic and Lorenzo Musetti went toe to toe for 3 hours in an absorbing battle on the Vanda Pharmaceuticals Hellenic Championship in Athens.
Djokovic pushed himself to his bodily limits in trademark vogue to clinch the trophy in Athens, however solely after prevailing in a pulsating third set that featured 13 breaks factors and 5 breaks of serve. However regardless of having let slip leads of 3-1 and 5-3 within the decider, the previous No. 1 within the PIF ATP Rankings sealed the title in type by serving out to like.
“An unimaginable battle… Three hours of a gruelling match, bodily,” mentioned Djokovic after he surpassed Roger Federer for probably the most tour-level titles on exhausting courts within the Open Period (72). “It might have been anyone’s match, so congrats to Lorenzo for a tremendous efficiency. I’m simply very pleased with myself to get by means of this one.”
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To examine extra of the most effective encounters in 2025, learn our countdowns of the Best Grand Slam matches, the biggest ATP Tour upsets, and the biggest Grand Slam upsets.
