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The Statistics: 2025 ATP Challenger Season
Nava, Budkov Kjaer, Fonseca are the 2025 Challenger record holders
December 3, 2025
AA Turness
Emilio Nava has risen to a career-high No. 88 in the PIF ATP Rankings after a stellar ATP Challenger season.
Written by ATP Staff
Who has the most wins at ATP Challenger level in 2025? Which player has won the most titles? Who were some of the teenage stars who had their breakthroughs? Find out below as ATPTour.com looks back at the key facts and figures from the 2025 ATP Challenger season.
Nava has the most game wins
Emilio Nava of the United States and Liam Draxl of Canada have won a season-leading 44 games in the Challenger class. Nava reached a career-high No. 88 in the PIF ATP Rankings that year and won four titles, capping off the best season of his career. Draxl won his only title in his hometown of Winnipeg and reached the finals six other times this season.
Of Nava’s 44 victories, 42 came on clay. The 23-year-old enjoyed a 19-match winning streak on the court from mid-March to mid-April, during which he won three titles (Asunción, Concepcion and Sarasota) and finished runner-up in Tallahassee, where Chris Roedsch ended Nava’s streak of 35 straight set wins. Nava further added to his title tally with a win at Villa María in Argentina in September. Nava is one win away from breaking the American record for most Challenge wins in a season.
Six ties for most titles
Nava is tied with five other players for the most Challenger titles this season. The team includes #NextGenATP talents Nicolai Budkov Kjaer, Borna Coric, Cristian Garin, Jan Choinski and Patrick Kypson. 19-year-old Budkov Kjaer has qualified for his first appearance in the Next Generation ATP Finals hosted by PIF, which will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from December 17 to 21. He lifted trophies in Glasgow, Tampere, Astana and Mouyron-le-Captiv.
2025 Challenger Singles Title Leaders
Fonseca, Engel, Budkov Kjaer and other youth champions
A total of 17 titles were won by nine teenagers, including last year’s Jeddah winner Joao Fonseca. Just 13 days after his victory in Saudi Arabia, Fonseca won the Canberra Challenger, joining Jannik Sinner as the only PIF champions to win at the Next Generation ATP Finals. In 2019, Sinner won the Ortise Challenge one week after claiming the Next Generation ATP Finals title presented by the PIF.
Other junior champions include Justin Engel, Budkov Kjaer, Rafael Jodar, Rei Sakamoto, Martin Landaluce, Alexander Blockx, Dino Prizmic and Matej Dodig.
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National leader title
Team USA leads the list this year with 23 Challenger titles, a single-season record for American players. France follows closely behind with 19 trophies, while Argentinian players have a total of 16 trophies. Americans Nava and Kypson each won four trophies for the U.S. team. Kyrian Jacquet led France to three titles.
ATP Tour and Challenger Championship
Four players were crowned champions not only on the Challenger Tour, but also on the ATP Tour. Fonseca won the biggest title of her career at the ATP 500 event in Basel, becoming the second player since 2014 to win multiple ATP Tour and multiple ATP Challenger titles in the same season. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard achieved the feat last year. Fonseca won the Canberra and Phoenix Challengers this year, while also recording a victory at the ATP 250 in Buenos Aires.
Alexander Bublik, Marton Fucsovics and Luciano Darderi also entered the Challenger level and the ATP Tour winner’s circle this year.
Bublik, Coric join Challenger 175 championship list
Bublik, who has won four Tour-level titles this season, took home the trophy at Challenger Turin, one of six Challenger 175 events and the top level of the Challenger class. Fonseca became the youngest Challenger 175 champion when he won the Phoenix Challenger in March, while Alexander Kovacevic was victorious at Cana Point.
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In the second week of the Mutua Madrid Open in April, Borna Coric defeated Stan Wawrinka in the Aix-en-Provence final, a thrilling three-hour, 11-minute match that the Croatian won in a third-set tie-break. That same week, Alex Michelsen won the Estoril Open in Portugal, the first clay-court title for an American at any level. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard won in his hometown of Bordeaux in May.
ATP Next Gen Accelerator Qualifiers Successful
Five college players who qualified for the ATP Next Gen Accelerator have won Challenger titles, led by reigning NCAA champion Michael Cheng, who won the title in August using an accelerator seat in Chicago. The next month, Zheng won back-to-back titles in Columbus and Tiburon. In November, he successfully defended the NCAA singles crown on behalf of Columbia University. Colton Smith, Rafael Jordahl, Jay Friend and Jack Pinnington Jones also won.
quick overview
- German Justin Engel was the youngest winner of the season, winning in Hamburg (18 years and 25 days). Former No. 3 Marin Cilic is the oldest champion this season, winning in Nottingham (36 years and 8 months). Cilic broke Andy Murray’s record as the oldest grass-court Challenger champion.
- The Hamburg final between Engel and fellow 18-year-old Federico Sina was the youngest Challenger title match since 2003, when Mario Ancic also defeated Rafael Nadal in Hamburg.
- Rafael Jodar, 19, became the third Spanish teenager to win at least three Challenge titles, after world number one Carlos Alcaraz and former ninth-ranked Nicolas Almagro.
- Dino Prizmic became the second Croatian after Mario Ancic to win three Challenger titles as a teenager. Rei Sakamoto became the first Japanese teenager to win the Triple Challenge title.
- Eliakim Coulibaly became Ivory Coast’s first champion with a memorable win in his hometown of Abidjan, which hosts its first ATP challenger this season.
- Stefano Napolitano is the lowest ranked winner of the season. The Italian won the tournament in his hometown of Biella with a world ranking of 847.
- Australians Finn Reynolds and James Watt teamed up to win a season-best five doubles titles. He Rui won eight doubles titles with six partners.
- Moldova, Pakistan and Ivory Coast will host the Challenge for the first time in 2025, with the cities of Chisinau, Islamabad and Abidjan hosting tournaments for the first time. A total of 97 different countries have hosted Challenger Championships in the circuit’s history.
