Jack Draper and Joao Fonseca nominated for ATP Breakthrough of the Year Awards | ATP Tour
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Draper, Fonseca nominated for ATP Breakthrough of the Year Award
29 members of the ATP First Club voted for the winner
November 26, 2025
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Jack Draper, Joao Fonseca, Jakub Mensik and Valentin Vacherot have been nominated for the Breakthrough of the Year Award at the 2025 ATP Awards.
Written by ATP Staff
From an unexpected ATP Masters 1000 title to a historic global event, the 2025 ATP Tour season featured several exciting moments as rising stars seized their chances at the sport’s biggest event.
For the first time, the Breakthrough of the Year Award at the ATP Awards will be decided by the 29 members of the exclusive ATP No.1 Club. ATPTour.com takes a look at the four nominees.
Jack Draper
The 23-year-old southpaw is playing with newfound confidence and fire, solidifying his place at the top of the game. In the first six months of the year, Draper rose from No. 18 to a career-high No. 4 in the PIF ATP Rankings, highlighted by winning his biggest career title at the ATP Masters 1000 event in Indian Wells. The Englishman reached the fourth round of both the Australian Open and French Open, a career-best performance, and reached the finals in Doha and Madrid respectively.
Joao Fonseca
The Brazilian emerges as one of the most exciting young talents on the circuit in 2025 and emerged victorious at the 2024 Next Generation ATP Finals hosted by PIF. At the ATP 250 event in Buenos Aires in February, Fonseca, then 18, became the youngest South American champion in the ATP Tour era (since 1990). Fonseca made more history in Basel in October, becoming the third youngest ATP 500 champion in series history. Fonseca started the season outside the top 100 and ended the year with a career-high No. 24 ranking.
Jakub Mencik
Mencic realized a childhood dream at the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Miami. The Czech performed well in the final two games of the tournament, shocking top five stars Taylor Fritz and Novak Djokovic. “This is probably the biggest day of my life,” Mencic said after beating his long-time idol Djokovic in the championship. Ranked 48th in the world at the beginning of the year, it rose to 16th in August.
Valentin Vachero
The Monegasque experienced the fairy tale of all fairy tales in Shanghai, finishing 204th in qualifying and having won just one ATP Tour title before going on to record the lowest-ranked ATP Masters 1000 title in history (since 1990). Vaccello defeated his cousin Arthur Lindeknech in the final, earning 1,020 PIF ATP Ranking points in that match alone and rocketing to world No. 40. The 27-year-old Vaccello reached a career-high world ranking of No. 30 with his performance in the quarter-finals of the Rolex Paris Masters.
