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Engel surges in Live Race To Jeddah following Challenger crown

Here comes Justin Engel…

The 18-year-old German has jumped three spots to ninth in the PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah after he won his first ATP Challenger Tour title in Hamburg. Engel won six tie-breaks en route to the trophy, including one in the final, when he overcame fellow #NextGenATP star Federico Cina to become the first player born in 2007 to triumph on the Challenger Tour.

Engel is now on 291 points with the Live Race To Jeddah ending on 10 November. Engel is aiming to become the first German to play at the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF.

Earlier this season, Engel impressed on home soil. He beat countryman Jan-Lennard Struff at the ATP 500 in Hamburg and advanced to the quarter-finals in Stuttgart. The German became the second-youngest player since 1990 to win a tour-level match (excluding Davis Cup) on all three surfaces: hard, clay and grass. Only Rafael Nadal accomplished the feat at a younger age, doing so at 17 years, two months.

Joao Fonseca climbed to second in the Live Race To Jeddah after he won his first ATP 500 event in Basel. The 19-year-old Brazilian, who lifted the trophy in Jeddah in 2024, is the third-youngest ATP 500 champion in series history (since 2009).

Fonseca dedicated his victory to his mother following his 6-3, 6-4 win against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: “Since I was young, my mum travelled with me. Since I was 11, I only travelled with her, so that title is for her.”

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Wrexham champion Xu wants to be world number one

After winning the biggest title of her career, newly crowned Wrexham Open champion Mimi Xu has her sights set on the ultimate tennis goal.

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2025 Paris tennis prize money

The Rolex Paris Masters in Paris, France, which this year runs from 27 October to 2 November, has announced a prize money total of €6,128,940 for the 2025 edition.

The singles champion will earn €946,610 and the winning doubles team will split €290,410. View the full prize-money breakdown and the PIF ATP Rankings points at stake below.

2025 Rolex Paris Masters Prize Money

2025 Rolex Paris Masters Doubles Prize Money (per team)

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Xu wins singles and doubles titles at Wrexham Open

Welsh 18-year-old Mimi Xu backs up the biggest singles win of her career by clinching the doubles title just hours later.

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Sinner battles cramp to claim Vienna Open title

World number two Jannik Sinner battles cramp to stage a 3-6 6-3 7-5 comeback against Alexander Zverev and claim the Vienna Open title.

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What is the Paris tennis schedule?

The 2025 Rolex Paris Masters begins Monday, when former champion Karen Khachanov, Grigor Dimitrov and Arthur Rinderknech will be among the stars in action.

Khachanov faces qualifier Ethan Quinn in the final match on centre court, while 2023 finalist Dimitrov opens the night session against home favourite Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard. It is the first edition of the indoor hard-court ATP Masters 1000 event in its new home, La Défense Arena.

View Monday’s full schedule below…

ORDER OF PLAY – MONDAY, 27 OCTOBER 2025
Court Central – start 11:00 AM
Luciano Darderi (ITA) vs [WC] Arthur Cazaux (FRA)
Fabian Marozsan (HUN) vs [WC] Arthur Rinderknech (FRA)
[Q] Jacob Fearnley (GBR) vs [12] Andrey Rublev

Not Before 7:00 PM
Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (FRA) vs Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)
[10] Karen Khachanov vs [Q] Ethan Quinn (USA)

Court 1 – start 11:00 AM
Flavio Cobolli (ITA) vs Tomas Machac (CZE)
Cameron Norrie (GBR) vs Sebastian Baez (ARG)
[Q] Aleksandar Vukic (AUS) vs [WC] Terence Atmane (FRA)

Not Before 3:30 PM
Alexei Popyrin (AUS) vs [13] Alexander Bublik (KAZ)
Alexandre Muller (FRA) vs Brandon Nakashima (USA)

Court 2 – start 11:00 AM
Daniel Altmaier (GER) vs Marcos Giron (USA)
Learner Tien (USA) vs Nuno Borges (POR)
Francisco Cerundolo (ARG) vs [Q] Damir Dzumhur (BIH)
Alex Michelsen (USA) vs Zizou Bergs (BEL)
Guido Andreozzi (ARG) / Manuel Guinard (FRA) vs Alexander Erler (AUT) / Robert Galloway (USA)

Court 3 – start 1:00 PM
Austin Krajicek (USA) / Nikola Mektic (CRO) vs Sander Arends (NED) / Luke Johnson (GBR)
[LL] Aleksandar Kovacevic (USA) vs Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB)
Lorenzo Sonego (ITA) vs [Q] Sebastian Korda (USA)

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Fonseca dedicates Basel title to his mother, who took last-minute flight to Switzerland

Joao Fonseca dedicated his Swiss Indoors Basel trophy to his mother on Sunday, praising her influence in his post-match speech. The #NextGenATP Brazilian defeated Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the title match to become the third-youngest ATP 500 champion in series history (since 2009).

“Since I was young, my mum travelled with me. Since I was 11, I only travelled with her, so that title is for her,” Fonseca said after his 86-minute win.

Fonseca triumphed at the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF last December with his parents courtside. His mother and father were not in Basel throughout his run to the final. However, after the 19-year-old overcame Jaume Munar, they made a last-minute switch of flights to ensure they were in attendance during Sunday’s championship match.

“My parents just came from Brazil. They were coming to Paris and changed their flights and came here one hour before the match with my uncles,” Fonseca said. “It is just amazing to have them here for the biggest title of my career.”

Fonseca jumped into his box and embraced his parents, uncles and coach after clinching his second tour-level title in Basel. The Brazilian will rise to a career-high No. 28 in the PIF ATP Rankings and is now 25-15 on the season, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index.

Watch Fonseca celebrate with his parents:

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Fonseca's rise continues, wins biggest career title in Basel

Joao Fonseca continued his impressive rise on Sunday at the Swiss Indoors Basel, where he won his second tour-level title and first at ATP 500 level to inflict more final heartbreak on Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.

The 19-year-old played fearlessly in the biggest match of his life to earn a 6-3, 6-4 victory in Basel against Davidovich Fokina, who holds a 0-5 record in tour-level finals.

Fonseca is the first Brazilian to win a title above ATP 250 level since Gustavo Kuerten clinched the ATP Masters 1000 crown in Cincinnati in 2001, while he is the third-youngest player to win an ATP 500 title since the series began in 2009.

“It is crazy. I want to thank my family and my coaches who helped me achieve this amazing effort,” Fonseca said. “My parents just came from Brazil. They were coming to Paris and changed their flights and came here one hour before the match with my uncles. It is just amazing to have them here for the biggest title of my career. It is a pleasure playing this sport and this tournament and I am very happy.”

Fonseca’s victory in Switzerland marks the latest breakthrough moment in his flourishing early career. The 19-year-old won the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF title in Jeddah last December and then captured his first Top 10 win at the Australian Open, where he beat Andrey Rublev.

Title success followed at the ATP 250 in Buenos Aires, where he became the youngest South American champion in the ATP Tour Era (since 1990). Fonseca will climb to a career-high No. 28 in the PIF ATP Rankings on Monday following his latest triumph, having started the year at No. 145.

“They were the ones that believed in me,” Fonseca said when asked about his parents. “I was thinking about going to university and they said it was my choice and they would be there to support me. I just want to thank them. Since I was young, my mum travelled with me. Since I was 11, I only travelled with her, so that title is for her.”

HISTORY IN BASEL 🏆

Joao Fonseca becomes the youngest champion since ’89 with the biggest win of his career 🔥#SwissIndoorsBasel pic.twitter.com/MktBSkjO9O

— ATP Tour (@atptour) October 26, 2025

In a high-quality performance, Fonseca clubbed 15 winners in the first set, rushing Davidovich Fokina, who struggled to cope with the Brazilian’s power. The 19-year-old stood close to the baseline to dictate and converted on his fourth set point to lead. Fonseca continued to pile on the pressure in the second set and closed out on serve after failing to convert a championship point on return at 5-3. The 19-year-old leads the Spaniard 2-0 in the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head series following his 86-minute victory.

Fonseca achieved a performance rating of 8.91, which combines In Attack, Conversion, Steal and Shot Quality to show overall performance level. The #NextGenATP star struck 28 winners to 19 unforced errors and struck his forehand at an average of 81 mph, six mph faster than Davidovich Fokina. Fonseca is 25-15 on the year, according to Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index.

Davidovich Fokina has now lost four finals in 2025 and five overall. He squandered two championship points against Miomir Kecmanovic in Delray Beach and then three against Alex de Minaur in Washington. The 26-year-old also fell in the title match in Acapulco to Tomas Machac.

Despite his latest heartbreak, the Spaniard is up to No. 15 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings and will rise to a career-high on Monday. 

Did You Know?
Fonseca is the second-youngest champion in tournament history after Jim Courier, 19, in 1989.

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Sinner settles in to sink Zverev and reclaim Vienna crown

Jannik Sinner cut through cramp to reassert his indoor dominance Sunday at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna.

The top seed at the ATP 500 rallied past Alexander Zverev 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 to recapture the title at an event where he previously triumphed in 2023. Sinner dug deep to overcome an impressive start from Zverev and also shook off physical struggles in the first and third sets to cap a two-hour, 29-minute victory and seal his 21st tour-level crown.

Vienna Virtuoso 🎻🏆@janniksin defeats Zverev 3-6 6-3 7-5 to claim his second @ErsteBankOpen crown.#ErsteBankOpen pic.twitter.com/AJEtZ74M7l

— ATP Tour (@atptour) October 26, 2025

“It feels amazing,” said Sinner, who is now on a 21-match winning streak on indoor hard courts. “It was such a difficult start in this final for me. I went a break down, had some chances in the first set but couldn’t use them. He was serving very well, but I just tried to stick there mentally and play my best tennis when it came.

“The third set was a bit of a rollercoaster, but I was feeling the ball very well at times, so I tried to push and I’m very happy of course to win another title. It’s very special.”

Zverev struck the ball cleanly off both wings in the early stages and had already earned the opening break in the fourth game when Sinner began to move gingerly and limp in between points, evoking memories of the Italian’s retirement due to cramp in Shanghai earlier this month. Zverev, himself a former champion in Vienna (2021), closed out the set, but the World No. 2 Sinner appeared to have soon shaken off his physical issue with a classy second-set display.

However, the Italian then seemingly began to struggle with cramp in his left hamstring during the seventh game of the third set, just as his eighth tour-level meeting with Zverev reached its crescendo. Yet via a combination of drinking pickle juice at changeovers and upping the aggression in his game to shorten the rallies, Sinner continued to pile the pressure on his opponent.

Watch Zverev find fortune, to Sinner’s amusement, in Vienna final third set:

The Italian clinched a decisive break for 6-5 in the third set after winning a lung-busting baseline exchange when Zverev pushed a backhand long. He soon served out to clinch his fourth title of the season, level his Lexus ATP Head2Head series with Zverev at 4-4, and join Roger Federer and Andy Murray as ATP No. 1 Club members to have triumphed twice in Vienna.

“It was very difficult of course,” said Sinner of his third-set physical struggle. “The most important thing was to not give up and try to stay there. Try to see what the situation was. I just tried to make the right choices at the right time. I think that was the key today. Serving well and saving energy in my service games was important too.”

Sinner produced some scintillating tennis across his run in Austria, where he did not drop a set prior to the final. Now 48-6 for the season, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index, the 24-year-old will be full of confidence as he prepares to end his 2025 season at the Rolex Paris Masters and the Nitto ATP Finals.

Zverev, who on Friday joined Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic in qualifying for the Nitto ATP Finals, was chasing his first win against a Top 5 rival in 2025. The German will now head to Paris third in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, having leapfrogged Djokovic with his Vienna run.

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Arthur Fils named PIF’s new tennis ambassador

Three-time ATP Tour singles champion Arthur Fils has added a new title to his resume: Public Investment Fund (PIF) tennis ambassador.

Both parties announced Sunday the 21-year-old Frenchman’s new role in supporting PIF’s mission to elevate the sport by expanding access, creating new opportunities and driving sustainable growth at every level.

“Being a PIF ambassador motivates me because I am now part of the bigger vision to grow the sport,” said Fils, who competed last season at the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF. “It challenges me to perform on court but also in being a role model for the next generation.”

Having reached a career-high PIF ATP Ranking of No. 14 in April, Fils has fast become a fans’ favourite for his electric tennis and expressive personality both on and off the court. Currently ranked World No. 30, he is one of just two players aged 21 or younger in the Top 30.

“I’m very happy to represent the next generation,” Fils added. “It’s a big honour for me and if some kids are dreaming to be like me, it just means that I made great work.”

The ATP and PIF unveiled a multi-year strategic partnership in 2024, signifying a shared commitment to enhance global tennis. The ATP partnership forms part of PIF’s broader sponsorship platform, investing in people, projects and partnerships with an emphasis on the brand’s four pillars: inclusivity, sustainability, youth and technology.

“PIF is opening doors for players at every level, creating a chance for the next generation, and pushing the game forward,” said Fils. “I’m proud to join the PIF family and can’t wait to see what the future holds for the sport I love.”

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