ATP Awards 2025 Nominees confirmed: Alcaraz headlines Sportsmanship Award, Fonseca and Draper in breakthrough category

The ATP Awards 2025 nominees have been confirmed with these awards unlike the WTA ones not giving out gongs to the Player of the Year, Comeback of the Year among others but instead it is three categories.

The first being Breakthrough of the Year which sees Jack Draper, Joao Fonseca, Jakub Mensik and Valentin Vacherot nominated albeit much to the behest on social media with Learner Tien perhaps the main glaring omission.

He has reached the top 30 this year and reached fourth rounds in both major tournaments and Masters 1000's as well as recording top five wins and a first ATP title to end the year. He saw off Cameron Norrie to win the Moselle Open in what was the final action of the season and he ended the year as World No.28.

Jack Draper is nominated despite not playing for most of the latter half of the season. He has won three titles on the ATP Tour and at one point was a top five player this year. He won Indian Wells and reached a major semi-final last year at Flushing Meadows but perhaps stretches the use of breakthrough.

Joao Fonseca has moved up to World No.24 this year achieving the ranking on 3 November and has won two ATP Tour singles titles this year in Buenos Aires and Basel. While Valentin Vacherot is perhaps the one getting conjecture with Tien not included as the Monegasque star won the Shanghai Masters based off one run. The breakthrough of the year goes to the player who made the biggest breakthrough on the ATP Tour this season with consideration going to milestone stones, significant jumps in the ATP Rankings and first ATP Tour titles. Whilst there are no age restrictions, the award is aimed at Next Gen and young players.

In regards to the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship award, Novak Djokovic has again been snubbed for the award. This goes to the player who throughout the year has conducted himself at the highest level of professionalism and integrity who competed with his fellow players at the utmost spirit of fairness and promoted the game through off-court activities.

Nominated this year are Carlos Alcaraz, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Grigor Dimitrov and Casper Ruud. The past three winners in Dimitrov, Alcaraz and Ruud are up for the award again with only Auger-Aliassime being a potential first time winner if he seals the gong.

In terms of Coach of the Year, it goes to the coach who helped guide their player to a higher level of performance during the year albeit for two out of the favour it is co-coaches so Darren Cahill and Simone Vagnozzi for Sinner as well as Juan Carlos Ferrero and Samuel Lopez for Carlos Alcaraz have both been nominated.

Valentin Vacherot's coach Benjamin Balleret has also been nominated for the honour as have Frederic Fontang who coaches Felix Auger-Aliassime and Bryan Shelton who is Ben Shelton's coach. All apart from Vacherot made it to the end of year finals underlining their superb seasons in 2025.

Albeit given the dominance of Alcaraz and Sinner, the likelihood of any other player's coach winning the award is unlikely as both sit well ahead in the conversation at the top of the rankings.