Joao Fonseca, Mirra Andreeva picked to have breakthrough season in 2025 by renown tennis coach
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The 2025 ATP and WTA season will undoubtedly be full of surprise performances, and legendary tennis coach Rick Macci has picked two teenagers whom he believes will shock the tennis community before the end of the year.
Macci has a history of identifying talent at a young age, having coached the likes of Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova and Andy Roddick during their early years. The American has acknowledged the current superstars as being difficult to topple, but predicted two rising stars will leave their mark this season.
Andreeva could break into the top 5, says Macci
The 70-year old took to social media to heap praise on Brazilian youngster Joao Fonseca and Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva. Fonseca broke into the top 100 for the first time after defeating World No.9 Andrey Rublev in the first round of the 2025 Australian Open. The 18-year old had already raised some eyebrows after winning the title at the Next Gen ATP Finals in December.
Meanwhile, Andreeva kicked off her 2025 campaign with a semifinal appearance at the Brisbane International, losing to World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka. The 17-year old would reach the fourth round at the Australian Open, losing again to two-time champion Sabalenka in straight sets. Nonetheless, she her performance has seen her break into the top 20, where she currently sits as World No.15.
"The two players that will send SEISMIC SHOCK WAVES thru the WTA and ATP in 2025 are Andreeva and Fonseca,” wrote Macci on Twitter. “Andreeva could dart into the top five and rattle the cage at a few Slams and the Fonseca will take many scalps of the top 30 players."
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- This is just getting beyond ridiculous!! Not to mention unsportsmanlike and unfair to serious up & coming contenders.
mandoist06-02-2025 - No, writer, we were not "stunned". If you knew your business you would have been aware of her statement last weekend re: her knee and retirement. The main take-away here is that Simona went out on her own terms. She surely wanted to play again after WTA & ITIA screwed her out of her final productive seasons. Personally, I believed she was going to make this announcement when I saw the President and his family in their box seats. Good for Simone -- now she can move on to other things as she said she would.mandoist04-02-2025
- It sounds seriously absurd that in Davis Cup, (unlike Grand Slams such as the Aus Open), medical time outs off court with the medical staff are not allowed?? I mean, if this was an Aus Open match, and the same thing happened to Gurin then, he would have been able to go off court for official medical time out and make an informed decision whether to resume the match or retire. How come such conditions do not apply in Davis Cup?? I mean, there with Davis Cup, it is even more like a soccer match or basketball game in that teams are playing. And so as with those, it ought to be the case in tennis that if a player needs serious medical time out, then one of the other team mates ought to substitute and each team needs to have stand-ins or understudies in case substitution is needed which will be rare but as we can see here, this kind of circumstance fits. But even if the teams do not go down the road of subbing other team mates in, in case of a health issue like the one which played out here, at least, as in the Aus Open and other Grand Slams, there ought to be time-outs with the health professionals and at the conclusion of these time-outs, the particular decision that has been reached between them and the player needs to be taken on board by the umpire. PERIOD.
Sueiyin04-02-2025 - "If Novak did this, he would be defaulted for life. WTF." 🤣 WTF sounds like What Tennis Fury?! What Tennis Flurry??! I mean, se-rious-ly, it was actually the unfairness of the silly umpire's decision that is the issue here! Further, how come it was Gurin & his team who got disqualified? If this kind of thing happens in soccer, it would be the other guy getting the yellow or red card! Because after all, it was the Belgian who's foul it was so why then penalize the opponents for something they didn't instigate? Fouls in both basketball and soccer are read as a hinderance that has been caused by the player who INITIALLY instigated the hinderance. In this case, okay, it is tennis, but while the precise rules are different to either soccer or basketball, the same type of recognition as to whoever instigates a hinderance should apply, and in this case, it was the Belgian player.Sueiyin04-02-2025
- Medvedev talking to his form here. "Some actual deep problem." 🤣😂🤣MrAndreeva03-02-2025
- "Hopefully, the team around her will help... " Actually, the lack thereof seems to have been part of the problem(s). Another possibility is that, while dealing with legitimate surgeries, withdrawing, and otherwise passing on events, the competition has stepped-up in intensity while she was busy with traveling, photo shoots, and TV commercials.mandoist03-02-2025
- Ha-ha-ha... Translation: I'll help as long as I don't have to meet in person and endure the ongoing BS"mandoist03-02-2025
- Well said.mandoist03-02-2025
- So tennisuptodate doesn't even make this event a headline on this site? I had to find it hidden here. Not a word about Yastremska trying to ruin Alexandrova's celebration with her postgame actions?? According to WTA regulations, Yastremska has some punishment coming her way for walking-off court, blowing-off postgame rituals with the winner; including no photos, etc.mandoist03-02-2025
