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2024 Australian Open – Boys' Singles
Rei Sakamoto defeated Jan Kumstát in the final, 3–6, 7–6(7–2), 7–5 to win the boys' singles tennis title at the 2024 Australian Open. He became the second player from Japan to win a boys' junior Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major title, after Shintaro Mochizuki at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' singles, 2019 Wimbledon Championships. Alexander Blockx was the reigning champion, but was no longer eligible to participate in junior events. He received a wild card into the 2024 Australian Open – Men's singles qualifying, men's singles qualifying, where he lost to Zachary Svajda in the first round. Cruz Hewitt, the son of two-time major champion and former List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, ATP world no. 1 Lleyton Hewitt, and Jagger Leach, the son of three-time major champion and former List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, WTA world no. 1 Lindsay Davenport, made their junior major debuts in this tournament. Seeds Draw Fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rei Sakamoto
is a Japanese tennis player. He has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 330 achieved on 17 March 2025. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 848 achieved on that same date. Career 2024: Australian Junior champion, ATP qualifying & top 500 debuts Sakamoto won the 2024 Australian Open 2024 Australian Open – Boys' singles, boys' singles title after defeating Jan Kumstát in three sets. Partnering Maxim Mrva, he also won the boys' doubles at the 2024 US Open – Boys' doubles, 2024 US Open, defeating Denis Peták and Flynn Thomas in the final. He received a wildcard for qualifying competition at the 2024 Miami Open but lost to Vít Kopřiva in the first round. At the age of 18 and five months, Sakamoto won his first title at the 2024 Yokkaichi Challenger becoming the second youngest Japanese titlist after Kei Nishikori to lift an ATP Challenger trophy in history. As a result he reached the top 500 in the rankings on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomasz Berkieta
Tomasz Berkieta (; born 21 July 2006) is a Polish tennis player. He has a career high ITF junior combined ranking of No. 6, achieved on 8 July 2024. Early life and background Berkieta was born in Warsaw to Kamil Berkieta and Magdalena Sawicka. His mother is a tennis coach who played the sport until the age of 16, when she had to retire due to injury. While volunteering as a ball boy at the 2013 Davis Cup World Group play-offs, Berkieta was hit in the stomach by a serve from Nick Kyrgios and had to exit the court. He is currently coached by Piotr Sierzputowski, the former coach of Iga Świątek, and trains at the Legia Tennis Centre in Warsaw. Junior career In January 2022, Berkieta reached the semifinal of the J4 Eintracht Frankfurt event. The following month, he won his maiden ITF Junior title at the J5 DeSki Warsaw Cup. He also won the doubles title with Piotr Czaczkowski. In March, he won back-to-back titles at the J4 Ādaži Open and the J4 Aphrodite Cup in Nicosia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Forbes
Matthew Forbes (born April 6, 2006) is an American tennis player. He has a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of No. 34, achieved on January 1, 2024. He plays collegiate tennis at Michigan State University. Early life Forbes was born to Jamaican parents. He is the youngest of three siblings. His older sister, Abigail, is also a tennis player. Junior career In December 2023, he and compatriot Andrew Delgado won the boys' doubles title at the Orange Bowl The Orange Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in the Miami metropolitan area. Played annually since 1935 Orange Bowl, January 1, 1935, it is tied with the Sugar Bowl and the Sun Bowl as the second-oldest bowl games in .... In August 2024, he won the USTA Boys' 18 National Championships and was awarded a wildcard into the main draw of the US Open. Professional career In February 2024, Forbes made his professional debut at the $15k City of Sunrise Pro Tennis Classic as a junior exempt entry. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rejchtman Vinciguerra
William Rejchtman Vinciguerra (born 10 February 2007) is a Swedish tennis player. Early life He started playing tennis at a young age and was coached by his father Robert, as well as Thomas Högstedt, who previously trained Maria Sharapova and Caroline Wozniacki. In January 2023, he received a scholarship from The Streber Foundation. Junior career As a junior, he reached the final of the Tennis Europe Masters Finals in Monaco, where he was defeated by Norwegian Nicolai Budkov Kjær Nicolai Budkov Kjær (born 1 September 2006) is a Norwegian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 287, achieved on 31 March 2025. He is currently the No. 3 singles player from Norway. Budkov Kjær r .... He made his junior Grand Slam debut at the 2024 Australian Open. He competed in the junior events at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships where he also practised with Swedish ice hockey player William Nylander. Professional career Alongside Leo Borg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxwell Exsted
Maxwell Exsted (born March 12, 2007) is an American tennis player. He won the List of Australian Open champions#Junior, boys' doubles champions at the 2024 Australian Open – Boys' doubles, 2024 and 2025 Australian Open – Boys' doubles, 2025 Australian Open. Early and personal life From Savage, Minnesota, he started playing tennis at one year-old and by four years-old had won his first junior tennis tournament, in Chicago. He relocated with father Chris and mother Jodi, to Miramar, Florida to train with private coach Courtney Scott as well as his USTA development coach Jon Glover at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida, Orlando. He has a brother Alex and a sister Isabelle who both played collegiate tennis. Junior career With Darwin Blanch and Jagger Leach, Maxwell was part of the American team which finished third at the Junior Davis Cup and Junior Billie Jean King Cup, 2023 Junior Davis Cup. Maxwell won the final champion of the 2024 Australian Open – Boys' double ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diego Dedura-Palomero
Diego Dedura-Palomero (born 12 March 2008) is a German tennis player. Dedura has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 361, achieved on 9 June 2025. Personal life Dedura was born in Berlin to a Chilean father and a Lithuanian mother. He speaks four languages: German, English, Spanish and Lithuanian. In April 2025, he announced that he would forgo the second part of his surname as a player. Career 2024 Dedura made his ATP Challenger Tour main draw debut at the age of 16 as a qualifier at the Schwaben Open in Augsburg, reaching the second round. 2025: First ATP win at age 17, top 400 At the age of 17, Dedura made his ATP Tour main draw debut as a lucky loser at the BMW Open in Munich, where he won against Denis Shapovalov Denis Viktorovich Shapovalov (born ) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 10 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, which he first achieved on September 21, 2020. Sh . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Schönhaus
Max Schönhaus (born 1 August 2007) is a German professional tennis player. He became a junior Grand Slam champion in the Boys' doubles at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships. Early life He is from Niederense in Ense. He trained at the TNB-TennisBase Hannover. Career In 2021, he won the European U14 Masters tournament in Monte Carlo, defeating compatriot Justin Engel. Alongside Alexander Razeghi he reached the semi finals of the boys' doubles at the 2024 French Open. Alongside Razeghi, he subsequently won the boys' doubles at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, defeating top-seeded pair Federico Cinà and Maxim Mrva in the semi final, and Czech pair Jan Kumstát and Jan Klimas in straight sets in the final. He reached the final of the boys' singles at the 2025 French Open, where he was beaten in three sets by compatriot Niels McDonald for the title. He made his ATP Tour The ATP Tour (known as ATP World Tour between January 2009 and December 2018) is the sole worldwide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Engel
Justin Engel (born 1 October 2007) is a German tennis player. Engel has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 235 achieved on 16 June 2025, and a best doubles ranking of No. 283 attained on 9 June 2025. Career 2023: Maiden ITF title In May, at the age of 16, Engel became the youngest German men's title winner since 2003 when he won an ITF World Tennis Tour tournament in Villach, Austria. 2024: ATP Tour debut In July, Engel made his Challenger main draw debut at the Tennis Open Karlsruhe, having received a wildcard. He defeated world No. 138 and five-time major doubles champion Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the first round to claim his first Challenger main draw win and first top-150 win. In October, at the age of 17, Engel made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the Almaty Open after receiving a main draw wildcard. He defeated Coleman Wong in straight sets to claim his first ATP Tour main draw win, becoming the youngest player to do so since Carlos Alcaraz at the 2020 Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théo Papamalamis
Théo Papamalamis (born 9 January 2006 in Metz) is a French tennis player. Papamalamis has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 602 achieved on 24 February 2025. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 1229 achieved on 19 August 2024. Professional career 2024: ATP Tour debut In May, Papamalamis made his Grand Slam qualifying debut at the French Open, losing to Grégoire Barrère in the first round. In November, Papamalamis made his main draw debut on the ATP Tour The ATP Tour (known as ATP World Tour between January 2009 and December 2018) is the sole worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) founded in 1990 that replaced the earlier dual Grand Prix ... as a lucky loser at the 2024 Moselle Open, losing to Quentin Halys in the first round. Performance timeline Singles ATP Challenger and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals Singles: 3 (0–3) References External links * * 2006 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooper Woestendick
Cooper Woestendick (born November 16, 2006) is an American tennis player. He won the boys' doubles event at the 2024 Australian Open. Career From Olathe, Kansas, he won the inaugural International Junior Championships held at the site of the famed BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells in March 2023 defeating Oliver Bonding, Keegan Rice and Roy Horovitz on his route to the title. Woestendick won the Traralgon Junior International doubles competition alongside compatriot Maxwell Exsted Maxwell Exsted (born March 12, 2007) is an American tennis player. He won the List of Australian Open champions#Junior, boys' doubles champions at the 2024 Australian Open – Boys' doubles, 2024 and 2025 Australian Open – Boys' doubles, 2025 A ... in January 2024. The pair reached the final of the junior doubles at the 2024 Australian Open with a three-set win over the top seeds Federico Cinà and Rei Sakamoto. In the final they overcame Viktor Frydrych and Petr Brunclik to win the title. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mees Röttgering
Mees Röttgering (born 7 July 2007) is a Dutch tennis player. He has a career-high ranking of world No. 648 achieved on 16 June 2025. He is the current No. 1 Junior singles player. Early life Röttgering was born in Wanssum in the Venray region of the Dutch province of Limburg. He began training in tennis when he was six years-old. He later attended a LOOT school specially set up for young athletes in collaboration with Sint-Joriscollege in Eindhoven. Since 2014, Röttgering coach was Jochem Mol in Veldhoven. Ten years later he also started working with former professional Sjeng Schalken. Career 2023-2024: Juniors In 2023 he reached the semifinals of the senior Dutch Championships as a 16 year-old, where he was defeated by Gijs Brouwer. In February 2024, he reached the semifinals in the boys' singles of the 2024 Australian Open, and a futures final in Sharm El Sheikh to become the only 16 year-old inside the top 1000 male rankings. In doing so, he became the youngest Dutch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayden Jones
Hayden Jones (born 30 August 2006) is an Australian tennis player. He made his Grand Slam debut in the mixed doubles at the 2025 Australian Open playing alongside his sister, Emerson Jones. Early life Jones attended Coomera Anglican College throughout upbringing. His mother, Loretta, is an Olympic silver medallist triathlete and his father, Brad, is a former Australian rules footballer who narrowly missed out on a professional AFL career when he trialled with the Brisbane Bears in 1994. Jones previously trained at the National Tennis Academy in Queensland and currently trains at the KDV Tennis Academy on the Gold Coast. Career He reached the semi-finals of the 2023 US Open boys' doubles with his partner Alexander Razeghi, their run including a win over Henry Searle and Tomasz Berkieta. Jones received a wildcard into the men's qualifying draw for the 2024 Australian Open in January 2024. Competing in the Boys' singles event, he won his first round match against American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |