It all adds up: Defining moments of the 2025 season

It's been a frenetic and drama-filled first five months of the 2025 ATP Tour season… and the report card is in.

Twenty-seven tournaments are in the books, including the Australian Open and five ATP Masters 1000s.

This week, leading into Sunday's start of Roland Garros, we savour the spectacle of the season so far, explore the fierce feuds that have ignited, reflect on the different drama that has unfolded and relate to the struggles and successes that have moved us.

Today we just dip our toe in the water with a small sampler of the four immersive longform features that will follow this week as we celebrate the players and tournaments that have embodied the ATP's It All Adds Up brand campaign.

Savour The Spectacle
Beginning Tuesday, we’ll Savour the Spectacle as we look at the young season’s defining moments that have happened as the Tour visited some of the world’s most spectacular destinations.

New Zealand’s inviting harbour city Auckland witnessed Gael Monfils become the oldest man to win a tour-level title since Ken Rosewall in 1977, just two weeks before Melbourne celebrated Jannik Sinner successfully defending the Australian Open title.

In February, the exotic Middle Eastern city of Doha celebrated the Qatar ExxonMobil Open’s upgrade to ATP 500 status, as did the iconic Texas city of Dallas, where the Dallas Open played out in a new facility that at normal times serves as the practice facility of the fabled Cowboys NFL Franchise.

Jack Draper, 23, broke through for his maiden ATP Masters 1000 title on the sprawling Indian Wells Tennis Garden, fittingly billed as ‘Tennis Paradise’, while 19-year-old Jakub Mensik rushed to take in 50 Cent’s closing performance at Miami Music Week after denying Novak Djokovic his 100th career title in the final of the Miami Open presented by Itau.

The Tour then set its sights on Europe for eight weeks of clay events leading into Roland Garros, including stops in Monte-Carlo, Madrid and Rome, the latter coinciding with the Papal Conclave in the Italian capital, with news of the election of Pope Leo XIV appearing on big screens during play on Campo Centrale at the Foro Italico. Rome also marked the 11th Lexus ATP head2Head meeting between the game's pre-eminent players, Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.

Struggles & Successes
Success hits differently when it follows struggle. Whether players are battling back from injury, mental health issues or just poor form, a hard-earned resurgence can be even more rewarding than an initial rise up the PIF ATP Rankings.

Even Novak Djokovic has worked his way through his share of dark patches in his career, with this season no exception. After battling through a hamstring tear to reach the Australian Open semi-finals, the Serbian suffered opening-round defeats in four of his next five tournaments. The lone exception saw him come within one match of his 100th ATP Tour title when he reached the Miami final, only to be turned back by a statement performance from #NextGenATP Czech Mensik.

Canadians Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov — both fan favourites who first lit up the ATP Tour as teens — returned to glory in their mid-20s. Auger-Aliassime, who won four titles and qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals in 2022, hit top form again this year to win two titles at age 24. Shapovalov, two years removed from knee surgery, won the biggest title of his career in Dallas, beating three Top 10 opponents with his flamboyant game made for primetime.

There were also moments of magic for Stefanos Tsitsipas and Andrey Rublev, both fixtures in the Top 10 until their recent struggles. Armed with a new racquet, Tsitsipas won his first title in 10 months in Dubai following a 3-4 start to the season. Rublev, who spoke in January about his progress on long-standing mental health struggles, also lifted his first trophy in nearly a year in Doha.

Fierce Feuds
Rivalries have always defined professional tennis, but which Lexus ATP Head2Head matchups have dominated so far this season?

A rivalry for the ages between Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz reignited at the Australian Open, where the Serbian masterfully adapted his gameplan to mask a hamstring injury in an emphatic comeback. But Alcaraz was on the winning end in two of three meetings with Draper, with the frequent encounters between the Top 5 stars creating the latest bona fide rivalry at the very top of the men's game.

Matteo Berrettini finally got the better of Djokovic in Doha, building on his 2024 ATP Comeback Player of the Year campaign with a power-packed performance that the Serbian called a "masterclass". On the other side of the age curve, #NextGenATP stars Joao Fonseca and Learner Tien squared off in a raucous Miami atmosphere. Repeating the result from their two matches in the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF, Fonseca prevailed in three sets as he soaked in the support of the Brazilian fans on Tien's American soil.

One of the most dramatic Lexus ATP Head2Heads this season built on a thriller last year at Roland Garros, when Alexander Zverev edged Tallon Griekspoor in a fifth-set tie-break after trailing by two breaks in the final set. This year in Indian Wells, it was the Dutchman's turn to snatch a victory at the death. But after Griekspoor's third-set tie-break win, Zverev gained revenge on home soil in Munich in another match of razor-thin margins.

Different Drama
From match-point saves to memorable mishaps, this ATP Tour season has delivered Different Drama at every turn.

Miomir Kecmanovic saved two championship points to win the Delray Beach title against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, ultimately sweeping the singles and doubles crowns in South Florida. Not to be outdone, Jenson Brooksby saved match point in three separate matches en route to the Houston title — including one in the very first round of qualifying!

Djokovic, who teamed up with Nick Kyrgios for a hot-shot filled doubles outing in Brisbane, was not the only Serbian to overcome a hamstring injury for a big win. Essentially playing on one leg after landing in a violent split at 5-4 in the third set, former NextGen champ Hamad Medjedovic blasted his way to a third-set tie-break victory against Stefanos Tsitsipas in Doha. While Djokovic took the court and nearly took the opening set against Alexander Zverev in his ensuing match at the Aussie Open, Medjedovic pulled out of the tournament before the second round.

On the lighter side, the Sunshine Double in Indian Wells and Miami provided a double dose of whacky serving moments. Ben Shelton fired two 150-mph blasts in Tennis Paradise — but somehow lost both points. In Miami, Eliot Spizzirri's serve got caught in the throat of Billy Harris' racquet, making for a moment of levity in the heat of battle. And in case you forgot last year's "bee invasion" in Indian Wells, beekeeper Lance Davis reunited with Alcaraz in the desert to recall how he saved the day during the Spaniard's 2024 semi-final against Zverev.