Title-winning turnarounds

While Draper and Davidovich Fokina's respective Australian Open runs ultimately ended in defeat, other ATP Tour stars have successfully moved from the brink of a loss to dramatic title victory across the opening months of 2025.

Miomir Kecmanovic gave Davidovich Fokina a taste of his own Melbourne medicine by saving two championship points against the Spaniard to win the Delray Beach Open. The Serbian rallied from 2-5, 15/40 in the deciding set to claim his second ATP Tour crown.

The emotions were flowing in Monte-Carlo for doubles stars Romain Arneodo and Manuel Guinard, who saved two championship points to down Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool and win the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters. Arneodo became the first home champion in event history, banishing his heartache from 2023 when he and Sam Weissborn lost the final having let slip two championship points.

“I dreamt about that for the last two years," said Arneodo of his 2023 final loss. "I was so disappointed the last two years to not win this tournament. Now, to achieve this tournament, for me, [what I have done in] tennis is enough... I reached my dream goal.”

Arneodo and Guinard's heroics came a week after Jenson Brooksby completed a comeback-laden title run in Houston. The American saved a match point in the first round of qualifying, three more in the second round of the main draw and another in the semi-finals before sinking Frances Tiafoe for his first ATP Tour title.

The good, the bad & the painful

Hamad Medjedovic pulled off one of the most remarkable victories of the season so far at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha, where he defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas despite having suffered a scary injury doing the splits during a defensive movement at 5-4 in the third set.

Medjedovic was sadly forced to withdraw from his second-round match against Felix Auger-Aliassime because of the hamstring injury, but the former Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF champion returned to action in March in Miami.

Luckily for Francisco Comesana, there were no long-lasting effects from his crash into the net during February's Rio Open presented by Claro. A quick helping hand up from his opponent Alexandre Muller was enough to get the Argentine back to competing, although it was Muller who ultimately won the semi-final clash at the ATP 500.

Together time

There have been some notable on-court reunions so far this year, including one featuring an iconic star of the 2024 season: California beekeeper Lance Davis.

One year after he quelled the swarm of bees that disrupted Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev's BNP Paribas Open quarter-final, Davis returned to the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in 2025 to toss the coin for Alcaraz's opening match against Quentin Halys. The appearance had the Spanish star laughing with surprise.

In February, a pair of Buenos Aires brothers played out their maiden Lexus ATP Head2Head clash, just the fourth ATP Tour meeting between siblings since 2000. Francisco Cerundolo defeated Juan Manuel Cerundolo 6-2, 6-3 at their hometown ATP 250, the IEB+ Argentina Open.

The 2025 season had also begun with a reunion of sorts at the Brisbane International presented by Evie, where 2022 Wimbledon finalists Novak Djokovic and Nick Kyrgios teamed on the doubles court for the first time. The pair claimed an entertaining opening win, highlighted by a round-the-net winner from Djokovic, before losing in the second round.

"I haven’t played that many doubles matches in my life, to be honest, particularly in the past five years," said Djokovic after their first-round win. "So whatever Nick was saying, I was following, actually.”

Clay, interrupted

The drama was undoubtedly different on Day 6 at the Mutua Madrid Open, where the clay Masters 1000 was caught up in what turned out to be one of the biggest power outages in European history. With widespread disruption across Spain, Portugal and parts of France, play was cancelled for the day. There was nothing much the ATP Tour stars waiting to compete in Madrid could do but sit and wait, although some, such as Taylor Fritz, did offer their own suggestions as to how Spain's authorities could fix the problem.

Outside influences also caused a stir at May’s Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome, where the announcement of Robert Prevost as the new pope was broadcast on the stadium court's big screen during Fabio Fognini's match against Jacob Fearnley. The Rome crowd cheered and, six days later, one of their local heroes even had the chance to meet Pope Leo XIV in person: The new head of the worldwide Catholic Church received World No. 1 Jannik Sinner at the Vatican.

There was a more recognisable interruption in the form of a rain delay to the fourth-round Rome meeting between Lorenzo Musetti and Daniil Medvedev, although it nonetheless produced unique circumstances at the Foro Italico. The heavens opened as Musetti served at 7-5, 5-4 and 30/0. With some fans already scrambling from the stands seeking cover, the duo endured an extended point in pouring rain until Musetti brought up match point with a drop shot. Play was promptly suspended and Musetti was forced to wait another two hours and 52 minutes to complete his victory — which he did at the first attempt.