The 10 Spanish tennis players we should keep a close eye on in 2025

A few years ago, Spanish tennis was the most envied by the rest of the world due to the amount of talent in the country. Nowadays it seems that everything depends a lot on what Carlos Alcaraz does. However, he won't be the only player to keep an eye on in 2025.

Pedro Martinez has made a significant rise up the rankings in 2024, Roberto Bautista Agut has returned to win an ATP title at the age of 36 and how not to talk about the youngsters who are pushing from below.

Martn Landaluce, born in 2006, is one of the biggest names of the season. But he is not the only talent with potential in Spain. Rafa Jdar won the US Open junior and reached the final of the Masters in his category. On the other hand, Andres Santamarta confirmed himself as the best Spaniard born in 2007, won the Eddie Herr and was on his way to the double with the Orange Bowl, where he is currently in the quarterfinals and has not lost a set in the tournament so far .

10. Dani Rincn

US Open junior champion in 2021, he has struggled to confirm, but we expect 2025 to be his breakthrough season. He has won one Challenger and one ITF in 2024, beating better-ranked players than him and advancing through the qualifying rounds of ATP tournaments and Roland Garros, where he was one match away from making the main draw.

9. Pedro Martinez

He started the 2024 season outside the Top 100 and finished it quietly in the top 50. He has emerged as a tough player, capable of causing problems for almost any big name on the circuit. Especially on clay, where he stands out like most Spaniards. He has won 2 Challenger titles in 4 finals, came second in the ATP 250 Estoril after beating Casper Ruud in the semi-finals and reached the penultimate round in the 500 Hamburg after beating Francisco Cerndolo.

8. Daniel Merida

The best Spaniard born in 2004. He has won two ITF titles, started the 2024 season outside the Top 500 and finished it in the top 300. He won the M25 in Antalya and the M15 in Madrid. He was also a finalist in two other tournaments and played in Challenger Tour events in the final weeks of the year.

7. Roberto Bautista Agut

He was reborn in 2024. After a very complicated start to the season, the player from Castelln achieved a great level of play at the end of the year by winning the ATP 250 in Antwerp. He reached the round of 16 at Wimbledon, next April he will be 37 years old and we will see what he is capable of at that age, although he showed us in the indoor section that he can continue to make us dream.

6. Be Almazn

In his final junior year he focused more on his category, winning a J200 and reaching the finals of two J300s. In the pros, he made it through one round in an ITF tournament and qualified for the main draw of another after making it out of the qualifying round.

5. Sergio Planella

Born in 2007, he has combined the junior circuit with the professional circuit. In his category, his best result was a semi-final of the J300 on clay. In the senior division he has won as many matches as he has lost and reached the round of 16 of an ITF tournament after passing the three required qualifying rounds.

4. Andrés Santamarta

One of the biggest names in Spanish tennis at the end of the season. In professional tennis, he has alternated victories and defeats in the nine matches he has played. But in the junior ranks he has entered the Top 30 in the world and is expected to continue climbing. He won a J200 and a J300 on gravel in the first half of the year. He is now competing in the Sunshine Double Junior (the big one is the Masters 1000 double in Indian Wells and Miami). He won the Eddie Herr in Bradenton last week and is currently in the quarterfinals of the Orange Bowl in Plantation. In the last nine matches he has played, he has lost only one set.

3. Rafa Jdar

His 2024 season has clearly gone from strength to strength. He finished world junior number 4 after reaching the round of 16 at Roland Garros, winning a J300 on grass, reaching the Wimbledon quarter-finals and making 15 consecutive wins in his category. He won a J300, the US Open and reached the final of the Masters in Chengdu. Meanwhile, as a professional, he finished second in an ITF tournament and served as a sparring partner for the Spanish Davis Cup team in the group stage in Valencia.

2. Martn Landaluce

Besides Joao Fonseca, how can you not talk about the best 2006 in the world? He won the US Open junior in 2022, had a transition year in 2023 and in 2024 has established himself as one of the biggest promises in the world. Despite turning 18 during the season, he has only played in the pros. He was ITF hard court champion in February, a Challenger semi-finalist two weeks later, advanced one round at the Miami Masters 1000 in March, reached the penultimate round again in a second division tournament in August and two more in September.

Until he finally won the most important title of his young career, as the youngest Spaniard since a certain Carlos Alcaraz in the Challenger of Olbia. He had an epic generational duel with match point against Fonseca in Lyon and ended with another semi-final in Rovereto. He finished ninth in the Race for the ATP Next Gen Finals, standing at the gate of entry but battling players up to two years older than him, born in 2004.

1. Carlos Alcaraz

How can Carlos Alcaraz not be the most expected Spanish tennis player in 2025? There is not much to say about the player from Murcia. He has had an uneven 2024, the first year he captured two Grand Slam trophies, won the Roland Garros and Wimbledon doubles and won the silver medal at the Paris Olympics. But the rest of his season was quite complicated, far from the expected results and the desired continuity.