The 10 Spanish tennis players to watch closely in 2025

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

Pedro Martinez has had an important rise in the rankings during 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 come pushing from below.

Born in 2006, Martín Landaluce has been one of the biggest names of the season. But he is not the only talent with potential in Spain. Rafa Jódar 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, winning the Eddie Herr and on his way to the double with the Orange Bowl, where he is currently in the quarterfinals and has not lost a set so far in the tournament.

10. Dani Rincón

US Open junior champion in 2021, he is struggling to confirm but we expect 2025 to be his breakthrough season. He has won 1 Challenger and 1 ITF in 2024, beating better ranked players than him and making it 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 has finished it quietly in the top 50. He has emerged as a tough player, capable of putting almost any big name on the circuit in trouble. Especially on clay, where he stands out like most Spaniards. He has won 2 Challenger titles in 4 finals, was runner-up in the ATP 250 Estoril after defeating Casper Ruud in the semis and reached the penultimate round in the 500 Hamburg after beating Francisco Cerúndolo.

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 has won the M25 in Antalya and the M15 in Madrid. He has also been a finalist in two other tournaments and has spent the last weeks of the year playing Challenger Tour events.

7. Roberto Bautista Agut

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

6. Izan Almazán

In his last junior year, he has focused more on his category, lifting a J200 and reaching the final 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 advancing 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 has been a J300 semifinal on clay. With the seniors, he has won as many matches as he has lost and reached the round of 16 of an ITF tournament after having passed the three qualifying rounds required beforehand.

4. Andres 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 9 matches he has played. But in juniors, he has entered the Top 30 in the world and is expected to continue climbing. He won a J200 and a J300 on clay 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 took the Eddie Herr in Bradenton last week and is currently in the quarterfinals of the Orange Bowl in Plantation. In the last 9 matches he has played, he has only dropped one set.

3. Rafa Jódar

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

2. Martín Landaluce

How not to talk about the best 2006 in the world next to Joao Fonseca. He won the US Open junior in 2022, had a transition year in 2023 and has established himself as one of the biggest promises on the planet in 2024. Despite turning 18 during the season, he has only played in the pros. An ITF hard-court champion in February, a Challenger semifinalist two weeks later, he 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, being the youngest Spaniard since a certain Carlos Alcaraz in the Challenger of Olbia. He had an epic and generational duel with match point included against Fonseca in Lyon and finished with another semifinal in Rovereto. He finished ninth in the Race for the ATP Next Gen Finals, being at the gates of entering but fighting with players up to two years older than him, born from 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 irregular 2024, being the first year that he conquered two Grand Slam trophies, winning the double Roland Garros and Wimbledon, getting the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Paris. But the rest of his season has been quite complicated, far from the expected results and the desired continuity.