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\n Best ATP Tour comebacks of 2025: De Minaur, Fonseca among season-defining escapes<\/p>\n
Kecmanovic, Zverev, Brooksby all save match points<\/p>\n
December 05, 2025<\/p>\n
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Scott Taetsch\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Alex de Minaur saves three championship points to defeat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the Washington final.
\n By Jerome Coombe<\/p>\n
To mark the end of another thrilling season, ATPTour.com is unveiling our annual ‘Best Of’ series<\/a>, which will reflect on the most intriguing rivalries, matches, comebacks, upsets and more. Today we highlight five standout ATP Tour comebacks (not including Grand Slams) from this season.<\/p>\n Every comeback tells a story of resilience, timing, belief, and momentum. In 2025, the ATP Tour was full of moments when players turned matches, tournaments, or even their season around with gutsy performances when it mattered most.<\/p>\n 5) Delray Beach F: Kecmanovic d. Davidovich Fokina 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 Facing a 2-5, 15\/40 deficit in the final set against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a>, Kecmanovic summoned the same gritty defence that his Spanish opponent uses so well, saving two consecutive championship points with heart-stopping touches. The second one came via a volley that clipped the net cord and drifted in for a winner.<\/p>\n From there, Kecmanovic reeled off the final five games, including a ruthless break to love at 5-5, to seal his second ATP Tour title, and first since 2020. To add to his fairytale outing, the Serbian teamed up with Brandon Nakashima<\/a> later that day to win the doubles crown.<\/p>\n 4) Paris QF: Zverev d. Medvedev 2-6, 6-3, 7-6(5) Staring down the barrel of his sixth consecutive defeat against Medvedev at 4-5 on serve in the deciding set, Zverev rediscovered his own game: big first serves, forward-thinking mindset, and unshakeable nerve. The German fired an unreturned first serve to fend off the first match point and then struck a booming backhand to take control of the second, before edging a tight tie-break to seal his first victory over Medvedev since Cincinnati in 2023.<\/p>\n Despite still trailing 8-14 in their long-running Lexus ATP Head2Head series, Zverev notched a redemptive win: The No. 3 player in the PIF ATP Rankings played the way he knows he can.<\/p>\n \u201cDaniil is kind of my kryptonite, I don\u2019t like playing him,\u201d Zverev said. \u201cHe\u2019s somebody who has had my number for the last couple of years. The thing I\u2019m most pleased with is the match points saved, the way I continued being brave and in the important moments, winning the match myself.\u201d<\/p>\n 3) Houston: Brooksby\u2019s brilliance en route to first ATP Tour title At the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men\u2019s Clay Court Championship<\/a> in Houston, the American survived match points in three separate matches en route to his first tour-level crown at the clay-court event. Brooksby saved one in his first-round qualifying match, two against third seed Alejandro Tabilo<\/a> in the main-draw second round, and one against top seed Tommy Paul<\/a> in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n The 24-year-old\u2019s 6-4, 6-2 championship-match victory against 2023 Houston winner Frances Tiafoe<\/a> was, ironically, the most comprehensive win of them all.<\/p>\n \u201cI’m just someone who hates to lose and loves to win in general \u2014 obviously tennis being most important, but even in other games, and I think that’s just how I’m wired as a person,\u201d Brooksby told ATPTour.com. \u201cI just really love winning, so that transfers over into when I’m in tough positions and maybe you should lose in those situations, I’m able to at least find a way out of it sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n 2) Buenos Aires QF: Fonseca d. Navone 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 Against home favourite Mariano Navone<\/a>, in a raucous quarter-final at the IEB+ Argentina Open<\/a>, the Brazilian produced one of the most mature wins of his fledgling career. Fonseca twice rallied from a break down in the second set to force a decider, in which he once again came back from the jaws of defeat.<\/p>\n At 3-5, 15\/40, the then-18-year-old saved two consecutive match points \u2014 the second with a drilled backhand winner \u2014 to flip the match, winning the next four straight games to reach the semi-finals. Two days later, he downed another Argentine, Francisco Cerundolo<\/a>, in the final to become the youngest South American to win a tour-level title in the ATP Tour era (since 1990).<\/p>\n \u201cThose are the victories that we work for,\u201d Fonseca said after his quarter-final win. \u201cI was not playing my best and I fought until the end. Since the beginning I was believing I could win, even if I wasn\u2019t playing my best, but I fought and now I\u2019m in the semi-finals.\u201d<\/p>\n 1) Washington F: De Minaur d. Davidovich Fokina 5-7, 6-1, 7-6(3) With his 10th title on the line, the Australian fought off three championship points against Davidovich Fokina in a thrilling final set, including one so tight he was just 16 millimetres from defeat. But a desperate lob clipped the sideline, and he didn\u2019t look back.<\/p>\n De Minaur had already battled to break back when Davidovich Fokina attempted to serve for the match at 5-3, 30\/0. Then, in a mammoth 10-minute return game filled with Deuces, he saved all three championship points before eventually landing a tie-break and delivering more final heartbreak for Davidovich Fokina, who fell to his third defeat at that stage of a tournament in 2025.<\/p>\n \u201cI just backed myself and I told myself to commit no matter what and if I lost this match it was going to be on my terms,\u201d De Minaur said. \u201cToday it went my way. I’ve had a couple of brutal ones not go my way, so I’m glad this one went my way.”<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATP Tour Best ATP Tour comebacks of 2025: De Minaur, Fonseca among season-defining escapes Kecmanovic, Zverev, Brooksby all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-327027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Miomir Kecmanovic<\/a>\u2019s five-year title drought ended in spectacular fashion at the Delray Beach Open<\/a>, where he summoned a bit of his own scrappy play in the process.<\/p>\n
Alexander Zverev<\/a> may have been falling further behind against his greatest Lexus ATP Head2Head rival Daniil Medvedev<\/a> in recent years, but he nonetheless scored a win back in memorable fashion at the Rolex Paris Masters<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Winning your first ATP Tour title is always special, but for Jenson Brooksby<\/a>, it came after weathering more near-exit experiences than most.<\/p>\nJenson Brooksby” style=”width:100%;” src=”https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/-\/media\/images\/news\/2025\/11\/20\/15\/26\/brooksby-houston-2025-trophy-lift.jpg”>Jenson Brooksby<\/a> wins his first ATP Tour title in Houston. Photo: Andrew Wevers<\/p>\n
Joao Fonseca<\/a> arrived on the ATP Tour powered by teenage hype and the kind of raw, relentless energy that makes you lean forward in your seat, but Buenos Aires was where that buzz met title-winning substance.<\/p>\n
If comebacks define character, Alex de Minaur<\/a>\u2019s championship-match victory at the Mubadala Citi DC Open<\/a> in Washington was a pure reflection of the Australian’s on-court resilience.<\/p>\n