{"id":346729,"date":"2025-12-15T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346729\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:49:07","slug":"the-best-tennis-matches-of-the-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346729\/","title":{"rendered":"The best tennis matches of the 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the end of another unforgettable year for tennis, we&#8217;re looking back on some of the best matches of the 2025 tennis season.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Slam victories, career-defining finals, battles against the world No.1 and more &#8211; this year has treated us to some memorable matches we&#8217;ll be thinking about for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look back at our seven top matches of 2025 and don&#8217;t forget to have your say and vote for the match that stood above the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Wells final &#8211; Jack Draper beat Holger Rune 6-2, 6-2<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest matches of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lta.org.uk\/fan-zone\/british-tennis-players\/jack-draper\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Draper<\/a>\u2019s season came in the final of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells when he took on Denmark\u2019s Holger Rune.<\/p>\n<p>Having already bypassed Joao Fonseca, Jenson Brooksby, Taylor Fritz, Ben Shelton and Carlos Alcaraz, Draper was fired up for the final in the Californian desert and produced a dominant display against the Dane.<\/p>\n<p>The British No.1 dropped just four games on his way to beating Rune 6-2, 6-2 in an hour and 10 minutes to lift a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lta.org.uk\/news\/bnp-paribas-open-indian-wells-2025-jack-draper-beats-holger-rune-to-win-first-atp-masters-1000-title\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">career-first Masters 1000 title<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t expecting this,&#8221; Draper said. &#8220;I\u2019ve put in a lot of work over time. I\u2019m just so grateful and so happy to be out here to be able to play, my body feeling healthy, to feel great in the mind. Just all the work I\u2019ve done over the last few years, it feels like it\u2019s coming together on the big stage and I can\u2019t put that into words.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To mark the end of another unforgettable year for tennis, we&#8217;re looking back on some of the best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-346729","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\/346729","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=346729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}