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\n Fonseca, Bublik, Coric & more… Recap the Challenger 175 champions of 2025<\/p>\n
Kovacevic, Michelsen, Mpetshi Perricard win titles<\/p>\n
December 30, 2025<\/p>\n
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Joao Fonseca claims his third ATP Challenger trophy in March at the Arizona Tennis Classic.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Joao Fonseca<\/a> and Alexander Bublik<\/a> were among those to use the ATP Challenger 175 level as a springboard to bigger stages in 2025. They were not the only stars to shine at the highest category of ATP Challenger tournaments. Borna Coric<\/a> earned a memorable victory against Stan Wawrinka<\/a> in a thrilling Aix-en-Provence final. <\/p>\n Fonseca, Bublik and Coric were three of the six Challenger 175 titlists of 2025. ATPTour.com recaps this past season\u2019s champions at that level.<\/p>\n \nFonseca enters Challenger record books in Phoenix \n\u201cHaving a good run at this Challenger, a 175, but it could be like an ATP 250 by the ranking of the players, easily,\u201d Fonseca said in Phoenix. \u201cIt was super, super hard.\u201d<\/p>\n South American-born players to win three Challenger titles aged 18 and under:<\/p>\n \nAndre Agassi<\/a> made a special appearance at the Phoenix Challenger, where the former No. 1 performed the honourary coin toss ahead of Fonseca\u2019s quarter-final match against Hugo Gaston<\/a>. In the final, Fonseca defeated Alexander Bublik<\/a> 7-6(5), 7-6(0).<\/p>\n \nKovacevic wins biggest career crown \n\u201cThe conditions here are very, very difficult to be ready for,\u201d a relieved Kovacevic said after winning the trophy. \u201cIn my quarter-final match, I was cramping at the end of the match and that could be the difference. If I cramped a little bit harder, I wouldn’t have been able to continue the match or I\u2019d have had to retire probably.\u201d<\/p>\n \nCoric downs Wawrinka in deciding-set tie-break to triumph in Aix-en-Provence \nCoric won three consecutive Challenger titles spanning from February to March, and then added to that count in Aix-en-Provence. The Croatian was one of six players to capture four Challenger titles in 2025.<\/p>\n BORN-A CHAMPION \ud83d\udcaa@borna_coric<\/a> reigns supreme at @OpenduPaysdAix<\/a>, clinching a tour-leading 4th Challenger title of the season! #ATPChallenger<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/GpDPt7dws4<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 ATP Challenger (@ATPChallenger) May 4, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n \nMichelsen wins first clay-court title with dominant week in Estoril \n“My mindset has gotten better on clay since last year. I was kind of dreading it, but now I’m enjoying it,” Michelsen said after defeating Italian Andrea Pellegrino<\/a> 6-4, 6-4 in the final. “I got here super early because I lost in the first round in Madrid, so I probably had five, six days of preparation before I played, so I had really good preparation this week.”<\/p>\n You May Also Like: By The Numbers: 2025 ATP Challenger season<\/a><\/p>\n \nBublik builds momentum before surging on ATP Tour \n\u201cFor me, it was just keeping my level to get back to where I belong where I stayed most of my career,\u201d Bublik said after beating Buyunchaokete<\/a> 6-3, 6-3 in the Turin final. \u201cIt\u2019s just a little step towards what I really want to achieve.\u201d<\/p>\n \nMpetshi Perricard serves up home victory in Bordeaux \nBublik and Mpetshi Perricard\u2019s winning form was quickly put to test, as the two faced off in the opening round of the ATP 500 event in Hamburg just two days after they each were lifting trophies. Mpetshi Perricard won their Hamburg meeting to improve to 2-1 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n
Fonseca stacked milestone accomplishments in his breakthrough season, including a historic title run at the Arizona Tennis Classic<\/a>. The Brazilian became the second-youngest player from South America \u2014 behind Juan Martin<\/a> del Potro \u2014 to win three ATP Challenger titles. <\/p>\n
The same week Fonseca triumphed in Phoenix, American Aleksandar Kovacevic<\/a> claimed his biggest career title at the Cap Cana Challenger in the Dominican Republic. Kovacevic, like Fonseca, defeated four Top 100 players en route to the title. The former University of Illinois standout raced past Damir Dzumhur<\/a> 6-2, 6-3 in a 71-minute final at the Republica Dominicana Open, Copa Cap Cana Ciudad Destino<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Fan favourites Borna Coric<\/a> and Stan Wawrinka<\/a> delivered a championship-match showdown at the Open Aix Provence Cr\u00e9dit Agricole<\/a>. Coric, former No. 12 in the PIF ATP Rankings, outlasted the three-time major champion 6-7(5), 6-3, 7-6(4) after a hard-fought three-hour, 11-minute battle on the French clay.<\/p>\n
Alex Michelsen<\/a> celebrated a milestone moment at the Millennium Estoril Open<\/a>, where the American captured his first clay-court title. Michelsen did not drop a set all week and following his title run, he returned to his career-high No. 32. <\/p>\n
Bublik produced his career-best season, claiming four tour-level titles and propelling to a career-high No. 11 in November. Before that surge in the second half of the year, Bublik was building momentum at Challenger tournaments, including in Phoenix, where he reached the final and then on clay in Turin, where the Kazakh won the Piemonte Open Intesa Sanpaolo<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/a> leaned on a standout serving performance to win on home soil at the BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux<\/a>. The 6\u201910\u201d Frenchman outlasted former No. 16 Nikoloz Basilashvili<\/a> 6-3, 6-7(5), 7-5 after hammering 26 aces in the final, during which he also saved 11 of 12 break points, according to Infosys ATP Stats.<\/p>\n