(London) Canadian Victoria Mboko as well as Janice Tjen, Lilli Tagger, Arnaud Bailly and Luka Mikrut were selected by a jury to be part of the 2025 class of the International Tennis Federation, a group considered “promising and revolutionary” in this sport.
The names of the five players were revealed this week, based on their performances during the ITF World Tour season.
Mboko, a 19-year-old Ontarian, won four consecutive titles and 22 matches in a row on the ITF world circuit earlier this year, before winning at the National Bank Open in Montreal, a WTA 1000 category tournament, after being a guest of the organizing committee.
A few months earlier, Mboko had reached the third round at the French Open, his first career appearance at a Grand Slam tournament.
Ranked 350e in the world at the start of the year, Mboko climbed the ranks in a dazzling manner to the point of reaching 18e step.
Tjen, 23, has won five consecutive ITF World Tennis Tour titles, including a 27-match winning streak, and became the first Indonesian player to appear in the main draw of a Grand Slam since 2004 at the US Open, beating No. 24e top seed, Veronika Kudermetova.
Tjen won her first WTA Tour trophy in November.
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Lilli Tagger
Tagger, a 17-year-old Austrian, was the youngest finalist on the WTA Tour this season, reaching this stage in Jiujiang, China, in October after earning a bye from organizers.
Bailly, a 20-year-old Belgian, has amassed 60 wins and suffered 19 losses and qualified for nine finals in 2025. During the year, he went from 802e position in the world rankings at one place just outside the top 200.
Mikrut, a 21-year-old Croatian, won four ITF World Tennis Tour titles, without losing a single set, in March and April.
