The draw of the 2025 Nex Gen Finals in Jeddah has been unveiled. The tournament will start on Wednesday with round-robin group matches and end on Sunday with the final.
Top seed and last year’s Next Gen Finals runner-up Learner Tien leads Blue Group, which features Spanish players Martin Landaluce and Rafael Jodar, as well as Norway’s Nikolai Budkov Kaer.
Belgium’s Alexander Blockx leads the Red Group, which also includes Croatia’s Dario Prizmic, the USA’s Nishesh Basaraveddy, and 18-year-old German rising star Justin Engel.
Blue Group preview:
Learner Tien will make his second appearance at the Next Gen Finals—the 20-year-old finished runner-up to Joao Fonseca in last year’s final.
Tien won his first ATP Tour title in Metz last November, beating Cameron Norrie in the final and has won 32 Tour-level matches. He reached the final at the ATP 500 tournament in Beijing, where he finished runner-up to world number 2 Jannik Sinner. Tien also reached the fourth round at the Australian Open and the Round of 16 in Shanghai.
The lefty player, who started the season outside the top 120, scored five top 10 wins and moved to a career-high number 28. At last January’s Australian Open, he upset Daniil Medvedev after winning the ten-point tie-break in the fifth set after 4 hours and 50 minutes. Tien then beat Frenchman Corentin Moutet in straight sets to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career. He became the second youngest US player to reach the Round of 16 at the Australian Open in the Open Era after Pete Sampras.
Last March, Tien beat world number 2 Alexander Zverev in Acapulco, scoring the biggest win by ranking, to reach his first ATP 500-level quarter final. He became the youngest US player to beat a top 3 since 2001, when Andy Roddick beat Gustavo Kuerten in the third round at the Canadian Open.
Tien reached the fourth round of a Masters 1000 tournament for the first time at the Canadian Open in Montreal.
Landaluce reached the second round at the Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati and won the ATP Challenger tournament in Orleans. The Spanish player made his Grand Slam debut after qualifying for the main draw of the 2025 Australian Open. Landaluce won the US Open boys’ singles title in 2022. He is aiming to follow in the footsteps of former Next Gen Finals champion Carlos Alcaraz.
Budkov Kjaer won the first ATP Challenger tournament of his career in Glasgow last February and back-to-back titles in Tampere and Astana last July, becoming the youngest Norwegian player to win multiple Challenger tournaments. He then claimed the fourth Challenger title at the Open de Vendée in France.
Kjaer made his debut in the top 1000 in the ATP Rankings at world number 897 on 8 April 2024, becoming the first Norwegian to achieve this feat since his compatriot Casper Ruud in 2016. Kjaer, who has been mentored by Ruud since the start of his career, won the 2024 Wimbledon boys’ singles title.
Jodar will make his debut at the Next Gen ATP Finals. The nineteen-year-old Spanish rising star enjoyed a late-season surge to book his spot at the end-of-year tournament.
He started playing tennis at the age of six and grew up in Madrid, training at the same tennis club as Landaluce, the Club de Tenis Chamartin.
Jodar won the boys’ singles title at the 2024 US Open and reached the ITF junior combined ranking of world number 4 on 9 September 2024.
Jodar won three ATP Challenger tournaments in Crete, Lincoln and Charlottesville in 2025. He became the third Spanish teenager to win at least three ATP Challenger titles, joining Carlos Alcaraz and Nicolas Almagro. He reached a career-high of world number 166 and moved to ninth in the Next Gen ATP Race Live to Jeddah. He is currently attending the University of Virginia in the United States, where he is a standout sophomore. He is balancing his professional career with college coursework. His tennis idol is Rafael Nadal.
Jodar was a sparring partner in Jeddah last year.
Red Group:
Alexander Blocx will play for the first time at the Next Gen Finals in Jeddah. The 20-year-old Belgian player claimed ATP Challenger titles in Oeiras last January and in Bratislava last November. He qualified for the main draw of the Masters 1000 tournament in Miami and beat Marcos Giron, earning his first Tour-level win at the Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati.
Dino Prizmic won two ATP Challenger tournaments in Zagreb and Bratislava and reached his first Tour-level quarter final in Umag on home soil.
Przmic won the Roland Garros boys’ singles title in 2023. Last year, he beat Mariano Navone, Duje Ajdukovic and Aziz Dougaz to qualify for his first Grand Slam main draw at the 2024 Australian Open. Przmic saved six match points against his idol, Novak Djokovic, in the first round before losing in four sets in a four-hour match. It was the longest first round match in Djokovic’s Grand Slam career.
Nishesh Basaraveddy will make his second appearance at the Next Gen ATP Finals. The US player reached the semifinal in Auckland and earned Tour-level wins in Cincinnati, Winston-Salem and Hangzhou. Basaraveddy is trained by Gilles Cervara, who coached Danil Medvedev in the past. The 20-year-old player took a set off 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic in the first round of the Australian Open in Melbourne in 2025. He climbed to a career-high number 99 on 23 June 2025 before reaching his first main draw debut at Wimbledon.
Justin Engel made a major breakthrough in 2025 on home soil when he beat his compatriot JaJan Lennard Struff at the ATP 500 tournament in Hamburg and reached the quarter-final in Stuttgart. The German teenager became the second youngest player since 1990 to win a Tour-level match on all three surfaces. Only Rafael Nadal achieved this feat at a younger age, when he was 17.
In October 2024, Engel beat Coleman Wong in straight sets to claim his first ATP main draw win, becoming the youngest player to achieve this feat since Carlos Alcaraz at the 2020 Rio Open and the first player born in the year 2007 to win an ATP match.
