Who are the 8 youngest players in top 100 of WTA Rankings? Andreeva, Mboko and Eala feature
Six teenagers will finish the 2025 tennis season in the top 100 of the WTA Rankings and two of them have managed to win WTA 1000 titles this campaign.
Mirra Andreeva, won two WTA 1000 trophies, and Victoria Mboko – who lifted won the Canadian Open title – were household names on the WTA Tour this year, but they are not the only rising stars.
The youngest players in the season-ending WTA Rankings in 2025.
8. Ella Seidel – 20 years and nine months
Having finished the 2024 season at No 140 in the WTA Rankings, the German currently sits at a career-high No 85 with her best performance coming at the Transylvania Open, the Korea Open and the Guangzhou Open as she reached the quarter-finals.
The 20-year-old also reached the fourth round of the Cincinnati Open, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro en route, having come through qualifying.
Her run in Korea in September helped her to crack the top 100 for the first time and she is all but assured of a direct entry into the 2026 Australian Open.
7. Alex Eala – 20 years and five months
The Filipina has notched up several “first” records as she is the first woman from the Philippines to reach the top 100 of the rankings and was also the first Filipino to win a Grand Slam singles match after reaching the second round of the US Open.
Eala was at No 147 at the start of 2025 and finished at No 50 with her best top-level performance coming at the Miami Open when she reached the semi-final after beating Grand Slam winners Jeļena Ostapenko, Madison Keys and Iga Swiatek.
The 2022 US Open girls’ champion also won her maiden WTA Challenger trophy as she won the Guadalajara 125 Open in Mexico in September, while she finished runner-up at the Eastbourne Open.
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6. Sara Bejlek – 19 years and nine months
The Czech teenager sits at No 76 in the year-end rankings after ending 2024 at No 142.
Bejlek won three WTA 125K tournaments this year and also won her maiden Grand Slam match with the big moment coming at the French Open. Her best run on the WTA Tour came at her home event, the Prague Open, where she reached her first-ever quarter-final.
5. Maya Joint – 19 years and six months
The Australian won two titles in 2025 as she beat Jaqueline Cristian in the final of the Rabat Grand Prix in May and the following month she defeated Eala in Eastbourne, having also beaten Emma Raducanu and Ons Jabeur in the UK event.
The 2024 season was already a big one for Joint as she jumped from No 730 at the start to No 119 and that trajectory continued this year as she finished at No 32.
Joint’s best Grand Slam performance came at the US Open as she reached the second round.
4. Victoria Mboko – 19 years and two months
From No 333 on January 6 to No 18 on November 10, the fairytale story of 2025 belonged to Mboko.
After winning five ITF titles from January to March, the Canadian youngster cracked the top 200 and she then made her top 100 debut in June on the back of making her Grand Slam debut at the French Open where she reached the third round.
But the big moment in her career came at the Canadian Open when she became only the second wildcard to win the title, defeating major champions Sofia Kenin, Coco Gauff and Elena Rybakina en route to the final. In the showpiece match she defeated four-time Slam winner and former world No 1 Naomi Osaka for her maiden title.
That earned her a surge into the top 30 and she then broke into the top 20 after winning her second top-level title at the Hong Kong Open.
3. Tereza Valentova – 18 years and eight months
Another rising star from the Czech Republic, Valentova won the 2024 French Open girls’ title and this year she made her Grand Slam debut at Roland Garros, reaching the second round.
The teenager finished runner-up at the Japan Women’s Open, won two WTA Challenger titles and three ITF tournaments with those results key to her jump from No 261 to No 56.
2. Mirra Andreeva – 18 years and six months
Andreeva has been a star of the WTA Tour for the best part of two seasons, but this was the year she truly put her mark on the circuit as she won two WTA 1000 titles.
The Russian won the Dubai Tennis Championship in February, beating Swiatek, Rybakina and Clara Tauson while in March she lifted the Indian Wells title after defeating world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the final.
The youngster reached a high of No 46 in 2023, last year she finished at No 16 and this year she ended at No 9 after peaking at No 5.
1. Iva Jovic – 17 years and 11 months
The American was the youngest title winner on the WTA Tour in 2025 as she lifted the Guadalajara Open trophy in September while she also tasted success at the Challenger level, winning the Ilkley Open.
The teenager reached the second round at the Australian Open, French Open and US Open while she lost her opener at Wimbledon.
