Tristan Schoolkate’s second ATP Challenger crown of 2025 locations him on the verge of the highest 100, with the West Australian rising to a career-best world No.106 within the dwell rankings.
Ilkley, UK, 16 June 2025 | Jackson Mansell
Tristian Schoolkate kickstarted his grasscourt season with a bang after he emerged victorious on the Ilkley Challenger in Nice Britain.
Regardless of shedding a tense first-set tiebreak, the 23-year-old rallied to defeat native Jack Pinnington Jones 6-7(8) 6-4 6-3.
This was the recurring theme for Schoolkate all through the week, as he recorded his fourth come-from-behind victory of the match.
Schoolkate’s second ATP Challenger crown of 2025 locations him on the verge of the highest 100; because the dwell ATP rankings stand, Schoolkate sits at a career-high rating of world No.106.
“The extent is so shut and you’ll see that week in, week out,” Schoolkate informed atptour.com about how he hopes his consistency on the Challenger circuit can translate to tour stage.
“After I began taking part in Challengers, I keep in mind seeing [Tallon] Griekspoor and [Jack] Draper; they went on a tear on the Challenger Tour, and positive sufficient, now they’ve cemented themselves proper on the prime of the sport.”
This week’s most excellent performers embody:
Matt Ebden and Jordan Thompson: Of their first match collectively, Ebden and Thompson prevailed on the lawns of s-Hertogenbosch. Each Grand Slam champions and grass court docket weapons, the Aussie duo will try and proceed their profitable methods this week at Queen’s Membership.
Ellen Perez: Within the first ladies’s occasion on the Queen’s Membership in additional than 50 years, Ellen Perez superior to the semifinals alongside China’s Zhang Shuai and got here extraordinarily near the ultimate earlier than shedding 6-3 2-6 [11-9] to Anna Danilina and Diana Shnaider.
Lily Fairclough and Lily Taylor: The teenage pairing overturned a first-set deficit within the remaining to win an ITF W15 title in San Diego. For Taylor, it marked her first skilled ladies’s doubles title.
Gabriella Da Silva Fick and Ellen Micic: The pair constructed on their respective Australian Professional Tour kind in Guimaraes, Portugal. The highest two gamers on the Australian Professional Tour leaderboard in ladies’s doubles, the Aussie duo reached the semifinals on the ITF W50 match.
Moerani Bouzige: The 25-year-old progressed to his second singles remaining of the yr after a formidable week within the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo.
Matt Hulme and Kody Pearson: The highest seeds competed valiantly of their ITF M25 remaining in Wichita, United States. Hulme and Pearson didn’t drop a set of their three victories earlier than shedding two tight tiebreak units within the decider to Ozan Baris and Matthew Shearer.
Tahlia Kokkinis: The Australian teenager recorded one of the best skilled results of her profession on the ITF circuit, advancing to the semifinals of the W15 occasion in Monastir, Tunisia. After three straight-sets wins, she fell in three units to Frenchwoman Astrid Cirotte.
Alana Subasic: Every week after reaching a remaining on the W15 occasion in Kayseri, Turkiye, Subasic reached a singles semifinal on the identical venue, in addition to reaching the doubles semifinals. The 18-year-old has lifted her dwell rating inside the highest 900.
Stefan Vujic: Competing on the identical match as Subasic, Vujic reached the doubles semifinals of the concurrent males’s doubles occasion.
Jesse Delaney: The 26-year-old excelled on the M15 match in Harmon, Guam, reaching the semifinals in each singles and doubles. This included gaining bragging rights over brother Jake, defeating him within the males’s singles quarterfinals.
Adrian Arcon: The Tasmanian additionally reached the doubles semifinals in Guam, advancing to the primary males’s doubles semifinal of his profession.
Hayden Jones: The 18-year-old reached his first ITF males’s singles quarterfinal in three months, advancing to the ultimate eight in Monastir, Turkey. His marketing campaign included a straight-sets victory in opposition to fifth-seed Amr Elsayed.
Jennifer Ott: The 14-year-old Aussie gained the primary ITF junior singles title of her profession, on the J30 occasion in Noumea. She additionally scooped the doubles title.
Oliver Hancin: Like Ott, 14-year-old Hancin gained his first ITF junior singles titles, on the boys’ occasion on the J30 Noumea match.
Elena Manoj: It was additionally a primary ITF junior singles title for Manoj, the 16-year-old Aussie who gained 5 matches to prevail on the J30 match in Penang, Malaysia.
