This is the final week of 2025 on the main tours for the Canadians, but the Canucks are going out with a bang. Between Félix Auger-Aliassime at the ATP Finals and Team Canada in the Billie Jean King Cup Play-Offs, there is plenty of CanCon to wrap up the 2025 season.
Here’s what you need to know.
What to Watch: Felix Qualifies for Turin, Billie Jean King Cup in Monterrey
It came down to quite literally the final day, but Félix Auger-Aliassime made it into the elite eight-player field at the ATP Finals for the second time in his career.
Having chosen to withdraw from Metz after putting himself into a qualifying position by reaching the Paris final, Auger-Aliassime had to watch the results in Athens to know if he would qualify for the year-end championships for the first time since 2022. He needed Lorenzo Musetti to not win the title in order to qualify and it was a near thing with the Italian reaching the final and taking the first set. But Novak Djokovic bailed out the Canadian, edging Musetti 7-5 in the third set to send Auger-Aliassime to Turin.
Ironically, both Auger-Aliassime and Musetti ended up in the ATP Finals field after Djokovic withdrew from the year-end championships.
The event is taking place this week. Auger-Aliassime is in the Bjorn Borg group with Jannik Sinner, Alexander Zverev, and Ben Shelton. He kicks off his campaign against Sinner on Monday. The top two players in each group will advance to the semifinals. When the Montrealer last competed at the ATP Finals, he went 1-2, finishing third in his group.
Canada’s Billie Jean King Cup team is back in action this week for the play-off round in Monterrey, Mexico. Victoria Mboko, Gabriela Dabrowski, Marina Stakusic, Carson Branstine, and Cadence Brace will don the red and white against Denmark and Mexico, looking to send Canada back to the qualifiers in 2026.
CLICK HERE for everything you need to know about the Billie Jean King Cup play-off round.
In Case You Missed It: Last Hurrah for Dabrowski and Routliffe
Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe were not able to secure a fairytale ending.
The US Open champions were looking for back-to-back titles at the WTA Finals last week but could not get out of the group stage. They opened with a win over Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider, but then lost their next two matches, in straight sets to Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend and in a match tiebreak to Timea Babos and Luisa Stefani. The second loss saw them finish third in the group, which was not good enough to advance.
On Monday morning, Dabrowski and Routliffe announced on social media that they were splitting up. They finished their two-and-a-half-year run with seven titles, including two US Open victories and a win at the 2024 WTA Finals.
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Under the Radar: Stakusic Building Momentum
Team Canada has every reason to be optimistic heading into the Billie Jean King Cup play-offs given the form of their players. Marina Stakusic has been on a tear in the final weeks of 2025, having reached finals in three of her last four events.
The 20-year-old backed up her ITF W100 title in Irapuato with her biggest final of the season at the WTA 125 event in Austin, Texas last week, taking out two of the top four seeds in the process. Stakusic upset No. 4 seed Caroline Dolehide in the first round and No. 1 Iva Jovic in the semis, reaching the final without dropping a set. There, she ran out of gas against third seed Renata Zarazua in three sets.
It was the second WTA 125 final of Stakusic’s career, having won in Tampico last October.
Photo : @marinastakusic
Team Canada was represented last week at the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup Juniors Finals in Santiago, Chile, but neither Canadian squad was able to make it out of the group stage. CLICK HERE to read about their results.
On home soil last week in Montreal, Canada has a sniff at a title when Duncan Chan reached the doubles final with American Daniel Milavsky at the ITF M25 event. However, they were edged out 10-6 in the match tiebreak in the final by top seeds Ben Jones and David Poljak.
CLICK HERE to read the full Montreal event recap.
The final professional event of 2025 in Canada, the Challenger Banque Nationale de Drummondville, is taking place this week.
As well as the last pro event, the final Canadian national championships are taking place this week in Vancouver, BC, the Birmingham National Wheelchair Tennis Championships.
You can follow the Canadians in action every week here.
Feature Photo : Corinne Dubreuil/ATP Tour
