Sunbury’s Jin Woodman is the first Australian to win an International Tennis Federation Wheelchair Tennis Junior of the Year award.
Introduced by the ITF in January 2020, the awards recognises and honours the junior boy and girl, who demonstrates the values of commitment, consistency and sportsmanship whilst accomplishing impressive performance results throughout the year.
Woodman won three senior quad singles and three senior quad doubles titles during 2025, including his first ITF two singles title at the Toyota Open International de L’ile de Re and his first ITF 1 singles title at the Sardinia Open.
He also won his first ITF 2 doubles title in Ile de Re, while his first ITF 1 doubles title came at the Swiss Open Geneva.
He also contested his first senior Grand Slam quad singles draw at the Australian Open, winning his first senior Grand Slam singles match as he reached the quarter-finals.
Later in the year Woodman also reached the quad singles quarter-finals at the US Open after defeating world number four Ahmet Kaplan, while he won his opening doubles matches, too, at both Melbourne Park and New York, to reach his first senior Grand Slam doubles semi-finals.
Woodman finished the year ranked number eight in the world in quad singles having started the year at 20.
He also started and ended 2025 at number two in the Junior Boys’ Rankings, completing his season at the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Junior Masters in Florida.
“I am thrilled to receive the ITF Junior Boy of the Year Award 2025,” Woodman said.
“Thank you to the ITF for recognising my efforts, and for the support during the year with all the tournaments.
“I would like to thank the team at Tennis Australia, Maribyrnong Sports Academy and Hume Community Tennis, especially my coaches, including Tim Connelly, who always believes in me.
“I would also like to thank the players I’ve practised and competed with, which has helped me improve my game so much.
“Having several months off due to my femur injury made me reflect on just how much I loved and missed tennis and I was so happy to return in July.”
The award comes after Woodman shared Tennis Australia’s most outstanding athlete with a disability in December.
He told Star Weekly after winning that award, he’s hoping for a bigger 2026.
He’s hoping that 2026 will be even bigger.
“I’ve already qualified for the Australian Open and this time I’m hoping to go better than last year.
“I want to make at least three of the four slams, maybe all of them.
“Hopefully I can get to the top three in the world.”
