Best Male Tennis Player ESPY Award
Template:Use mdy dates The Best Male Tennis Player ESPY Award has been presented annually since 1993 to the professional male tennis player adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year.
Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.
Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the June previous.[1] The award wasn't awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Starting in 2023, the Best Male Tennis Player ESPY Award and Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award were combined into one Best Tennis Player ESPY Award. The ESPY Award that year was presented to Novak Djokovic over finalists Carlos Alcaraz, Aryna Sabalenka, and Iga Świątek.
List of winners
| Year | Player | Nation represented | Other announced finalists[2] |
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| 1993 | Jim Courier | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 1994 | Pete Sampras | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 1995 | Pete Sampras (2) | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 1996 | Pete Sampras (3) | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 1997 | Pete Sampras (4) | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 1998 | Pete Sampras (5) | Script error: No such module "flag". | |
| 1999 | Pete Sampras (6) | Script error: No such module "flag". | Andre Agassi (Template:Flagicon United States) Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2000 | Andre Agassi | Script error: No such module "flag". | Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Script error: No such module "flag".) Pete Sampras (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2001 | Pete Sampras (7) | Script error: No such module "flag". | Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Script error: No such module "flag".) Gustavo Kuerten (Script error: No such module "flag".) Marat Safin (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2002 | Lleyton Hewitt | Script error: No such module "flag". | Andre Agassi (Script error: No such module "flag".) Gustavo Kuerten (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2003 | Andre Agassi (2) | Script error: No such module "flag". | Juan Carlos Ferrero (Script error: No such module "flag".) Lleyton Hewitt (Script error: No such module "flag".) Pete Sampras (Script error: No such module "flag". |
| 2004 | Andy Roddick | Script error: No such module "flag". | Andre Agassi (Script error: No such module "flag".) Roger Federer (Script error: No such module "flag".) Juan Carlos Ferrero (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2005 | Roger Federer | Script error: No such module "flag". | Rafael Nadal (Script error: No such module "flag".) Andy Roddick (Script error: No such module "flag".) Marat Safin (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2006 | Roger Federer (2) | Script error: No such module "flag". | James Blake (Script error: No such module "flag".) Rafael Nadal (Script error: No such module "flag".) David Nalbandian (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2007 | Roger Federer (3) | Script error: No such module "flag". | James Blake (Script error: No such module "flag".) Rafael Nadal (Script error: No such module "flag".) Andy Roddick Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2008 | Roger Federer (4) | Script error: No such module "flag". | Novak Djokovic (Script error: No such module "flag".) Rafael Nadal (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2009 | Roger Federer (5) | Script error: No such module "flag". | Rafael Nadal (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2010 | Roger Federer (6) | Script error: No such module "flag". | Juan Martín del Potro (Script error: No such module "flag".) Rafael Nadal (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2011 | Rafael Nadal | Script error: No such module "flag". | Roger Federer (Script error: No such module "flag".) Novak Djokovic (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2012 | Novak Djokovic | Script error: No such module "flag". | Roger Federer (Script error: No such module "flag".) Rafael Nadal (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2013 | Novak Djokovic (2) | Script error: No such module "flag". | Roger Federer (Script error: No such module "flag".) Rafael Nadal (Script error: No such module "flag".) Andy Murray (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2014 | Rafael Nadal (2) | Script error: No such module "flag". | Novak Djokovic (Script error: No such module "flag".) Andy Murray (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2015 | Novak Djokovic (3) | Script error: No such module "flag". | Marin Cilic (Script error: No such module "flag".) Roger Federer (Script error: No such module "flag".) Stan Wawrinka (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2016 | Novak Djokovic (4) | Script error: No such module "flag". | Andy Murray (Script error: No such module "flag".) Roger Federer (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2017 | Roger Federer (7) | Script error: No such module "flag". | Andy Murray (Script error: No such module "flag".) Rafael Nadal (Script error: No such module "flag". Stan Wawrinka (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2018[3] | Roger Federer (8) | Script error: No such module "flag". | Rafael Nadal (Script error: No such module "flag".) Marin Cilic (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2019[4] | Roger Federer (9) | Script error: No such module "flag". | Rafael Nadal (Script error: No such module "flag".) Novak Djokovic (Script error: No such module "flag".) Stefanos Tsitsipas (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2020 | Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic | ||
| 2021 | Novak Djokovic (5) | Script error: No such module "flag". | Daniil Medvedev (Script error: No such module "flag".) Rafael Nadal (Script error: No such module "flag".) Dominic Thiem (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2022 | Rafael Nadal (3) | Script error: No such module "flag". | Carlos Alcaraz (Script error: No such module "flag".) Dylan Alcott (Script error: No such module "flag".) Félix Auger-Aliassime (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
| 2023 | Novak Djokovic (6)[5] | Script error: No such module "flag". | Carlos Alcaraz (Script error: No such module "flag".) Iga Swiatek (Script error: No such module "flag".) Aryna Sabalenka (Script error: No such module "flag".) |
Multiple winners
Roger Federer is the only male player to win the award eight and nine times. Pete Sampras, Federer, and Novak Djokovic are the only players to have won the award in consecutive seasons. Federer and Sampras have won the award six consecutive times, a record.
Players that are still active in Europe are highlighted in boldface.
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See also
- Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award
- ATP Player of the Year Award
- ITF World Champions
- World number one male tennis player rankings
References
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- ↑ Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance between February 2001 and June 2002.
- ↑ For those iterations of the award for which online fan balloting was undertaken, the ESPN Select Nominating Committee presented three or four candidates.
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