Best Male Tennis Player ESPY Award

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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.

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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.

List of winners

YearPlayerNation representedOther announced finalists [2]
1993 Jim Courier Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
1994 Pete Sampras Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
1995 Pete Sampras (2)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
1996 Pete Sampras (3)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
1997 Pete Sampras (4)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
1998 Pete Sampras (5)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
1999 Pete Sampras (6)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Andre Agassi ( Flag of the United States.svg United States)
Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Flag of Russia.svg  Russia)
2000 Andre Agassi Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Flag of Russia.svg  Russia)
Pete Sampras (Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States)
2001 Pete Sampras (7)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Flag of Russia.svg  Russia)
Gustavo Kuerten (Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil)
Marat Safin (Flag of Russia.svg  Russia)
2002 Lleyton Hewitt Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Andre Agassi (Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States)
Gustavo Kuerten (Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil)
2003 Andre Agassi (2)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Juan Carlos Ferrero (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain)
Lleyton Hewitt (Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia)
Pete Sampras (Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
2004 Andy Roddick Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Andre Agassi (Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States)
Roger Federer (Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland)
Juan Carlos Ferrero (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain)
2005 Roger Federer Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland Rafael Nadal (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain)
Andy Roddick (Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States)
Marat Safin (Flag of Russia.svg  Russia)
2006 Roger Federer (2)Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland James Blake (Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States)
Rafael Nadal (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain)
David Nalbandian (Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina)
2007 Roger Federer (3)Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland James Blake (Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States)
Rafael Nadal (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain)
Andy Roddick Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States)
2008 Roger Federer (4)Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland Novak Djokovic (Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia)
Rafael Nadal (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain)
2009 Roger Federer (5)Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland Rafael Nadal (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain)
2010 Roger Federer (6)Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland Juan Martín del Potro (Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina)
Rafael Nadal (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain)
2011 Rafael Nadal Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Roger Federer (Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland)
Novak Djokovic (Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia)
2012 Novak Djokovic Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia Roger Federer (Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland)
Rafael Nadal (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain)
2013 Novak Djokovic (2)Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia Roger Federer (Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland)
Rafael Nadal (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain)
Andy Murray (Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom)
2014 Rafael Nadal (2)Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Novak Djokovic (Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia)
Andy Murray (Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom)
2015 Novak Djokovic (3)Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia Marin Cilic (Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia)
Roger Federer (Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland)
Stan Wawrinka (Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland)
2016 Novak Djokovic (4)Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia Andy Murray (Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom)
Roger Federer (Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland)
2017 Roger Federer (7)Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland Andy Murray (Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom)
Rafael Nadal (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Stan Wawrinka (Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland)
2018 [3] Roger Federer (8)Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland Rafael Nadal (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain)
Marin Cilic (Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia)
2019 [4] Roger Federer (9)Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland Rafael Nadal (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain)
Novak Djokovic (Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia)
Stefanos Tsitsipas (Flag of Greece.svg  Greece)
2020 Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Novak Djokovic (5)Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia Daniil Medvedev (Flag of Russia.svg  Russia)
Rafael Nadal (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain)
Dominic Thiem (Flag of Austria.svg  Austria)
2022 Rafael Nadal (3)Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Carlos Alcaraz (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain)
Dylan Alcott (Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia)
Félix Auger-Aliassime (Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada)
2023 Novak Djokovic (6) [5] Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia Carlos Alcaraz (Flag of Spain.svg  Spain)
Iga Swiatek (Flag of Poland.svg  Poland)
Aryna Sabalenka (Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus)

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.

See also

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References

  1. 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.
  2. 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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  4. "ESPYS Voting: Best Play, Round 1: No. 1 vs. No. 16". 13 June 2019.
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