Best Male Tennis Player ESPY Award explained

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.

List of winners

YearPlayerNation representedOther announced finalists[2]
1993Jim Courier
1994Pete Sampras
1995Pete Sampras (2)
1996Pete Sampras (3)
1997Pete Sampras (4)
1998Pete Sampras (5)
1999Pete Sampras (6)Andre Agassi ( United States)
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
2000Andre AgassiYevgeny Kafelnikov
Pete Sampras
2001Pete Sampras (7)Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Gustavo Kuerten
Marat Safin
2002Lleyton HewittAndre Agassi
Gustavo Kuerten
2003Andre Agassi (2)Juan Carlos Ferrero
Lleyton Hewitt
Pete Sampras (
2004Andy RoddickAndre Agassi
Roger Federer
Juan Carlos Ferrero
2005Roger FedererRafael Nadal
Andy Roddick
Marat Safin
2006Roger Federer (2)James Blake
Rafael Nadal
David Nalbandian
2007Roger Federer (3)James Blake
Rafael Nadal
Andy Roddick)
2008Roger Federer (4)Novak Djokovic
Rafael Nadal
2009Roger Federer (5)Rafael Nadal
2010Roger Federer (6)Juan Martín del Potro
Rafael Nadal
2011Rafael NadalRoger Federer
Novak Djokovic
2012Novak DjokovicRoger Federer
Rafael Nadal
2013Novak Djokovic (2)Roger Federer
Rafael Nadal
Andy Murray
2014Rafael Nadal (2)Novak Djokovic
Andy Murray
2015Novak Djokovic (3)Marin Cilic
Roger Federer
Stan Wawrinka
2016Novak Djokovic (4)Andy Murray
Roger Federer
2017Roger Federer (7)Andy Murray
Rafael Nadal (
Stan Wawrinka
2018[3] Roger Federer (8)Rafael Nadal
Marin Cilic
2019[4] Roger Federer (9)Rafael Nadal
Novak Djokovic
Stefanos Tsitsipas
2020Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021Novak Djokovic (5)Daniil Medvedev
Rafael Nadal
Dominic Thiem
2022Rafael Nadal (3)Carlos Alcaraz
Dylan Alcott
Félix Auger-Aliassime
2023Novak Djokovic (6)[5] Carlos Alcaraz
Iga Swiatek
Aryna Sabalenka

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.

Wins! Seasons
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scope=row71994-99, 2001
scope=row62012-13, 2015-16, 2021, 2023
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See also

Notes and 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.
  3. Web site: ESPYS Voting: Best Play, Round 1: No. 1 vs. No. 16. 13 June 2019.
  4. Web site: ESPYS Voting: Best Play, Round 1: No. 1 vs. No. 16. 13 June 2019.
  5. Web site: 2023 ESPY Awards: Novak Djokovic Solidifies His Stature as the Tennis GOAT . sportsmanor.com . 14 July 2023 . 28 September 2023.