Best Male Tennis Player ESPY Award

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].

Contents

List of winners

Year Player Nation represented Other announced finalists[2]
1993 Jim Courier  United States
1994 Pete Sampras  United States
1995 Pete Sampras (2)  United States
1996 Pete Sampras (3)  United States
1997 Pete Sampras (4)  United States
1998 Pete Sampras (5)  United States
1999 Pete Sampras (6)  United States Andre Agassi ( United States)

Yevgeny Kafelnikov ( Russia)

2000 Andre Agassi  United States Yevgeny Kafelnikov ( Russia)

Pete Sampras ( United States)

2001 Pete Sampras (7)  United States Yevgeny Kafelnikov ( Russia)

Gustavo Kuerten ( Brazil)


Marat Safin ( Russia)

2002 Lleyton Hewitt  Australia Andre Agassi ( United States)

Gustavo Kuerten ( Brazil)

2003 Andre Agassi (2)  United States Juan Carlos Ferrero ( Spain)

Lleyton Hewitt ( Australia)


Pete Sampras ( United States

2004 Andy Roddick  United States Andre Agassi ( United States)

Roger Federer ( Switzerland)


Juan Carlos Ferrero ( Spain)

2005 Roger Federer  Switzerland Rafael Nadal ( Spain)

Andy Roddick ( United States)


Marat Safin ( Russia)

2006 Roger Federer (2)  Switzerland James Blake ( United States)

Rafael Nadal ( Spain)


David Nalbandian ( Argentina)

2007 Roger Federer (3)  Switzerland James Blake ( United States)

Rafael Nadal ( Spain)


Andy Roddick  United States)

2008 Roger Federer (4)  Switzerland Novak Djokovic ( Serbia)

Rafael Nadal ( Spain)

2009 Roger Federer (5)  Switzerland

Rafael Nadal ( Spain)

2010 Roger Federer (6)  Switzerland Juan Martin del Potro ( Argentina)

Rafael Nadal ( Spain)

2011 Rafael Nadal  Spain Roger Federer ( Switzerland)

Novak Djokovic ( Serbia)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt 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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