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Federer, Murray, Nadal, Wawrinka nominated for Sportsmanship award
Welcome to the 2016 ATP World Tour Awards Presented by Moët & Chandon, where we recognise outstanding players and tournaments. View the nominees for the player-voted categories, and cast your votes now for ATPWorldTour.com Fans' Favourite presented by Moët & Chandon.
Voted By Fans
ATPWorldTour.com Fans' Favourite presented by Moët & Chandon (Singles, Doubles): The singles player and doubles team receiving the highest number of votes from ATPWorldTour.com fans from now through 7 November.
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Determined By Emirates ATP Rankings
ATP World Tour No. 1 Presented by Emirates: The player who ends the year as World No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Rankings.
ATP World Tour No. 1 Doubles Team Presented by Emirates: The team that ends the year as World No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Team Rankings.
ATP Star Of Tomorrow Presented by Emirates: The youngest player in the Top 100 of the Emirates ATP Rankings as of 7 November 2016.
Voted By Players
Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award: The player who, throughout the year, conducted himself at the highest level of professionalism and integrity, who competed with his fellow players with the utmost spirit of fairness and who promot¬ed the game through his off-court activities.
Roger Federer
Andy Murray
Rafael Nadal
Stan Wawrinka
Most Improved Player of the Year: The player who reached a significantly higher Emirates ATP Ranking by year’s end and who demonstrated an increasingly improved level of performance through the year.
Daniel Evans
Lucas Pouille
Dominic Thiem
Alexander Zverev
Comeback Player of the Year: The player who has overcome serious injury in re-establishing himself as one of the top players on the ATP World Tour.
Julien Benneteau
Juan Martin del Potro
Ivo Karlovic
Florian Mayer
Tournaments of the Year: The tournament in its category that operated at the highest level of professionalism and integrity and which provided the best conditions and atmosphere for participating players.
Categories:
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour 500
ATP World Tour 250
Note: Tournament awards will be announced in 2017
Voted By Coaches
(New for 2016) ATP Coach of the Year: Voted on by fellow ATP coach members, this award goes to the ATP coach who helped guide his players to a higher level of performance during the year.
Chosen By ATP
Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award: The person who has made outstanding humanitarian contributions. Previous winners include James Blake, Roger Federer, Carlos Moya, former South African President Nelson Mandela and Arthur Ashe.
Ron Bookman Media Excellence Award: The journalist who has made significant contributions to the game of tennis.

Past winner del Potro and trio of players aged 30-and-over nominated
The Comeback Player of the Year Award in the 2016 ATP World Tour Awards Presented by Moët & Chandon recognises those players who have overcome injury in re-establishing themselves as one of the top players on the ATP circuit. The winner, as selected by the players, will be announced ahead of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.
Julien Benneteau
The Frenchman finished 2014 at a career-high No. 25 Emirates ATP Ranking, but dropped to No. 696 by January 2016 after undergoing abductor surgery and missing the last eight months of the 2015 season.
The All England Club, where he notched his first tour-level win since his comeback, provided the springboard for his rise back up the singles ranks. He climbed into the Top 200 by October, highlighted by quarter-final results in Metz and Los Cabos and a semi-final run at the Brest Challenger.
An outstanding doubles player, the 34-year-old Benneteau also enjoyed a strong comeback alongside countryman Edouard Roger-Vasselin. Over a four-tournament stretch, the pair reached the quarter-finals at Roland Garros, semi-finals at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia and Aegon Championships, before finishing runners-up to Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut in an all-French Wimbledon.
“It’s very special to be part of the Comeback Player of the Year category,” Benneteau said. “It’s always difficult to return at 100 per cent after a long break, especially when it’s later in one’s career so this means a lot to me.”
Juan Martin del Potro
The popular Argentine was previously voted by his peers as the Comeback Player of the Year in 2011 following a successful return from right wrist surgery. In 2013, the former World No. 4 finished back in the Top 10, only to be sidelined again – this time by a left wrist injury requiring multiple surgeries, causing him to drop outside the Top 1000 by the start of 2016.
Del Potro made his return in February at the Delray Beach Open and reached the semi-finals. He followed with a quarter-final result in Munich and semi-finals in Stuttgart, and quickly re-established himself as a force to be reckoned with on the sport’s biggest stages. In addition to ousting Stan Wawrinka at Wimbledon, del Potro beat World No. 1 Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal en route to a silver medal at the Rio Olympics, made the quarter-finals of the US Open and won his first tour-level title since 2014 at the If Stockholm Open, securing his return to the Top 50.
“I’m so happy to be nominated for this,” said the 28 year old. “It’s been a great season for me. I’ve been playing a lot of tournaments with great success. I got the silver medal in Rio, then made the quarter-finals in another Grand Slam. I think I deserve this gift, but all my colleagues also deserve it too. I am so happy just to be nominated.”
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Ivo Karlovic
At the age of 37, the towering Croat recovered from a left knee injury to notch his first multi-title season since winning his first three tour-level titles in 2007.
Karlovic missed the opening months of the season, returning in April to reach the TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open semi-finals. He made his biggest mark over the summer, when he secured titles on grass at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport and on hard court at the inaugural Abierto Mexicano Mifel in los Cabos. With the Newport crown, he became the oldest ATP World Tour singles champion since 1979.
Also over the summer, Karlovic reached the ATP World Tour 500 final at the Citi Open in Washington and set a US Open record with 61 aces in his first-round win.
“I’m really happy and honoured and grateful that I was nominated for this award,” said Karlovic. “It really means a lot to me because in the beginning of the year, for the first four months I was injured with my knee. It was hurting a lot. I had to do a lot of exercises, treatment and hard work. Especially now at my age, when every injury is huge, I didn’t know how it will all end up. To be able to do what I did after the injury this year, to be able to bounce back like this, was really unbelievable for me.”
Florian Mayer
After being sidelined close to two years due to a groin injury and a torn tendon in his right adductor, the 33 year old climbed from outside the Top 600 of the Emirates ATP Rankings in 2015 to the Top 60.
Mayer used success on home soil to spark his rise, qualifying into the tour-level events in Munich and Stuttgart, where he respectively reached the second round and quarter-finals, before claiming his biggest career title at the ATP World Tour 500 tournament in Halle. The former World No. 18 upset two Top 10 players, Kei Nishikori and Dominic Thiem, before defeating fellow German Alexander Zverev for the Gerry Weber Open title - his first since winning Bucharest in 2011.
In August, Mayer went on a 10-match winning run on the ATP Challenger Tour, claiming titles in Portoroz and Meerbusch, to rise to No. 58 going into the US Open.
“It was really a hard time for me, not playing tournaments and being injured,” he said. “I did a really nice comeback, being back to the Top 60, and I’m really happy about my performance in the past five months. It was a really nice and special feeling to win a big title at ATP World Tour 500 this year on grass in Germany.
“Tennis is getting so much faster and fitter every year, and it’s so hard to come back, especially if you have to come through the Challengers. The level of the game increases so much, and of course it was really helpful for me to win this big title with 500 points, so I can play the big events now.”

World No. 1 and No. 2 nominated for Sportsmanship and Comeback awards in 2017 ATP World Tour Awards Presented By Moët & Chandon

Welcome to the 2017 ATP World Tour Awards Presented by Moët & Chandon, where we recognise outstanding players and tournaments. View the nominees for the player-voted categories and cast your votes now for ATPWorldTour.com Fans' Favourite presented by Moët & Chandon.
World No. 1 Rafael Nadal and No. 2 Roger Federer are both up for two player-voted categories: the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award and Comeback Player of the Year. Federer has won the Sportsmanship award every year since 2004, with the exception of 2010, when the honours went to Nadal. Marin Cilic and Juan Martin del Potro round out the nominees in this category.
This year’s Comeback Player of the Year category features a total of six nominees. In addition to Nadal and Federer, who have combined to win the four Grand Slams and five Masters 1000 titles this season, the nominees include Kevin Anderson, Filip Krajinovic, Cedrik-Marcel Stebe and Janko Tipsarevic. Nadal claimed Comeback Player of the Year honours in 2013, and is the only player to have won each of the player-voted categories (2005 Most Improved, 2003 Newcomer of the Year).
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Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta, who broke into the Top 10 of the Emirates ATP Rankings this past September, and three #NextGenATP players – Alexander Zverev, Andrey Rublev and Denis Shapovalov – are the candidates in the running for Most Improved Player of the Year. Zverev, a winner of two Masters 1000 titles this season, and Umag titlist Rublev were the first two players to qualify for the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals, to be held from 7-11 November in Milan.
The 18-year-old Shapovalov is a leading contender for ATP Star Of Tomorrow Presented by Emirates, which is awarded to the youngest player to finish in the Top 100.* The World No. 50 made his big breakthrough this summer, when he reached the Coupe Rogers semi-finals on home soil, and followed with a US Open fourth-round run as a qualifier. His fellow Canadian, 17-year-old Felix Auger-Aliassime, also has a chance, but would need to lift his current No. 153 Emirates ATP Ranking into the Top 100 to edge Shapovalov.
Winners for the 2017 ATP World Tour Awards Presented by Moët & Chandon will be announced ahead of the Nitto ATP Finals.
Voted By Fans
ATPWorldTour.com Fans' Favourite presented by Moët & Chandon (Singles, Doubles): The singles player and doubles team receiving the highest number of votes from ATPWorldTour.com fans from now through 6 November.

Note: Fans' Favourite candidates are the Top 25 players in the Emirates ATP Race To London and Top 15 teams in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London as of 11 September 2017.
Determined By Emirates ATP Rankings
ATP World Tour No. 1 Presented by Emirates: The player who ends the year as World No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Rankings.
ATP World Tour No. 1 Doubles Team Presented by Emirates: The team that ends the year as World No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Team Rankings.
ATP Star Of Tomorrow Presented by Emirates: The youngest player in the Top 100 of the Emirates ATP Rankings as of 6 November 2017. *If two or more players in the Top 100 share the youngest birth year, the higher-ranked player wins the award.
Voted By Players
Comeback Player of the Year: The player who has overcome serious injury in re-establishing himself as one of the top players on the ATP World Tour.
Kevin Anderson
Roger Federer
Filip Krajinovic
Rafael Nadal
Cedrik-Marcel Stebe
Janko Tipsarevic
Most Improved Player of the Year: The player who reached a significantly higher Emirates ATP Ranking by year’s end and who demonstrated an increasingly improved level of performance through the year.
Pablo Carreno Busta
Andrey Rublev
Denis Shapovalov
Alexander Zverev
Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award: The player who, throughout the year, conducted himself at the highest level of professionalism and integrity, who competed with his fellow players with the utmost spirit of fairness and who promoted the game through his off-court activities.
Marin Cilic
Juan Martin del Potro
Roger Federer
Rafael Nadal
Tournaments of the Year: The tournament in its category that operated at the highest level of professionalism and integrity and which provided the best conditions and atmosphere for participating players.
Categories:
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour 500
ATP World Tour 250
Voted By Coaches
ATP Coach of the Year: Voted on by fellow ATP coach members, this award goes to the ATP coach who helped guide his players to a higher level of performance during the year. Nominees to be announced on 30 October.
Chosen By ATP
Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award: The person who has made outstanding humanitarian contributions. Previous winners include former South African President Nelson Mandela, Arthur Ashe, Federer, Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and 2016 recipient Cilic.
Ron Bookman Media Excellence Award: The journalist who has made significant contributions to the game of tennis.

The Most Improved Player of the Year Award in the 2017 ATP World Tour Awards Presented by Moët & Chandon recognises the player who reached a significantly higher Emirates ATP Ranking by year’s end and who demonstrated an increasingly improved level of performance through the year. The winner, as selected by the players, will be announced ahead of the Nitto ATP Finals.

Pablo Carreno Busta
“I’m very happy. I think that it’s been a very hard and long year, but to be nominated for this award, which I’ve already had the pleasure of winning, is very special and something that makes me very happy. But the other nominees are also players who deserve it, they’ve had a great year. I hope I can be close to winning it, or win it. Thank you everyone for your support!”

As one of nine Spaniards in the Top 100 of the Emirates ATP Rankings, Carreno Busta started to move out of the shadows of his celebrated compatriots Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer in 2017. Four years on from rising 650 places to break into the Top 100 for the first time — for which he received the 2013 ATP Most Improved Player of the Year award — the 26-year-old is enjoying a career-best season, including a Top 10 breakthrough.

Despite missing two months mid-season due to an abdomen injury, Carreno Busta jumped from a 2016 year-end finish of No. 30 to a career-high No. 10 (11 September), centred on a run to the US Open semi-finals (l. to Anderson) and the Roland Garros quarter-finals (l. to Nadal). He also captured his third ATP World Tour title at the Millennium Estoril Open (d. Muller) and finished as runner-up at the Rio Open presented by Claro (l. to Thiem).

Andrey Rublev
“I am happy to be nominated for this award. I thank my team for making it possible. I also thank my loyal fans worldwide. This gives me even more drive to continue my climb to the top.”
Among a new breed of Russian talent, 20-year-old Rublev soared from No. 156 in the Emirates ATP Rankings at the end of 2016 to a career-high No. 35 (9 October). The ascent of the #NextGenATP star included a Top 100 breakthrough on 26 June and his first ATP World Tour title in his first final at the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag (d. Lorenzi) the following month. The result saw him clear the Top 50 barrier.

This year, the former junior World No. 1 also became the youngest US Open quarter-finals since Andy Roddick in 2001, beating Grigor Dimitrov and David Goffin before losing to eventual champion Rafael Nadal. He will compete at the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan next month.

Denis Shapovalov
"My breakthrough moment this season has to be in Montreal. My whole life has changed from that experience... It really pushed me up in the [Emirates ATP] Rankings and gave me confidence that I can play against these top guys and that I belong here."

The charismatic #NextGenATP Canadian swept through the ITF Futures and ATP Challenger Tour in 2017 to make his presence felt at August’s Coupe Rogers in Montreal, when, as a wild card, he broke a number of records en route to becoming the youngest ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-finalist since the series started in 1990. In upsetting World No. 2 Rafael Nadal, Shapovalov became the youngest player to beat a Top 2 opponent (in a non-retirement finish), since Nadal defeated then No. 1-ranked Roger Federer in the 2004 Miami Open presented by Itau third round.

He then qualified and defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga en route to US Open fourth round (l. to Carreno Busta), making him the youngest player to reach that stage at a major since Marat Safin at 1998 Roland Garros. Shapovalov finished the 2016 season at No. 250 in the Emirates ATP Rankings and broke into the Top 100 on 14 August, then into the Top 50 for the first time on 23 October — the same day he clinched his place in the Next Gen ATP Finals field.

Alexander Zverev
”It’s awesome. It’s the second year that I’ve been nominated. Last year unfortunately I didn’t win it, but I think year I think I have a really good chance going from No. 24 to No. 4 in the world, maybe even finishing higher. There are a lot of other good players, but this year I feel like I really deserve it and hopefully the players can vote that way as well.”

Compiling a stellar 50+ match wins 2017 season, Zverev became the youngest player to win five or more titles in a calendar year since Novak Djokovic in 2007 and achieved a career-high No. 4 Emirates ATP Rankings on 11 September — the youngest Top 5 player since Djokovic on 8 October 2007. He also became the youngest player to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals since Juan Martin del Potro in 2008.

The 20-year-old German earned the biggest win of his career in May over then World No. 2 Djokovic to capture the Internazionali BNL d’Italia crown — making him the youngest Masters 1000 champion since 19-year-old Djokovic at 2007 Miami. Four months later he added the Coupe Rogers trophy to join Jo-Wilfried Tsonga as the second active player outside of the ‘Big Four’ to win two or more Masters 1000 titles. Zverev also lifted silverware at the Open Sud de France in Montpellier (d. Gasquet), the Citi Open in Washington, D.C. (d. Anderson) and the BMW Open by FWU in Munich (d. Pella), and reached a Grand Slam championship fourth round for the first time at Wimbledon (l. to Raonic).

"All of us did something very special, something that we can be very proud of"
The Comeback Player of the Year Award in the 2017 ATP World Tour Awards Presented by Moët & Chandon recognises those players who have overcome injury in re-establishing themselves as one of the top players on the ATP circuit. The winner, as selected by the players, will be announced ahead of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.
Kevin Anderson
Injuries derail many careers, and some players never can play their sport at the same level again. But not Anderson. Not because of an ankle operation last spring, a dental operation or a hip injury. Sure, a difficult 2016 health-wise set the South African back physically and literally at the beginning of this year — the right-hander did not play until Memphis and won his first match of the year in March. He didn’t earn victory No. 5 until May. But here we are, and Anderson has found arguably the best tennis of his life.
The University of Illinois product roared from as low as No. 80 in the Emirates ATP Rankings in January back into the Top 20 after advancing to the final of the US Open. It was Anderson’s first Grand Slam final, and not only that, he had made just one previous quarter-final at a major. Other strong results throughout the summer, including a runner-up finish at the Citi Open and a quarter-final appearance at the Coupe Rogers, put Anderson from nearly falling out of the Top 100 right into the mix for one of the final two Nitto ATP Finals spots during the last tournament of the regular season, the Rolex Paris Masters.
“I feel very honoured to be recognised as one of the candidates for Comeback Player Of The Year,” Anderson said. “I've worked really hard and had to face and overcome many challenges. My congratulations to everybody else also nominated who all have done incredible well.”
Roger Federer
The 36-year-old Swiss defies convention. It can take months if not years to retrieve form after missing time due to injury. Federer fell to a year-end ranking of No. 16 in 2016 after playing his final match of the season in a semi-final loss at Wimbledon against Milos Raonic. Considering he had placed outside of the Top 3 just once in the 13 years before that, it was a shock. Entering the Australian Open as the No. 17 seed felt significantly abnormal, too.
Federer quickly corrected that, winning the first three ‘Big Titles’ of 2017 at the Australian Open, the BNP Paribas Open and the Miami Open presented by Itau to soar from No. 17 to No. 4 by the beginning of April. Since then, he has won Wimbledon, risen to No. 2, clinched his spot in the Nitto ATP Finals and claimed yet another ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title in Shanghai. Perhaps most astonishing has been his performance against his chief rival in Rafael Nadal. Federer has turned the tide in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series, winning all four meetings this year. Getting seeded No. 17 in Melbourne seems like it happened years ago, but Federer is indeed back and possibly better than ever.
“It feels very special. It’s always nice to be nominated for any award from the ATP, so this one’s different,” Federer said “Being out eight months of the year last year, it feels great to be back on the tour, number one. Being healthy again, being able to play again with the best and live basically my dream — this one I really appreciate. I know that everybody in that category who has been nominated for Comeback Player of the Year deserves it because all of us did something very special, something that we can be very proud of. So whoever is going to win it probably feels like the other one should have won it too. I feel that way as well and I’m just happy I was able to play a full year this year, which is great.”
Filip Krajinovic
Wrist and shoulder injuries limited Krajinovic to just five events after April last season. By the end of the year, he had fallen to as low as No. 237 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, and finished the year at No. 234. He had not won an ATP Challenger Tour title since August of 2015.
But after winning a tour-leading five ATP Challenger Tour titles this year, it is safe to say that Krajinovic has bounced back. If there’s any sign in particular that Krajinovic’s level is only improving, look at his performance at back-to-back Challenger Tour events from the end of September into October — the Serbian won both titles in Rome and Almaty, losing just 37 total games. That is an average of 3.7 games lost per match, not just per set. He then qualified for his first ATP World Tour main draw of the season, winning a match before losing a tight three-setter against eventual finalist Ricardas Berankis. The effort helped Krajinovic achieve his career-best ranking of No. 75 on 23 October, and he is set to continue his rise after reaching his first Masters 1000 quarter-final at the Rolex Paris Masters. The two-time junior Grand Slam semi-finalist took adversity, and used it to propel him to his best tennis yet.
“The last five months was amazing. I won so many matches and it gave me a lot of confidence,” Krajinovic said. “It's amazing to be one of these guys nominated for Comeback Player of the Year. Next to Nadal, Anderson and those guys, it's for me a dream come true after so many injuries that I had the last couple of years. For me this year was amazing. I won five ATP Challenger Tour titles. Now I'm starting to play ATP World Tour more. Now I have the ranking to play and compete with the big guys so everything is going well.”
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Rafael Nadal
Nadal endured a tough 2016, withdrawing from his beloved Roland Garros with a wrist injury, which also sidelined him at Wimbledon. Ongoing wrist issues saw him close out his season early after the Shanghai Rolex Masters. He finished the season with just 39 wins on the year (his lowest since 2004) and his lowest Emirates ATP Ranking of No. 9 since 2005.
It is safe to say that Nadal has done far more than ‘come back’ in 2017. He has roared back, winning two majors, two ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles (for a joint-record 30 overall) among six titles overall. For the fourth time Nadal clinched year-end No. 1 — nine years after he first accomplished the feat — and rewrote history books as the oldest player to finish a season as the ATP World Tour’s top player.
This past spring, he became the first player in the Open Era to win 10 titles at the same tournament. Even more impressively, he accomplished 'La Decima' not just once, but three times with his triumphs in Barcelona, Monte-Carlo and Roland Garros. The ferocious competitor maintained his momentum through the second half of the season, with back-to-back titles at the US Open and China Open, and reached a tour-best 10th final of the season in Shanghai.
“When you get an injury, then it seems like the season is a disaster. But the real disaster of last year was the injuries. Because the level of tennis, when I was playing after Indian Wells, was good in almost all the events, no?” said Nadal at the US Open. “Of course it’s difficult to imagine eight or nine months ago that [Roger and I would] be winning two Grand Slams each. But here we are, and just can say thanks to life for that opportunity. I think I did the right work. I believed on the work, on the diary work all the time. I still believe on these things to improve, and I wake up every morning with the passion to go on court and to try to improve things. Probably that's why I still have chances to compete in this sport and to do it well.”
Cedrik-Marcel Stebe
Stebe was No. 470 in the Emirates ATP Rankings at the beginning of the season. It had been just about three years since he had been inside the Top 200. Injuries plagued what looked like a promising career — he won the ATP Challenger Tour Finals in 2011 at the age of 21. But from hip impingement surgery to back problems and pelvic surgery to a stress fracture of his pubic bone, Stebe faced hurdle after hurdle.
Yet this season, the German has not just come back, but soared back inside the Top 100 thanks to a quarter-final run at the Banque Eric Sturdza Geneva Open as a lucky loser, three Challenger Tour trophies and not just his first Grand Slam main draw appearance since the 2013 Australian Open, but his first Slam victory since the 2012 US Open. Now, Stebe is up to No. 80 in the world, and nearing his career-high ranking of No. 71, which he achieved in 2012. The road back has been long and jagged, but Stebe is back on the rise.
“After still struggling in the first half of the season, I managed to turn it around in the second part with many good tournaments and wins in a very short period,” Stebe said. “After such a [great] season I’m extremely happy to be nominated for the Comeback Player Of The Year Award. The only thing that can top this now is if I win!”
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Janko Tipsarevic
For nearly two years, the Serbian found himself outside of the Top 300 in the Emirates ATP Rankings. That was certainly unfamiliar territory for a former Top 10 player who won four ATP World Tour titles and advanced to five more finals between 2011 and 2013 alone. But recurring foot problems kept the right-hander off the court for much of two years. So inevitably, Tipsarevic tumbled down the rankings. On 16 May 2016, he was No. 686 in the world.
A year later, Tipsarevic was No. 61, completing an astonishing 625-spot rise in just one year. He won the four ATP Challenger Tour titles he played this season, dropping just two sets over the course of four tournaments — that is 40 of 42 sets won. The 33-year-old reached as high as No. 58 in the rankings, showing that he is still capable of competing at a high level. But hamstring issues forced Tipsarevic to undergo surgery in late September, after only playing three events following Wimbledon. Tipsarevic says he is set to return in the first quarter of 2018.
“Privilege to be nominated,” Tipsarevic posted on Instagram. “Thanks @atpworldtour #keepdigging.”

Comeback Player of the Year:
The player who has overcome serious injury in re-establishing himself as one of the top players on the ATP World Tour.
Name
2016 Year-End Ranking
Current Ranking
Kevin Anderson
67
16
Roger Federer
16
2
Filip Krajinovic
234
77
Rafael Nadal
9
1
Cedrik-Marcel Stebe
470
78
Janko Tipsarevic
144
97

Swiss voted as winner of Comeback, Sportsmanship and Fans’ Favourite Awards

Roger Federer’s 2017 season has been recognised with three ATP World Tour Awards presented by Moët & Chandon. The 36-year-old takes his record tally to 36 awards since 2003.
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Federer has been selected by fans as ATPWorldTour.com Fans’ Favourite presented by Moët & Chandon for a 15th straight year, and voted by fellow players as the winner of the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award and Comeback Player of the Year.
This marks the 13th time and seventh year in a row that he has been recognised with the Sportsmanship Award – he also won it six straight years from 2004-09 – and the first time he has won the Comeback Award.
Federer started 2017 at No. 17 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, having missed the second half of 2016 to recuperate from knee surgery, and has risen to No. 2 in the Emirates ATP Rankings. He has claimed seven titles during his comeback campaign, including two Grand Slams (Australian Open, Wimbledon), three ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (Indian Wells, Miami, Shanghai) and a pair of ATP World Tour 500s (Halle, Basel).
The Swiss received his trophies during the Awards ceremony at the Nitto ATP Finals Official Launch Party, presented by Moët & Chandon, held Thursday evening at the Tower of London.
Federer has also won the ATP World Tour No. 1 presented by Emirates five times (2004-07, 2009) and the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award twice (2006, 2013).

Canadian chosen by fellow players after rise into the Top 50

#NextGenATP star Denis Shapovalov has been selected by peers as the Most Improved Player of the Year in the 2017 ATP World Tour Awards presented by Moët & Chandon. The 18-year-old claims the player-voted award over fellow nominees Alexander Zverev, Pablo Carreno Busta and Andrey Rublev.
Shapovalov started 2017 at No. 250 in the Emirates ATP Rankings before he went on to crack the Top 100 on 14 August and the Top 50 on 23 October.
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The Canadian has also been named the 2017 ATP Star of Tomorrow presented by Emirates, as the youngest player in the Top 100 of the Emirates ATP Rankings as of 6 November. Shapovalov, who is competing this week at the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan, will receive his trophies at The O2 during a special on-court presentation at the Nitto ATP Finals on Saturday, 18 November.
Shapovalov made an emphatic mark on the ATP World Tour in August when, as a wild card, he defeated Rafael Nadal and Juan Martin del Potro en route to the semi-finals of the Coupe Rogers in Montreal. It made him the youngest ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-finalist since the series started in 1990.
Backing up his run in Montreal, the lefty won through qualifying at the US Open and defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga en route to his maiden Grand Slam fourth round appearance (l. to Carreno Busta). He was the youngest player to reach that stage at a major since Marat Safin at 1998 Roland Garros.

Romanian receives award for his work with children’s education

Horia Tecau has been honoured with the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award in the 2017 ATP World Tour Awards presented by Moët & Chandon for his efforts in championing children’s rights and education in his home country of Romania.
The World No. 8 doubles player accepted the award at the Nitto ATP Finals Official Launch, presented by Moët & Chandon, on Thursday evening at the Tower of London. The 32-year-old, who says all children should have access to kindergarten and school, was earlier honoured in April when he became a national ambassador for UNICEF in Romania.
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“Horia Tecau is more than a world tennis champion, he is also a champion for the children. He has been campaigning for many years for children and their access to quality healthcare and education,” UNICEF representative in Romania, Sandie Blanchet, said at the time.
Tecau is teaming up with Jean-Julien Rojer in his third Nitto ATP Finals this week, and won the season finale title with the Dutchman in 2015.

South African recognised after guiding Anderson to first major final

Neville Godwin, Kevin Anderson’s coach for four years, has been chosen by his peers as the winner of Coach of the Year in the 2017 ATP World Tour Awards presented by Moët & Chandon. The award, which was introduced in 2016, honours the coach who helped guide their player to a higher level of performance during the season.
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“I’m honoured to receive this award, especially since it was voted for by only my fellow coaches,” Godwin said in an acceptance speech shown Thursday night at the Nitto ATP Finals Official Launch on Thursday evening at the Tower of London.
“There were so many amazing stories on the tour this year, and I’m privileged to have been a part of it.”
The 42-year-old South African, a former World No. 90 and winner of one ATP World Tour title (2001 Newport), guided his compatriot back into the Top 10 of the Emirates ATP Rankings and to his first Grand Slam final at this year’s US Open.