Andy Murray has conceded that his recent performances against Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer have been far from his best.
Advertisement
Notably, Federer was voted as the victor of Sportsmanship award by his fellow tennis players, crowning him for a fifth consecutive time, and for the 11th time overall.
Meanwhile 26-year-old Benoit Paire was honoured with the Comeback Player of the Year having climbed from outside the top 150 following an injury-hit 2014 to finish the year ranked 20th.
In a streak that began in 2004, Federer has won the award every year since, except for 2010 when rival Rafael Nadal found a way to beat him at something new.
Nadal, David Ferrer and Kevin Anderson were also nominated for the Stefan Edberg award this year but seemingly never had a chance when you look at Federer’s streak.
Bryan brothers- Mike and Bob clinched the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award for their off-court contributions. And once Edberg’s famed serve-and-volley skill and astute tactical mind suffused Federer’s tennis, so it proved to be. The Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award was previously known as the ATP Tour’s Sportsmanship Award, before it was renamed in in 1996 in the name of the Swiss player Stefan Edberg who won the award five times before retiring in in the same year.
Advertisement
Djokovic and Federer will be playing in the ATP World Tour Finals, starting Monday morning in London. Winning the Swedish Open in Bastad in July and toppling Kei Nishikori at the US Open were among his 2015 highlights. As the long-time chief tennis writer for The Age, she has since covered nearly 50 Majors, as well as four Davis Cup finals and multiple Olympic Games.
