At this year’s ATP awards, we witnessed many new winners and some old-timers. Some first-time winners included Jenson Brooksby, 21, and the 26-year-old Mackenzie McDonald who won the Newcomer of the Year and Comeback Player of the Year respectively.
Some of the frequent winners included the World No.1 Novak Djokovic who got the ATP No. 1 award for the seventh time in his career. Rafael Nadal won the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship award for the fourth consecutive year and fifth time in total.
ATP Awards 2021: List of Winners
For the 19th year in a row, the Swiss has been voted Fans’ Favourite, giving him a total of 40 ATP Awards. Federer, who turned 40 in August, made his ATP Tour comeback in Doha this past March after following two arthroscopic right knee surgeries in 2020. He finished his 2021 season by reaching the Wimbledon quarter-finals.
| Awards | Winners |
| ATP No. 1 presented by FedEx | Novak Djokovic |
| ATP Doubles No. 1 presented by FedEx | Nikola Mektic & Mate Pavic |
| Comeback Player of the Year | Mackenzie McDonald |
| Most Improved Player of the Year | Aslan Karatsev |
| Newcomer of the Year | Jenson Brooksby |
| Stefan EdbergSportsmanship Award | Rafael Nadal |
| Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award | Marcus Daniell |
| Fans’ Favourite Award (Singles) | Roger Federer |
| Fans’ Favourite Award (Doubles) | Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut |
| Coach of the Year | Facundo Lugone |
| Ron Bookman Media Excellence Award | Prajwal Hegde |
| ATP Masters 1000 Tournament of the Year | BNP Paribas Open (Indian Wells) |
| ATP 500 Tournament of the Year | Erste Bank Open (Vienna) |
| ATP 250 Tournament of the Year | Qatar ExxonMobil Open (Doha) |
Prajwal Hegde has been Times of India’s tennis editor since 2005, and she was a national tennis player when she was younger. She began her career as a sports reporter for Mid-Day in Mumbai, covering a variety of sports such as tennis, cricket, and field hockey, before moving on to the Deccan Herald in Bangalore, where for nine years her concentration was towards tennis.
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