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ATP Year-End Award Nominees Announced

The ATP has announced the nominees for its 2019 year-end awards, including Comeback Player of the Year, Most Improved Player of the Year, Newcomer of the Year and Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award.

Winners will be revealed in December.

In 2018 Novak Djokovic won the Comeback Player of the Year award, while Stefanos Tsitsipas won Most Improved Honors and Alex de Minaur won Newcome of the Year. Marian Vajda was voted Coach of the Year and Rafael Nadal won the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship award, snapping Roger Federer’s seven-year run as recipient.

Rafael Nadal has already locked up the ATP's year-end No.1 ranking, and Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah have earned doubles year-end No.1.

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 Tour.

Andy Murray
Andrey Rublev
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Stan Wawrinka

Most Improved Player of the Year: The player who reached a significantly higher ATP Ranking by year’s end and who demonstrated an increasingly improved level of performance through the year.

Felix Auger-Aliassime
Matteo Berrettini
Daniil Medvedev
Stefanos Tsitsipas

Newcomer of the Year: The #NextGenATP player who entered the Top 100 for the first time in 2019 and made the biggest impact on the ATP Tour this season.

Felix Auger-Aliassime
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Miomir Kecmanovic
Corentin Moutet
Alexei Popyrin
Casper Ruud
Jannik Sinner
Mikael Ymer

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.

Roger Federer
Rafael Nadal
Diego Schwartzman
Dominic Thiem

Voted By Coaches

ATP Coach of the Year: Nominated and 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 former South African President Nelson Mandela, Arthur Ashe, Federer, Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and 2018 recipient Tommy Robredo.

Ron Bookman Media Excellence Award: The journalist who has made significant contributions to the game of tennis.

Voted by Fans

The ATP Fans’ Favorite award is voted on by fans. Balloting closed November 18th. Roger Federer has won the award for singles player every year since 2003. The Bryans have won it as a team in every year since 2005, except for last year when Bob Bryan wasn’t eligible. Mike Bryan and Jack Sock won last year’s doubles Fans’ Favorite Award.

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