Despite only playing two tennis tournaments in 2011,
Serena Williams won the Best Female Tennis player at the 2011 ESPYs. She won the award over the 2011 Australian Open champ
Kim Clijsters, the 2011 French Open champ
Li Na, and World No. 1 since October 11 2010
Caroline Wozniacki (with the exception of the week she loaned it to Clijsters).
I'm guessing people are pumped about Williams' comeback and potential to dominate women's tennis again considering she won 2 slam tournaments before getting injured.
I'm not going to say I disagree with the results because women's tennis hasn't seen any dependable player to be on top of their game with the slams and the premier tournament titles being passed around by a variety of players. I'll admit I was leaning toward Li Na because of her wow major break through and wins- the Best Breakthrough Athlete went to Blake Griffin from the Los Angeles Clippers.
She was also nominated for Best Championship Performance for her 2010 Wimbledon win but it went to Tim Thomas for the Stanley Cup finals. Of course Rere's bottom shined:
The Best Male Tennis Player was
Rafael Nadal. He was also nominated for Best Male Athlete, that when to Dirk Nowitzki, of the NBA.
He won the best tennis player over
Novak Djokovic and
Roger Federer. I love Rafa butttttttttttttt... I think that Djokovic deserved this title. Nadal is yet to beat the Djoker this year-- only Federer has done that. I don't want to degrade Nadal's accomplishments but the man of the year is certainly the new No. 1 and Wimbledon champ- Novak.
Rafa wasn't as the ESPYs. He was out doing this:
Just kidding that was taken like two weeks ago....
Brooklyn Decker was there:
Maria Sharapova was there:
This year, nominees were officially announced during an ESPY nomination special airing at 8PM on June 24, 2011, followed by the 19th annual ESPY Awards ceremony which aired on ESPN live from Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 9PM ET.
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