Roger Federer, the great swiss tennis player, was able to win to win three awards at ATP World Tour Awards presented by Moet & Chandon.
Federer has won 36 awards sinces 2003, the most by player. He’s won “ATPWorldTour.com Fans’ Favorite” for 15th straight year. He has also were able to win “Sportsmanship Award” as voted by his fellow players. He’s won sportsmanship award 13 times which was 7th consecutive award.
He grabbed “Comeback Player of The Year” award following a splendid 2017. Federer skipped the last 1 / 2 of 2016 after being struck by knee injury. Eventually, he dropped out of top 10 and was 17th seeded player at beginning of 2017. However, he managed to win 7 titles in 2017 including 2 grand slams, 3 ATP masters and 2 ATP World Tour 500s. Although he missed the whole clay season, but he was able to win Wimbledon, Shanghai Masters and Basel Open next. He’s stood a remarkable year in terms of achievements also.
Nadal would be a close call for “Comeback Player with the Year” too, however, his comeback, although phenomenal, wasn’t as crucial as Federer’s. He was 9th seeded at start of 2017, but ended the entire year as number 1 seeded player. sportsmanship award also had advantage in face to face against Nadal because he managed to win 4-0 in 4 encounters against Nadal this year.
His final amount of awards are given below
TITLES TOTAL AWARDS
ATPWorldTour.com Fans’ Favorite 15
Sportsmanship Award 13
World Number one Award 5
Comeback Player of year 2
Comeback Player of year 1
Meanwhile, Rafael Nafal won the “ATP World Tours No. 1” award because he too had a great year winning 2 grand slams including french open for that tenth serious amounts of us open. However, his head to head record against Federer wasn’t great at all.
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