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 now won 36 awards sinces 2003, the most by player. He’s won “ATPWorldTour.com Fans’ Favorite” for 15th straight year. He’s also was able to win “Sportsmanship Award” as voted by his fellow players. He has won sportsmanship award 13 times and this was 7th consecutive award.
He grabbed “Comeback Player with the Year” award following a splendid 2017. Federer skipped the past half of 2016 after being struck by knee injury. Eventually, he dropped away from top and it was 17th seeded player at start of 2017. However, he managed to win 7 titles in 2017 including 2 grand slams, 3 ATP masters and a pair of ATP World Tour 500s. Although he missed the whole clay season, but he was able to win Wimbledon, Shanghai Masters and Basel Open after that. He’s stood a remarkable year with regards to achievements also.
Nadal would be a close call for “Comeback Player from the Year” too, however, his comeback, although phenomenal, had not been as crucial as Federer’s. He was 9th seeded at start of 2017, but ended the season as # 1 seeded player. comeback of the year also had advantage in face to face against Nadal while he were able to win 4-0 in 4 encounters against Nadal this coming year.
His amount of awards are given below
TITLES TOTAL AWARDS
ATPWorldTour.com Fans’ Favorite 15
Sportsmanship Award 13
World Number 1 Award 5
Comeback Player of the season 2
Comeback Player of year 1
Meanwhile, Rafael Nafal won the “ATP World Tours No. 1” award as he too had a great year winning 2 grand slams including french open for that tenth serious amounts of us open. However, his face to face record against Federer was not good at all.
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