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Casper Ruud has been selected by fellow players as the winner of the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award in the 2022 ATP Awards. It is the 23-year-old's first ATP Award and it comes after a breakout season in which he rose as high as World No. 2 in the Pepperstone ATP Rankings.

The award recognises the Norwegian's fair play, professionalism and integrity on and off the court.

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"A big thanks to everyone who voted for me for this year’s ATP Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award," said Ruud. "I feel very, very honoured and happy to win this prize this year. I will try to keep my mood in the right place for next year. Can’t wait to be back on court."

By winning the sportsmanship award, Ruud breaks the dominance of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, who combined to win it each year since 2004 — Federer 13 times and Nadal five, including each of the past four years. Ruud is also the award's first Scandinavian winner since Sweden's Edberg won it for a fifth time in 1995. The following year, it was renamed in his honour.

Call them the odd couple of ATP Officiating: Tom Barnes, the poker-faced former marine who would hold his own in a stare down with Clint Eastwood, and Thomas Karlberg, the mild-mannered softly spoken Swede. The career-long friends and colleagues were both honoured for their lifetime of service in December as part of the ATP Officiating department's year-end meetings in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

Barnes, who lives in Fresno, California, worked his last event at the 2021 Nitto ATP Finals. Karlberg stepped away after officiating in Basel in October this year.

At first glance, they seem as different as topspin and slice. But peel back the surface layer and you’ll find an underlying dichotomy that connects them.

"Tom is a very, very good friend,” Karlberg said. “He may scare most of the people around him, but that's just on the surface. If you look under his skin a little bit he is a golden-hearted person and very fun to be around."

Similarly, Barnes said that first impressions of the genial Karlberg don’t paint the full picture. “He’s probably the strongest one out of all of us even though he doesn’t look or act like he is,” Barnes said. “He’s a very strong character, critical thinker, friendly guy and good to be around.”

Andy Murray on Thursday was named the 2022 Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award recipient in recognition of his support for the humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.

Murray is the fourth player who has earned the award multiple times (also 2014), joining Andre Agassi, Roger Federer and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi.

The 35-year-old wrote an essay for ATPTour.com detailing the thought process behind his philanthropic efforts, what motivated him as a younger player to further involve himself with charity work and more.

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In February I was playing the tournament in Dubai and I remember watching the news and there were rumours about something happening between Russia and Ukraine.

The accolades for Carlos Alcaraz’s stunning 2022 breakthrough have come from far and wide. Now, his fellow players have taken the chance to acknowledge the 19-year-old’s remarkable rise to World No. 1 by voting the Spaniard as the Most Improved Player of the Year in the year-end ATP Awards.

"I’m really happy to receive this award, and I want to say thank you to all my colleagues who voted me as the Most Improved Player of the Year," said Alcaraz. "For me it’s an amazing achievement. This year has been a really good year for me, a dream year for me, and I’m looking to improve the year in 2023. Thank you very much."

Billed as a budding superstar on the heels of a strong finish to 2021 — one that saw him reach the US Open quarter-finals and later claim the Intesa Sanpaolo Next Gen ATP Finals title — Alcaraz had a lot to live up to this season. The Spaniard not only met those lofty expectations, he exceeded them in record time.

After winning the first of his five titles on the year at the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro to break into the Top 20, Alcaraz showed he could deliver on the game's biggest stages by winning his first ATP Masters 1000 title in Miami after a semi-final run in Indian Wells. He then brought the show to his home fans, claiming a Spanish trophy double in Barcelona and Madrid, beating Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev in succession in the latter event.

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After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the ATP Tour returns to Auckland from 9-15 January for the ASB Classic. Last held in 2020, the ATP 250 event will be headlined by World No. 3 Casper Ruud.

The Norwegian — who signed off on the 2022 ATP Tour season by reaching the Nitto ATP Finals title match — will lead the Auckland field, with Turin alternate and World No. 11 Holger Rune also set to compete. Former Nitto ATP Finals competitors Cameron Norrie and John Isner will also play for the title in Auckland, with Isner bidding for his third title at the event after triumphs in 2010 and 2014.

Four Argentines are also among the direct entrants, with Top 30 players Diego Schwartzman and Francisco Cerundolo joined by Sebastian Baez and Pedro Cachin. Alexander Bublik, Jenson Brooksby, David Goffin and Fabio Fognini are among other players on the initial acceptance list.

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Former Champ Rublev, Home Favourite Kyrgios In Adelaide
Andrey Rublev, winner of the inaugural Adelaide International 2 title in 2020, leads the field this year at the ATP 250. The World No. 8 reached the Turin semi-finals at the close of 2022, and will be eager to take that form to Australia in the new year.

Juan Carlos Ferrero has been voted Coach of the Year in the 2022 ATP Awards for his efforts in helping Carlos Alcaraz achieve a record-breaking season on Tour.

The 19-year-old Alcaraz became the first teenager and youngest player to finish No. 1 in the 50 editions of the year-end Pepperstone ATP Rankings following a standout season that saw him capture two ATP Masters 1000 titles and his maiden Grand Slam crown at the US Open.

What an amazing year it was for @juankiferri ? Excited to see what 2023 brings!#ATPAwards pic.twitter.com/gwP5u5Pbig

The Spaniard, who also won titles in Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona, finished the year holding a 57-13 record. Under the guidance of Ferrero, Alcaraz also made the biggest jump to year-end No. 1 in history, rising from No. 32 at the end of 2021.

"This year has been an amazing year," said Ferrero, upon his selection by fellow coaches as the ATP Award winner. "Gladly, all the hard work has been rewarded with results and now with this amazing prize. I’m extremely happy to win the ATP Coach of the Year award. Thank you all of you for the support."

The ATP Challenger Tour travelled far and wide to host tournaments every week this season. From the world’s largest cities, to intimate settings in remote areas, the Challenger circuit brought high-quality tennis to all corners of the globe.

This season finished with a record-setting 184 tournaments across 38 countries. While players work hard for points, prize money, and the chance of launching their career, tournament directors, supervisors, and volunteers also put in hard yards to run the events.

ATPTour.com reviews Challenger tournaments in Finland, Bosnia, Lithuania, South Korea, and Japan, where special milestones were celebrated this year.

In July, the Tampere Open, which is the longest-running event on the Challenger Tour, became the first tournament to celebrate its 40-year anniversary.

Netflix on Wednesday released a teaser for Break Point, the upcoming tennis series created by the team behind F1: Drive To Survive. The series will premiere on 13 January.

“I think it’s going to make a great show, and I think we gave them some good content,” Felix Auger-Aliassime said. “For me the main goal is that it can help tennis. It can help tennis overall. That would be amazing if we could see a rise in the number of fans and attention for our sport by airing this series.”

The show follows some of the best players in the world on both the ATP Tour and the Hologic WTA Tour throughout the 2022 season to give fans an insightful look into their lives on and off the court.

“It’s great for the game, moving the game forward,” Frances Tiafoe said. “I’m happy I was part of it and some other guys got a chance to be part of it as well.”

As some of tennis’ legends reach the twilight of their careers, this is the chance for a new generation to claim the spotlight. Break Point gets up close and personal with these players over a year competing across the globe.

After missing a year due to a shoulder injury, Borna Coric’s determination to rediscover his best tennis became one of the 2022 ATP Tour season’s most inspirational storylines. The Croatian’s achievements after overcoming adversity have now been recognised by his fellow players, who have voted Coric as the Comeback Player of the Year in the 2022 ATP Awards.

“I’m super happy to win the ATP Comeback Player of the Year award,” said Coric. “Obviously it does mean a lot to me after a very, very hard season, and after my shoulder surgery. So all I can say is thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. It does mean a lot to me and obviously I hope that my next season is going to be even better.”

Since undergoing surgery in May 2021, Coric has had to spend between 30 and 90 minutes a day working on his right shoulder to maintain it. Considerable off-court commitment is necessary for the Croatian to even make it onto court, let alone to start winning matches on the ATP Tour.

That hasn’t stopped the 26-year-old from surging back up the Pepperstone ATP Rankings this year. Having dropped as low as No. 278 in May, Coric ended the season at No. 26.

After making his comeback at Indian Wells in March, Coric was understandably rusty. Yet an ATP Challenger Tour title won in Italy in June was a sign that he was starting to find his feet again, and the former World No. 12 then charged back into the ATP Tour winners’ circle in style at the Western & Southern Open in August.

ATPTour.com’s annual season-in-review series looks back at 2022’s best matches, biggest upsets, most dramatic comebacks and more.

From huge serving and defiant defence to rapid reactions and razor-sharp volleying, the ATP Tour’s doubles action offers non-stop intensity and excitement to fans around the world.

Despite playing a format where each point, game, set and match can be decided by the finest of margins, some pairs have found a way to consistently rise above the rest in 2022. Today, ATPTour.com looks at some of those best-performing teams from an action-packed season on the doubles circuit.

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Koolhof/Skupski Shine In First Year Together
Seven tour-level titles, a 56-19 match record, and the year-end No. 1 doubles crown. As first seasons playing together go, Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski could hardly have asked for more.

Continuing our annual season-in-review series, ATPTour.com revisits the biggest rivalries of 2022. Today we feature Daniil Medvedev vs. Nick Kyrgios.

Big serving, huge forehands and no shortage of outrageous shotmaking. There are few better spectacles on the ATP Tour than a free-hitting showdown between Daniil Medvedev and Nick Kyrgios.

After three years without a tour-level meeting, fans were treated to three installments of the Medvedev-Kyrgios rivalry in 2022. While Medvedev notched an impressive victory at the Australian Open, it was Kyrgios who secured bragging rights for the season with a pair of hard-fought wins on North American hard courts, in Montreal and at the US Open.

At the end of a year in which Medvedev rose to World No. 1 for the first time and a rejuvenated Kyrgios put together some of the best results of his career, ATPTour.com looks back on how one of the Tour’s blockbuster rivalries played out in 2022.

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Even with the on-court action wrapped for 2022, Holger Rune’s prodigious talent continues to be recognised. The 19-year-old Dane has been named Newcomer of the Year in the 2022 ATP Awards after a standout season that saw him claim three ATP Tour titles and reach the Top 10 of the Pepperstone ATP Rankings for the first time.

“I’m super happy that I’ve been awarded with Newcomer of the Year, this means a lot,” said Rune. “I’ve worked very hard the whole year to do as good as possible, and it’s really nice to see that my colleagues [voted for] me, so it means a lot. I just can’t wait for 2023, and it’s going to be hopefully another great year.” 

Can't wait to see what 2023 has in store ? @holgerrune2003 | #ATPAwards pic.twitter.com/3KKu4Zyt8Q

Two red-hot streaks of form defined a stunning 2022 season for Rune.

If a string of top-quality wins during the European clay-court season were a sign that the Dane had the game to compete with the very best on Tour, his late-season charge on indoor hard courts proved his ability to convert those attributes into title-winning performances against the very best in the world.

The inaugural edition of the United Cup promises plenty, given the exciting team line-ups that have been announced.

Several countries boast leading male and female players with a long history of shared success, and in many instances, they enjoy long associations and great relationships on and off the court.

We revisit moments when soon-to-be United Cup teammates have shone in tandem, and how this bodes well for their teams ahead of the 2023 event. 

A Decade On, Hewitt & Stosur Re-unite

Ten years ago, Lleyton Hewitt and Sam Stosur represented Australia in mixed doubles at the London 2012 Olympics.

Now, they will join forces once again – this time to co-captain Team Australia at the United Cup.

The impact of Roger Federer’s time as a professional tennis player was global. The ATP Tour great delighted packed crowds in stadiums around the world throughout his storied 24-year career, but the recently retired star was no less beloved in his home nation of Switzerland.

That was reflected as much on Sunday, when Federer was presented with a honorary prize at the 2022 Swiss Sports Awards. It was just the sixth time in the history of the prestigious annual event that the special award had been presented, and the first since 2009, a reflection of the impact that the 103-time tour-level titlist made with his on-court prowess.

“I couldn’t have been as successful as I have been throughout my career without all the help I have received over the years from my incredible fans, parents, wife and team,” wrote Federer via Instagram. “Thank you for the honorary Swiss Sports award.”

Among Federer’s career achievements were 310 weeks spent at World No. 1 in the Pepperstone ATP Rankings, including a record 237 consecutive weeks from 2 February 2004 until 18 August 2008, and 20 Grand Slam trophies. He played the final match of his professional career in September at the Laver Cup, where he represented Team Europe in a doubles rubber alongside long-time on-court rival and friend Rafael Nadal on an emotional night in London.

The inaugural edition of the United Cup may be more than two weeks away, but excitement for the impact of the new mixed team event is already building. Just ask Team Australia co-captain Sam Stosur.

“Having this event — men and women, ATP and WTA combined — when you’re really playing for something, you’re playing for your country, you’re playing for points, and obviously everything that goes along with that, I think it’s fantastic,” said nine-time WTA tour-level singles champion and former World No. 4 Stosur. “It’s a huge step forward for our sport, and now that it’s happening it can only get better and better.

“You never know where things could go from here on in, now that the first one [is happening] and everyone can experience it. Having both combined is just an awesome event, and I’m really looking forward to it.”

The 18-team United Cup will bring a host of the biggest stars from both the ATP Tour and WTA Tour together in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney for a groundbreaking start to the global tennis season. As a co-captain, Stosur is excited about the opportunity to take her place courtside to witness what some of the world's best male and female players have to offer, not least for her own Team Australia.

“I think it’s going to be an awesome experience, sitting out there watching Nick [Kyrgios] and Alex [de Minaur] and Ajla [Tomljanovic], and Zoe [Hives] or Maddy [Inglis], and whoever else is playing and whoever they’re against," said Stosur, who is now a full-time doubles player and will be a ‘playing captain’ for her country in Sydney. "There’s no better seat in the house, I’m sure it’s going to be super exciting.

Rafael Nadal's historic 2022 ATP Tour season has ended with the Spaniard treading yet more new ground — the 36-year-old has been voted as Fans’ Favourite for the first time in the ATP Awards.

Despite entering the year off the back of a five-month injury layoff, Nadal made his best start to an ATP Tour season by winning his first 20 matches in 2022. That run included lifting a record 21st Grand Slam crown at the Australian Open, and the Spaniard made it 22 major crowns with victory on the clay at Roland Garros in June.

“I am super happy to receive the Fans’ Favourite Award [in] 2022. It makes me feel great. I can’t thank you enough everyone for the support not only for this award, but at the same time for all the support that I receive in every single city and event around the world,” Nadal said. “That means everything to me, so I am very [much] looking forward to 2023 to share a lot of positive things again. See you soon!”

The fans love Rafa, and Rafa loves the fans ❤️@RafaelNadal | #ATPAwards pic.twitter.com/9ifu4Hwm4q

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After 11 months of weekly ATP Challenger Tour tournaments, a bow was put on the season which held historic moments.

Whether it was players launching their career, making a comeback, setting records for their home country, or graduating to Tour-level tournaments, ATPTour.com looks at five Challenger player storylines from 2022.

Jack Draper
Nobody finished the year with a better winning percentage on the Challenger Tour than Draper. The 20-year-old boasted a 24-4 Challenger match-winning record and collected a season-leading four Challenger titles (tied w/ Pedro Cachin): Forli-2, Forli-4, Forli-5, and Saint-Brieuc. At the Forli-5 Challenger, Draper fended off four match points in the final to defeat Swiss Alexander Ritschard.

Draper is the second-youngest player from Great Britain to win multiple Challenger titles, only behind the-then 18-year-old Andy Murray in 2005 (Aptos, Binghamton).

This week, ATPTour.com continues its annual season-in-review series, looking back at 2022’s best matches, biggest upsets, most dramatic comebacks and more. In this installment, we look back at Andrey Rublev and Stefanos Tsitsipas' rivalry in 2022. On Tuesday we will focus on Nick Kyrgios and Daniil Medvedev's rivalry.

Very little has separated Andrey Rublev and Stefanos Tsitsipas throughout their ATP Head2Head history, which the Greek Tsitsipas leads 6-5. Neither man has won more than two consecutive matchups in the series, with straight-sets wins a rarity.

That theme continued in 2022, when all three meetings went to a deciding set. Tsitsipas won the first two, in Madrid and Astana, before Rublev got the last laugh at the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin. ATPTour.com looks back at those matches as we put one of the season's best rivalries in the spotlight.

Mutua Madrid Open, QF, Tsitsipas d. Rublev 6-3, 2-6, 6-4
Less than a month after he successfully defended his Monte Carlo title, Tsitsipas made another deep clay-court run at the ATP Masters 1000 in Madrid. After he stormed into the quarter-finals without dropping a set and ripped through the opener against Rublev, the Greek met his first real resistance on the week as the match wore on.

The Tsitsipas serve was the standout shot in the opening set, as the fourth seed dropped just six points on his delivery, but Rublev's forehand did the heavy damage in set two. Neither man could pull away as they traded blows in the final set, and a tie-break seemed the likely outcome. But at 4-4, Tsitsipas produced a brilliant return game to edge ahead before serving out a hard-fought win.

The ATP and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) have announced the launch of the Accelerator Programme, a groundbreaking initiative designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring tennis players from 2023.

The programme will see playing opportunities at ATP Challenger Tour-level reserved for the world’s top junior players, creating an accelerated pathway into professional tennis. The new initiative supplements the 2023 Challenger Tour changes announced in September, which signal ATP’s long-term strategy for the circuit through significant prize money increases, a balanced calendar and an increase in total and premium playing opportunities.

The move comes as the ITF continues to develop more opportunities for players to progress through its pathway via the ITF World Tennis Tour on to the top level of the game.

Each player ranked in the Top 20 of the year-end ITF Junior Rankings will be granted up to eight Accelerator Spots at Challenger 50 or 75 tournaments the following season. These will be split between main draw (Top 10) and qualifying (Nos. 11-20), with players also eligible for two Accelerator Spots at M15 or M25 ITF World Tennis Tour events. Players ranked Nos. 21-30 in the year-end ITF Junior Rankings will be eligible for eight spots at M15 or M25 events.

Junior Grand Slam singles champions and finalists will also be eligible for the Accelerator Programme. Champions will receive the same allocation of main draw opportunities as the Top 10 group, while finalists will join players ranked Nos. 11-20 in receiving access into qualifying.

Below is the complete honour roll of the ATP Awards, dating back to the creation of the Association of Tennis Professionals in the early 1970s.

In addition to honouring a cavalcade of singles and doubles World No. 1s, the awards also pay tribute to the qualities of great sportsmanship (Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award), altruism (Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award) and to players who have captured the hearts of fans (Fans’ Favourite).

ATP No. 1 presented by Pepperstone
ATP Doubles No. 1 presented by Pepperstone
Comeback Player of the Year
Most Improved Player of the Year
Newcomer of the Year
Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award
Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award
ATP Coach of the Year
Tim Gullikson Career Coach Award
Fans' Favourite (singles)
Fans' Favourite (doubles)
ATP Masters 1000 Tournament of the Year
ATP 500 Tournament of the Year
ATP 250 Tournament of the Year
ATP Challenger Tournaments of the Year

ATP No. 1 presented by Pepperstone
2022 Carlos Alcaraz
2020-21 Novak Djokovic
2019 Rafael Nadal
2018 Novak Djokovic
2017 Rafael Nadal
2016 Andy Murray
2014-15 Novak Djokovic
2013 Rafael Nadal 
2011-12 Novak Djokovic
2010 Rafael Nadal
(formerly Player of the Year)
2009 Roger Federer
2008 Rafael Nadal
2004-07 Roger Federer
2003 Andy Roddick
2001-02 Lleyton Hewitt 
2000 Gustavo Kuerten
1999 Andre Agassi
1993-98 Pete Sampras
1992 Jim Courier
1990-91 Stefan Edberg
1989 Boris Becker
1988 Mats Wilander
1985-87 Ivan Lendl
1983-84 John McEnroe
1982 Jimmy Connors
1981 John McEnroe
1976-80 Bjorn Borg
1975 Arthur Ashe

ATP Doubles No. 1 presented by Pepperstone
2022 Wesley Koolhof & Neal Skupski
2021 Nikola Mektic & Mate Pavic
2020 Mate Pavic & Bruno Soares
2019 Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah
2018 Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic
2017 Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo
2016 Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares
2015 Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau
2010-14 Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan
(formerly Doubles Team of the Year)
2009 Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan
2008 Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic
2005-07 Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan
2004 Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor 
2003 Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan
2002 Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor 
2001 Jonas Bjorkman and Todd Woodbridge
2000 Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde
1999 Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes
1998 Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis
1995-97 Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde
1994 Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis
1993 Grant Connell and Patrick Galbraith
1992 Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde
1991 John Fitzgerald and Anders Jarryd
1990 Pieter Aldrich and Danie Visser
1988-89 Rick Leach and Jim Pugh
1987 Stefan Edberg and Anders Jarryd
1986 Hans Gildemeister and Andres Gomez
1985 Ken Flach and Robert Seguso
1983-84 Peter Fleming and John McEnroe
1982 Sherwood Stewart and Ferdi Taygan
1981 Peter Fleming and John McEnroe
1980 Bob Lutz and Stan Smith
1979 Peter Fleming and John McEnroe
1977-78 Bob Hewitt and Frew McMillan
1975-76 Brian Gottfried and Raul Ramirez