# Best Male Tennis Player ESPY Award

The Best Male Tennis Player ESPY Award has been presented annually since 1993 to the professional male tennis player adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year.
Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.
Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the June previous. The award wasn't awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

## List of winners

| Year | Player | Nation represented | Other announced finalists |
| 1993 | Jim Courier | United States | |
| 1994 | Pete Sampras | United States | |
| 1995 | Pete Sampras (2) | United States | |
| 1996 | Pete Sampras (3) | United States | |
| 1997 | Pete Sampras (4) | United States | |
| 1998 | Pete Sampras (5) | United States | |
| 1999 | Pete Sampras (6) | United States | Andre Agassi ( United States) Yevgeny Kafelnikov ( Russia) |
| 2000 | Andre Agassi | United States | Yevgeny Kafelnikov ( Russia) Pete Sampras ( United States) |
| 2001 | Pete Sampras (7) | United States | Yevgeny Kafelnikov ( Russia) Gustavo Kuerten ( Brazil) Marat Safin ( Russia) |
| 2002 | Lleyton Hewitt | Australia | Andre Agassi ( United States) Gustavo Kuerten ( Brazil) |
| 2003 | Andre Agassi (2) | United States | Juan Carlos Ferrero ( Spain) Lleyton Hewitt ( Australia) Pete Sampras ( United States |
| 2004 | Andy Roddick | United States | Andre Agassi ( United States) Roger Federer ( Switzerland) Juan Carlos Ferrero ( Spain) |
| 2005 | Roger Federer | Switzerland | Rafael Nadal ( Spain) Andy Roddick ( United States) Marat Safin ( Russia) |
| 2006 | Roger Federer (2) | Switzerland | James Blake ( United States) Rafael Nadal ( Spain) David Nalbandian ( Argentina) |
| 2007 | Roger Federer (3) | Switzerland | James Blake ( United States) Rafael Nadal ( Spain) Andy Roddick United States) |
| 2008 | Roger Federer (4) | Switzerland | Novak Djokovic ( Serbia) Rafael Nadal ( Spain) |
| 2009 | Roger Federer (5) | Switzerland | Rafael Nadal ( Spain) |
| 2010 | Roger Federer (6) | Switzerland | Juan Martín del Potro ( Argentina) Rafael Nadal ( Spain) |
| 2011 | Rafael Nadal | Spain | Roger Federer ( Switzerland) Novak Djokovic ( Serbia) |
| 2012 | Novak Djokovic | Serbia | Roger Federer ( Switzerland) Rafael Nadal ( Spain) |
| 2013 | Novak Djokovic (2) | Serbia | Roger Federer ( Switzerland) Rafael Nadal ( Spain) Andy Murray ( United Kingdom) |
| 2014 | Rafael Nadal (2) | Spain | Novak Djokovic ( Serbia) Andy Murray ( United Kingdom) |
| 2015 | Novak Djokovic (3) | Serbia | Marin Cilic ( Croatia) Roger Federer ( Switzerland) Stan Wawrinka ( Switzerland) |
| 2016 | Novak Djokovic (4) | Serbia | Andy Murray ( United Kingdom) Roger Federer ( Switzerland) |
| 2017 | Roger Federer (7) | Switzerland | Andy Murray ( United Kingdom) Rafael Nadal ( Spain Stan Wawrinka ( Switzerland) |
| 2018 | Roger Federer (8) | Switzerland | Rafael Nadal ( Spain) Marin Cilic ( Croatia) |
| 2019 | Roger Federer (9) | Switzerland | Rafael Nadal ( Spain) Novak Djokovic ( Serbia) Stefanos Tsitsipas ( Greece) |
| 2020 | Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic | Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic | Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2021 | Novak Djokovic (5) | Serbia | Daniil Medvedev ( Russia) Rafael Nadal ( Spain) Dominic Thiem ( Austria) |
| 2022 | Rafael Nadal (3) | Spain | Carlos Alcaraz ( Spain) Dylan Alcott ( Australia) Félix Auger-Aliassime ( Canada) |
| 2023 | Novak Djokovic (6) | Serbia | Carlos Alcaraz ( Spain) Iga Swiatek ( Poland) Aryna Sabalenka ( Belarus) |

### Multiple winners

Roger Federer is the only male player to win the award eight and nine times. Pete Sampras, Federer, and Novak Djokovic are the only players to have won the award in consecutive seasons. Federer and Sampras have won the award six consecutive times, a record.
Players that are still active in Europe are highlighted in boldface.
Multiple Tennis Player of the Year :
| Player | Wins | Seasons |
| Roger Federer | 9 | 2005-10, 2017-19 |
| Pete Sampras | 7 | 1994-99, 2001 |
| Novak Djokovic | 6 | 2012-13, 2015–16, 2021, 2023 |
| Rafael Nadal | 3 | 2011, 2013, 2022 |
| Andre Agassi | 2 | 2000, 2003 |