Best Male Tennis Player ESPY Award

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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[1].

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Year Player Nation represented Other announced finalists[2]
1993 Jim Courier Flag of the United StatesUnited States
1994 Pete Sampras Flag of the United StatesUnited States
1995 Pete Sampras Flag of the United StatesUnited States
1996 Pete Sampras Flag of the United StatesUnited States
1997 Pete Sampras Flag of the United StatesUnited States
1998 Pete Sampras Flag of the United StatesUnited States
1999 Pete Sampras Flag of the United StatesUnited States Andre Agassi (Flag of the United States United States)

Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Flag of Russia Russia)

2000 Andre Agassi Flag of the United StatesUnited States Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Flag of Russia Russia)

Pete Sampras (Flag of the United States United States)

2001 Pete Sampras Flag of the United StatesUnited States Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Flag of Russia Russia)

Gustavo Kuerten (Flag of Brazil Brazil)


Marat Safin (Flag of Russia Russia)

2002 Lleyton Hewitt Flag of AustraliaAustralia Andre Agassi (Flag of the United StatesUnited States)

Gustavo Kuerten (Flag of Brazil Brazil)

2003 Andre Agassi Flag of the United StatesUnited States Juan Carlos Ferrero (Flag of Spain Spain)

Lleyton Hewitt (Flag of Australia Australia)


Pete Sampras (Flag of the United States United States

2004 Andy Roddick Flag of the United StatesUnited States Andre Agassi (Flag of the United States United States)

Roger Federer (Flag of Switzerland Switzerland)


Juan Carlos Ferrero (Flag of Spain Spain)

2005 Roger Federer Flag of SwitzerlandSwitzerland Rafael Nadal (Flag of Spain Spain)

Andy Roddick (Flag of the United States United States)


Marat Safin (Flag of Russia Russia)

2006 Roger Federer Flag of SwitzerlandSwitzerland James Blake (Flag of the United States United States)

Rafael Nadal (Flag of Spain Spain)


David Nalbandian (Flag of Argentina Argentina)

2007 Roger Federer Flag of SwitzerlandSwitzerland James Blake (Flag of the United States United States)

Rafael Nadal (Flag of Spain Spain)


Andy Roddick Flag of the United States United States)

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  1. ^ Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002.
  2. ^ For those iterations of the award for which online fan balloting was undertaken, the ESPN Select Nominating Committee presented three or four candidates.

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