You can also vote for Sebastian Ofner and the doubles Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler.
After his farewell party and his farewell performance at the Erste Bank Open in the Wiener Stadthalle, retired tennis player Dominic Thiem could soon receive another award. As the ATP officially announced on Monday, the Lower Austrian is among the nominees for the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award 2024. An award that the 31-year-old would undoubtedly deserve: Austria’s long-standing tennis figurehead demonstrated countless times in his Years as a professional his great fairness on the court. All winners of the ATP Awards 2024 will be announced in the week of December 9th.
Aside from Thiem, Carlos Alcaraz (Spain), Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria) and Casper Ruud (Norway) were also nominated for the ATP Award. In this case, Thiem’s fellow players make a decision about the awarding of the prize. The 17-time ATP title holder saw some of them again last week during a visit to the ATP Finals in Turin, where he, like Ivo Karlovic (Croatia), Joao Sousa (Portugal) and John Millman (Australia), said goodbye to retirement had been. However, Thiem is not putting the racket away completely yet: On December 9, 2024, he will contest a duel of tennis pensioners with a one-handed backhand against his ex-top ten colleague Richard Gasquet at the Open de Caen, an exhibition tournament in France .
ATP Fans’ Favorite Awards 2024: Vote now for Ofner and Erler/Miedler!
In contrast to the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award, at the ATP Award Fans’ Favorite, tennis fans vote online for their favorites of the coming tennis year. The best 100 individual players (plus protected ranking owners) and the 20 best doubles teams in 2024 are nominated here. So you can help Sebastian Ofner and the ÖTV Davis Cup parade doubles Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler win this award. You can vote on the ATP website until Wednesday, November 27th, 11:59 p.m. GMT (Thursday, November 28th, 12:59 a.m. CET).
