Carlos Alcaraz wins the 2023 Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award by the ATP Tour

Alcaraz beat Jannik Sinner, Hubert Hurkacz and Grigor Dimitrov to win the award.

Carlos Alcaraz wins the 2023 Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award by the ATP Tour

Carlos Alcaraz (Source: Tennis365)

Carlos Alcaraz has been awarded the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award by the ATP Tour for the 2023 season. This award is given to players who recognize that they showed integrity on the court and played tennis fairly throughout the year. Jannik Sinner, Hubert Hurkacz, Grigor Dimitrov, and Carlos Alcaraz were the players nominated to win this award, and the Spaniard beat the three of them to win the award. 

The voting is done by the other tennis players. Thus, Alcaraz’s colleagues decided that he was deserving of the award.

Alcaraz hardly gets involved in controversies and although he is often aggressive on the court, he never uses unfair means or any other ways to win his matches and is a very clean player. Thus, it was the right choice to give him the award. However, Sinner was also a strong contender to win it. 

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Talking about Alcaraz’s overall season, he aced it in 2023. He started off the 2023 season very well but was unfortunately unable to keep up the consistency by the end of the year. After losing to Daniil Medvedev in the semifinal of the US Open, he suffered a drip in his form. 

Despite being at the top of the rankings for a good amount of time, he was unable to become the year-end World No. 1 and lost the title to Novak Djokovic. However, he won the 2023 Wimbledon, which was a major achievement. 

Carlos Alcaraz reacts to winning the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award

The Spaniard said that he was pleased to win the award. The fact that his fellow tennis players chose him to win it makes it even more special, according to him.

Carlos Alcaraz
Carlos Alcaraz (Source: Forbes)
I’m so happy to win the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award. I’m especially happy that it’s an award chosen by my colleagues on the circuit. It means a lot to me, so thank you all very much.  
Alcaraz said to ATP in a video that they posted on Instagram.

The Spaniard will now take part in the 2024 Australian Open. He has already won the US Open and Wimbledon once each and is yet to win the French Open or Australian Open. He will look to win those two Grand Slams this year and his campaign begins on the 14th of January with the commencement of the hard court tournament, which also marks the beginning of the 2024 season. 

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