‘Well Deserved’ Daniil Medvedev, Ash Barty, Emma Raducanu nominated for 2022 Laureus World Sports Award
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Daniil Medvedev, Ash Barty, Emma Raducanu
Tennis stars Daniil Medvedev, Ash Barty, Emma Raducanu continue to reap the fruits of their hard work and success in the last season as they get nominated for the prestigious Laureus World Sports Award. In the nomination announcements made today, the three Grand Slam winners were also included for different categories.
All three players won Grand Slam competitions in the 2021 season and all of them broke several records with their respective wins. In the nominations announced, Barty has been nominated for the 2022 Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year Award. Medvedev and Raducanu will be competing against each other in the 2022 Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year Award.
Ash Barty’s 2021 season
Barty remained the World No. 1 throughout the 2021 season and won 5 titles throughout the season from the 6 finals she played in. Her biggest title came at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships, her first win in the All-England Club while her 2nd career Slam.
She won WTA-1000 titles in Miami and Cincinnati while winning tour titles in Adelaide and Stuttgart, claiming titles on all 3 surfaces. She also won the Bronze Medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the Mixed Doubles discipline along with partner John Peers. She was ranked the World No. 1 at the year-end rankings for the 3rd consecutive year.
Daniil Medvedev’s 2021 season
Daniil Medvedev continued to rise in stature during the 2021 season. The Russian no. 1 won 4 titles from 7 finals he contested in 2021 and also led Russia to its win at the 2021 ATP Cup and the 2021 Davis Cup Finals, widely known as the ‘World Cup of Tennis’, playing monumental roles during both the team victories.
Medvedev won his first Grand Slam title defeating World No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the 2021 US Open finals. He won the Toronto Masters and the Marseille Open while claiming his first career grass title at the Mallorca Championships. He also finished runner-up at the Australian Open, Paris Masters and the ATP Finals as well. Medvedev remained the World No. 2 throughout the 2021 season.
Emma Raducanu’s 2021 season
Emma Raducanu came into the limelight after her surprising run at the 2021 Wimbledon where she reached the 4th round while being ranked outside the Top-300 and in the process became the youngest British woman to reach the 4th round of the Slam. It required a medical difficulty to rule her out from the 4th round match or she could have gone further as well.
Having broken into the Top-200, the teenager reached New York for the 2021 US Open ranked 150th in the world and went on to write one of the biggest underdog stories in the sport when she won the Grand Slam becoming the first qualifier in the Open Era to win a major. The win saw her ranking jump 127 places and made her the highest-ranked British woman as she was into the Top-25 of WTA rankings.
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Sarthak Shitole
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