Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka have been named the 2023 ITF World Champions by the International Tennis Federation, having been the one singles gamers to achieve at the least the semifinals in all 4 Grand Slam tournaments this season.
Djokovic, who completed at No. 1 within the ATP rankings for a record-extending eighth time, gained the Australian Open, French Open and U.S. Open to boost his main trophy whole to a males’s-leading 24 and was the runner-up at Wimbledon. He went 56-7 and led the lads’s tour with seven titles.
This is his eighth ITF World Champion award, additionally a report.
Sabalenka acquired the dignity for the primary time after profitable the Australian Open for her first Grand Slam title, ending because the runner-up on the U.S. Open and making it to the semifinals on the French Open and
Wimbledon.
Sabalenka made her debut at No. 1 within the WTA rankings in September earlier than ending the yr at No. 2 behind Iga Swiatek, the WTA Player of the Year.
Other ITF World Champions included Storm Hunter and Elise Mertens in ladies’s doubles, Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury in males’s doubles, Diede de Groot within the ladies’s wheelchair class, Alfie Hewett within the males’s wheelchair class, Niels Vink within the quad wheelchair class, and Alina Korneeva and Joao Fonseca within the juniors classes.
ITF World Champion alternatives place additional emphasis on Grand Slam occasions and ITF worldwide staff competitions.
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