{"id":9483,"date":"2023-12-23T03:04:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T08:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/novak-djokovic-aryna-sabalenka-win-itf-world-champion-awards\/23\/12\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-12-23T03:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T08:04:05","slug":"novak-djokovic-aryna-sabalenka-win-itf-world-champion-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/novak-djokovic-aryna-sabalenka-win-itf-world-champion-awards\/23\/12\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic, Aryna Sabalenka win ITF World Champion awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>LONDON &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> were honored as the International Tennis Federation&#8217;s 2023 World Champions on Thursday after being the only singles players to reach at least the semifinals at all four Grand Slam tournaments this season.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39041083\/novak-djokovic-finishes-no-1-atp-rankings-record-8th\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">finished at No. 1 in the ATP rankings<\/a> for a record-extending eighth time, won the Australian Open, French Open and US Open to raise his major trophy total to a men&#8217;s-leading 24 and was the runner-up at Wimbledon. He went 56-7 and led the men&#8217;s tour with seven titles.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>This is his eighth ITF World Champion award, also a record.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka received the honor for the first time after winning the Australian Open for her first Grand Slam title, finishing as the runner-up at the US Open and making it to the semifinals at the French Open and Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>She made her debut at No. 1 in the WTA rankings in September before finishing the year at No. 2 behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Iga Swiatek<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39091505\/iga-swiatek-named-wta-player-year-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WTA Player of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other ITF World Champions included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Storm Hunter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Elise Mertens<\/a> in women&#8217;s doubles, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rajeev Ram<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joe Salisbury<\/a> in men&#8217;s doubles, Diede de Groot in the women&#8217;s wheelchair category, Alfie Hewett in the men&#8217;s wheelchair category, Niels Vink in the quad wheelchair category, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=13739\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alina Korneeva<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=11745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joao Fonseca<\/a> in the juniors categories.<\/p>\n<p>ITF World Champion selections place extra emphasis on Grand Slam events and ITF international team competitions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39113334\/novak-djokovic-aryna-sabalenka-win-itf-world-champion-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &mdash; Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka were honored as the International Tennis Federation&rsquo;s 2023 World Champions on Thursday after being the<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/novak-djokovic-aryna-sabalenka-win-itf-world-champion-awards\/23\/12\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[1059,2368,414,871,3669,865,1060,57,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9485,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483\/revisions\/9485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}