Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka win ITF World Champion awards for 2023

LONDON — Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka had been honored because the International Tennis Federation’s 2023 ITF World Champions on Thursday after being the one singles gamers to succeed in at the least the semifinals in any respect 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 lift 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 document.

Sabalenka obtained the honour for the primary time after successful 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 girls’s doubles, Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury in males’s doubles, Diede de Groot within the girls’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 choices place additional emphasis on Grand Slam occasions and ITF worldwide staff competitions.