Alexander Zverev already knows he will be the ATP’s No. 1 for 2026. He clinched the year-end top spot in October, and it becomes official when the final rankings of the season are published on 23 November. Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten are in the same position in doubles. Those are the only ATP Awards a ranking can settle. Every other award is decided by a vote: of fans, of coaches, of the players who use the tournaments, and, since 2025, of the men who have been world No. 1.
The awards date back to the founding of the ATP in the early 1970s. The winners are revealed over an Awards Week in December, after the Nitto ATP Finals, though some are settled or presented earlier.
The Categories and Who Decides Them
- ATP No. 1 (singles): the player who finishes the season at No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings. The award was formerly called Player of the Year. How the year-end top spot is decided is in our year-end No. 1 explainer.
- ATP Doubles No. 1: the team that finishes the season at No. 1 in the doubles team rankings.
- Fans’ Favorite (singles and doubles): voted by fans.
- Breakthrough of the Year: new in 2025. The International Tennis Writers’ Association (ITWA) votes for the nominees and the ATP No. 1 Club chooses the winner.
- Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award: ITWA nominates and, since 2025, the ATP No. 1 Club chooses the winner. ATP players voted for the winner before that.
- Coach of the Year: ATP coach members pick the nominees in a first round of voting, then vote for the winner. The award was added in 2016.
- Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award: chosen by the ATP. Ashe himself received it in 1992, and it has carried his name since 1999.
- Tournaments of the Year: voted by ATP players, with one award each for the Masters 1000, ATP 500 and ATP 250 levels, plus Standards of Excellence awards built from player surveys.
- Challenger Tournaments of the Year: since 2025, one for each level of the ATP Challenger Tour, from Challenger 50 to Challenger 175.
- Tim Gullikson Career Coach Award: not given every year. Its recent winners are Tony Roche (2019), Bob Brett (2020) and Jose Higueras (2023).
What Changed in 2025
Four categories were retired in 2025: Comeback Player of the Year, Most Improved Player of the Year, Newcomer of the Year and the Ron Bookman Media Excellence Award. Most Improved had been given since 1973, when Vijay Amritraj won it. In their last year, ITWA chose the nominees for Comeback and Most Improved and ATP players voted for the winners. Newcomer nominees were 19-year-olds who had reached the top 100 for the first time.
Breakthrough of the Year arrived the same season. It recognises “milestone wins, significant jumps in the PIF ATP Rankings and first ATP Tour titles”. There is no age limit, but the award is aimed at young players, the age group of the Next Gen ATP Finals. The 2025 nominees were Jack Draper, Joao Fonseca, Jakub Mensik and Valentin Vacherot, and Vacherot was the first winner.
The other change is the electorate. For the first time, the ATP No. 1 Club, the men who have held the top ranking, decided the Breakthrough and Sportsmanship awards. The club had 29 members in 2025. Zverev became the 30th when he reached No. 1 on 2 November 2026.
When the Awards Are Announced
The 2025 cycle ran in this order:
- 9 November: the Tournaments of the Year, the week before the Finals.
- 11 November: Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool clinched the doubles No. 1 spot in Turin.
- 14 November: Carlos Alcaraz was presented with the year-end No. 1 trophy at the Nitto ATP Finals, the day after he clinched it.
- 20 November: the nominees were published, with the Fans’ Favorite vote closing on 21 November.
- 8 to 12 December: Awards Week, with one or two winners revealed each day and the full list on 12 December.
The 2024 awards followed the same pattern: nominees on 25 November, a fan vote that ran through 27 November, and Awards Week from 9 December.
Fans’ Favorite
Fans vote for one singles player and one doubles team. In 2025 the ballot was open to active top-100 singles players and top-20 doubles teams in the rankings of 27 October, including players on a protected ranking who had played at least one tour-level match that year.
Roger Federer won the singles award 19 years in a row, from 2003 to 2021. Gustavo Kuerten won the first, in 2000, and Marat Safin the next two. Rafael Nadal won in 2022, and Jannik Sinner has won it three times running, from 2023 to 2025. “Winning the Fans’ Favorite award once again means the world to me, especially because of you guys,” Sinner said. In doubles, Bob and Mike Bryan won every year from 2005 to 2017. Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori won in 2024 and 2025, the first team since the Bryans to win back to back.
The Sportsmanship and Coaching Awards
The sportsmanship award has carried Stefan Edberg’s name since 1996. Edberg won it five times himself, in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992 and 1995. Federer holds the record with 13, and from 2004 to 2021 nobody but Federer and Nadal, with five, won it. Since then the winners have been Casper Ruud (2022), Alcaraz (2023), Grigor Dimitrov (2024) and Alcaraz again (2025).
Coach of the Year began with Magnus Norman in 2016. In 2025 Juan Carlos Ferrero, who shared it with Samuel Lopez for their work with Alcaraz, became the first coach to win it twice, after 2022. Ferrero said “it means a lot to me to have won it twice now.”
The 2025 Winners
- ATP No. 1: Carlos Alcaraz
- ATP Doubles No. 1: Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool, the first all-British year-end No. 1 team
- Fans’ Favorite: Jannik Sinner (singles); Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori (doubles)
- Breakthrough of the Year: Valentin Vacherot
- Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award: Carlos Alcaraz
- Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award: Andrey Rublev
- Coach of the Year: Juan Carlos Ferrero and Samuel Lopez
- Tournaments of the Year: Cincinnati Open (Masters 1000, its first win of the award), Doha (ATP 500), Bastad (ATP 250, its 13th win)
- Standards of Excellence: Shanghai (Masters 1000); Dubai and Barcelona (ATP 500); Kitzbuhel, Almaty and Stockholm (ATP 250)
- Challenger Tournaments of the Year: Bordeaux (175), Manama (125), Bloomfield Hills (100), Curitiba (75), Santa Cruz (50)
The Last Winners of the Retired Awards (2024)
- Comeback Player: Matteo Berrettini
- Most Improved Player: Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard
- Newcomer of the Year: Jakub Mensik
- Ron Bookman Media Excellence Award: Joan Solsona
The ATP Awards honour a single season. The sport’s career honour is a different process, explained in our guide to the Tennis Hall of Fame, and the full ranking rules are in our ATP rankings explainer.
Season Snapshot (as of 10 November 2026)
- ATP No. 1: Alexander Zverev clinched the 2026 year-end No. 1 ranking in October. He is the first German to finish a season at No. 1 and the 20th player to do so. It becomes official in the rankings of 23 November.
- ATP Doubles No. 1: Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten clinched it after the Paris Masters. Heliovaara is the first Finnish player in a year-end No. 1 team.
- Other 2026 awards: no nominees, fan vote or Tournaments of the Year have been announced yet.
- Nitto ATP Finals: 15 to 22 November in Turin.
This snapshot is dated and will change. The career record above does not.
