Awards
Dimitrov wins 2024 Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award
Bulgarian honoured on this 12 months’s ATP Awards
December 13, 2024
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By ATP Employees
Grigor Dimitrov has been chosen by fellow gamers because the winner of the 2024 Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award. A part of the ATP Awards, the honour recognises the Bulgarian’s honest play, professionalism and integrity on and off the court docket.
“I am simply very grateful, very grateful to all my followers, to all my colleagues, to everybody that has been such a assist all through all this time. I really feel very lucky,” Dimitrov stated. “Thanks all for this wonderful appreciation, and I will be certain to maintain on going and to maintain on striving to be the very best.”
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Dimitrov is the third consecutive first-time winner of the Sportsmanship Award, following Casper Ruud (2022) and Carlos Alcaraz (2023). From 2004-21, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal had been the one winners, with Federer honoured 13 occasions and Nadal tabbed on 5 events. Edberg received the award 5 occasions between 1988 and 1995, with the honour named after the Swede from 1996.
In the course of the 2024 season, Dimitrov posted a 46-18 file in accordance with the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index and received his ninth tour-level title in Brisbane. The 33-year-old reached three extra finals, on the Miami ATP Masters 1000 and in Marseille and Stockholm. He additionally superior to the quarter-finals at Roland Garros, the US Open and the Rolex Paris Masters.
Dimitrov completed the 12 months at No. 10 within the PIF ATP Rankings, his finest year-end rating since he closed the 2017 season at a profession excessive of World No. 3.
