Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award

The Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award has been presented annually since 1993 to the professional female tennis player adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year.

Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.

Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the June previous.[1] The award wasn't awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Starting in 2023, the Best Male Tennis Player ESPY Award and Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award were combined into one Best Tennis Player ESPY Award. The ESPY Award that year was presented to Novak Djokovic over finalists Carlos Alcaraz, Aryna Sabalenka, and Iga Świątek.

## List of winners

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Year  | Player  | Nation represented  | Other announced finalists[2]

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1993 | Monica Seles |  FR Yugoslavia |
1994 | Steffi Graf |  Germany  |
1995 | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario |  Spain  |
1996 | Steffi Graf (2)  |  Germany  |
1997 | Steffi Graf (3)  |  Germany  |
1998 | Martina Hingis |   Switzerland  |
1999 | Lindsay Davenport |  United States  | Martina Hingis (  Switzerland)
Venus Williams ( United States)
Serena Williams ( United States)
2000 | Lindsay Davenport (2)  |  United States  |
2001 | Venus Williams |  United States  | Lindsay Davenport ( United States)
Martina Hingis (  Switzerland)
Serena Williams ( United States)
2002 | Venus Williams (2)  |  United States  | Jennifer Capriati ( United States)
Serena Williams ( United States)
2003 | Serena Williams |  United States  | Jennifer Capriati ( United States)
Kim Clijsters ( Belgium)
Venus Williams ( United States)
2004 | Serena Williams (2)  |  United States  | Kim Clijsters ( Belgium)
Justine Henin-Hardenne ( Belgium)
2005 | Maria Sharapova |  Russia  | Lindsay Davenport ( United States)
Justine Henin-Hardenne ( Belgium)
Svetlana Kuznetsova ( Russia)
Serena Williams ( United States)
2006 | Venus Williams (3)  |  United States  | Kim Clijsters ( Belgium)
Justine Henin-Hardenne ( Belgium)
Amélie Mauresmo ( France)
2007 | Maria Sharapova (2)  |  Russia  | Justine Henin ( Belgium)
Jelena Janković ( Serbia)
Serena Williams ( United States)
2008 | Maria Sharapova (3)  |  Russia  | Justine Henin ( Belgium)
Ana Ivanovic ( Serbia)
2009 | Serena Williams (3)  |  United States  | Dinara Safina ( Russia)
Svetlana Kuznetsova ( Russia)
2010 | Serena Williams (4)  |  United States  | Venus Williams ( United States)
Kim Clijsters ( Belgium)
2011 | Serena Williams (5)  |  United States  | Kim Clijsters ( Belgium)
Li Na ( China)
Caroline Wozniacki ( Denmark)
2012 | Maria Sharapova (4)  |  Russia  | Victoria Azarenka ( Belarus)
Petra Kvitová ( Czech Republic)
Samantha Stosur ( Australia)
2013 | Serena Williams (6)  |  United States  | Victoria Azarenka ( Belarus)
Maria Sharapova ( Russia)
2014 | Maria Sharapova (5)  |  Russia  | Li Na ( China)
Agnieszka Radwańska ( Poland)
Serena Williams ( United States)
2015 | Serena Williams (7)  |  United States  | Simona Halep ( Romania)
Petra Kvitová ( Czech Republic)
Maria Sharapova ( Russia)
2016 | Serena Williams (8)  |  United States  | Flavia Pennetta ( Italy)
Garbiñe Muguruza ( Spain)
Angelique Kerber ( Germany)
2017 | Serena Williams (9)  |  United States  | Angelique Kerber ( Germany)
Jeļena Ostapenko ( Latvia)
Monica Puig ( United States)
2018 | Sloane Stephens |  United States  | Simona Halep ( Romania
Garbiñe Muguruza ( Spain)
Caroline Wozniacki ( Denmark)
2019 | Serena Williams (10)  |  United States  | Naomi Osaka ( Japan)
Simona Halep ( Romania)
Petra Kvitová ( Czech Republic)
2020 | Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 | Naomi Osaka |  Japan  | Victoria Azarenka ( Belarus)
Ashleigh Barty ( Australia)
Sofia Kenin ( United States)
2022 | Emma Raducanu |  United Kingdom  | Ashleigh Barty ( Australia)
Iga Świątek ( Poland)
Leylah Fernandez ( Canada)

## See also

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* List of sports awards honoring women
* Best Male Tennis Player ESPY Award
* List of WTA number one-ranked players
* WTA Player of the Year Award

## References

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1. ^ Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002.
2. ^ For those iterations of the award for which online fan balloting was undertaken, the ESPN Select Nominating Committee presented between three and five candidates.

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