Tennis evaluate of 2024: Jannik Sinner, Aryna Sabalenka and Jack Draper up for awards | Tennis Information

It is tennis award season time, so we sat Gigi Salmon, Tim Henman, Laura Robson and Jonathan Overend round a desk to debate who wins high honours in 2024.

There are six classes with winners from the ATP and WTA Excursions, so with out additional ado, let’s will get right down to handing out the prizes…

WTA Participant of the 12 months

Robson: Aryna Sabalenka: Successful Aussie Open, profitable US Open, you’ll be able to’t ask for way more.

Gigi: Sabalenka is year-end No 1 for a cause. She’s one of the best participant on this planet. She is glad on court docket and off court docket.

Henman: I agree with every part that has been stated… up to now!

Overend: It is Aryna Sabalenka – in fact it’s! Who else may there presumably be? The one different candidate may very well be Jasmine Paolini.

ATP Participant of the 12 months

Henman: Jannik Sinner profitable the Australian Open and US Open. It is his Grand Slam breakthrough and he is completed No 1 by fairly some margin.

Overend: The best way he acquired to No 1 after which consolidated his place. We’ll see extra of his rivalry with Carlos Alcaraz in 2025. Sinner is much and away high of the rating pile, not simply in Grand Slam achievements, however mopping up on the ATP Tour.

To do what he did in the summertime with every part that was happening in his life was very, very spectacular.

Gigi: I’ve additionally gone for Sinner however the clincher for me was how he dealt with himself in the summertime.

Robson: I’ve gone for Alcaraz purely primarily based on the summer time he had by profitable the French Open and Wimbledon. Then straight after that, he acquired to the Olympic ultimate and he was very near coming residence with a gold medal.

ATP Match of the 12 months

Overend: It was the Tokyo ultimate between Artur Fils and Ugo Humbert. Fils beat the No 1 seed Taylor Fritz, Ben Shelton and Holge Rune. He in some way performs the set of his life to win the title.

Robson: I will go Novak Djokovic and Alcaraz within the Olympic ultimate. It was one of the best best-of-three I’ve ever seen in my life. The spotlight reel was uncontrolled. Each of them had been crying on the identical time.

Henman: I will go for Daniel Evans and Karen Khachanov on the US Open. Evans had gained so few matches going into it. He was two units down after which simply refused to present in. He was 4-0 down within the fifth with treble break factors after which gained six video games in a row. It was the longest match in US Open historical past!

Gigi: I am going Alcaraz beating Sinner within the Beijing ultimate. They completely deliver out one of the best in one another.

WTA Match of the 12 months

Robson: I am going Paolini and Donna Vekic within the Wimbledon semi-final – a monster match! The opposite one was Iga Swiatek and Sabalenka within the Madrid ultimate.

Gigi: I’ve additionally gone for Swiatek and Sabalenka in Madrid. I used to be stood courtside for that and we simply stored one another considering ‘that is unimaginable, can it get even higher?’ However it stored getting higher. It was mind-blowing.

Henman: I like it when these rivalries develop in sport and that is why it was my selection as properly.

Overend: It was my selection as properly. I hope it is not, however I felt prefer it was the height of their rivalry.

ATP Level of the 12 months

Overend: I will provide you with a recreation when you could possibly have chosen any of the profitable photographs – the ridiculous recreation between Djokovic and Fritz within the Shanghai semi-final at 2-2.

Robson: I’ve gone Fritz and Alexander Zverev on the US Open. I feel it was the fourth recreation of the second set and it was a brutal level.

Henman: I’ve to go together with Sinner and Alcaraz from Miami. It regarded like an arcade recreation!

Gigi: I’ve gone for Hugo Gaston in Antwerp towards Alex de Minaur. It has been considered thousands and thousands of occasions.

WTA Level of the 12 months

Robson: I am going Karolina Muchova on the US Open – shot behind the again. I feel it was towards Katie Volynets.

Henman: Muchova is among the favorite gamers to observe. She has a lot selection, which is why I agree with you.

Gigi: I used to be alongside the strains of Muchova and Volynets. I simply hope Muchova stays match and wholesome.

Overend: We want extra Taylor Townsend in our dialogue. It was deep in her lengthy match that she performed towards Elena Rybakina in Miami. The defence she acquired into, then a lob adopted by a searing forehand winner.

ATP Shock of the yr

Henman: Jacob Fearnley. He is a high 100 participant now however I did not see it occurring for him that rapidly.

Overend: I believed this was the yr Zverev was going to interrupt his Grand Slam duck.

Robson: The Sinner medicine check. It is what everybody was speaking about on the US Open.

Gigi: It was the bees at Indian Wells!

WTA Shock of the yr

Overend: Jasmine Paolini. She was 30 within the yr after which gained Dubai, reached the ultimate of the French and Wimbledon, and gained Olympic doubles gold. Now she’s at a career-high No 4.

Gigi: Sure, identical! It is astonishing and I actually hope she continues her run in 2025.

Robson: Paolini is most improved however the shock for me is Lulu Solar making the quarter-finals at Wimbledon.

Henman: Sonay Kartal profitable a 250 and breaking the highest 100. I believed that was simply sensible!

Most improved participant

Henman: It is Jack Draper. I’ve no drawback in singing his praises. He was actually struggling final yr with accidents however he had a few good outcomes to complete 2023 however the way in which he is come via, profitable a tour title, first Grand Slam semi in New York.

Robson: Contemplating final summer time he missed that entire grass-court season. He was so gutted about it however we are able to now see what he is able to and he is been in a position to do it persistently as a result of he is wholesome, which has been an amazing signal and lengthy might that proceed.

Gigi: Jack Draper for me and he is such a stunning younger man.

Coach of the 12 months

Henman: I am going for ‘Trotters’ – James Trotman. He is put within the onerous yards when issues have not been going so properly. He is proven a smart head to ensure they transfer in the appropriate course.

Overend: For Jack to say ‘I like simply the one voice and that voice goes to be James Trotman’ – that claims rather a lot.

There may be stay tennis from the ATP Subsequent Gen Finals on the King Abdullah Sports activities Metropolis in Jeddah between 18-22 December, earlier than the 2025 United Cup from 2am on December 27 staged in Perth and Sydney.