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2023 is truly the year of America as three American tennis stars brought exclusive glory to the country. Yes, America’s three tennis players bagged the prestigious ESPN awards this season. These three tennis stars are the world’s number-three Coco Gauff, tennis’s rising star Ben Shelton, and America’s next Pete Sampras, Christopher Eubanks. This was a great moment for America as the country received great recognition in tennis with these three rising tennis stars.

Coco Gauff’s extraordinary tennis performance truly received much praise from the fraternity. Likewise, Ben Shelton’s debut Grand Slam performance also stole the show. Not to forget, Christopher Eubanks is admired as his fans think he will bring back America its forgotten Wimbledon glory. Now that these tennis players received such big recognition from ESPN, their fans are excited to see them acing the court in 2024.

America’s three rising tennis stars stirred up the expectations of fans with three prestigious ESPN Awards

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A reliable tennis source recently tweeted on their X (formerly Twitter) about Coco Gauff and Ben Shelton winning the “Breakthrough Players of the Year” award from ESPN. While Gauff didn’t bag any Grand Slam this season, she surely mesmerized the fans with her performance in both the French Open and the US Open. While Coco Gauff attained the position of the finalist in these two tournaments, she did equally well appearing as the semi-finalist and the third runner-up in the Australian Open and the Wimbledon 2023 respectively.

On the other hand, Ben Shelton who started his professional tennis adventure as a college tennis player for Florida Gators, bagged a quarter-finalist position in his debut Grand Slam event, the Australian Open 2023. Not to forget, in the same season, he also became the first runner-up for the French Open, second runner-up for the Wimbledon, and semi-finalist at the US Open. It was not a biased decision when Shelton received the same recognition as Coco Gauff.

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Shelton’s mate and colleague, Christopher Eubank’s performance in the four Grand Slam events this season was nothing less than majestic for his fans. While he didn’t win any, he bagged the second runner-up position at the Australian Open, first runner-up at the French Open, and quarter-finalist at the Wimbledon. He also stunned the fraternity by appearing second runner-up at the US Open. However, it was Eubanks’s great Wimbledon strokes that brought him the ESPN award.

Which tennis stars bagged the ESPN award for the “Best Tennis Player”?

While this season’s ESPN awards is all about America, Serbian tennis legend, Novak Djokovic became the “Best Tennis Player” of 2023. Now Djokovic’s ATP 2023 victory was a truly epic moment for tennis fans. At the age of thirty-six, he proved to be a legendary example of tennis’s elites. His win at the ESPN Awards 2023 was quite expected for the tennis fraternity.

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Nevertheless, Coco Gauff, Ben Shelton, and Christopher Eubanks’s victory brought America a promising way to start the 2024 season. If these three stars persist in performing in such a great way, they will surely make America proud again with their tennis skills.

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