Carlos Alcaraz has been selected as the winner of the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award 2025. The Spaniard wins the honor for the second time and continues to be praised for his exemplary behavior on and off the field.
The 22-year-old, who won the award for the first time in 2023, finished this season as ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF. In 2025 he won eight trophies, including two majors. Alcaraz posted a season record of 71-9 matches, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index.
One of Alcaraz’s most notable moments of sportsmanship came this year at Roland Garros, where he punished himself for a foul in his fourth-round match against Ben Shelton. Alcaraz went all out for a volley and seemed to hit a clear winner. The point was initially awarded to Alcaraz, but he immediately alerted the referee that he had lost grip on the racket mid-rack and made contact with the ball while it was no longer in his hand. Normally this meant the point belonged to Shelton. “I would have felt guilty if I hadn’t said anything about it,” Alcaraz said after the match.
Felix Auger-Aliassime and previous winners Grigor Dimitrov and Casper Ruud were also nominated in this category. The sportsmanship nominees were determined by a vote of the International Tennis Writers’ Association (ITWA), and for the first time the winner was chosen by a vote by members of the exclusive ATP No. 1 Club – the 29 current and former players who have reached world number 1.
Edberg won the sportsmanship award five times between 1988 and 1995, with the honor named after the Swede from 1996. From 2004 to 2021, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were the only winners, with Federer being honored thirteen times and Nadal five times.
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