{"id":49297,"date":"2013-07-18T11:04:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T09:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=49297"},"modified":"2013-07-18T11:04:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T09:04:58","slug":"nole-wins-espy-best-male-tennis-player-award-for-second-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/events\/nole-wins-espy-best-male-tennis-player-award-for-second-straight-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole wins ESPY Best Male Tennis Player Award for second straight year!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ESPY<\/p>\n

Novak won the Best Male Tennis Player Award at the 21st ESPY Awards ceremony held in the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ESPY, short for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly, honors sports achievement in the past calendar year.<\/p>\n

The reigning world no.1 came out ahead over his biggest tennis rivals Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.<\/p>\n

He was also nominated for Best International Athlete (won by Usain Bolt).<\/p>\n

Last year, the 26-year-old Serbian star finished no.1 in the rankings for the second year in a row, winning 6 titles \u2013 the Australian Open, Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London, three ATP World Tour Masters 1000 trophies (Miami, Toronto, Shanghai) and Beijing (500).<\/p>\n

The award for Best Female Tennis Player went to Serena Williams.<\/p>\n

Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Novak won the Best Male Tennis Player Award for achievements in 2012. The Best Female Tennis Player is Serena Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":49282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[101010541,101010542,101010543],"class_list":["post-49297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-best-male-tennis-player-en","tag-espy-en","tag-espy-awards-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49298,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49297\/revisions\/49298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}