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.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. 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 YearPlayerNation representedOther announced finalistsFor those iterations of the award for which online fan balloting was undertaken, the ESPN Select Nominating Committee presented between three and five candidates.1993Monica Seles1994Steffi Graf1995Arantxa Sánchez Vicario1996Steffi Graf (2)1997Steffi Graf (3)1998Martina Hingis1999Lindsay DavenportMartina Hingis () Venus Williams () Serena Williams ()2000Lindsay Davenport (2)2001Venus WilliamsLindsay Davenport () Martina Hingis () Serena Williams ()2002Venus Williams (2)Jennifer Capriati () Serena Williams ()2003Serena WilliamsJennifer Capriati () Kim Clijsters () Venus Williams ()2004Serena Williams (2)Kim Clijsters () Justine Henin-Hardenne ()2005Maria SharapovaLindsay Davenport () Justine Henin-Hardenne () Svetlana Kuznetsova () Serena Williams ()2006Venus Williams (3)Kim Clijsters () Justine Henin-Hardenne () Amélie Mauresmo ()2007Maria Sharapova (2)Justine Henin () Jelena Janković () Serena Williams ()2008Maria Sharapova (3)Justine Henin () Ana Ivanovic ()2009Serena Williams (3)Dinara Safina () Svetlana Kuznetsova ()2010Serena Williams (4)Venus Williams () Kim Clijsters ()2011Serena Williams (5)Kim Clijsters () Li Na () Caroline Wozniacki ()2012Maria Sharapova (4)Victoria Azarenka () Petra Kvitová () Samantha Stosur ()2013Serena Williams (6)Victoria Azarenka () Maria Sharapova ()2014Maria Sharapova (5)Li Na () Agnieszka Radwańska () Serena Williams ()2015Serena Williams (7)Simona Halep () Petra Kvitová () Maria Sharapova ()2016Serena Williams (8)Flavia Pennetta () Garbiñe Muguruza () Angelique Kerber ()2017Serena Williams (9)Angelique Kerber () Jeļena Ostapenko () Monica Puig ()2018Sloane StephensSimona Halep ( Garbiñe Muguruza () Caroline Wozniacki ()2019Serena Williams (10)Naomi Osaka () Simona Halep () Petra Kvitová () 2020Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic2021Naomi OsakaVictoria Azarenka () Ashleigh Barty () Sofia Kenin () 2022Emma RaducanuAshleigh Barty () Iga Świątek () Leylah Fernandez ()

Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award

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