The International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced Novak Djokovic as the best tennis player in male competition. The same reward was given to Petra Kvitova as the best female tennis player. Mike and Bob Bryan or the Bryan brothers received the award for the best male doubles, and the best doubles female tennis players were announced KvÄ›ta Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik . The trophy’s will be given on 5th of June in Paris, on a ceremony which takes part during the Roland Garros tournament. During the past 12 months, the world number one tennis racquet Novak Djokovic proved that he really deserves this award.
“I am very pleased that I got this reward. Starting with the last years win on the Davis Cup in Serbia, the past 12 months were amazing. Since I was a little boy, my dream was to become world number one tennis player. But when you`ll win three Grand Slam tournaments and you will finish the year as a world number one tennis racquet on the ATP list, that feeling is really spectacular”, said Djokovic, who was not hiding the pleasure from the great year he had.
Petra Kvitova was very surprised. “This reward is like a cherry on the cake. I won Wimbledon, then the final tournament from the masters series, and in the end with the Tennis Representation from the Czech Republic we won the Fed Cup. With all these achievements, I went beyond my dreams, I will never forget this amazing year”. Congratulations to everybody, we are looking forward to the Australia Open 2012.