ITF World Champion Awards: Rafael Nadal, a Spanish tennis player, has been named the Men’s International Tennis Federation (ITF) World Champion for the year 2022 for the fifth time. Previously, He has been named the men’s ITF World Champion in 2008, 2010, 2017 and 2019. Polish tennis player, Iga Świątek, has been named Women’s ITF World Champion 2022 for her performance in 2022 winning 2 Grand Slam titles and 8 titles.
The winners will be recognised at the annual ITF World Champions Awards ceremony, which will take place on July 8, 2023, at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum (UK). The event is usually held in Paris France.
December 2022 Current Affairs Quiz
ITF World Champion Awards is annually presented under 4 categories:
- ITF Singles World Champions
- ITF Doubles World Champions
- ITF Wheelchair World Champions
- ITF Junior World Champions
ITF Doubles World Champions 2022:
- After winning the title in 2018 and 2021, Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova have been awarded the ITF Women’s Doubles World Champions for the second year in a row and the third time overall.
- Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury have been named ITF Men’s Doubles World Champions for the 1st time.
- Japan’s Shingo Kunieda and Netherlands’ Diede de Groot were honoured in the men’s and women’s wheelchair categories
- At junior level, two-time Grand Slam boys’ singles runner-up Gilles Arnaud Bailly of Belgium has been rewarded for a season of consistent performances, while Roland Garros girls’ singles champion Lucie Havlickova of Czech Republic was crowned as ITF Girls World Champion.
