The 2024 ESPY Awards will be held in Los Angeles, and a few tennis players will compete in one of the categories.
The ESPY Awards is an annual ceremony where athletes from various sports are honored for their excellence. The moniker ESPY stands for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award, which shows what the awards really represent.
This year, the mark of tennis players will be significant, as Serena Williams is set to host the event in Los Angeles. As always, there will be a few tennis players in the mix, as Coco Gauff, Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek, and Carlos Alcaraz are all nominated.
The 20-year-old American is nominated in the Best Athlete in Women’s Sports category alongside basketball player A’ja Wilson, Nelly Korda, who is a famous golfer and sister of tennis player Sebastian Korda, and famous WNBA player Caitlin Clark.
She’s also the only one nominated in a category other than the Best Tennis Player category, featuring the other three players mentioned. Besides Gauff, Djokovic, Alcaraz, and Swiatek are nominated in that category.