As every year, the famous French newspaper L’Equipe honored the best athletes of the season, and in 2020 the award ceremony took place despite a year marked by the pandemic. According to the French newspaper, the male athlete of the year is Mercedes Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton, who won his seventh world championship this season.
He set more records that dominated from start to finish and eventually reached the level of world championship titles won by German legend Michael Schumacher. In second place, however, is tennis with the Spanish champion Rafael Nadal, who won only one tournament of great size in 2020, triumphed with his thirteenth title in Paris at Roland Garros and thus achieved Roger Federer in tennis history.
The two, now with twenty Grand Slam titles, are the players who have won the most Grand Slam titles in history ahead of Novak Djokovic, the world’s number one.
Rafael Nadal was ahead of NBA star LeBron James
A second place of prestige for Rafa Nadal, who has prevailed over none other than the NBA star and is considered one of the strongest basketball players in history, LeBron James.
This one in that unfortunate year with the pandemic that completely revolutionized the NBA season, forcing us to postpone the season in a certain way and then complete it. In a legendary year for the Los Angeles Lakers, after the death of a legend like Kobe Bryant, LeBron kept a promise he made earlier this year and brought the NBA title back to LA.
Hamilton, Nadal and LeBron James were probably the main players in this “strange” and certain season and Rafa is already working on getting it off to the best possible start in 2021 and perhaps overtaking it immediately and becoming the tennis player with the most titles in tennis history.
Already at the Australian Open 2021 in Australia, but especially at Roland Garros, Nadal will have the opportunity to surpass Federer and become a true legend of a sport like tennis.
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