Nadal jokes after Ruud breaks 18-year Sportsmanship Award record: "No way"

Casper Ruud broke an 18-year dominance of Nadal and Federer over the sportsmanship award and Nadal joked about it in the accompanying ATP social media post.

Roger Federer dominated the Stefan Edberg sportsmanship award for many years as he won it multiple times. Rafael Nadal was the most dominant player in the past couple of years getting it done up until this year. In fact, the duo were the winner ever since 2004 but we have a new winner.

It's Casper Ruud as the Norwegian received the award this year. Nadal joked about that below ATP's social media post about the award. He wrote:

"No way!!! They don't know you!!! Many congrats, you deserve it 100%! Super happy for you!"

They spent two weeks recently playing multiple matches in South America so perhaps, Nadal has some inside knowledge.

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