Milos Raonic is kicking off the new year with a new coach. The Canadian has brought on former World No. 4 and 1996 Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek to work alongside him in 2017.

“Today was my first practice with Richard Krajicek. It’s great to have Richard, alongside my team, for the upcoming season in my attempt to reach new and higher goals for 2017,” said Raonic in a post on his Instagram account. “I worked with Richard for a few days last year before the Australian Open and I’m sure with his experience and being a Wimbledon champion, [he] can help me reach my goals. I look forward to doing great things.”

Raonic worked with former World No. 1 and 1999 Roland Garros champion Carlos Moya during the 2016 season, jumping from No. 14 in the Emirates ATP Rankings to his current career-high standing of No. 3. His banner year included a semi-final showing at the season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, where he fell to eventual champion Andy Murray. In addition to reaching his first Grand Slam final at Wimbledon, Raonic also prevailed at the Brisbane International presented by Suncorp and finished runner-up at both the Aegon Championships and BNP Paribas Open. 

Krajicek is no stranger to coaching the world’s best players, having been hired by reigning US Open champion Stan Wawrinka for this year’s grass-court season. The Dutchman also serves as director of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam.

Raonic will open his 2017 campaign by defending his title in Brisbane on 1 January. Having reached the semi-finals at last year’s Australian Open, the Canadian will be aiming to start his season with a flourish Down Under.

Roger Federer won’t kick off his 2017 season for another two weeks, but he’s in familiar territory this month by advancing to the final of a different kind of draw.

The Swiss star is squaring off against Thor actor Tom Hiddleston to be crowned by GQ as 2016’s Most Stylish Man. Federer has so far cruised through the 64-person draw by defeating (in order) former One Direction member Zayn Malik, actor Ryan Gosling, actor Steven Yeun, rapper Kanye West and actor Jared Leto. 

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At age 35, Paolo Lorenzi showed no signs of slowing down this year. The Italian won his first ATP World Tour crown on the clay courts of Kitzbuhel in July, took a set off Andy Murray in the third round at the US Open in August and claimed two titles on the ATP Challenger Tour.

Last but certainly not least, the Rome native added “husband” to his 2016 titles, marrying Elisa Braccini on Saturday, 17 December in Siena, Italy. Congratulations to the happy couple!

Read 2016 First-Time Winner Spotlight: Paolo Lorenzi

Andy Murray put a bow on his dominant 2016 season on Sunday, taking home the BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) award. The Scot was honoured for a record third time, having previously won the award in 2013 and 2015.

Murray was named the British sportsperson of the year after completing a historic campaign on the ATP World Tour. The 29 year old became the first player from his country to ascend to No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Rankings and lift the trophy at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. He posted a 78-9 win-loss mark, also including titles at Wimbledon, the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events in Rome, Shanghai and Paris, and in London/Queen’s Club, Beijing and Vienna. Murray also successfully defended his gold medal at the Summer Olympics.

“Incredibly proud to win BBC Sports Personality Of The Year for a third time,” Murray posted on Facebook. “Thanks to everyone who voted for me, it really means a lot. It’s been an incredible year and it wouldn’t have been possible without the support of my team, family, friends and especially all of you, my fans… Here’s to 2017!”

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Andy Murray is the 2016 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

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— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) December 18, 2016

Murray accepted the award from British boxing legend Lennox Lewis at his training base in Miami, where he is preparing for the upcoming season. Andy’s mother Judy and Wimbledon hero Marcus Willis were in attendance at Birmingham’s Genting Arena.

The Dunblane native won the coveted award with 247,419 votes in total, with triathlete Alistair Brownlee coming in second and show jumper Nick Skelton third. Murray is the fourth different tennis player to win the award in its 63-year history, after Ann Jones in 1969, Virginia Wade in 1977 and Greg Rusedski in 1997.

Match Win-Loss Leaders
Brazil’s Rogerio Dutra Silva was the lone player to claim 50 match wins this year, but it was Yen-Hsun Lu earning the highest win percentage (min. 30 matches played).

Singles Title Leaders
Facundo Bagnis became just the third player to win six titles in a season, joining Younes El Aynaoui (1998) and Juan Ignacio Chela (2001).

#NextGen Winners (17)
Twelve different #NextGen stars accounted for a total of 17 Challenger titles this year, with Frances Tiafoe, Ernesto Escobedo, Hyeon Chung, Yoshihito Nishioka and Kyle Edmund winning multiple crowns. In 2016, #NextGen players were born 1995 or later and inside the Top 200 of the Emirates ATP Rankings.

Title Leaders By Country
Argentina claimed 20 titles this year, tying the record for most in a single season by a country.

Outside Top 400 Winners (5)
At World No. 762, Aussie teen Max Purcell became the second-lowest ranked Challenger winner since 2000 with his title in Gimcheon, South Korea.

ATP World Tour & ATP Challenger Tour Winners (4)
Four players lifted trophies on both the ATP World Tour and ATP Challenger Tour this year.

Match Points Saved In Finals (5)
Sergiy Stakhovsky saved the most match points in an ATP Challenger Tour final this year, turning aside seven in beating Yen-Hsun Lu for the Seoul crown.

Fast Facts

• At 17 years, 9 months, Casper Ruud was the youngest winner, claiming his maiden title in Sevilla, Spain. The third Norwegian champ in Challenger history, Ruud became the fourth-youngest player to win on debut.
• Two all-teen finals were contested this year, as Quentin Halys (19) beat Frances Tiafoe (18) in Tallahassee, USA and Maxime Janvier (19) defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas (18) in Casablanca, Morocco.
• Teenagers reached a total of 30 finals, winning 13 titles. Tiafoe was a five-time finalist, lifting trophies in Granby, Canada and Stockton, USA.
• At 35 years, 9 months and 4 days, Stephane Robert was the oldest winner, claiming his seventh title in New Delhi, India. Robert was just two days older than Michael Berrer, who won in Leon, Mexico at 35 years, 9 months and 2 days.
• At 38 years, 8 months, Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo became the oldest player to reach a final in Challenger history, when he finished runner-up in Qingdao, China.
• Ramirez Hidalgo made more history as the first player to reach 400 match wins, on 4 August in Chengdu, China.
• Three unseeded wild cards won titles: Blake Mott (Launceston, AUS), Alexandre Sidorenko (Saint-Brieuc, FRA) and Mikael Torpegaard (Columbus, USA)
• Qualifiers went 7-10 in finals, with Norbert Gombos becoming the lone Lucky Loser champ, in Brest, France. Gombos was the first LL winner in three years and the 12th in Challenger history.
• Four players successfully defended titles: Facundo Bagnis (Santiago, CHI), Hyeon Chung (Kaohsiung, TPE), Yen-Hsun Lu (Ningbo, CHN) and Henri Laaksonen (Champaign, USA).
• There were a total of 34 first-time winners this year (11 more than in 2015), with 17-year-old Ruud the youngest and 29-year-old James McGee the oldest.
• National firsts: Di Wu became the first Chinese winner (Maui, USA) and Darian King the first titlist from Barbados (Cali, COL). Marcelo Arevalo is the first finalist from El Salvador, finishing runner-up in San Luis Potosi, MEX.
• Longest finals: Andrey Golubev won the first three tie-break final since 2012, beating Karen Khachanov 6-7(9), 7-6(5), 7-6(4) in Jonkoping, SWE. The longest timed final registered at three hours, 13 minutes, with Joao Souza beating Nicolas Kicker in Fano, ITA.
• Shortest completed finals: Games – Yen-Hsun Lu beat Stefan Kozlov 6-0, 6-1 in Suzhou, CHN. Time – At 48 minutes, Jan-Lennard Struff beat Vincent Millot in Mons, BEL and Frances Tiafoe beat Marcelo Arevalo in Granby, CAN.