Maria Sharapova, Venus Williams among stars who honor science achievement at Breakthrough Prize Ceremony

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5) Roger Federer suffers most injury-plagued season of career, doesn’t play after Wimbledon

Over the last few years, we’ve come to the realization that the 17-time Grand Slam champion is, in fact, beatable. But in 2016, we learned that he’s mortal, too. The Swiss was banged up from January until July, when he announced after Wimbledon that he would prematurely end his season to recover from knee surgery. Federer played just 28 matches (21-7) and didn’t win a title for the first time since 2000. In early November, he fell out of the Top 10—he’s currently No. 16—for the first time since 2002. Federer is expected to be fully healthy for the start of next season, but will we ever again see glimpses of the Roger of old? Or is the end of an era upon us?

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4) Maria Sharapova tests positive for meldonium, receives two-year suspension from ITF

On March 7, the five-time Grand Slam champion stunned the sporting world when she announced that she tested positive for meldonium at the Australian Open less than two months earlier. In the most high-profile doping case in tennis history, Sharapova claimed that she had taken the substance—deemed a performance-enhancing drug by the World Anti-Doping Agency at the beginning of the year—strictly for medicinal purposes. The Russian lost sponsors and her reputation took a major hit, but in October her suspension was reduced to 15 months. She’ll be reinstated in time for next year’s French Open.

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3) Novak Djokovic wins French Open, completes career Grand Slam

It was the only Slam that eluded him, but after three runner-up finishes, the Serb finally won the French Open with a four-set win over Andy Murray in the final. With that victory, the 12-time major champion completed the elusive career Grand Slam, becoming just the eighth player in history to do so. Having won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 2015, as well as the Australian Open in 2016, Djokovic became the third man—and the first since Rod Laver in 1969—to hold all four major titles at once. Djokovic’s streak of consecutive Grand Slam titles would be snapped the following month at Wimbledon.

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2) Angelique Kerber dethrones Serena Williams as the top women’s player in the world

Williams came into 2016 the undisputed world No. 1, having missed a calendar-year Grand Slam by just two matches the year prior. Could anyone in the women’s game consistently match up against her, let alone overtake her atop the rankings? Enter Kerber. The 28-year-old came into her own in 2016, upsetting Williams in the Australian Open for her first Grand Slam title. She would build on that momentum, reaching the Wimbledon final—she lost to Williams in straights—and taking silver in singles in Rio de Janeiro. She put a cherry on her momentous campaign with a second major title at the U.S. Open. The triumph in Flushing Meadows catapulted her to No. 1 and ended Serena’s remarkable run of 186 straight weeks at the top.

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1) Andy Murray’s career year propels him to the top of the sport

After Djokovic won the first two majors of the year—defeating Murray in both the Australian and French Open finals—it seemed almost inconceivable that the Serb wouldn’t finish the year No. 1 yet again. But Murray had other ideas. The Scot utterly dominated the tour the second half of the season, winning his second Wimbledon trophy and a singles gold medal in Rio de Janeiro. After supplanting Djokovic in Paris and becoming No. 1 for the first time, he cemented his status as the best player on the planet by defeating Djokovic in the ATP Finals title match. Murray finished the season an incredible 78-9—he ended the year on a 26-match winning streak—and took home nine titles, three of which were Masters. There has officially been a changing of the guard in men’s tennis.

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