Meanwhile 26-year-old Benoit Paire was honoured with the Comeback Player of the Year having climbed from outside the top 150 following an injury-hit 2014 to finish the year ranked 20th
Browsing: Roger Federer
Richard Gasquet, beaten by Nadal in the semi-finals in Basel, moved up two places to ninth
The shortlists, as nominated by the ATP and international tennis journalists, have now been presented to the players for their votes
In the first set, Federer had a couple of break-point chances in Ramos-Vinolas’s first service game, but he couldn’t take them and both men were supreme on serve to send it to a tie-break
The top two seeded players had to wait three hours before taking to the court due to heavy rain in New York and it was Djokovic who looked the sharper of the two players after the long wait, as the Serb broke his veteran opponent early in the first set
Absent were any signs of the back problems which made the 32-year-old past season such a chore and left him with just one title for his efforts
Murray and Djokovic played each other in a Grand Slam final for the third time in the last four majors, with Murray winning the US Open and Djokovic taking this year’s Australian Open